The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1856.

THE NAVAL REVIEW.

cluster round a fort and with their tremendous weight of
metal tumble it down Wore the pinion had time I. think
of their defame. Biz volleys wen fired in rapid sancessioe,
and a smoke was say soon raised which thnw such specta-
tors so watched the attack from a sea point of view mainly
on their imaginations ae to the progress of the strife. The
royal yacht, which stood in for a closer view of the attack, in
a inemeat breams a phantom ship, sad the speed with which
she again emerged and made fcr the Goyim shore pretty
plainly indicated that her illustrious wingers had bad quite
enough of the mimic bomber:tweet. The line of battle
ships and frigates now fired a royal salute, and they end
the Lords sad Commons parted company. The Yemen-
rases bung much the faster ship, the Commons got in
the Brat, and tenders being ready the whole of the members
were speedily landed, and on their rood to town, carefully
guarded by Isspector Beckman and a mint fens of the A
&since, to whom ►ad been 'strutted the menu and Im-
portant duty of guarding the " House" from all improper
intrusion. Both at the departure and return of the legisla-
tive visiton, the services of Mr. Levi, of the baggage de-
partment, were mod saleable in (militating the urine-
meets,

(PROM OUR SPECIAL

By a hippy iminoidenee, it not by arrangement,
the hest day of England's patron saint was shown
for the greatest and most imposing display of Eog-

lanta nivel power that ham probably ever been seen
leads; on the narrow water. From the Beets
with which Alfred beat the Dann, or Edward beat
the French, or Blake beat the Dutch, down to those
with which Nelson beat all three, and the Spaniards

into the bargain, there never has been collected such
a force, taking all its elements of strength into oon-
sideration, as the mighty fleet that manmuered yes-
terday in the British Channel, in the presence of the
Queen of England and of thousands of her loyal and
. .

gratified eabje'ets. The weather was peculiarly favour-

able for the exhibition of the peculiar motive power
which distinguishes the Spithead fleet of 18511 from
all its predeoe••on in that accuetesad rendezvous of
the wooden walls. The morning was hazy mid
lowering, but later in the day the fog cleared away,
and a clear cold atmosphere without wan succeeded,
spinet which the majestic outlines of the great
three•deckere struck out with great beasty and pre-
In the town of Southampton, every one was atirriag at
five o'clock is the maraing, and courts* streams of pedes-
trians poured dews the various streets towards the
dock' hem that hour until the moment when the
last stouter pushed her gangway oa shore and steamed
slowly out of the harbour. Asionpt the various distin-
guished partite for whom special arrangements had been
made were, the House of Lords and her Malsety's faithful
Commas, but usfortanatily, from a combination of causes,
thole arrangements were by no mesas entirely autoseafel in
smearing the approbation of the parties principally isterested.
Son.hamp ton had expected to see the °dhotis" wisdom at
somewhere about 9 ,',lock, a.m., bat with the emetic* of
• few prescient legislators who had come dews on
the day before, its ishabitaats were doomed to wait
seta a much later hour for the appointees is force
of their tad parliament. Rumen of militkes
Imams rife, and spetalstions absented as to whether
an immediate pastel election might not become
asesseary, as hour after hour pawed away without the
appearance of the mesh-wished for train. The large ease
transports Tramit and Persevercace lay in the oflag, end
Ler or five comfortable tenders waited at the gray, the
whole being devoted to the exclusive wick* of the two
houses. Captain M'Dougal, the active sad wergede
' Admiralty asperiateadent, had every uranomeat in bin
department in the most efficient state of maturity at the
appointed hew, 9 o'clock, bat it was not wan wetly 12

