The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-12 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Nov. 19'
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 13'
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet. ..... Dec. i•
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov.
China, Penang. and Sing•tpore, via Southampton—Nov .11
Ditto, via Marseilles 'Or. 13
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 13'
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov 19
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Nov. 13
Ditto, via Marseilles •• •
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseille
Newfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ...
...
..
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:NND1NN11....12242;3339:
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ......Nov. 13*
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry —Nov. 16*
iVest Coat of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe 0'

West Indies and futile (except Bahamas and
Honduras)
Cuba % nd Mexico Nov. 28
Bermuda. via Halifax
Bahamas, via New York. Noir• 15'

USE OF THE CALCIUM LIGHT IN WAR.---The
calcium light was found of essential service durill.tg
the siege of Fort Wayne, on James Island, opPesi4
Charleston. The front of the fort towards which
de
the advances of the United States forces were nia
was about seven hundred yards in length, while the
approaching saps were confined to a narrow strip
of solid land, about fifty yards across; the rest ()ci
the fort being covered by a swamp on one side an
the ocean on the other. For this reason, wben t,
head of the sap had been pushed to within two hull;
dred and fifty yards of the fort, further advance
rendered impossible because the zig-zags would be ef
filaded from one side or another by the guns at the '-
tremities of the fort. Under these conditions 40e
advance having been made for several days, an tab
loss in the trenches very great, the calcium light "th
first tried. Two of these with jets one-eighteen „
of an inch in diameter, burning about fourtee'
cubic feet of gas per hour, were set up at the er.
treme left of the second parallel, about seven,,,ll,u,llo;
dred and fifty yards distant from the fort. "-,es
jets were supplied from large reservoirs fifteen inc
,'„a
by eight feet, each capable of holding two hunarcie
and fifty cubic feet. Both the gases were rtlae
on the island in a laboratory established for the
purpose, where a detail of twenty soldiers an
twelve negroes was constantly employed in t
manufacture and compression of the gases for usevs
various ways connected with the military operatiede
at this point, such as the prevention of blockao
running at night, of sending supplies and troops 'a
Fort Sumter, &c. The two lights above menticiueyt
were so arrangedwith parabolic mirrors as to 010
sectors of light over one-half of the fort, and t
other over the remainder, the field of light beill
sharply cut by the diaphragm, so as not to re is
below the edge of the parapet. The effect of
was to make every motion and each figure on t
rebel works perfectly clear to those in the trenell;
while the space below from the ditch of the fort
the saps and parallels, was hid in impenetrable dart,
ness. The Union riflemen and sharpshooters, in f3sth
were able to leave the protection of their works Win,
impunity ; while, on the contrary, all the gre.
ners in the fort were exposed to a deadly fir
The The consequence was that within twenty rei,ntl,,,
after starting the lights, the fort, from wine'fbe
constant fusilade had been kept up ever since
darkness set in, was absolutely silenced, and of
trained so during the night. Advantage ivAs„he
course taken of this condition to push forward
sap, and by the end of the second night such
of P,.1.,0
gress had been made that the eastern angle t"er
fort was entered, and the work, becoming no /Ogre°
tenable, was abandoned by its garrison. Of enutbe
every available gun was brought to bear upencso
lights from the neighbouring batteries, but th
dazzling points seem to havebeen very hard °We're
to aim at, for though some of the reservoirs w to
hit by fraaments of shell, and still, bear the dolt,
so inflicted, the apparatus was never serioes',l
damaged. ea
[ADTERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's
Stomach.—Few persons, save those who ,have long ray
dured the hydro-headed disease called dyspepsia, can tails
any notion of the great expense chronic indigestion stages
on muscle, nerve, mind, and temper. In the early sttia
of this protean malady, the purifying, regulating/ to
fundmost Pills invented by Professor Holloway exer
most wholesome power, by accurately adjusting the Nos
tions of the stomach, liver, bowels, and the minor orgdo,.
subserving the solutions of man's food. In confirree,
,
io
bility of digestion Holloway's Pills are likewise re.t.i3
nil
remedies, which may be confidently resorted to 10,0.
stomachic, hepatic, renal, and alvine -derangements vo,DO
out the slightest doubt of their ability to release
sufferer from almost unsupportable misery.

Births.
Boil= On the 81,h inst., at Worsborough Hall, •igs'-'l2l
rnlol9
Mrs. E. C. Bower, of a son. vrvde'
HODGSON—On the 9th inst., at 1, Cleveland-terrace,
park, the wife of J. Grant Hodgson, Esq., of a son. Isle
O'BRIEN—On the Bth inst., at Quarwood, near 1137det
of Wight, the Hon. Mrs. O'Brien, of a son. ,I„,pt•
O'NEIL—On the 9th inst., at Teignmouth, the wife 01
Edward O'Neil, 28th Regt., of a son.
Marriages.
paP,
M'DONNELL—CLOWES—On the Bth 'inst , at St•
Cheltenham, Capt. Thomas M. M'Donnell, 6th 11
Cavalry, to Marion Clowes, daughter of the late Il"
Clowes, vicar of Knutsford. 110
STRATTON—KNOWLES —On the Bth inst., at Sv• j(ltov,
Church, Ciuderford, Gloucestershire, George blrg3" • 11
Esq., RN , of Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, to, •-•?1O.,
Maria, daughter of the late Wm. D. Knowles, -os4.'
Sevouoaks Kent
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Deaths.
ARROWSMITH—On the 6th inst., at Swan girt C-111111
.1
Shrewsbury, John Y. Arrowsmith, Esq., aged "; mita"
ASHTON— 0 n the 6th inst., James Ashton, Esq., of
wood, Ruts, aged 57. pet
BOYES —On the 9th inst., at St. Leonard's Ilouse,i
Sheen, Geo. M. Myes, Esq., of Abchurch-lane, ag E. j.
CHAPLIN—On the 10th inst., Esther, the wife of
Chaplin, Esq., of Forest-hill. nbsoll
CORNEY—On the 9th inst., at the High-cross, Totto
Thos. Corney, Esq., aged 81. 1,,T04"
MAY—On the 9th inst., at Amersham Vale-row,
cross, Mr. Wm. May, aged 63. PO'
ROCK— On the Bth inst., at 7, Bedford-place, Rastitiggt
Rock Esq., aged 75.

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Middleem—Monday, November 12,1898.