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Show UDsklliral Loading. Norfolk, Va., 4. The Metropolis survivors have left for Philadelphia. The officers and crew went to New York. Tbe officers of tbe Metropolis were to day examined at the custom house, before J, J. Dunbar, inspector of hulls, and J. E. Bowers, inspector of boilers, with a view to ascertaining tbe con. lit ion of the ship when she Bailed, Captain Ankers and First Mate Dickinson both testified that she was in good condition and entirely seaworthy, and that tbe whole trouble was caused by unskillful loading of the railroad iron. |