(!W* • SPECIAL 0011.1111.01fDIUM)
PORTSMOUTH, WIRDIFIODAT.
At a very early hear every plus of access to the sea was
crowded with vassals, and tho elands and thousands ofpenons
making their way to them. In the dockyard were moored
meta large steamers provided by government for the cos-
veyanee of pertain 'miles. The following vessels were to " re-
oath company" :—Blank Eagle, for the Cattiest, Admiralty ;
Lightning, for the Adesinity ; Pescara Alia, for the Ad-
miralty ; Peelle, for the Lords of the Treasury, Heads of
Government Departments, Lord Mayor; Vivid, and
Dasher, fee the Ambassadors ; Truett, for the Peen ; Per-
Negroese, for the Commons ; Himalaya, for the Araby De-
partment and Adze:ll4y Oaths ; Vulcan, for the Mims
Depsrimeat, Army; Porcupine, Widgeon, and Monkey,
ditto ; Driver, for Admirals and Captains ; Prome-
theus, and Otter, fee Half-pay OMeers ; Heger., for Dock-
yard Ofece re, Depertments, itc. ; Cuckoo, for the Press.
Of these, several which were to the dockyard, as the
Peelle, the Indian, the Otter, rte., being under the dim:-
Woof *Maws of the navy, superseding for the time their
own commanders, steamed oat surly at half pest ten, the
hoar directed la ~den, sad in all oases with only a third
of their complement. The Penile, for instance, which
wu to have taken the Lords of the Treasury, the Heads
of Pab;ic Departments, and the Lord Mayor and Cor-
poration of London, left with none of the Lords of
the Treasury, one of the Corporation, and a few
only of the Heads of Depart:theta. She slowly steamed
past the royal yacht, oat of the harbour, and edged away
gently along the shore towards the Nab Ltght, passing
Southall* beach and Cud', its dark crowds looking like
myriads of black ants. She paned cloth to the heed of the
line, outside of the Duke of Wellington, and neared the
French Garrotte, %high was the outermost ship, a beautiful
looking craft, crowded with onions and marines glittering

