The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-18 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The first of the new Boards ordered to assemble
at Chatham for the inspection and discharge of in-
valid and time-expired men sent home from India
and the colonies was held at that garrison on Satur-
day, when a number of non-commissioned officers
from the several districts were ordered to be dis-
charged on the completion of their period of enlist-
ment, or their unfitness for further service. Under
the new regulations, which will effect a considerable
saving to the public, the system of sending soldiers
found unfit for service at the home stations to the
Chatham invalid depot twice a year is discontinued.
The troops found unfitted for further service from

illness or other causes, are sent to the head-quarters
of the district in which they are serving, where they
are to be examined by a board of officers.
A notification has been received at Chatham gar-
rison that the next examination of candidates for
admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,
under the regulations, dated Horse Guards, May _l,
1862, will commenjo at _Chelfwa Hospital on -June
22, before Major-Gen. F. W. Hamilton, C. 8., Vice-
President, and the Council of Military Education.
The examination of candidates for commissions in

the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers for ad-
mission to the Royal Military Academy, under re-
gulations dated Horse Guards, May 5, 1862, will
commence on July 2 ; and that of candidates for
admission to the Staff College on July 22.
On Saturday detachments of troops from the three
battalions of infantry at Chatham proceeded from
that garrison to the Government rifle range, near
Gravesend, for the purpose of going through a course
of ball practice, previous to embarking for India
with the reinforcements about to be despatched
during the present summer.
The left wing of the 6th Foot will leave Gosport

this morning by a special train on the South-West-
ern Railway for Aldershot camp,. via Farnborough.
' A detachment of 92d Highlanders arrived in the
river on board the Surrey, East Indiaman, from
India, is expected to arrive at Gosport in the after
part of to-day, and will take possession of the quar-
ters vacated by the left wing of the 6th. The re-
mainder of the 92d, hourly expected in England on
board another transport, will, on arrival, join the
detachment at Gosport, and the right wing of the
6th will join the left in camp at Aldershot.

Major the Hon. S. L. Talbot, from half-pay unat-
tached, has been appointed to the 4th depot batta-
lion at the Camp at Colchester, in the room of Major
Greene, who has retired upon half-pay; and Major
Swinburne, of the 18th Regiment, has been
appointed to the 10th depot battalion, in the room
of Major West, retired upon half-pay. On Fri-
day a private named Smith, of the sth Fusiliers,
was drummed out of his regiment. Smith had been
for some time in hospital for treatment of rigidity of
the knee. The medical officers, believing that his
lameness was feigned, administered chloroform, and
the knee was instantly and easily bent. He was
tried by court-martial and sentenced to be expelled
the army, and to undergo six months' imprisonment.
corporal
hie
n e 0 kabnyd
About noon on Friday the 10th battalion was mus-
tered near the Military Hospital, and Smith was
brought, with other prisoners, from the guard-
house. The sentence upon the culprit was read
aloud, and he was stripped of his buttons, facings,
&c. The battalion then formed line on either side
abnyd
a, precededropn atta c
hbeyd
ato
the smallest drummer-boy, Smith
pofrivthaetersoaadawd roadway, and,
marched to the
gate, the band playing " The Ro
leaving the gate he was sUpplied sues March." On
and was then taken in
charge
accompanied him to Coldhatli- by an escort, which
he will undergo the six m fields Prison, where
ing the whole of these fields
hard labour. Dur-
maintained his co Proceedings Smith inflexibly
that he is lame. ure, and persisted in his pre-
tenceThe hired transport Frances arrived at Spithead
on
Saturday w
pired man
fromith military invalids and time.ex-
Goo ,
...,..
oregiments serving at the Cape of
a A pe, who embarked on board at
Cape Town
on the 17th March, theship sailing on the following
St.
day and calling in at t. Helena on the 31st March.
The troops during the voyagehave been under the
military command
of Capt. M. Barton, of the 86th
Light Infantry, and in medical charge of Assistant.-
Surg. Leet, of the Cape Mounted Rifles. The other
passengers by the ship comprise Lieut. Woodroffe,
of the Cape Mounted Rifles, Deputy Purveyors
Toiler and Wright, and the wife of raIVOyOr Mac-
Donnell. The troop consist of 89 invalids and 11
time-expired men in the following proportions:—
Royal Artillery, 2 men;
Royal Engineers. 1 man;
2d Battalion 10th Foot, 21 men, 21 women, and 4
children ;2d Battalion 11th Foot, 16 men and 2
women; 2d Battalion 13th Foot, 17
men,
and 2 children ; 85th Light Infantry, 2
women, l6
men;
103 d Foot, 1 man, 1 woman, and 1 child;
d Rifles, 26 men,4 women, and 5 chil-
dren. Cape Mount!
will take place this disembarkation
The
under the superintendence of the Quartermas-
ing
ter-Generals department at Portsmouth, and the
time-expired men will be forwarded to depots, and
the invalids to the Royal Military Hospital at Netlev.

