The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-01 00:00:00

' NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMAS R. EDEN, R.N.—
Letters have been received from the Pacific, contain-
ing intelligence that Captain Tho.ilas Rodney Eden,
commander of the Amphitrite, 24, died, after a few
days illness, when he was getting ready to return
from Valparaiso to this country with a freight which
would have realised to him about 6,0001. The de-
ceased was nephew of Commodore .Henry Eden, su-
perintendent of Woolwich Dockyarc . Captain Thos.
R. Eden entered the navy 27th September, 1824, as
first-class volunteer, on board the Cambrian, 48,
Captain, Gawen Win. Hamilton, attached to the
squadron in the Mediterranean, wraere, and on the
home and North American stations, he afterwards
served, as midshipman, in the Serin gapatain, Victory,
Challenger, Hussar, and St. Vincent. His appoint-
ments as Lieutenant, to which rank be was appointed
on the 224 of November, 1830, were on the 941 of
December, 1831, to the Madaga.car, 46, Captain
Edmond. Lyons, stationed in the Mediterranean, and
on the 23d of March, 1833, to the Victory, 104, in
which ship, and the Britannia, 120, he officiated as
flag-lieutenant to Sir Thomas Williams, commander-
in-chief at Portsmouth, until the receipt of his com-
mander's commission on the 13th of April, 1836. His
next appointment was on the 4th of Feb., 1841, to the
Persian, 16, off the coast of Africa, where he suc-
ceeded in capturing ten slave vessels. From August,
1842, to January, 1843, he acted as captain of the
Iris, 28, but then returned to the Persian, which
sloop he brought borne and was paid off in August,
1843. Captain Eden was promoted on the 234 of
September, 1844, to the rank he held at his death.
He was appointed to command the Amphitrite, 25,
on the 13th of July, 1847, for service on the Pacific
station, and had nearly completed his three years' ser-
vice, the usual period on foreign stations, when he
died, mach regretted by all who served under him.

WoovvvicH, MARCH 30.—The Magicienne steam-
sloop was navigated to Chatham to-day by a party of
riggers from that port, and was supplied with stokers
frcai the branch of Captain Henderson's steam de-
partment at Woolwich.
The Dwarf steam-vessel, recently returned from
the coast of Ireland, was paid off here to-day.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31.—The Styx steam-sloop,
under the command of Lieutenants Rigge and
Stevens, in taking a trip round the Eddystone Light-
house to try her engines (her steam not having been
got up for four months), came in contact with a mer-
chant schooner, and both vessels received damage.
ROYAL MARINES.—Lieut. Pyne, the Marine officer
who NSW tried at the Devon Assizes on a charge of
rape, but was acquitted, still remains suspended from
duty awaiting the decision of the Admiralty. Of the
2,344 officers and men composing the Plymouth
Division, 1,322 are serving afloat.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Spbynx steam-sloop,
Commander Shadwell, arrived at Madeira on the 9th
inst. from Plymouth, on her way to the China station.
The Crescent receiving-ship and the Spider packet,
together with the Harpy iron steam-tender, were at
Rio on the 17th of January.
The Sharpshooter iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander Bailey, will sail to-morrow for Malta,
calling at Lisbon, en route, with dispatches for Com-
modore Martin, and letters for his squadron, which
was at sea on the 19th inst., and not expected to enter
Lisbon for some time, although in frequent commu-
nication with it.
Letters from Bermuda of the 10th inst. mention
that several reductions in the naval. establishment
there were likely to be made. Mr. Triscott, agent-
victualler in that yard, is appointed agent-victualler
'of the Royal Naval Hospital. at Plymouth, and the
duties of his department at Bermuda will be per-
formed by the naval storekeeper. Dr. Green, sur-
geon and medical storekeeper, returns home, so that
the establishment will have in future but 'a deputy-
inspector and two assistant-surgeons.
The Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Fishbourne,
from Plymouth, arrived at Madeira on the 2d of
March ; and the Dart brigantine on the following
day, en route to the Cape of Good Hope station.
The Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Adams, and
her tender, the Jackal iron steam-vessel, arrived at
Madeira on the 28th ult., and sailed on the 4th inst.
for Ascension.

The freight.ship Bombay arrived at Gibraltar on
the 20th inst., twelve days from Cork, with the 26th
Regiment on board, which landed on the' following
day. The 34th Regiment was to embark at Gib-
raltar on the' 26th inst. in the same ship, for the West
Indies.

A letter from the scourge steam-sloop, Commander
Lord F. 11. Kerr, dated Athens, March 12, states
that she had orders to proceed to Constantinople, with
dispatches for the English Consul from the Admiral,
and to wait orders there.

Lord William Compton is named as about to corn-
mission the Modest ,e 18, at Sheerness.
Letters from the Dee steam troop-ship, Mr. Filmer,
Master, R.N., commanding, states, she had conveyed
the boats of the Commodore's ship Castor to the River
Angora, where a slaver was discovered. Her own
paddle-box boats were armed, and though opposed by
the slave crew and 200 blacks, armed with musketry,
the British boats forced their way up to the barra-
coons, and after an hour and a quarter's firing suc-
ceeded "in setting fire to the barracoons and the slave
vessel.' The steamer had no one killed, but two of
:the crew were severely wounded, and three slightly.
The I Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Shoal-
berg, On the Brazil station; captuied a slaver on the
3d of January, the second prize taken by her in the -
short space of time she had been on that station—only
two. months.

The Bulldog steam-sloop; Commander A. C. Key,
is daily expected at this port from the Mediterranean
station, to be paid off here.
The Stromboli steam sloop, Commander Lord
Amelius' Beauclerk, arrived at Greenock on Thurs-
day, from Kingstown and Devonport.
Captains J. J. Stopford, late, of the Amazon; J.
Houston, and C. B. Hamilton, late of the Frolic, ate
appointed to study at the Royal Naial College.
Five military officers of this garrison are under
arrest for maltreatment of a brother officer. The
particulars, as yet, have not been allowed to transpire.