The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-12 00:00:00

PROMOTION OF COMMODORE EDEN.

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This gallant officer, who has' served actively afloat and
ashore for 25 years, is fourth son of the late Thomas
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Eden, Esq., of Wimbledon, county of Surrey, deputy
auditor of Greenwich Hospital, by Mariana, daughter
of Arthur Jones, Esq., brother of John Eden, Esq., a
major in the army, and of Arthur Eden, Esq., assistant
comptroller of the Exchequer ; brother-in-law of Lord
Brougham, and of the late Admiral Sir Graham Moore,
G.C.B. ; nephew of Sir Robert Eden, Bart., who was
governor of the province of Maryland in 1770, as also
of the late Lord Auckland ; and cousin of Captain C.
Eden, R.N. He entered the navy June 15, 1811, as
first-class volunteer on board the Acasta, 40, Captain
Alexander Robert Kerr, with whom he cruised most
actively on the home and North American stations,
latterly as midshipman, until August, 1815. In No-
vember following, after an intermediate attachment to
the Namur, 74, and Tonnant, 80, flag-ships at the Nore
and at Cork of Sir Charles Rowley and Sir Benjamin
Hallowell, he joined the Alceste, 38, Captain Murray
Maxwell, and soon afterwards sailed with Lord Amherst
on an embassy to China-while on his return from which
county
Ofy in February, 1817, he suffered shipwreck in the
Staits Gaspar. Obtaining his first commission Oct.
20, in the same year, Mr. Eden was next appointed,
June 22, 1818, to the Liffey, 50, Captain Hon.
Henry Duncan, under whom he cruised for some
time off Lisbon, and, March 28, 1820, to the Roche-
fort, 80, as flag lieutenant to Sir Graham Moore,
commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. He there
assumed the successive command, Oct. 23, 1821,
and July 19, 1822, of the Chanticleer and Martin, sloops,
and in both those vessels wy very efficiently occupied
during the revolution in Greece. On the paying-off of
the Martin, in February, 1825, Captain Eden was pre-
sented with a handsome sword as "a tribute of respect"
fro his ship's company. He attained post rank while
in command of the Herald yacht, April 30, 1827, and
subsequently joined, February 17, 1832, the Conway, 28,
in which frigate, after being very actively employed in the
North Sea during the interruption of our friendly rela-
tions with the Dutch, and also as senior officer in the
Tagus under Sir William Parker in 1832-3, he proceeded
to 'South America, where he continued until his return
to England, in October, 1835. We next find him offi-
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Sir Graham Moore, then commander-in-chief at Ply.
mouth. His next appointment afloat was May 7, 1844,
to the Collingvvood, 80, fitting for the flag of Sir George
cis Seymour, the command of which ship, however,
his health obliged him to give up in the following August.
Subsequently Captain Eden held the office of private
secretary to his noble and revered relative, the late Lord
Auckland, when first Lord of the Admiralty, and was
t appointed from that position to be superintendent of

GUN BOATS.
A contemporary says :•—" The machinery for the new
gun-boats Pelter, Pincher, Ranger, Snapper, Gleaner,
and Ruby, is now more than half completed. These
vessels are of light draught of water, and of very heavy
armament, and will, in all probability, realise completely
the true idea of what gun-boats are required to be in
every useful respect. The whole of the machinery will
be ready to put into them immediately they are launched.
We may add that four of these vessels are being con-
structed by Mr. Pitcher, of Northfleet, and two at
Deptford Dockyard. Their draught of water will not
exceed six feet, and their machinery, of the nominal
power of 60 horses, will all be under the water-line, and
thus protected from the effects of shot. Their arma-
ment will be two of those new 95 cwt. 5000 yards range
guns, throwing shell weighing, when loaded, 100 lb.
These will be really effective gun-boats, and will throw
into the shade the paddle-wheel gunboats of which we
have heard so much, and whichlave been obtained from
the Prussians.

The difference and value of the two classes will at
once be palpable, when it, is considered that the screw
gun-boat has all her machinery protected at six feet
draught of water, while the. Prussian gun•boats' paddles
not only offer a sure target to the enemy's gunners, but
it leads the marksman also to drop a shot into the ma-
chinery, to the ruin or destruction* of the vessel. Mul-
tiply the screw gun-boat as much as the Admiralty may
please, but we trust they will have nothing to Tlo with
the dangerous paddle " blow-up" target-machine.
Morning Herald.

The Boscawen, 70, Captain Glanville, took on board the
effects of Rear-Admiral Fanshawe, Commander-in-Chief
on the North America and West India station, at Spit-
head, yesterday evening, and herofficers have been recalled
from leave, the ship being ordered to sail this morning for
Gray town, Mosquito, to offer protection to the British
who have been burnt out, with other residents of that
place, by the mad zeal of the Captain of an American cor-
vette. A successful operation in the way of brewing beer
from concentrated wort has been performed on board the
Boscawen, by Mr. Edward Duke Moore, of Rawton Abbey,
Staffordshire, during the past day or two; Mr. Moore,
having an order from the First Lord of the Admiralty
to test the efficacy of his experimental researches in the
above direction, with the view of supplying the seamen
and marines of the fleet with quickly made wholesome
beer.

The Raleigh, 50, sailing-frigate was docked yesterday at
Portsmouth, to be repaired. _

The old 42 gun-frigate Bacchante is to be moored near
the Dreadnought for a cholera-ship.
The Spiteful paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Kynaston, having taken on board a large supply of stores
from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, was reported ready
for sea yesterday, and will leave at an early hour to-day
for the Black Sea. Commodore John Shepherd, Supnin-
tendent of Woolwich Dockyard, went on board the Spite-
ful, and the crew were mustered and inspected. The
stores she takes out for the army and fleet at the seat of
war in the East are valued at 40,0001.
The Adder steam-vessel arrived at Sheerness yesterday
from Chatham, at 8 30 a.m., with Commodore Christopher
Wyvill, Captain Arthur Farquhar, of the Malacca, and
Mr. George Elsell, the Deputy-Judge-Advocate to the
Admiralty, to hold a court-martial on board the Waterloo,
flag-ship.
The Black Eagle steam-yacht, Master Commander Pet-
ley, was docked at Portsmouth yesterday to be fitted with
a novel mechanical apparatus, the invention of a scientific
French gentleman, which will denote accurately the speed
at which the vessel may bo going without heaving the log.
It is a kind of dial, fitted to the bottom of the ship exter-
nally, which corresponds with a similarindication inboard.
The Eliza transport, Captain Bedlinson, arrived in the
Downs yesterday for Calais, to embark French troops for
the Baltic. The second portion of the French army under
orders for the Baltic includes the Bth battalion of Chas-
sours de Vincennes, and the 15th, 23d, 41st, and 56th
Regiments of the Line.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—Francis W. Turton (1849), from the Bos-
cawen, 70, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Arthur Fanschawe,
C. 8.. Commander-in-Chief on the North American and
West Indies station, at present at Portsmouth, to the
Impregnable flag-ship at Devonport ; Josiah H. Hatchard,
to the Boscawen, vice Turton.
Robert Bentley to be leading man of stores at Woolwich
dockyard.

Lieutenant Hugh T. Burgoyne, 11th of January, 1854,
late of the Boscawen, took up his commission to the
Waterloo, yesterday, and joined that ship.