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that the main body eel Peen sae Commoners at;iyee with gold lace sad brass appointments. TM as.. of the - - -
free tows. In the =sestinas the superb fleet of mer- corvette is the Ducheyle, and she is c mounded by Rear- more than two Miles from the beach at Souttmea. Ahead
shaatcteuners which bed been devoted to the service of Admiral Juries de la °ravine. Among the oaken selected et in... ships mas anchored the French lea' of war; and at
the friends of the various tempos's., got seseemively under M accompany him are Captain do Belies.,
weigh, and as thacmomut slowly oat of the Acme, 'mar who was severely wonaded on the quarterdeck of the Ville, a gnat distance beyond, looking from South's towards the
open sear amid be discerned the two sailing Tellela,
several bands played melodies of a ootoolatory character, for de Part, while steadies by the side of Admiral Hamelin, London and Rodney, which had been anchored as
the comfort of those who had to await OS the quay the event H. Hamelin (the so. of the admiral). aide-ie-camp to the "Pivot ships," to ism for the god of the naval
of the more complicated goveramett arrangemeata. At lest moiety, of =arise, eg, David. a caw chcf in ch. amid coarse, somewhat to the north-east of the Nab LigM,
and pretty well oat of the 'melte. This was to the left
it was determined that such Peers and Commoners as had ofilm, ended Durand Bremer, the =aline painter, who has
hand of the spectator on shore ; and to hie right head, the
already assembled should be pet on board at once, sod two just returned from the Crimea, when he had been attached
megaificent array of the line-of-battle Mips, ringed two
teals= were speedily filled with noble lords and honour- to the *quadrat from the comatencomeet of the campaign.
able members. One steered e r the Truett, which had been At this time the singular clearness of the atmoephere and two, as it appeared, from the regularity with whia the
order of their double column was preserved, extended as
selected for the Lords, and tbe other for the Persevereace, enabled the long line of the fleet to be visible almost to *le
far as ha could as. that way, four or five ails, along the
which, Irma its greater eine, was thought better adapted stemma ship. The &umber of steams= having company
straits, is a north-westerly direction, meta his view of the
M the exigeliciel of the more ameerons Commoners. For on board wasuot nameress, sad there was an air of still life
smaller Tamils in the rear was cut off by the sandy pro-
• full hour the two hags ships lay on the smooth water about the scene, a silence which was very striking when one
montory beyond Fort Yankton. The gunboats were, them
within a eable's length of each other, every one impatient considered bow many thousand pectins were at that mo-
fore, oat of sight, in their original station, higher up the
to be off, the milers especially indulging in low mutterings meat collected together in an 'meet& few miles. AU rah time
straits, and nearly opposite to Gsborne-kouse and to the
in that forcible phraseology that so often gives expression the gunbosts were not visible Gam the north-sect, where
nautical emotion. Frequent conferences, took place be. the flag-ships we re stationed, but seemed ea if they had Isle of Wight shore near Cowes. These topogrephical data
to
twee& the two branches of the leglslature, Lord Grenville been very artfully sad stretegetically concealed. At a are requisite for understanding what share of the general
'pesthole cams within reach of the people who crowded
coming at one time as a deputation from the Peers, quarter-past 12 a single gm from the flag-ship @mounted
Mr. Henry Herbert returning with the answer the approach of the royal yacht, which was soot seen &lithe" beach-
of the Costume, the common object being • tem- rapidly masking its way to the head of the two squadrons, Before nine o'clock in the morning many hundreds had
takes' their plum for the day. Near the fort, at the end
mum fusion of parties sad lames, is order that at and at the next instant the royal valuta ran along the
least one of the two ships might got out to sea before the line ; but in the petition in which the Pacific was placed— of the SOMMOS, is the Beacon Battery, at • few yards from
whisk had bees erected two cepa:iota and elevated stands.
terminates of the review. It war filially determined that to windward—then was the smallest amount of report from
The seats, Cower'', being priced at ten shillings each, were
the Pereavereace's 1 ataitSgere should go on board the the cannonade, and • little toy was heard to observe that
Teasel', if within tea minutes from the signing of the there was not ball miss enough. About this time the not all occupied. The beach itself afforded naturally the
d. fleitive treaty succours should not arrive by supplest's, vessels which had left most of their company behind were most *omen eat accommodation. The shingle pebbles, not
tem tender. &mom did arrive within the limited time, sought out by a Week, ugly stases-tag, which was too large to make a comfortable seat, had been so east sp
in the shape of the final parliamentary mutt. g; at, close packed with the belated travellers, conspicuous by the tides that they composed tier above tier of natural
and at about one o'elook both ships weighed anchor, atom whom Was Mr. Roebuck; and es they were received beach"' where the upper lice of "metatarsi relining at
their respective bands playing "Rule, Britannia." The on board their respective ships. the diff.rent seetioas of 'boss their sage, could look over the heads of those who at or
Perseverance, with which we shall beacefotth have more who bad received tickets were better represented, but may walked basic he there mes unlimited room, everybody
