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

Alexander W. Schomberg, 1849. Rear-Admiral—
Sir James J. G. Bremer, K.C.8., 1849. Retired
Rear-Admirals—Gustague Stupart, 1846 ; Thomas
Crroube, 1849.
Captains—Retired, James Couch, 1824; Robert
Tait, 1897 ; active list, John Robertson (retired
captain), 1838.
Commanders Edward Collins, 1814 ; Mark
White, 1815 ; Philip Le Vescunte, 1816 ; James B.
Tatnall, 1819; Robert Wilcox, 1823; Parker D.
Bingham, 1827 ; Richard Crooke, 1846 ; Henry Le-
worthy, 1848. Retired—Charles Patriarche, 1844;
Jdhn Clark, 1837 ' • Walter Pike, 1840 ; George De-
cceardoux, 1844; Richard Coates, 1847 ; Nathaniel
Laffer, 1847 ; George Thomas, 1846; Andrew F.
Morgan, 1846.
Lieutenants—Benjamin Shepherd, 1811; Alexander
Buchanan, 1813 ' • Joseph Hynson, 1814 ; John R.
Forrest, 1814 ; D. C. Waters, 1815 ; Allen Wall,
1815 ; Henry A. Finucane, 1820; Henry Quin,
1820 ; William G. Ashby, 1826 ; Henry C. Schoen-
berg, 1827 ; Cesar C. Powell, 1838 ; Thomas Wag-
hors), 1842 ; Henry W. Dawson, 1847 ; Michael
Breen, 1849.
Master—Lewis John (b), 1814.
Mate—Henry B. B. Bennet, 1848.
Royal Marines.—Lieut. Colonel—Retired— John
Wilson, 1846. Captains—Retired—Robert Pinker-
ton, 1807 ; Thomas M. Bagnold, 1808 ; Theophilus
Patterson, 1809; Arthur Molesworth, 1830 ; William
IJ.aig, 1834. First Lieutenants—Retired—William
H. Carrington, 1795; John Simpson, 1806; Henry
Miller, 1806 ; John Crocket (killed),l 1847. Second
Lieutenants— Retired George Pawsey, 1781 ;
George F. Crown, 1813.
Medical Officers—lnspector of Hospitals, &c.—
Betired—Sir David J. Ir.' Dickson, Knight, 1840.
Surgeons—Retired—Corhwall Reynolds, 1790; Ro-
bert Carruthers, 1793 ; John Niel), 1798 ; Guy A.
Acheson, 1804; John Allan, 1810; John WlTeece,
1806 ; Philip Waldron, 1807 ; Samuel Morrison,
1814. Active List—Allen Mac Laren, 1824; Wil-
liam White, 1841; Robert Mac Lean (b), 1841 ;
William Lambert, 1843. Assistant Surgeons—
Richard Tilston, 1842 ; Richard Buller, 1847.
Paymasters and Pursers—Retired'— George B.
Harrison, 1797 ; William Knapman, 1798. Active
Lisa--James; M. Perkins, 1803 ; D. G. Charles, 1839.
Clerks—Lewis G. A. Warrin, 1842 ; John T.
Poole, 1847.
In addition to the above deaths officially reported,
the foll4wing have also taken place during the quarter :
—Vice Admiral the Hon. D. 11. Mackay, whose ser-
vices we printed last week ; Captain Rodney Eden, in
command of the Amphitrite, 26, in the Pacific ; and
Lieut. Allen Wall (1815), late in command of Bally-
galty
coast-guard station.
Captain Eden's death is universally lamented at
home and abroad, for he was beloved by every one of
his acquaintance. The account of this gallant officer's
almost sudden death at Mazatlan,. on the 11th of
January, was communicated in a letter from Lieut.
Walker, who had twinned the acting command of the
ship, to the British Consul at Tepic. The ship was
expected at San Bias on the 15th of February, on her
way to Valparaiso and England with her freight. The
gallant deceased was son of Thomas Eden, Esq., by
Frances, daughter of Captain the Hon. J. Roden,
R.N., great-grandson of Thomas sixth Earl of West-
meath, and nephew of Commodore Eden.
Lieut. Wall, a much-neglected officer, bad served
on full pay 23 years. Ile was born September
'23, 1790. His father was a merchant of stand-
ing in the city of London, and one of his rela-
tives, Governor Hollwell, was for some time confined
in the Blick Hole at Calcutta. Two of his brothers
were in the naval service ; one of them, a Lieutenant
of the Calcutta, 56, Captain Dan. Woodruff, was cap-
tured in that ship, after a gallant action, by the Ala-
jeeteueux, 74, part of a squadron under M. Alle-
mend, Sept. 26, 1805. He was for many years a
prisoner in the fortress of Bitche; and on his return
to England, where he soon died, he published a his-
tory of his captivity. "The deceased," says O'Bvrne,
" entered the navy, August 18, 1804, as a volunteer,
on board the Helena, 15, in which sloop, on the coast
of Ireland and among the Western Islands, he aided
in making prize, June 5, 1805, of the Santa Leocadia,
Spanish privateer, of 14 guns and 114 men, and in
effecting, at different times, several recaptures. In
December, 1808,83 master's mate of the Demerara,
18, on the West Indian station, in 1809-10, was at the
reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe. At the
taking of the former island he was in the first boat
the* touched the shore previously to the storming of
Fott Edward. When in company with the Pultuek
brig, he was employed in the boats in cutting out a
letar of marque under the batteries of Guadeloupe.
An attack of yellow fever compelled his being sent
do one occasion to the hospital at Antigua. On re-
turning to his ship he found but 20 living out of a
crew consisting originally of 84. On the coast
of North America, while in charge of the Apollo, a
recaptured ship of eight guns, he beat oft; with but
siipht men on beard, an American privateer, after an
aetion of two hours, in the course of which he was
wounded in the side. The Statira, 38, having re-
taken an American brig, the Adelaide, Mr. Wall was
sent on board during a fog, accompanied by three
men only. On the fog dispersing, he found himself
in the midst of an American squadron, whose pre-
sence obliged the Statira to make all sail. Left thus
to his own resources, he secured an American mid-
shipman and mate, who had been le& in the prize,
made for the shore, and, having got inside the rocks,
succeeded, with the assistance of a fishing-boat, in
reaching in safety the port of Shelburne. In January,
1813, being on his passage home in the Spye, store-
ship, he took part in a spirited engagement of an
hour and twenty minutes, which terminated in the
beating off, by that vessel, of a French national
schooner of far superior force. On the following
morning, however, the Spye was captured by a French
frigate; but in two days afterwards the British were
given up, it being understood that they were not to
serve again during the war. We may here mention
that, on the ship being captured, Mr. Wall had, with
great presence of mind, destroyed the signals. In
April, 1813, the conditions upon which he had been
restored to liberty having -been set aside by the Ad-
miialty., he went back to the Spye in the capacity of
'neater 's mate. His exertions at various periods in,
saving, and in endeavouring to save life, have ob-
tained the thanks of the Comptroller-General of the
Coast Guard. In the execution of his duty he has
been much hurt ; once, *deed, so severely, that his
constitution was much Impaired. Lieutenant Wall
had issue six children."

