The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

aau ivilltLary

The review of the fleet at Spithead by the Queen is
ordered to take place on the 2,3 d inst. (St. George's-day).
Her Majesty will arrive at Gosport from London at 11,
and will leave on her return at 5. The following naval
aides-de-camp are summoned to attend her Majesty on
the occasion :—Admiral Sir W. Parker (first and princi-
pal), G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Devonport ; Capt.
Sir B. Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain
the Marquis Townsend ; Capt. Lord G. Paulet, C.B. ;
Capt. Lord E. Russell, C.B. ; Capt. H. J. Cudrington,
C. 8., of H.M.S. Algiers ; Capt. Sir T. Maitland, C. 8.,
of H.M.S. Excellent ; Corumodon the lion. F. T. Pel-
ham, C 8., Captain of the Fleet ; Capt. G. Elliott, of
I. M.S. Jame t Watt ; Captain Robert Smart, K.H.,
ziuperintendent of Pembroke Dockyard. To-morrow
evening the Lords of the Admiralty will arrive at Ports-
mouth, and on Wednesday morning will order the
fleet through the evolutions intended to be per-
formed on the 231. The following ships and vessels
were at the anchorage yesterday :

Guns.
Duke of Wellington,
screw
Royal George, screw
Cenqueror, 5crew........, 101
Exmouth, screw
Nile, screw ...... 91
Orion

Guns.
Trusty, screw
Meteor
Glatton, screw l4
Forth, screw mortar ship 12
Eurotas
Rattler
Couflict

~ screw
James Watt, screw
Caesar, screw Ol Centaur, paddle
Algiers, screw
Rodney, sailing ship ... 90 Merlin, paddle
Majestic, screw £l Basilisk, paddle .... .....
Cressy, screw
Colossus, screw SI Gorgon, paddle
Brunswick, screw . 81 Driver, paddle
Sanspareil, screw ... ..... 71 Heels, paddle
Hawke, screw
Russ3ll, screw 6O Mohawk
Edinburgh, screw
Hastings, screw,
Hogue, screw
Ajax, screw
Arrogant, screw
Moelnder, sailing ship... 44 Vesuvius
Retribution, paddle 22 Sealark
Esk, screw 2l Rolla
Pearl, screw corvette ... 21 Lightning, paddle ......
Cossack, screw
Cruizer, screw
Magicieune, paddle
Thunder, screw
And about 60 gun-boats.

The Eurafas, Sparrow hawk, Lizard, Porcupine, and
the gun-boats, Lively, Erne, Delight, and Ma.kerel er-
riveit on Saturday from the eastward ; the Prometheuz
arrived in the night from the Thames ; and the Sham-
cL, B iuncer, Drake, and the Traveller gun-boats yes-
ter iay.
A vat number of excur,ionists visited Portsmouth yes-
terday by the South- Western and South Coast Railways.
Toe following notice has been published by the Port
Admiral

" NOTICE.

" BY COMMAND OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF TEE
ADMIRALTY.

" Steamers, sailing-vessels, and boats are not to attempt
to cross the line of the ships of war about to be reviewed
on the 234 inst., nor on any account to pass between the
columns; nor are they to occupy any part of the man-of-
war channel between Spithead and St. Helen's during the
evolutions.
" Steamers are to keep to leeward of the columns or
ships in the order of sailing, as their smoke might prevent
signals being quickly noticed, thereby causing accident.
" Vessels are not on any account to pass to windward of
the Royal Yacht if it can be possibly avoided.
" Masters of vessels must be aware that the evolutions
of so large a number of men-of-war require a considerable
space, and they are therefore to steer accordingly, and not
close in to interrupt the evolutions. They themselves will
alone be answerable should any accident occur.
" GEORGE F. SEYMOUR,
<<" Vice-Admiral, and Commander-in-Chief.
Victory, in Portsmouth harbour. April 9, 1856."
Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Megmra, 6, Com-
mander John 0. Johnson, arrived at Spithead at 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon from the Black Sea, Malta,
and Gibraltar. She brought home two naval invalids, 30
seamen from the Pride of the Sea, two from the Enterprise,
and two from the Red Rover, lost in the Black Sea. The
Megmra has been five years in commis-ion; she left
Spithead on her last voyage on the 27th of Apri ,
1854 ; since then she has been employed exclusively in
the Black Sea, and has been, generally speaking, a re
112 trkably healthy vessel. She made the greater part of
Vie passage home under canvas, her machinery, boilerr.
Sze., being in a very defective state, but she will serve
very well for the accommodation of the privileged at
the forthcoming review, being a capacious vessel of 1,400
tO

