The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., one
of the Lords of the Admiralty, visited Chatham
dockyard on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of
inspecting the screw corvette Orpheus, 21, which
is to be launched on the 23d inst., and the screw
gun vessel Racehorse, 4, in dock, to be fitted for the
steam reserve. After transacting some official
business at the dockyard, his lordship returned to

the Admiralty the same afternoon.
The Channel Squadron, on its northern cruise,
arrived at the mouth of the Firth of Forth on Thurs-
day afternoou, and on Friday forenoon steamed ,up
the Firth. It was fully expected elast the fleet
would anchor is Leith roads, opposite Edinburgh,
and great disappointment was felt when the splen-
did vessels, the finest ever seen in these waters,pro-
ceeded 8 or 10 miles higher up to the better en-
closed roadstead of St. Margaret's Hope. The upper
part of the Firth chosen as the temporary anchor-
age of the fleet is about two miles in breadth, and
enclosed by the cultivated and picturesque coasts of
West Lothian and Fifeshire ; and the Channel being
deep and broad, ample searoom is given for the
evolution of the largest vessels, while the shelter is
equal to that of any harh lur in the kingdom. The
unprecedented spectacle of a squadron of the Royal
Navy in the Firth of Forth had been looked for-
ward to with the deepest interest by the inhabi-
tants of Edinburgh and Leith, Lind immediately it
was found that the fleet were to ass higher up the
Firth steam tugs and little boats of all descriptions
pursued them to their chosen anchorage. On Satur-
day also numerous steam vessels a.'id lesser craft
sailed from Leith to Granton, carryin, passengers
round the fleet, and causing an unwoiated stir iu
the quiet roadstead of St. Margaret's lic.ne. The
squadron are 14 in number—viz., the BA,lval Al-
bert, 121 guns, the flagship of Sir C. H. Fremantle,
the Donegal, 101 ; the Conqueror, 101; ,411 e
Edgar, 91; the Aboukir, 90; the Algiers, 91 ; ths'4
Trafalgar, 90; the Mars, 80; the Centurion, 80; the
Mersey, 40; the Diadem, 32; the Ariadne, 26; the
Greyhound, 17; and the Flying Fish, 6. In St.
Margaret's Hope there has also been for some time
stationed the Edinburgh, 60 guns, as a training
ship. Several sick seamen were conveyed from on
board the Royal Albert to Leith Hospital on Fri-
day evening. The squadron is expected to remain
about a week in the Firth.
Sir John Liddell, C. 8., M.D., F.R.S,, Director-
General of the Medical Department of the Navy,
arrived at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar on
Saturday, for the purpose of making his annual
inspection.
The Eagle, 50, sailing Coastguard frigate, Capt.
Edward Tatham, arrived at Spithead during the
night of Saturday from Milford, attended by the
Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander James M. Bruce.
At 8 a.m. yesterday the Eagle saluted the flag of
Commander-in-Chief H. W. Bruce, the Victory
flagship returning the compliment. The officers
and crew of the Eagle will be transferred to the
Blenheim, 60 screw.
The Trincomalee, 24, fitting at Chatham for a
training ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers, has
been taken alongside the sheer hulk to have her
armament put on board, which will consist of ten
32-pounders, each of 50 cwt., and six 8-inch guns,
each of 52 cwt., to be distributed on her main deck.
The Wrangler, 4, screw gun-vessel, Commander
H. H. Beamish, arrived fat Spithead yesterday
morning from the eastward.
The screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt. the
Hon. Francis Egerton, at Devonport, will be ready
for sea about the 24th inst.
The Diligence, naval storeship, was towed out of
Portsmouth harbour on Saturday to Spithead. She
is under orders for Devonport.
The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gun-
nery-ship at Portsmouth, steamed up Portsmouth
harbour on Saturday, and made practice at the
Briton target-ship, moored on the mud lands in
Porchester Lake. At the end of the firing the old
frigate was sunk at her moorings.
The iron steam storeship Supply, 2, Master Com-
mander W. H. Balliston, from Woolwich, arrived
at Plymouth on Saturday evening.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Terrible,2l, Capt.
Frederick H. H. Glasse, from Malta, is hourly ex-
pected at Plymouth with the newly-appointed
Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir :Arthur
Fanshawe, K.C.B.
The steam screw gun-vessels Pigeon and Linnet,
built by contract at Sunderland and launched on
Thursday last, are ordered to be sent to Chatham,
where they are to be surveyed, coppered, and fitted
for the steam reserve.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :—George Wynhall, pro-
moted to the rank of first class assistant-engineer
in the Bustard ; John Langrish, promoted to the
rank of first class assistant-engineer in the Corn-
wallis, for service in the Ruby ; Thomas Witt,
promoted to the rank of first class assist.-engineer
in the Fisgard, for service in the Bann ; John
Lowrie, promoted to the rank of first class assist.-
engineer in the Nile ; and Thomas Huard,
promoted to the rank of first-class assist.-engineer
in the Wasp.