The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, sailed from Ply-
mouth Sottnd into Hamoaze on Tuesday, to refit for
foreign service. A correspondent, who signs himself
"r An Old Naval Officer," writes as follows :
" I observe in yesterday's Morning Herald, under
She head of nautical news, a very just and sensible re-
mark respecting the expense of conveying twenty
supernumerary seamen from Portsmouth to Plymouth,
by the Sprightly, steamer, for the. Supe!b. It seems

strtnge, from the length of time this ship has been in

commission, that the;hould still be in want of men to
complete her complement; but I think I can answer
this question, which is simply this—that during the
many months this gpl end id ship lay idle at Spithead
last summer, she might have been manned over and
over again, with first-rate men, had it not been from
the stringent orders of the Admiralty, toibidding the
entry of any men except such at their Lordships
might think fit to order to be placed on her books.
This may be a specimen of one of the economical
lights now so much in vogue, but I confess lam too
dull to comprehend it in that light."
We may remark that- the Admiralty might have
manned the Superb over and over again, had they re-
quired the ship for foreign service, or for active Chan-
nel eruisiog.—Herald.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WtDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
rcorning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
•)n the Slopes and in Windsor Park.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback this morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
E. H. Seymour.
The Duke of Wellington is expected to arrive at
tbe Cattle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty and
Prince Albert. .

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The royal dinner party in the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
th.-,, Lndy
in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the
Baroness de Spear, the Duke of Wellington, Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. C. B. and Airs. Phipps, and the com-
manding otdoer of the Scots Fusilier Guards (Colonel
Dixon).

The, band of the Scotch Fusilier Guards will attend
(hiring dinner. Her Majesty's privata band will,
afterwards attend in the Castle.
.Lord Elphinstone has relieved the Earl of Morley
in his duties as-Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; and
Colonel Berkeley Drummond has relieved Kr. E.
Ormsby Gore, in his duties as Groom in Waiting to
bar Majesty.

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The 'Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yes-
‘terday from Brighton.
Dißpatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
once from the Governor of Gibraltar.

'• ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIRTY.—.The usual monthly
meeting of this society was held on Monday ; Mr. G.
k.
Waterhouv, president, in the chair. Mr. G. H. Dalton, of
George Town, Danerara, and Herr U. Bach, of Bopparo, on
the Rhine, were elected corresponding members. Mr. West-
wood exhibited a new coleopterous insect ( Cholovocera 411 a.
derue), remarkable for having the usual facetted eyes re-
placed by pcelli, a peculiarity not hitherto observed in any
inatamorphcnic winged insect. Mr. •Douglas exhibited ,a
new Tines ( E'achista occultella), and read brief descriptions
of ir, and of the Tortrix (Grapho,sitha Weirana) he had .ex-
hibited in February. Mr. Staintoo exhibited a mining larva
in the leaves of•Helianthemzum vilgare. A paper by Mr. S.,
S. Saunders was read on two new .'.+trepsipterous insects from
Albania, parasitic on the-genus Hylceus, with some extremely
interesting remarks on their habits and metamorphoses. Some
discussion then ensued cn the habits of the genus Ilylaus.