The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

THE NAVAL REVIETV.

The first detachment of seamen of the Royal
Naval Reserve, for service in the fleet to be reviewed
by the Queen on 17th inst., arrived at Portsmouth
Dockyard yesterday from Scotland, and comprised
thirty-six fine-looking fellows from Dundee,
for the Duncan screw line-of-battle ship, Captain
George Hancock, the Coastguard service ship at
Queen's Ferry, but now temporarily carrying the
broad pendant of Commodore J. Tarleton, C. 8., in
the review squadron.

The twin screw armour-plated gunvessel Vixen,
4, 754 tons, 160-horse power, from Devonport, and
the hydraulic propelled armour-plated gunvessel
Waterwitch, probably the ugliest craft sent afloat
since the time of the Ark, 777 tons, 167 horse power,
Commander Sharpe, from the Thames, joined the
fleet on Sunday evening. The Daphne,
4, screw
sloop, 1,081 tons, 300-horse power, Commander
George L. Sullivan, also joined the fleet at the same
time from Devonport. Yesterday morning the
turret ship Wivern 4, 1,899 tons, 350 horse power,
Captain Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., arrived from
Devonport, and added her formidable armament of
12-ton rifled guns to the sum total of the " teeth"
of the fleet. Several gunboats also joined yester-
day. At high water the armoured iron frigates
Warrior, 32, 6,019 tons, 1,250 horse power, Cap-
tain John Corbett, and the Valiant, 24, 4,063
tons, 800 horse power, Commander Charles 11.
Stirling, pro tent., went out of Portsmouth har-
bour and joined the fleet at Spithead, both saluting
the flag of the Commander-in-Chief and Port
Admiral flying on board the Victory on clearing
the harbour channel. On nearing the Spit buoy
some accident appeared to have occurred in the
engine-room of the Valiant, her screw suddenly ceas-
ing its revolutions, and the ship's company at the
same time swarming aloft to make sail on the ship.
Whatever the nature of the accident might have been
her seamen covered her with all plain sail in a magi-
cally short space of time, and by its aid she ran down
through the fleet, and dropped anchor in a western
berth in the neighbourhood of the Sutlej and Daunt-
less. The Black Prince weighed her anchor yester-
day morning at Spithead, and dropped into a new
position in the fleet a little further to westward, the
Warrior, on going out of the harbour, taking up the
Black Prince's old berth. The 'Warrior will repeat
this manoeuvre, after the Review, at Queenstown.
The Mersey, unarmoured frigate, Capt. H. S.
Hillyar, C. 8., will join the fleet from Portsmouth
harbour on Wednesday (to-morrow) morning, by
which time the greater part of her crew, men on
leave from the Resistance, will have joined, The
turret shipßoyal Sovereign, Capt. C. P. Coles, C. 8.,
will also have joined the fleet by that time. Some time
during to-morrow all the ships at Spithead will weigh
anchor and steam out clear of the Nab Light ship to
the S.E., and when there perform a certain evolution
as a kind of rehearsal of one portion of the proceed-
ings on Review day. There will not very probably
be much of public interest on Wednesday. There
will, of course, be no firing, and the evolutions out-
side will be confined to that wonderful signal, No.
019, in obeying which the fleet will steam out to sea
in two lines, and on reaching a certain portion the
starboard line will turn starboard and the port line
to port,
anchorage.a and
It wthiliisbep,riof carried out in this order,menade order re-enter the
simply 6, a march up the hill and down again," but
it will nevertheless be attended with this advantage,
—it will enable each ship, on her return to Spithead,
to anchor in her allotted position in either the star -
board or port divisions, in readiness to receive the
Queen and the Sultan on the morning of the Re-
view. We understand that a third ship, in addition
to the Ripon and Syria, has been hired of the Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company by the Admiralty
for the day of the review. The Admiralty
have appointed the screw troopship Serapis,
Capt. Soady, to receive all those fortunate enough
to receive invitations from Whitehall. The sister
vessel to the Serapis, the Malabar, Capt. Rich, will
be-placed at the service of the India Board, &c. The
Malabar is coaling in Portsmouth harbour in readi.
diness for the Review, after being docked, and
having her bottom coated with preservative and anti-
fouling compositions.
One
that has been decided upon for Review day is an
attack by a flotilla of gunboats upon forts Monck-
ton, Blockhouse, and Sotit
portionh
s e arepresenting o f t h the programme
an a.
tempt to force the entrance of Portsmouth harbour.
Letters by the last Cape
mail from Princess
Royal, received by our Portsmouth correspondent,
dated Simon's Bay,
May 27, state that she arrived
there on the 25th, just before midnight, after hav-
ing experienced very bad weather, and springing her
main yard off the Cape. She was expected to sail
thence for Spithead on the 7th June, and can there-
fore hardly be expected to arrive home in time to
take her part in the Review.
The Scylla, 21, screw corvette, Captain R. W.
Courtenay, who had also put in at the Cape on her
way home from China, had sailed again for England,
and, as she called in at St. Helena on the 9th June,
she may possibly arrive in time to take her assigned
place in the line of the unarmoured squadron at. the
Review. The Portsmouth and Ryde Steam
packet
Company have advertised one of their steamers for
the Review at one guinea per head, but the South-
ampton and Cowes Steampacket Company have ad-
vertised three of their vessels at 10s. per head. The
Alexandra saloon steamer, well known on the
Thames, has also been put on for Spithead and the
Review, and other companies
their vessels, so that altogether an unusually large
are following suit with
amount of accommodation afloat will bo available
for the general public.

WEY3IOUTII, Monday.

The Channel squadron of ironclads, under com-
mand of Sir F. Warden, sailed from Portland for
Spithead at 5 pa. to-day.