particularly to do, is a large and handsome threw steamer, notabilities did sot maks their appeareoce, and among got a go-d place, though it is probable that • hundred
with ample accommodation for • thousand treats, besides those who were defisiest was the Lord Mayor. As soon tboasand persons, coming and going, were upon Southeast
her crew, sad sails remarksley well. The gallant Com- as the royal yacht reached the eart.rnutoet poi= of the beach in the course of the day. The embeekateat or sea-wail
standee Captain Masdentald, bad made suitable arrange- line the yards were dub manned, the French corvette being whistle faces Soßthsea Castle was densely thronged. A number
meats for the reception of hi" guests, the whole of the mate among the first to pay this nautical honour, and nothing of carriages of every sort stood along the road behind
deck having been tastefully deo aced with tbe could be smatter than the way in which the the beach, fell of their merry relate, so one may see at
fisell of the allied nations, and furnished with operation was performed. The Frenehmatt was aim Epsom races. The assemblage comprised almost every
variety of English social life—rustics from the Heaspshke
tables abuadaatiy toppled with relregments. To these very conspicuous for the rich and gay &swing of
and Sum: farms, mechanics from the dockyud or private
due attention was promptly paid by the gusts, and beet. his ship with colours of every possible hue and device,
diately after every one hurried to the deck, to gam en the and of every nation. Nut to this ship really the most gaily workshop, men cf business from the City, and exquisite,
from Pall-mall, the sober country clergyman, and the
mageifisrat moving picture by which they were stermanded be-flu vessels were the floating batteries, the bright
rollicking Jack Tar, with their friends and families, women
By the time the Perseverance had j deed the fleet, colo=n standing oat in light contrast from their gloomy,
and children is due prrpertion to the number of snob a
her Majesty had passed down between the advancing co shapeless hulls. The royal yacht took up • positiom
lamas In the Victoria end Albert, and the two CO between the two squadrons, head and stem with the two taiscellanemm company'
lamas of line-of-bettle ships were making slowly for flagships—Ws Ryer George, laths starboard division, with The weather being perfect for such an ocessicia, bright,
course of Sir George Seymour, the commander- clear, and warm,
the pivot ships which narked the limit of their sea- the red flag everytody waited with the Emit serene
ward. livery one was Match with the imposing character in-Chief, and the Oaks of Wellington, bowleg the white and contented feelings the oommenoement of the day's pro-
of the tableau cow presented, and all complaints at the eels, flag, with St. George's Cross, of Admiral Deader. She modings. It was only when some t f the smacks end ciders
were turned fate exclamations of unqualified admiration. lay to for some little time, and boats left both the liar which lined the coast spread sail inopportunely between
The gunboats seamed little more than black lines spot the ships, which were stated to be conveying the two admirals the eyes which were looking out and the object they
water, • tiny adman of smoke aloes indicating on board to her Majesty. The fleet had by this time ace- limited for, that any expremione of impatience were heard.
their claim to the dignity of the 'crow within dreamed the yards; bat the Preach corvette, with resolute I There was movement enough to amuse them in the different
1 them again the larger and more gracefel dormice gallantry, kept her ysris manned during the whole of a weasels that pasted to sad fro, and the boats that put off from
. boats formed a gay marine sorters; and finally the great somewhat lengthened pause in the proceedings, during the beach. But the majestic forms of the linsof-battle
screw fleet came steadily aloes is their usual noiseless which the Fairy trader steamed towards the shore, ships, in their holiday attire, which fluttered on the cordage
manner, it requiring comprises with some fixed object to and retuned, after some delay, it was supposed of • thousand masts, of course attracted more tamest than
understand that they were really in motion. The pivot with the Lords of the Admiralty, as the royal anythiog else. Everything that could be perceived belong-
' shim Rodney and Loudest were elide distinguishable, by the yacht now carried the Admiralty flag at the fore. At Mg to their structure and equipment, was the subject of eager
gay colours with whit= they Were profusely decked, belles= one her Mejeaty's yacht slowly steamed one to inquiry and ingenious comment. With • powerful glue,
and of coarse formed the points to which all visitor the eastward, to about two cables' length a-head of the the men on board of them might be very well
*quadrat, and there beams stationery amis. At this distleguithed, and their operations observed. The
shire converged r closely as the regulatiom per-
mitted. The original intention bad been that her moment the whole flotilla of steamer,, with company floating batteries, when they came within view,
Majesty stoold pass down the centre of the fiat in her on board. decked with flags of every colour of were also very curiously inspected, and they seemed
royal yacht, leaviog the Pees' owed on one side, sad that the mimeos,, and each keeping • somewhat fade- to excite • kind of preternatural awe emongst the simpler
. of the Commons on the ether. The accidents of the road, pendent course, came in sight, and the sale for the sort of people, se if they were endowed, ty some mysterious
however, put an mid to this arreapsamt, and it was only tint time became positively animated. The gentomes superhuman smithy, with their supposed impregnability
