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

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Total 264 5,037 49,644
The naval forces in commission on the Ist of January
last, according to an official statement, were :

Number
Sta!ions. of Ships. Guns. • Men
East Indies, China, and Australia 18 341 3,231
Cape of Good Hope
West Coast of Africa.
South-east Coast of America
West Coast of America,,.......
North America and West Indies
Mediterranean and Black Sea 69 1,123 12,774
Plymouth 6 204 904
Portsmouth l4 242 901
Sheerness 7 276 910
Woolwich 3 43 236
Pembroke
Queenstown
, .
Particular service
Surveying service
Yachts
Unappropriated ad fitting out (in-100 the Baltic fleet)
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6 131 1,413
14 257 2,676
5 22 303
3 2 138

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61 sail, 1,194 guns, and 13,691 men.
' Her Majesty's ship Shannon,
51, screw frigate, Capt.
W. Peel, C. 8., was officially inspected at Spithead on
Saturday by Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, K.C.B ,
prior to her sailing on a cruise to test her seagoing qua-
lities. Lisbon or Cadiz Bay, we believe, will-be her first
rendezvor.
The Hannibal, 91, screw, Capt. Wm. Peel, C. 8., came
inte 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 to be made good, and then she is to be
placed in the first-class steaul reserve.
We have it rumoured that a number of screw gunboats
are to be recommissioned immediately.
Raleigh, 50, sailing frigate, Captain the Hon. Harry
Keppel, 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'Acrs, 101, screw, Capt. G. St V. King,
C. 8., was paid off at Davenport 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, when she took
her powder on board, and is now ready for sea. 'She is
to proceed to the Pacific.

The Meander, 44, which WAR paid off at Devonport on
Wednesday last, is to be fitted for the coast-guard eer.
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,
&a., were shipped in the two vessels on Ft iday by a fatigue
party told off for that duty, but some misunderstand-
ing prevented the embarkation of the troops on Satur-
day. The canip at Brandown was 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 accom-
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 which
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 sessien the munioipal boundary has been ex-
tended outwards t) the limits of the Parliamentary burgh,
thus enlarging the area of the city by nearly three times
and viving the town-council a population of nearly
200,000 instead of 60,000 to represent. The same act
unite& the duties of the police board with the towr-
council, and provides for the dissolution of the former
board and the enlargement of the town-council from 33
to 41 members. The whole former council having got
out of office, the election of a new council took place on
Tuesday last, and in 12 out of the 13 wards there was a
keen contest, and no fewer than 6,041 elegtors 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 presenting themselves to the wards, and of 23 new
councillors. Of those elected 11 are Churchmen, 15
Free Churchmen, 2 Episcopalians, and 12 Voluntary
Dissenters. -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 great measure due to him
for his exertions in promoting the Municipal Exten-
sion Bill, which some of his predecessors had, been
unable to c,:rry. Six hailies instead of four full to be
electt d under the act. Three bailies of the former council
having been again returned were re-elected, namely :
The new bafflers elected were Messrs. James Blackadder,
Messrs. E. Brown Douglas, John Kay, and John Clark.
R S. Grieve, and Robert Stephenson. Mr. George
E.
Russell was elected treasurer of the city,