16 JUNE 1860, Page 8

SCOTLAND.

The good folks of Edinburgh have been delighted and disappointed by the advent of the Channel fleet in the Firth of Forth. At the end of last week, nine line-of-battle ships, of which three carried upwards of 100 guns, three frigates, and two smaller craft, steamed up the Firth, and anchored in St. Margaret's Hope, ten miles above the capital. It was supposed that the fleet would anchor off Leith ; hence the temporary dis- appointment. No large squadron of the Royal Navy ever anchored in the Firth before. The medical officers of the fleet were entertained by their Edinburgh brethren.