two hours in traversing the lines. Before the proceedings terminated the _Victoria and Albert_ anchored abreast of the flagship _Renown_ and the Prince of Wales received all flag officers, British and foreign, on board, After this ceremony the Royal yacht weighed anchor and returned to Portsmouth, receiving, as she departed, three cheers from every ship in the fleet. Simultaneously with the arrival of the Prince of Wales in Portsmouth Harbour the following signal was made to the fleet by Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon:--"I am commanded by the Prince of Wales, as representing the Queen, to express his entire satisfaction with the magnificent naval display at Spithead and the perfect manner in which all the arrangements were carried out, and at his request I order the main-brace to be spliced." Splicing the main-brace, it should be explained, involves the serving out of an extra allowance of grog, and is still a very popular order with our man-o'-war's men. Almost immediately after this a thunderstorm burst, accompanied by a deluge of rain, and for some hours the "city of ships" was lost in an impenetrable haze. [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by Gregory & Co._ ADMIRAL SIR NOWELL SALMON, V.C. In command of the Fleet during the Jubilee Review.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by West, Southsea._ THE NAVAL REVIEW: THE ROYAL YACHT PASSING BETWEEN THE LINES OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHIPS. The United States cruiser, _Brooklyn_, painted white, is a conspicuous object in the line of foreign men-of-war. The battleship in the foreground is H.M.S. _Victorious_.] [Illustration: _From a Photograph_} {_by West, Southsea._ THE NAVAL REVIEW: THE ROYAL YACHT ANCHORED ABREAST OF H.M.S. "RENOWN."] [Illustration: _Charles Dixon._} THE NAVAL REVIEW: BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE FLEET AT ANCHOR IN SPITHEAD, June 26, 1897. The line E consists of Merchant Vessels, anchored on the south or Isle of Wight side of Spithead. Line A consists of Foreign Men-of-war. The total number of British War Ships occupying stations in Spithead was 165. Of these lines B and C comprised fifty-nine Battleships and Cruisers in the following order, starting from the left or eastward end:-- Line B--1, _Magnificent_; 2, _Royal Sovereign_; 3, _Repulse_; 4, _Resolution_; 5, _Empress of India_; 6, _Majestic_; 7, _Prince George_; 8, _Mars_; 9, _Jupiter_; 10, _Victorious_; 11, _Renown_ (Commander-in-Chief); 12, _Powerful_; 13, _Blake_; 14, _Blenheim_; 15, _Royal Arthur_; 16, _Theseus_; 17, _Thetis_; 18, _Flora_; 19, _Naiad_; 20, _Tribune_; 21, _Terpsichore_; 22, _Sirius_; 23 (station not occupied); 24, _Hermione_; 25, _Andromache_; 26, _Sappho_; 27, _Spartan_; 28, _Latona_; 29, _Brilliant_; 30, _Charybdis_.