The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-13 00:00:00

THE NAVAL REVIEW.

The subjoined is the authorised programme of the 1
Naval Review at Spithead on the 17th of July
: I
" The fleet will be formed into two lines, the
ironclads forming the line nearest to the Isle of
Wight, with the respective flagships to the eastward,
and be unmoored and hove short by nine o'clock on
the morning of the 16th inst.
" His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, and also his
highness the Viceroy of Egypt, will be saluted by
the ships in harbour on their respective arrivals at

Portsmouth.
" Ills Imperial Majesty the Sultan will probably
leave Portsmouth Harbour in the Osborne, at 10 15
o'clock, and will be received with a Royal salute
from the Fleet as he approaches Spithead, the yards
will be manned, and his Majesty will be cheered as

the Osborne passes the lines.
3o soon as her Majesty receives the Sultan and
the Viceroy on board the Royal yacht, and ap-
proaches Spithead from Cowes Roads, a Royal salute
will be fired, the yards will be manned, and her Ma-
jesty will be cheered as the Royal yacht passes.
" On her Majesty approaching the leading ships
of the line, the ships are to weigh together and pro-
ceed in close order of steaming to the eastward, and
having passed the Nab light vessel and approached
the Royal yacht to the southward of the buoy of
the Bullock patch, the leading ships will invert the
order of steaming (signal 017), and will form the
line with their heads to the westward, each ship
bearing up in succession in order to keep her place
and distance with her leader.
" During some part of the evolutions of the day
the ships will engage each other until the signal is
made to 'cease firing,' and should the direction of
the wind or other circumstances admit the fleet
may stand in under sail.
" On nearing Spithead the ships will be prepared
to anchor in succession, the leading ships- first
taking up their original positions, each ship passing
outside their respective leaders.
" The gunboats will form an inshore squadron
independent of the two lines of the fleet, they will
weigh with the fleet, and form in one line in the
rear between the two lines, and having steamed out
beiween the Warner and the Nab, they will be
ordered, by signal, to part company, and, forming
in two lines on the reverse order of steaming, will
bear down respectively on Southsea Castle and Fort
Monckton, and open an attack on those forts.
" On her Majesty taking her departure from the
fleet a Royal salute will be fired, the yards will be
manned, and her Majesty will be cheered in passing
the respective ships.
"At 9 in the evening (weather permitting) the
ships forming the lines will be illuminated with long
lights and rockets."

A second grand rehearsal of part of the pro-
gratnme for the review of the fleet by her Majesty
on the 17th inst. was performed off the Wight yes-
terday.
Fires were lit on board the respective ships and
cables shortened in to signal at 6 a.m. Admiral Sir
T. Pasley joined his flagship, the Victoria, by 9
a.m., and preparations were at once entered upon
for weighing upon the signal No. 553 being made
from the flagship. The orders for the day were all
for ships, as several on the previous rehearsal were
unable to keep correctly their stations, to have suffi-
cient boiler power to enable them to make an eight-
knot speed when necessary, the fixed rate of steam-
tug, without special orders to the contrary, to be six
knots. The Daphne and Nymph, screw unarmoured
corvettes, to take the place of the Bellerophon and
Lord Clyde, absent with Rear-Admiral Warden's
squadron of ironclads in the Channel, in the star-
board division, and the Mersey to take permanently
the place of the Princess Royal in the port division,
all hope of the presence of Vice-Admiral King's
handsome screw liner at the Review being now given

