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

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa Nov. 19'
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov Is'
Brazil and Cape Verds. by British packet ..... Dec. 4•
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Elope, Ascension, and St. lielena Nov. :28
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou; hampton Nov 19•
Ditto, via Marseilles.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 13'
tudialiialcutta), and Ceylon, via Southarndton NoV. 19
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (ll,nabay), via Southampton. Nov. I"'
Ditto, via Marsel:lo4 . Nov. 22
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov. 11
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 13
lauritius, via Southampton Nov. 19
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 73
gewloundland

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Portugal.. Deo 4
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Ditto, by/rivate ship to Lisbon
United Mates and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork ....
Ditto, op Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Nov. 143'
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tcueride I°'
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) ............. ............ N 07.13
Cuba ►ad Mexico Nov. 28'
Bermuda, via Halifax
Bahamas, via New York. Nov. 15'

USE OF THE CALCIUM LIGHT IN W.A11.--
The
calcium light was found of essential service during
the siege of Fort Wayne, on James Island, opposite
Charleston. The front of the fort towards whin,
the advances of the United States forces were taa'°
was about seven hundred yards in length, while tbe
approaching saps were confined to a narrow SOT
of solid land, about fifty yards across; the rest eci
the fort being covered by a swamp on one side an
the ocean on the other. For this reason, when the
head of the sap had been pushed to within two inula;
dred and fifty yards of the fort, further advance
rendered impossible because the zig-zags would be e"
funded from one side or another by the guns at thee c;
tremities of the fort. Under these conditions the
advance having been made for several days, and as
loss in the trenches very great, the calcium light w,L,
first tried. Two of these with jets one-eighteenv
of an inch in diameter, burning about fourteen
cubic feet of gas per hour, were set up at the 0'
treme left of the second parallel, about seven hull;
dred and fifty yards distant from the fort. The%
jets were supplied from large reservoirs fifteen inebfa
by eight feet, each capable of holding two hundrcio
and fifty cubic feet. Both the gases were luau°
on the island in a laboratory established for t'A
purpose, where a detail of twenty soldiers an
twelve negroes was constantly employed in t
manufacture and compression of the gases for We 0
various ways connected with the military operati°l
at this point, such as the p ,0
revention of blocked
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running at night, of sending supplies and troops la
Fort Sumter, &c. The two lights above mentioned
were so arrangedwith parabolic mirrors as to throvr
sectors of light over one-half of the fort, and til°
other over the remainder, the field of light belt
sharply cut by the diaphragm, so as not to red is
below the edge of the parapet. The effect of The
was to make every motion and each figure on
rebel works perfectly clear to those in the trencht;
while the space below, from the ditch of the 10:0
the saps and parallels, was hid in impenetrable derl
ness. The Union riflemen and sharpshooters, in facti;
were able to leave the protection of their works No_
impunity ; while, on the contrary, all the gr,tlPe.
ners in the fort were exposed to a deadlyntreo
The consequence was that within twenty Dunn,
after starting the lights, the fort, from whie".l,o
constant fusilade had been kept up ever since
darkness set in, was absolutely silenced, and of
mained so during the night. Advantage Nv9;B,he
course taken of this condition to push forward
sap, and by the end of the second night such PI
grew had been made that the eastern angle ofN
the
fort was entered, and the work, becoming no to n 0
tenable, was abandoned by its garrison. Of COeft,o
every available gun was brought to bear upon Isda'
lights from the neighbouring batteries, but th 7.4,
dazzling points seem to have been very hart obje!,,,„`""
to aim at, for though some of the reservoirs vrTs
hit by fragments of shell, and still bear the deal /
so inflicted, the apparatus was never serious

damaged.
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Births. .
..rnalelf
BOWER —0 n the Bth inst., at Worsborough Ilan, B
Mrs. E. C. Bower, of a son. dvdr
HonosoN—On the 9th inst., at 1, Cleveland-terrace, A-,
park, the wife of J. Grant Hodgson, Esq., of a sou' 10
O'BuiEN—On the Bth inst., at Quarwood, near ItYclet
of Wight, the Hon. Mrs. O'Brien, of
ou a som
O'NEIL—On the 9th inst., at Teignmth, the wife of C.6Pt.
Edward O'Neil, 28th Regt., of a son.

Marriages.
iNiurtif
M'DONNELL—CLOWES—On the Bth inst , at St.
Cheltenham, Capt. Thomas M. M'Donnell, 6th lua•
11;.
Cavalry, to Marion Clowes, daughter of the late Re'
Clowes, vicar of Knutsford. I WO
RTRATTON—KNOWLES -Ou the Bth inst., at Si,. -°
Church, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, George
Esq., R.N., of Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, to, Sarah: of
Maria, daughter of the late Wm. D. Knowles,
Sovenoaks, Kent. tro

Deaths. 0004
ARROWSIIITII—On the 6th inst., at Swan gill
Shrewsbury, John Y. Arrowsniith, Esq., aged 71i gira^
ASUTON— On the 6th inst., James Ashton, Esq., 0"
wood, Harts, aged 57. East
BOYES—On the 9th inst., at St. Leonard's frollsed 58.
Sheen, Geo. M. Boyes, Esq., of Abehurch.lane,•
tig
CIIAPLIN—On the 10th inst., Esther, the wife of -

Chaplin, Esq., of Forest-hill'. hare/
CORNEY—On the 9th inst., at the High-cross, Totten
Thos. Corney, Esq., agedl. t•TON"
MAY—On the 9th inst., at Amersham Valo-road) -
cross, Mr. Wm. May, aged 63.
ROCK— On the Bth inst., at 7, Bedford-place,
liastingsi 33°.
Rock Esq., aged 75.

London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN9,,,,T0 jig.
of No. 112, Strand, Printer at Trtz Sus Ofroc,
pIIt9 Ot
Strand, in the Preeinet of the Savoy In the C 0
Middlesex.—Monday, November 12,1866.