The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

1 342 1,981
17 308 2,14
8 339 1,172
6 43 291

Cork
Particular service
Surveying service
Yachts ..
ITn,ippropriated and fitting out
Paying off

4 60 748
10 36 700
11 61. 585
3 2 138
15 388 4,174
9 173 3,860

Ordered home,

240 4,612 45,426
24 425 4,218

Total 261 5,037 49,641
The naval forces in commission on the Ist of January
Last, according to an official statement, were :

Number

Station% of Ships. Oafs. Men.
East Indies, China, and Australia 18 341 3,23
Cape of Good Hope

West Coast of Africa
14 84 1,325
South-east Coast of America
West Coast of America
North America and West Indies
Mediterranean and Bladk Sea 69 1,123 12,774
Plymouth 6 204 904
Portsmouth l4 242 901
Sheerness 7 276 910
Woolwich 3 43 236
Pembro!ce

Queenstown
Particular service
Surveyingmervice
Yachts
llnappropriated and fitting out (in-
cluding the Baltic fleet)
Ordered h0me.,.,,

.. 6 134 1,413
. 14 237 2,676
.. 5 22 303
. 3 2 138

- -
Total 325 6,231. 63,335
The above figures show the amount of reduction in
the fleet since the ratification of peace with Russia to be
61 sail, 1,194 guns, and 13,691 men,
Her Majesty's ship Shannon, 51, screw frigate, Capt.
\V. Pee), C.D., was officially inspected at Spithead on
i'.aturday by Vice•Adreiral Sir G. Seymour, K.C.D.,
prior to her sailing on a cruise to test her seagoing qua-
lities. Lisbon or Cadiz Bay, we believe, will be her first
rendezvous.
The Hannibal, 91, screw, Capt. 'Woo. Peel, C. 8., came
into Portsmouth Harbour on Saturday morning at 7
o'clock, and took up the Prince Regent's moorings.
The "seventh" order has come down to pay her off.
Her defects are h be made good, and then she is to be
placed in the first-class steam reserve.

We have it rumoured that a number of screw gunboats
are to be recommissioned immediately.

Raleigh, 50, sailing frigate, Captain the Hon. Harry
Koppel, is everything a seaman could wish for. She is
expected to leave her hulk and proceed to Spithead on
Monday or Tuesday next.
The St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw, Capt. G. St V. King,
0.13., was paid off at Devonport on Friday, and was on
Saturday taken into dock..

The Satellite, 21, screw, Captain Prevost, having had
the defect in one of the valves connected with her steam
machinery made good, was taken out of dock on
Friday, and proceeded in to the Sound, wi!en she took
her powder on board, and is now ready for sea. She is
to proceed to the Pacific.
The Meander, 44, which was paid off at Devonport on
Wednesday last, is to be fitted for the coast-guard ser.
vice.

The Culloden and Sultana freightships were to have
embarked the allotments of the British German Legion
(1,000 total), mentioned in The Sun of Saturday, on that
day, at Portsmouth Dockyard. An immense quantity
of stores, clothing, provisions, agricultural implements,
ice., were shipped in the two vessels on Ftiday by a fatigue
party told off for that duty, but some misunderstand-
ing prevented the embarkation of the troops on Satur-
day. The camp at Brandown NM to have been broken
up on Saturday, but this will not now take place until
to-day, when the Germans will go on board the ships
chartered for their transport to the Cape of Good Hope.
There is at present great activity at Pembroke Dock-
yard, which is in progress of being improved, by greater
length being given to the dry dock. This is to be aucom-
plished by
extending it considerably more into the haven
as well as by adding several feet to its length inland:
This extension has become necessary from the great
additional length given to our men of war, one of whi3it
now being laid down as a frigate is to be 300. feet long,
which is considerably more than the line-of-battle ship
Duke of Wellington.

EDINBURGH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—By an act
passed last session the municipal boundary has been ex-
tended outwards t i the limits of the Parliamentary burgh,
thus enlarging the area of the city by nearly three times
and diving the town-council a population of nearly
200,000 instead of 60,000 to represent. The santo act
unites the duties of the police board with the tows -
council, and provides for the dissolution of the former
board and the enlargement or the town-council from 33
to 41 memberi.. The whole former council having got
out of office, the election of a new council took place on
Tuesday last, and in 12 (Jut cf the 13 wards there was a
keen contest, and no fewer than 6,041 electors voted,
out of a constituency of 8,297, The elections resulted
in the return of 18 of the former members of council out
of 26 prasenting themselves to the wards, and of 23 new
councilors.. Of those elected 11 are
Churchmen, 15
Free Churchmen, 2 EpiscopalianT, and 12 Voluntary
Diventers. Upon the whole the elections proved most
unfavourable to the Church Party. On Friday the
magisterial elections took place. Mr. John Mel-
ville, writer to the signet, was re elected Lord
Provost—a compliment in groat measure due to him
for his exertions in promoting the Municipal Exten-
sion Bill, which some of his predecessors had. been
unable to carry. Six bailies instead cf four fell to bt)
elected under the act. Three bailies of the former council
having been again returned were re-elected, namely :
Mos 3rs. E. Brown Douglas; John Kay, and John Clark.
The new bellies elected were Messrs. James Blacisadder,
B. S. Grieve, and Robert Stephenson. Mr. George E.
Russell was elected treasurer of the city.