up.
The signal to weigh was made soon after 9, and
in half an hour the Victoria's anchor was secured at
her bows, and the other vessels of both divisions
followed, some one or two not over quickly, and as
soon as this was accomplished they fell into position in
two lines in the following order—the Duncan and
Lion passing into berths ahead of the St. George and
Royal George. All the liners and frigates had royal
yards across except the Suticj, she by permission
having no yards aloft above her topsail yards :
PORT DIVISION.
Unarmoured Line—Screw Three decker-1. Vic-
toria (flagship). Screw Liners-2. Irresistible ;3.
Donegal ; 4. Revenge ; b. Duncan ; 6. Lion ; 7. St.
George ; 8. Royal George. Screw Frigates-9.
Mersey ; 10. Liffey ; 11. Sutlej ; 12. Dauntless.
STARBOARD DIVISION—IRONCLAD LINE.
Screw Frigates-1. Warrior ; 2. Black Prince.
Screw Sloops-3. Nymph; 4. Daphne. Screw Fri-
gate--5. Valiant. Screw turret ships-6. Royal
Sovereign ; 7. Prince Albert ; 8. Wivern. Screw
corvette-9. Research. Twin screw gun vessels-
-10. Viper; 11. Vixen. Hydraulic propelled gun
vessel-12. Waterwitch. The Terrible held position
off the head of the port line as look out ship, and
the Gladiator did the same duty off the head of the
starboard line. The Argus, Coastguard screw yacht,
carrying the flag of Commodore J. Tarleton, C. 8.,
took up position between the two lines and in about
the centre of their length to do duty as " repeating"
ship, and to whip up the careless vessels into their
proper places. In this order the fleet steamed
grandly out to the south-east, the Argus finding
plenty of work in seconding the flagship in getting
and then keeping all in order.
Nearing the Nab the line-of-battle ships changed
their position in the port line in obedience to signal,
the Donegal, Revenge, and Duncan taking second,
third, and fourth places, and the Irresistible fifth ;
the Daphne, screw sloop, at the same time, after
sundry erratic and inexplicable manoeuvres, dropping
into her place in the line ahead of the Valiant in the
starboard division.
The early morning was dull and overcast, with a
breeze at about the strength of four from the cast.
By the time, however, that the fleet were passing
the Nab the weather had cleared, and the wind, at
about the same strength, came slightly round to
about E.S.E. At 11 10 a.m. the heads of the two
lines were abreast of the Nab light, and steering for
the pivot vessels anchored off the Bullock Shoal,
the Daphne again showing proclivities for executing
capers on her own account and drawing down upon
her from the Admiral a sharp message to " keep her
place" iu the line. The port line were keeping bad
distances, and soon after, the signal being made to
the Daphne, the Mersey and the Royal George
came in collision with each other, the frigate losing
her jibboom, which-fell with its gear and sail a hang-
ing wreck from to bowsprit under her bows. The
liner had her stapaoard quarter boat smashed. The
Bullock Shoal uoy, E.S.E. of the Nab Light-
vessel was reached just before noon, when the lead-
ing ships were spoken by the Camel steamer, Mr.
Main, Queen's pilot master, and the pivot marks for
turning pointed out off the edge of the shoal—two
large buoys surmounted with flags, signal being
made at the same time to invert order of steaming.
The entire fleet now, with the solitary exception of
one incorrigible vessel, were in capital distance order,
and wheeled round the pivot buoys by the respec-
tive divisions superbly. It was, necessarily, the
grand future of the day's exercise, as it will be the
grand feature in the few evolutions that will be
gone through on the day of the review, and no won-
der, therefore, that on its completion Sir Thomas
I'asley ordered its repetition. Once more the Vic-
toria and Warrior led off the four-figure waltz of the
war ships, and again the double elliptic track was
marked on the surface of the waters. In steaming
up for the pivots the second time the wind freshened
considerably and told upon the four liners astern of
the Duncan—the Irresistible, Lion, and the two
Georges, causing them to lag very considerably.
Excepting this little contretemps, and the appearance
of the irrepressible sloop in the ironclad division,
which would have her own private performances,
the evolution was again gone through with excellent
precision. It is an acknowledged matter of reproach
to us, even among our own naval officers, that in the
manceuvring of a fleet of ships under steam
we are far behind the French Navy, but the
practice of the Spithead fleet yesterday in in-
verting the order of steaming round the pivots
off the Bullock Shoal was certainly a great