The London, 90, Captain W. H. Jervis, was towed
by the Confiance and Zephyr from Hamoaze into Ply-
mouth Sound on Saturday. She is appointed to sail
to-day for Spithead, and will probably be ace •mpanieil
by the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Vulture, 6, Captain
F. H. Grasse.
The copper of the Calcutta, 84, Captain W. K. Hall,
having been examined and repaired, she was taken out
of the basin dock at Devonport on Saturday. Her crew
got up lower yards and topmasts, and pointed topgal-
lantmasts the same day.
The crew of tho screw steam-chip Centurion, 81, Cap-
tain W. J. Williams, at Keyham, bent sails on Saturday.
She will be taken out of dock to-day, and vviil go into
Plymouth Sound to-morrow.
The Widgeon and Myrtle paddle-wheel steam-vessel,
arrived at Sheerness on Saturday, each having a new
mortar vessel in tow, from the river Thames.
The new mortar vessels Nos. 46 and 47, built by
Messrs. Harvey, o' Ip-wich, now fitting at Sheerness,
are ordered to be hastened, to enable them to be gio
ready for joining the sepradron at Spithead.
Considerable improvement, are being made at Sheer-
ness to make the e ork hops complete in every respect
for the preParation of ereau-engine machinery similar to
that tornierly executed at the Woolwich f.ctory.
Two wooden mortar vessels, Nits. 53 arid 54, of mueli
more formidable drinensi ins than those hitherto breuele
to Wootwieh, were on Friday t,wed up from the factory
of Messrs. Brigge, of Sunderland, by the Eagle tug-boat,
and were forwarded thence on the following day te
Sheerness, to be roasted and ringed for service. The 18
inch mortar, landed at Wodwich Arsenal a few days ae,
from Liverpool, is to be de-patched to-day to Shoehery•
ness, to be submitted to a series of experiments, it.beioe
the intention of the authorities of the proof departmenf
to put the Nova Sc tia iron of which the mortar is cast
to a then-nigh test.
The steam-tug Monkey, 130-horse power, Secone!-
Maeter G. Syndercombe, arrived at Woolwich on Satur-
day morning from Sheerness, bringing 70 supereurne-
raries of the fleet. These were immediately distributed
on board the gun-boats Procris, Spanker, Grappler, and
Thrasher, which soon afterwards left for Greenhithe.
These vessels are all stored and equipped for three
months' service, and are to join the squaaron at Ports-
mouth.
The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Kite, 3, 170 horse power,
having undergone thorough repairs, is again in perfect.
service order. She has been commissioned by Second
Master Alfred Joseph Veitch temporarily, and is to pro-
ceed to Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's freight ship Emma Eugenie, Captain
M'Clelland, arrived at the new pier off Woolwich arsenal
on Friday evening, with No. 3 company sth battalion of
the Roeal Artillery under the command of Capt. Hilt
aid Lieut. Strange. They were medically attended by
Staff-Assistant-Surgeon J. A. Laing, and consisted of 56
non-commissioned officers and gueuers, 12 women, and
19 children. The Emma Eugenie likewise brought home
seven invalids of the 36th and 16.. h regiments, who pro-
ceeded on Saturday to Fort Pitt barracks at ChaVa,!‘
under the command of Capt. Hill and Dr. Laing. She
sailed front Jamaica on the Bth of Feb , and experienced
heavy gales for some days at the commencement of her
voyage, the wind veering from the south-west to north-
east, occasioning heavy squalls,- which continued until
the 19th. She arrived on the 29th of March at Kinsale,
and eailed on the sth of April for Woolwich. Ne casu
attics occurred during the voyage, with the exception of
the death of one woman from consumption. One birth
likewise took place.
The steamer Antelope was on Saturday morning paid
off at WoolwiCh Dockyard.
Two more gun beats will be launched by Mr. J. Laird
from his Birkenhead building yard on Saturday next.
The following appoiameets were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty : —John -Parley, to be assistant-pay-
master to the Seuspareil ; A. Whrffin, to be assistant-
paymaster to the Hawke ; T. J. T., Wood, to be assist
ant-paymaster to the Osprey ; F. Woods, to be assistant-
paymaster to the Alacrity.
On Saturday last, an inspection of the several depots
udder orders r einbuketion to join the heard-quarters
of their respective regiments took place at Chatham. by
Col. Jervis, commandant of the provisional battalion.
The depots ,if the following regiments appeared on the
raradegrou d— z., the sth Northumberland Fu i ere,
ureter the cisnithand of Capt. W. Lyons ; the 12th Regi
merit, the ,ienot of which is ureter thee minand of Brevets
meijor F, G. Handev the 26th Cameronians, under the
command of Capt. W. Mosse ; the t. nniler
ta • eour.e.ead .14:eue Ai s and the 40th anc
Regiments, in charge of Cat. J. teell: Tie
men 1.45 th
a,,-
p din their new uniform and were in heavy marching
order. Th-A.fith Fusiliers will embark for the Manrititee
the 37th Reg:rneht for Ceylon, and the 45th for the Cape
of" Good Hope.
On Saturday afternoon the whole of the troopa.belnng-
in, to the Rossi Engineers' esablishrnent at Chatham,
underthe direction of C,t. Seedha S., were engaged
in operations it a highly ieteresting ewe acter. Th,
experiments took place at the practising groued corinectel
with the Royal Eeeiireere, nearetlie.Caeernete Barrack=;
St. Mary's, and were
.cenductect wiLdi the .view of show-
ing in what manner maeses, of troops can defend them-
selves when opposed t an enemy in the field. Excava-
Ilops had been wade, and earthworks thrown up by the
troops belonging to the It,,yal Sappers and Miners to
illustrate the various modes of . defence when engag,-d
in an open or enemy's country. Several excavation
'had also been made far the purpose of showing the utfe
lity and advantage of rifle-pits. During the siege opera
tions Berne mines, which had been prepared to illustrate
the practical working of the experiments, were fired in a
successful manner, the force of she explosions scattering
the earthworks and the balks of timber with which they
heel been covered. The troops belonging to the Sappers
and Miners engaged in the siege works were under the
direction of Captain Fitzroy Somerset-, R. E.
The following circular memorandum has been issued
by the horse Guards, dated April 7 . , .
”.As boys authorised .to be enlisted for the cavalryand
infrantry of the line are entitled to a 'free• kit,' under
ltahe st,pftois eti
oe n
be
eo futnhdeerr
tyoaol
dw at rhraatn tt oh fe t hbeo
u2n2tdye
of
fJ2a uf. 2aBr.y,
formerly allowed for their equipment, with necessaries
is discontinued."-

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