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s 4d. and
4c; "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 45. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in packets.

THE }JAVAN SILVER-LEAD MINES
COMPANY (Limited), Cardiganshire.
Capital, £25,000, in 5,000 Shares of £5 each.
D 'posit, 10s. per Share on Application, and 20s. on Allot-
ment.
DIRECTORS.
M. C. Teton, Esq., Maids-hill, and Wheal Seton and
Treskerby, Cornwall; Director of the Silver Mountain
Mines Company (Limited), Cardiganshire, &c.
R. Hesketh, Esq. (late British Consul at Rio Janeiro),
Director of the Don Pedro North Del Rey Gold Mining
Company (Limited), Brazil.
A. Alison, Esq., 72, Sloane-street, Cadogan-gardens.
General R. Shortrele, Blackheath, Director of the silver
Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardingehire.
E. Edwards, Eeq , C.E., Adelphi, Director of the Silver
Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardiganshire, the
Don Pedro North del Rey Gold Mining Company
(Limi'ed),
Lieut.-Colonel F. Wemyss, Kensington, Direc`or of the
Silver Mountain Mines Company (Limited), Cardigan-
shire,
BANKERS—EngIish and Irish Bank, 25, Poultry, E,C.
SECRETARY—Mr. Holland Dell.
Temporary Offices—tB, Gresham-house, Old Broad- street,
and 1, York-buildings, Adelphi.
The objects of this Company are the purchase and work-
ing of the celebrated Havan and Henfwich
Mines, situate in the parish of Talybont, Cardiganshire, and
surrounded by some of the greatest Mines of the dad', in-
cluding the Welsh Potosi, East Daren, and the Cevmsymlog
United Mines, as well as the Silver Mountain lelines,which,
after being worked for a few months under nearly the same
Directors, already bid fair to become as profitable es any in
the country.
The sett (which has been developed sufficiently to make
its success a matter of certainty) is held at a royalty of one-
fourteenth from Pryse Lovedon, Esq., is very extensive
(upwards of 700 acres), and includes several very strong and
celebrated lodes. Two long edit levels have been driven
parallel with the main vein for the purpose of developing it;
but as far as can be ascertained the lode (which is of great
size, averaging from 20 to 50 feet wide) has only been cross-
cut in two places, two rich courses of ore being the result.
A number of similar cross-cuts will be commenced almost
immediately in the different levels • and should the trials be
attended with equal results, of Which there seems every
certainty, a Mine of enormous wealth will be at once esta-
blished.
Four shafts are sunk from the surface to the adit levels,
thus thoroughly ventilating the whole of the works ; good
direct roads from Aberystwith and unfailing streams of
water pass through the sett, whilst offices, workshops, &c.,
being already erected, the works can at once be prosecuted
with great economy and regularity.
The whole of the shafts, &c., are timbered in a most sub-
stantial manner; a tramway is being laid in the Henfwich
adit level for conveying the ore to the dressing floors.
Powerful crushing, drawing and pumping machinery is
being delivered on the mine, and will be erected complete
and at work (dressing ore for market) in less than three
months from this time.
The mines have been inspected by many captains and
engineers (some of whose reports are annexed) who unani-
mously agree as to their great value, and recommend that
operations be carried on with vigour. The value of the
mines is further cinfirmed by the fact that Mr. Sheldon, of
Aberystwith, who worked only a small portion of the
Haven Mine (little other than surface diggings) sold before
his death upwards of £20,000 worth of lead, and made a
handsome fortune.
The whole of these valuable mines, including plant, ore
discovered and raised, crushing, drawing, pumping and
other machinery ready for erection, Ste, have been trans-
ferred for £3,000 in cash, £1,200 paid-up shares, and a
further sum of £3,000, to be raid three months after the
shareholders have received dividends to the extent of ,El.OO
per cent. on the subscribed capital, which will probably
be within three years.
Applications for shares, accompanied withdeposit, which
will be returned in full, if no allotment be made to the appli-
cant, may he made to the Bankers, or to the Secretary, at
the offices of the Company, where specimens of the Ore,
and Plans and Sections of the Mines may be inspected.
Extract from Report from Captain M. Francis, Cardigan.
shire.
The driving under Sheldon's ore ground may be taken
at £1,000; so that, leaving out the value of the pre-
sent machinery and workings, a sum of about
£3,000 would bring the mine into a fair work-
ing state without taking credit for the returns, the
value of which, however, are indicated in the above calcu-
lations ; and which, in all probability, would begin to come
into effect in about six months after the works were seri •
ously started, say with a ccst of £l5O per month. The
chances of the general extension of the in once that it is
brought into a profitable state, appear to be very great.
The whole range of side lodes seems never to have been
seen or thought of ' • besides which there is the deep mining
of the mine, which is in effect the main feature of all mines
situate in so deeply a productive rock as the Clay Slate;
and the trial by extension east and west of the lode of the
present mine, more especially to the westward, where the
chances of successful mining would be considered by any
miner to be highly satisfactory.
From all that can be judged of these great mines in their
present state it is difficult to predict for a judicious system
of working any other than a most successful issue, termi-
nating in the establishment of Mines immense in extent and
produce, and once established upon a profitable footing,
likely to last for many generations; and whoever will take
the trouble to look into the " History of the Cardiganshire
Mines" will find this to be the case in almost every in-
stance. One strong proof in favour of this assertion rests in
the fact that one of the Cardiganshire Mines mentioned by
name by Pliny, the Ron. an historian, as working in his day
(Cwmystwith), continues in a healthy and a very profit-
giving state at this very moment.