r when within sight of the pivot shim that the Perseverance were now Ma creeping up in eadeealliOS outside and their certain 'y tremendous powers of destractime They
fell into her proper position. Is the meantime the two of the port division of the fleet, and the four squadrons of are so terrible in their aspect, when one re members all that
! colostomies steadily on, and the royal yacht shot rapidly them tiny messengers of death (which look like Thames is rumoured about them, that if the f 'tees of Mil'on'e
a-head immediately, taking op a position the best adapted for steamboats, and BO insidiously carry their homy armament Satanic hero had included a navy, as well as an army with
ming the drowsing volution of the review, the defiling, so under an air of nautical thumps). passed ciliate the Gab, all its field artillery, we should have conceived it to be of
' to speak, of the ship right sad left wand the " pivots" of Wellington, inside the royal yacht, aid made their way vessels like these, mere floating engine aof mischief, without
At this moment the whole of the smooth water was crowded round the Royal George, skirting the starboard division of any redeeming feature of elegaree and grace.
with vestals. A little to seaweed lay the Victoria and Al the lineeeebattle ships, and passing en to their allotted It was not till a few minutes after twelve that the royal
bort, suthounded at tome ristmee by the gigantic Rims. stations in shore. It must be confessed that this yacht, preceded by the Black Eagle, and followed
lays, the huge Aerate, and nearly • more of similar and simi- was a somewhat tedious proceeding; and however by the Elfin and Fairy, came out of Portsmouth her-
: larly laden ships ; atolls in char proximity the ste mars correct and prorer in • naval point of view, hour, and rapidly traversed the chancel, parallel to
of the Lords end Commons elm hoes to, and patiently was rather too long drawn out for the patience of Southwest beech. As this occurred unexpectedly, the
waited the completion of the moieties,. The steadiers civilian spectators. Still, the 'ray in which these little whole multitude on store started up, moved by one Impulse.
and redden with which thee• =raw me...crews, perform boats darted round the squadron, the clear white smoke and gaged earnestly on the after deck of the Victoria sad
their evolutions have Were than ones Mee noticed in the (the Welsh coal was a great improvement) looking like so Albert, where her Majesty, with the Prince Consort, and
Vasty NC= ; but putt rig, there wee something marvel many puffs from • cigar, was exceedingly petty. The Admiral Sir E. Lyons, were immediately teelnised. There
lons in the measured manner in which, like Ovum in. Ger. Coquette, Commander Risk, one of the member, ran out of was not much cheering en shore at &w hen., and the speed
man clock, they enceemively wound round the pivots, the her course aid name to take • leek at the outlying flotilla with which the royal squadron passed by seemed to have
men meaning the rigging and cheering as they of unprofessional steamers, which gave an omen• taken the people by surprise. Ist lees than ten minutes, the
passed, sad the specimens cheerio, still more voci- twill to • number of passengers on be ;rd of them to Queen bad paused round the Spit Buoy, and got into the
ferously in admiration of the wonderful performance take a near and accurate survey of her cast:tidies roads. Then from the broad aide of the Duke of Wellington
of the ships. The members of parliament who crowded the and her armament. At a quarter to 3, at a signal from the poured forth • cloud of white smoke, end loudly pealed out
poop and forecastle of the Perseverance wen load in 'heir commander-In-chief, repeated by the Duke of Wellington, the martial notes of loyal salutation, repeated by every other
praises of this masterly evolution, and none more 'emphatic the line-of-battle ships weighed anchor, and in an incredible Clip along either line, like innumerable echo., from shore
than the boa. aid gallant member for Bath, whose meter apses of time they veers gliding through the water with that to shore of the straits, and the fleecy masses of vapour rolled
1 sional antecedents made him • frequent referee an points of imperceptible motion which. is the absence of sail., gives together, so as for • few minutes to conceal the fleet
abstruse naval tactics. From this point the Mips them so gliding and ghostlike a motion. It was some little from sight. When the scene domed, the royal squadron had
steamed tack in reverse order to tie &dew*, time before their steam was felt, and the royal yacht which tamed towards tt e north-west, and was swiftly er ming the
r and the one of the speeta'ore were divided had headed the outward boutd, was (Wised again to bay to Oillkicker Point, behind which it was patently hid-
; between their curiosity toe see Sontbeea and Monkton Castles ley to ; but in • few minutes the beadathet ships began des. For shout half-an-hoar those on shore were deprived
. ruthlessly demolished, and their uncertainty as to whether to wa'k the waters is admirable style. Her bbjesty's of the sight of it. Then the three raking masts of the Vie-
, there was any chasm of their getting to Town before mom- yacht ran ea a-head, and the whole road array of three- tail and Albert, oath with its regeous peeton, were again
lag. The attack was sudden and sheet—the object being to decker, two-deeker, blothship, and frigate, swept out in perceived betwees the frigates of the fleet ; the royal yacht
l slow bow is real warfare these little haute would suddenly glees sad regular ssesewiea, running straight ter the pivot sat leaden were by that time returning, is a soatit•easterly