The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-27 00:00:00

spection being paid to the iron-clad frigate Her-
cules, 14, 5,226 tons, 1,200 horse power (nominal),
now rapidly approaching completion, and the turret
iron clad ship Monarch, 6, 5,100 tons, 1,100-horse
power, about half completed. The Hercules has
the whole of her armour-plating fixed, the date
named for her being floated out of dock 'king the
Bth of February. Mr. Reed also inspected the
Blanche, 6, 350-horse power, Capt. J. E. Mont-
gomerie, fitting for the Australian station, which
vessel is so far complete that she will be ready to
proceed to sea in the course of the present week.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna left Bom-
bay for Suez on the 24th inst., with troops intended
to be brought from Alexandria to Portsmouth in the
Crocodile.

Her Majesty's unarmoured screw frigate Bristol,
31, 600 horse power, Capt. Leveson E. 11. Somer-
set, late the flagship on:the West Coast of Africa,
was paid off " all standing" on Saturday, under the
superintendence of Captain the lion. A. A. Coch-
rane, C. 8., commanding the steam reserve in the
Medway, when the usual period of leave of absence
was granted to the petty officers and continuous
service men of the crew, who will afterwards join
the flagship at either of the naval ports. The Bris-
tol will be re-commissioned immediately for, it is
understood, a naval cadet training ship.
The Orontes, 2, screw troopship, Captain Henry
Phelps, was paid out of commission at Portsmouth
on Saturday, under the superintendence of Capt.
F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., Aide-de-camp to the
Qaeen, Flag Capt. to the Port Admiral and Naval
Commander-in-Chief, Sir Thomas Pasley. The
Orontes was only commissioned by Capt. Phelps
on the 4th of January last year, and as the gallant
officer has proved himself to be a most energetic
and painstaking officer during his year's command,
it is presumed that the Admiralty intend giving him
another command on the first available opportu-
nity. The ship is to be fitted with a poop deck
like the Simoom and to receivenew boilers previous
to being again commissioned. Her machinery also
requires a thorough overhaul and repair.
The Serapis, screw troopship, Captain Soady,
sailed from Portsmouth early yesterday morning,
for Queenstown, Ireland, to embark there the
85th Regiment, for conveyance to India. The ship
embarked at Portsmouth, for Alexandria, Cap-
tain A. H. Dawson, Lieutenant Clark, 95 men, 8
women, and 13 children of the 22d Brigade of Royal
Artillery ; Captain Williams, 103 d Infantry ; Lieu-
tenant Core, 86th infantry ;, Lieutenant Gardner,
2d battalion 24th Infantry ; Ensigns Knox and
Hope, 2d battalion 12th Infantry ; Surgeon Major
M'Dermott and Mrs. M'Dermott ; Surgeon Beatty,
91st Infantry ; Staff Assistant-Surgeons Turner and
Backer, Assistant-Surgeon Cuffe, 11th Hussars;
Veterinary Surgeon Bray, 20th Hussars ; and Rid-
ingmaster Stavall, R.A.
The screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. Shute B.
Piers, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning,
by 9 a.m., for Kingstown, Ireland, with the 56th
Regiment on board, under the command of Colonel
Lacy, comprising 23 officers, 4 officers' wives, ten
children, 659 non-commissioned officers and men,
and 66 soldiers' wives and 60 children.

The screw steam-corvette Pylades, 17, Captain
Cecil W. Buckley, from Sheerness, which arrived
in Plymouth Sound on Friday, leaves for the
West Coast of Africa as soon as the weather
moderates.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Robert E. Stopford to the
Simoom ; Lieut. Edward Hicks to the Defence ;
Stephen H. Thompson, midshipman, to the Royalist;
Dr. Jno. Alexander Macdonald, assist.-surg., to the
Medusa ; Fraunceis M. Steele, assist.-paymaster,
to the Warrior ; Risleton S. Jones, clerk, to the
Serapis ; Daniel Anderson, first-class assist-engi-
neer, additional, to the 0 etavia ; and Arthur Henry
Lering, nominated a naval cadet.

WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF LIVE STOCK.-
On the occasion of two butchers being summoned on Thurs-
day to the Woolwich police court for having infringed the
cattle regulations, it transpired that a wholesale slaughter
of calves is going on in the metropolis which cannot fai 1
to have a most injurious effect on the live stock of the
country. It was stated that no calves under a certain
woight are allowed to bo sold in the Metropolitan cattle
and meat markets, and that no calves whatever are
allowed to be removed beyond the boundary of the juris-
diction of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The dairy-
men and farmers within these limits having, as a general
rule, no room or facilities for rearing the calves, and not
being allowed to remove them to more commodious farms
in the country, besides finding it more profitable to sell
their milk than to feed their calves with it, are killing
and burying them as soon as born, whilst the metropolitan
butchers have to go to Reading, Romford, Dartford, &c.,
for their supply of veal, the present cattle regulations
allowing calves to be brought into the metropolis, but not
to be taken out. Mr. Parsons named one dairy farmer, who,
having 150 cows, thus destroys and buries ten calves
weekly, being al the rate of upwards of 500 a year ; and
another who destroys as many as 14 weekly, being above
700 a year. The sitting magistrate, Mr. Maude, said that
such a wholesale destruction of calves revealed the exis-
tence of a most deplorable stabs of things, and he hoped
the attention of the Privy Council would be drawn to the
matter.

CONVICT LABOUR.—An American paper states
that in Windham county, Connecticut, the keeper of the
gaol goes from house to house with a gang of prisoners
(the refractory trammelled with a ball and chain), and
jobs of wood sawing for the people are attended to.
STILL GOOD.--The ore in the incline of the El
Dorado South still continues of about the same quality as
a week ago—assays raneng from $lOO to about $5,000
per ton. A depth of 16 feet has now been sunk in this
body of rich ore. The incline will be continued until
water is reached, when levels will be run and preparations
made for mining upon an extensive plan in a thoroughly
systematic manner. In the absence of a custom mill at
this place the ore taken from the vein in the progress
of sinking will be sent to Austin for reduction,
as it will pay a handsome profit above the cost
of transportation, etc. It is estimated that the ore
already out will not a sum sufficient to reimburse the
owners for all expenditures made upon the mine to the
present time. Tho El Dorado South is quite likely to
furnish one of those rare and felicitous anomalies—a silver
mine paying the entire cost of development, and for the
erection of hoisting and reduction works, without the aid
of outside capital, and entirely from the proceeds derived
from incipient working. For a long time but very few,
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but they never doubted nor faltered in their labours, and
to their pluck and perseverance are the community in-
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tion must accrue. We are rejoiced at their munificent re-
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