Extract from Report from Captain Charles Williams, Ma-
nager of the Silver Mountain, East Bronflayd, and
Cwmsymlog United Mines :
As far as situation goes, the Havan Mines can scarcely
be equalled.
The sett is very extensive, having a range of two miles
on the course of the lode, with an equal width. Water power
is plentiful in all seasons of the year, and can be made avail-
able for working the machinery at a trifling cost.
A good course of ore is discovered and laid or en 15
fathoms in length, worth on an average full one ton per
fathom. This course of ore is whole to surface, but the
length and full value of it is not yet ascertained. The
lode at this point is very strong, being upwards of 20 feet
wide, and by every appearance is making a very great mass
of ore below and above the level.

In the meantime, the backs can be stoped away at a great
profit, and regular sales of ore tent to market monthly. In
this adit there is another good course of ore discovered, but
the level being full of ore stuff I could not get in to ex-
amine it.

The Havan adit level has been driven into the hill by the
side of the lode for a considerable distance, leaving the
productive ore-bearing part standing whole to the north,
and is ventilated by two shafts. The back of the lode
shows an excellent gozzan with large lumps of ore
through it. This edit should be properly opened out, and
the lode cross-cut in several places. and I have no doubt
it will lead to grand discoveries. This level will inter-
sect the course of ore discovered in No. 1 and 2 shafts 50
fathoms deeper than the Heniwich edit, and thus lay open
an immense amount of ore ground to :stope away. These
Mines are of a very great extent, and from merely surface
scratching have produced .enormous wealth. The main
lode on which are the works is one of the great champion
veins of Wales, and parallel to Cwmsymlog, East Daren,
Cwmystwith, Dyliffe, S.lver Mountain, Goginan, stc. An
enormous amount of heavy and expensive work has been
done in the most substantial manner; splendid new crush-
ing, drawing, and pumping machinery is now being deli-
vered on the Mines, and will be at work within three
months, and the dressing floors will be ready in le-s time ;
consequently, with a further moderate outlay, you will
make this Mine one of the greatest in Wales.

