The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE GRAND ROYAL REVIEW OF THE FLEET
AT SPITHEA.D BY THE QUEEN.
Her Majesty will review the fleet on Thursday next,
the 11th inst., and, according to present intentions, will
be afloat by ialf-past 8 o'clock in th moraing—a fact
which railway directors and intending excursionists by
train should bear in mind, if they wish to see the be-
ginning of the interesting spectacle. It is, indeed, very
early, but fleets are not moved about with quite so
much facility as battalions of infantry. Visitors
should be in Portsmouth on Wednesday night to
insure witnessing the spectacle. The officially promul-
gated order of the day is, for the sailing line-of-battle
ships, Queen, 116 ; London, 90 ; and Prince Re-
gent, 90, to be towed out to beyond the Nab on Wed-
nesday. On Thursday morning all the rest of the fleet
will receive the Queen at Spithead at half-past 8, and
then form two divisions, and join the larger craft outside
the Nab, where manoeuvres, which will terminate in a
sham fight, will be performed under the direction of Vice-
Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, who will hoist his flag in
the screw three-decker Duke of Wellington. Rear-Ad.
mirs,l Corry will shift his flag into the Agamemno 1. The
Lords of the Admiralty will arrive on NVednesday. One
of the Board (Rear-Admiral Berkeley) arrived here yes-
terday, and to-day has been arranging preliminaries for
the review. The sailing ships and screw steamers now
form the van and centre lines of the fleet, and the paddle
steamers form the lee line between. On Monday, how-
ever, the whole fleet will change their berths. The fol-
lowing ships will compose the acting squadrons :

LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIPS
Duke of Wellington, screw
Queen, sailing
Agamemnon, screw ot
Prince Regent, sailing
Lyndon, sailing
Blenheim, screw
Ajax, screw
Hogue, screw

131
116
90
90
90

Edinburgh, screw 6B
FRIGATES AND CORVETTES.
Imperieuse, screw so
Arrogant, screw...... 46
Anaphion, screw
341
Tribune, screw
Sidon, paddle 2
.
Terrible, paddle 2l
Highflycr, screw 2l.
Odin, paddle l6
Leopard, paddle l6
Magicionne, paddle l6
Valarous, paddle l6
Encounter, screw l4
Desperate, screw 8
Ban-acouta, paddle G
Vulture, paddle G
Bull-dog, paddle ..... 6
Vesuvius, paddle G
Stromboli, paddle
with Gorgon, Firebrand, Banshee, Fire Queen, &c.,
as dispatch vessels, and as the look-out of the squa-
drons. Two or three addtional line-of-battle ships have
been mentioned as likely to join, but we do not believe
they will be ready in time. There is every appearance
of fine weather having set in ; and we can but hope for
its continuance on an occasion of such importance as
this grand national review. The regatta committee are
also alive to the occasion, and are actively engaged in
getting forward the regatta. Three days' holidays may
be anticipated, and on such a scale as has not taken
place since the memorable time of 1814.

_ The Tribune, 30, new screw-frigate, Captain the
Hon. S. T. Carnegie, which arrived yesterday to
join the fleet; left the Garrison Point, Sheerness,
at noon on Wednesday, and, in consequence of her
great draught of water, it was found she could not
go through the Prince's Channel, and was obliged
to go through the Swin. Throughout the whole
trip, until rounding the Kentish Knock, she had head
winds, and on running through the Downs she had a
calm. Her rate of steaming was about 9 knots, With
a cutter in tow, having on board Captain Superintendent
n.
Hope and family from Sheerness. On Thursday
noning, was under nil plain sail, with light. bree "
wind, she did 101 knots for a short time.
Hope and family have gone to Ryde.
ded three pas-
No. 27 pilot-boat, of Cowes, has !an
t,
e Gran
sengers from the ship Mary Bannatyn .ty
of gold on
from Sydney, bringing a very small qua tiCaptain
freight. Channel, from Sydney,
passage, and reports
She has made a 17 weeks
the ship General Hewett in the
vt
Both ships are bound to London.
having an unusually large quan yof gold on freight.

PLYMOUTH, AuG. 5. 9 P.M.

Her Queen left the Sound at 5 50 p.m.,
for
The merchant-ship Vimeira, with Government eon.
Spitead Majesty's. ship
tract mails for Port Philip and the Australian colonies,
sailed at 6 30 p.m.

WOOLWICH, AUGUST 5.
The Vivid, Dover mail steam-packet, Captain Smithett,
has remained here since her arrival with his Royal
Highness the Crown Prince and her Imperial Highness
the Princess Olga of Wurtemberg, to have some defects
made good, which will be completed by to-morrow even-
ing, when she will leave Woolwich for Dover, to re-
sume her duties as a mail-packet on that station.
The Janus steam-sloop is in the basin, undergoing a
thorough repair, and when completed it is expected she
will be commissioned at this port by an officer of the
rank of commander, and proceed for a period of service
on the West Coast of Africa station.