The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

WOOLWICH.

ROYAL ARSENAL,—The Ebenezer ordnance sloop com-
menced loading yesterday at the Wharf of the Royal
Arsenal. The cargo will consist of a number of large
guns, howitzers, and mortars, for conveyance to Port-
mouth, where they will be reshipped into one of the large
ships under orders for the Mediterranean. The articles
are intended fur a particular service, the designation
given to all the military stores recently forwarded to Syria,
Twenty-six additional workmen, were entered yesterday,
and commenced working in the laboratory department of
the Royal Arsenal. With the number of hands formerly
employed, and the assistance of tho Royal Artillery, who,
in turn, acquire a knowledge of the art of compounding
powder into the various forms used in the army, the
quantity now furnished for service must be very great.
Three blacksmiths and one tinman were also entered yes-
terday, and commenced working in the carriage de-
partment.
It is worthy of remark, that notwithstanding the great
quantity of military stores recently shipped from the Royal
Arsenal for China, Syria, and other parts of the world,
the supply has been so well kept up that there is actually
at present a greater quantity on hand than there was at
the commencement of the year, when the stock exceeded
28,000 large guns and upwards of 4,000,000 of bags
and shells.

FUNERAL OF THE HON. MRS

CAVENDISH.

The mortal remains of the lady of the Hon. Henry
Cavendish were conveyed from his residence, in Bur.
lington.gArdens, on Monday morning, to Streatham,
where they were deposited in a vault beneath the church,
by the side of those of the lion. Frederick Howard,
third son of the fifth Earl of Carlisle, to whom she was
married in 1811, and who was killed at the bead of a
squadron of the 10th Hussars in a charge at Waterloo
in 1815, of which marriage Frederick John Howard, Eiq.,
M. P. for Youghal, is the only surviving issue. This la-
mented lady was secondly married, in 1819, to the Hun.
Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, by whom
.she has
left three sons and an only daughter, in her 14th year, to
mourn over her loss.

The more remote cause of Mrs. Cavendish's illness may
be traced back to the shock she underwent in 1832 by the
sudden and awful death from cholera of her mother.
Since that period this amiable and accomplished lady has
been, with little intermission, in a declining state of health,
which rendered her quite unequal to bear up against an-
other not less severe or awful calamity with which she was
visited in the autumn of 1839, namely, the death of her son
Harry, who, in previous good health, was, after 36 hours'
illness, snatched from this life in his 18th year. From the
effects of this additional shock she never rallied, but has
gradually fallen into a state of extreme debility, to arrest
the progress which baffled the skill of the most eminent
among the medical profession, and she expired totally ex-
hausted, without any apparent suffering„ early on the
morning of the 23d, surrounded by her husband, Miss Ca-
vendis'.i, and her five children.
Mrs. Cavendish was the only daughter of William
Henry Lanibton, Esq., and Lady Ann, second daughter
of the fourth Earl of Jersey, and sister to the late Earl
of Durham, William Henry Lambton, Esq„ and lied-
. worth Lanibton, Esq., M. P. for Durham. She was fol-
hmed to the grsve by her afflicted husband and children,
her brother, W. H. Lambton, Esq„ and his lady, the
Hon, Charles Compton Cavendish (brother of the Colonel),
William Henry Frederick Cavendish, William George
Cavendish, and W. B. Harcourt, Esqrs., and Martin
Tupperley, Esq., the medical attendant.
The funeral procession was closed by the carriages of
the following nobility and friends of the, deceased lady,
viz.' her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Grace
the Duko of Devonshire, Lady Mary Bentinck, Lady
Pechell, the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish, W.
11. Lambton, Esq., William B. Harcourt, Esq., and
Robert Vincr, Esq.

The Gloucester, 50 guns, and Eagle," 50 guns,
are ordered to be got ready for sea at Chatham.