The Marchioness Townshend's dance, announced
for June 10, is unavoidably postponed until Monday, June
16.

The Marquis Drogheda is expected to arrive in
town to-raorrow from Ireland.

The Earl and Countess de Grey entertained a
select party at dinner on Saturday evening at their resi-
dence in Carlton Gardens.

The Pope is erroneously reported to be again
seriously ill with erysipelas in his leg. The affection is but s
slight, the health of his Holiness being otherwise excellent.
The Pugin Memorial Committee having raised a
fund of £l,OOO, have resolved to place it at the disposal of
the Institute of British Architects, in trust, for the estab-
lishment of a Student's Travelling Fund, under certain
conditions.
The result of the concert given by Madame Lind-
Goldschmidt at St. James's Hall last week, for the benefit
of the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney, is a con.
tribuiion of £526 to the funds of that charity.
Pedestrians in London Dave been much interested
this week in a rather perilous-looking attempt to
re-gild the ball and cross of St. Pant's Cathedral. Happily
the workmen have succeeded in placing scaffolding all round
the summit of Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, and
People now amuse themselves by watchinr, through tele-
scopes the operations of the men at the' giddy height at
which they are compelled to work. As there are so many
mistakes made about this ball
and cross, it may be stated
that the ball is 56 steps from the outer gallery immediately
below it, that it is 6 eet in diameter, and that it weighs
5,6001 b. ; and that the bottom of the cross is 30 feet far-
ther, weighing 3,3601 b.
Mr. Cope, says the Atheneumjust completed
the fifth of his series of picture; has.
whole is intended to
Cor-
ridor, Houses of Parliament. The Ithe Peers'
:-1 Charles
illustrate the history of the Civil War,
the First erecting the Standard atiNottinghusa
House defended by the Cavaliers against the 2.
Basins
wealth troops ; 3. Expulsion of the Fellows of
4a.CCl:ounllZe--a;
Oxford for refusing to sign the Covenant;
Charles the First; 5. The Speaker Lenthall assertingrial of
Privileges of the Commons against Charles's attempt 12tthe
to
seize the Five Members ; 6. The setting out of the Lon-
don Train Bands to raise the Siege of Gloucester ; 7.
Em-
barkation of a Puritan Family for New England ; 8. Part.
lug of Lord and Lady Russell.
'i Curious, now, ain't it, Brown," observes a police-
sergeant in the Hoe. Mrs. Norton's new novel,
"Lost and Saved," " how like females are ono to t'other ?
This one's a real marehiones.3, with a real sort of marquis,
dining with the queen and all that; and here she's been
a-behaving for all the world like Betsy Blane, the fish-
woman as I had in the lock-up last night. She's as like
her—as like as one oyster .shell is to another."
THE DRAWING Room —The Court Journal of
this day (Monday) contains by far the most complete and
detailed account of the drawing-room of Saturday, the pre-
sentations, debutantes, descriptions of costumes, and an
especial and exclusive at ticle on that event. Price sd. ;
stamped, 6d. W, Thomas, 26, Brydges-street, Covent-
garden, and all newsagents.
FIRE AT THE WEST-END —At about two o'clock
omniseSas bturday morning a fire happened in tl:e pre-
to Mr. Cole, a carver and gilder, Rupert-
street, belonging to
The fire could not be extinguished
until the workshops
front house damages, contents were destroyed aud the
e!...5r0. 10 in the same street, belonging
to Mole and Princes-street,. Mr. Haye, pork
butcher; 64, ditto,' bitrti:DaNues ; and 53, Mr. Salter, the
Princes Tavern, were
and water ; insured.° damaged, principally by breakage