The New York herald., 1873-07-09

to the Glatton. The father, weather-stained
and labor-lived, but hard ami strong and active
still, the boy, with his face tanned and mis- hair
blanched BY the sun, the mighty muscles In his
back and upper arm starting iorth at every stroke
OF the oar. young Aunnous somewhat roughly
modelled. The morning was lovely with bright
sunshine and light pleasant air and the scene
splendid. rts er.sf.
THE vIcT0RY.
AS we showed on from the slippery steps OF the
Sally Port we caught on our right glimpse OF
three old vessels, long since laid up in ordinary,
aud now only just towed out OF harbor to be
pointed out as memorials OF bye-gone age.
queer looking craft enough. that old three-decker.
with her black and white lines and her
high poop mastless, abandoned and foriorn; |;
and yet one might safely say that the finest
tron-clad Of present or future generations
will never be so dear to the hearts OF Engshmen
as she Is. For sixty-eight years ago she bore the
pennant OF perhaps the greatest admiral that the
wcrld ever saw. q little white haired man with
patch over one eye and an empty coat sleeve,
Horatio commonly called Lord Nelson, VINO. from
the vlctory's topmast nuttered forth his memoir
able signal, England expects every man to
do his duty" and who few hours after
wards fell shot to death on that same old
victorys deck. In ne with her are other relics OF
anrquity-the Asia and st. vincent-while Tying
round them, like dipping swallows, are white
winged yachts or more stolidly gong steamers
and pleasure boats, whose occupants gaze with
wonder on the obsolete aImaments and listen
with delight to the yarns OF the sailors who
convoy them. Excursion steamers are here by the
score, and we must DO all we know In the
way Of steering to get safely round them; here
are passenger vessels usually plving between
Southampton and the Isle Of Wight or with Havre
and the Channel islands their ordinary destina-
tion, Margate and Ramsgate boats and Harwich
and Antwerp packets, to say nothing of q
crowd OF pufing, snorting tugs quick breath
ing steam launches and rowboats OF all
kinds, from the captains gig. with the eight
carmen in white frocks, with overlapping blue col
lar, and the warrant of1cer In the stern sheets,
down to the little "dingey" belonging to the
eighteen ton yaw, which Is going ashore to fetcha
bottle OF pickles for the days cruise, the plea
sure boat, with recently mopped seats, on which
three privates OF the Royal marines, all dipping
their oars at different times are disporttng for
their amusement.
Cheerily cheeriiyl Away we go over the glissen-
ing water, and now We arrive at
THE OUTER LINE OF THE FLEET,
consisting OF gunboats twenty-one in number
ugly, stubborn little brutes, painted gray
for facility In escaping observation. and
with such names as Bruiser, Blazer.
Cracker and scourge. Vicious, bullheaded
little craft are these, with q power OF
INJECTING heavy damage and scarcely receiving any
In return. There is not much company on board
them, as space is scant, but there two three
officers in uniform, as we pass under the stern Of
the bloodhound, and from the appearance Of q
single tankard, which is passed from hand to hand
1t is probable that the nautical ceremony known as
SPLICING THE MAIN BRACE"
Is being observed. Now We have reached the sec
ond line and here are the beanues OF the neet
The Agincourt, bearing the nag Of Admiral
Horribly, magnincent nvs-masted ironclad; the
Northumberland, her sister ship; the Audacious,
which formed one Of the Shah's escort from
Ostend, and at the far end the Black
Prince, no longer the strongest but still
the handsomest ironclad in the SER
Vice. Your readers will probably be interested
in statistical description OF this great neet, con-
fessedly the strongest that ever rode on British
waters, 80 annex an oficial list Of the ships en-
gagged, their names, tonnage. horse power number
Of guns and in some instances their COST