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

Alexander W. Schomberg, 1849.
Sirßear-Admiral
Jams J . G. Breuer, K.C.8., 1849. Retired
Rear-Admirals—Gustague Stupart, 1846 ; Thomas
Groube, 1849.
Captains—Retired, James Couch, 1824 ; Robert
Tait, 1827; active list, John Robertson (retired
captain), 1838.
Commanders Edward Collins, 1814 ; Mark
White, 1815 ; Philip Le Vesconte, 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 Thomar, 1846; Andrew F.
Morgan, 1846.
Lieutenants—Benjamin Shepherd, 1S11; Alexander
Buchanan, 1813 ' • Joseph Ilynson, 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. Schotn-
berg, 1827 ; Caesar C. Powell, 1838 ; Thomas Wag-
horn, 1842 ; Henry W. Dawson, 1847 ; Michael
Breen, 1849.
Master—Lewis John (h), 1814.
Mate—Henry B. B. Bennet., 1848.
Royal M trinee.—Lieut Colonel—Retired— John
Wilson, 1846. Caetains—Retired—Robert Pinker-
ton, 1807; Thomas M. Bagnold, 1808; Theophilus
Patterson, 1809; Arthur Molesworth, 1830; IVilliain
Haig, 1834. First Lieutenants—Retired—William
IL Carrington, 1795 ; John Simpson, 1806 ; Henry
Miller, 1806; John Crocket (killed),llB47. Second
Lieutenants—Retired George Pawse,y, 1781;
George F. Crown, 1813.
Medical Officers—inspector of Hospitals, &c.—
Retired—Sir David J. 11. Dickson, Knight, 1840.
Surgeons—Retired—Cornwall Reynolds, 1790; Ro-
bert Carruthers, 1793 ; John Niell, 1798 ; Guy A.
Acheson, 1804; John Allan, 1810; John M'Neece,
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
Lisb---James M. Perkins, 1803; D. Cr. Charles, 1839.
Clerks—Lewis G. A. Warrin, 1842; John T.
Poole, 1847.
In addition to the above deaths officially reported,
the folltOwing 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-
galry coast•guard station.
Captain Eden's death is universally lamented at
home and ahioad, 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 commianicatsd in a letter from Lieut.
Walker, who had aesamed the acting command of the
ship, to the British Consul at Tepic. The ship was
expected at Sen Bles 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,
great-grandson of Thomas sixth Earl of West-
meath, and nephew of Commodore lllen.
Lient. Wall, a much-neglected officer, had served
on full pay 23 years. He 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 Holiwell, was for some time confined
in the BI ick Hole at Calcutta. Two of his brothers
were in the naval service; one of them, a Lieutenant
of the Calcutta, 56, Captain Dan. Woodriff, was cap-
tured in that ship, after a gallant action, by the i'sla-
jesteueux, 74, part of a squadron under M. Alle-
mend, Sept. 26, 1805. He was for many years a
prisoner m the fortress of Bitche; and on his return
to England, where he soon (lied, he published a his-
tory of his captivity. " The deceased," says O'Byrne,
" entered the navy, August 18, 1804, as a volunteer,
on hoard the Helena, 15, in which sloop, on the coast
of Ireland and among the Western Islands, he aided
in making prizs, June 5, 1805, of the Santa Leocadia,
Spinisli privateer, of 14 guns and 114 men, and in
eff-cling, 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 tee shore previously to the storming of
Fort: Edward. When in company with the Pultusk
brie, he was employed in the boats in cutting out a
letetr of marque under the batteries of Guadeloupe.
An attack of yellow-fever compelled his being sent
en one occasion to the hospital at Antigua. On re-
turning to his ship he found but 20 living out of al
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 off, with but
eiteht men on heard, an American privateer, after an
action of two hours, in th.g course of which he was
wounded in tha silo. The Statira, 38, having re-
Wien arm American brig, the Adelaide, Mr. Wall was
sent on board during a fog, accompanied •by three
men only. Oa 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 tnate, who had been left in the prize,
wads for the shore, and, having got inside the rocks,
succeeded, with the assistance ofs a fishing-boat, in
reaching in saf:ty 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 t wenty minutes, which terminated in' the.
beating- off, by that vessel, of a French national
schooner of tar superior force. On the following
morning, however, the Spye was captured by h French
frigate; but in two days afterwards the British were
given up, it- being unrierstood 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 Presenc,es. of mind, destroyed the signals. In
April, 1813, the canjitions upon which he had been
restored to liberty hesing been set aside by the Ad-
enisttlty:, he went back to the Spye in the capacity of
muter d mate. His exertions at various. periods in
saving, amid in endeavouring to save life, have ob-
tained the thenks of the Comptroller-General of the I
Coast Guard. lii the execution of his duty he has
been much hurt ; once, ingfeed, so eeverely, that his 1
constitution was much impaired. Lieutenant Wall I
had issue six children." .
The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, sailed from Ply-
mouth Sound jets) Hainolze on Tu.esday,, to refit tor
foreige service. A' correspondent, who signs himself
" A ri Ohl Naval Officer," writes as follows
I oh:icrve in yesterday's Morning Herald, under
the head of neutical news, a very just and sensible re-
mark respecting the expense of conveying-twenty
supernumerary seamen front Portsmouth to Plymouth,
by the Sprightly, steamer, for the Superb. It seems
atrenge, Boni the, length of time this ship has been in
m, that she should still be in want of men to
cowiplete her complement; but I think I. can answer
this reueetion, which is siaiply this—that during the
many month.; this splendid ship lay idle at Spithead
last sung: er, she might have bee n manned over and
over again, with first-rate men, had it not been from
the etringent orders of the Admiralty, forbidding the
entry td' ally men except such Hi their Lordships
might thimik fit to order to be placed on her books.
Tins may he a specimen of one of the economical
lights now so much in vogue, but I confess I am too
dull to comprehend it iu that light."
We may remark that the Admiralty might have
manned the Superb over and over again, had they re-
.qiiired the ship for foreign service, or for active Chan-
nel cruising.—herald.

CO URT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
morning walk.

The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
on the Slopes and in Windsor Park.
Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horset,ack this morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
E. H. Seymour.
Tne Duke of Wellington is expected to arrive at
the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty and
Prince, Albert.
The royal dinner party in the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ken;
the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the
-Rai-ones& de Speth, the Duke of Wellington, Lieut.-
Colonel Ilan. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, and the com-
manding
°nicer of the Scots Fusilier Guards (Colonel
Dixon),

The band of the Scotch Fusilier Guards will attend
during' dinner. her Majesty's private bind will
afterw'ards 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 Mr. R.
Ormsby Gore, in his duties as Groom in Waiting to
her Majesty.

The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yes-
terrlf►y fi-om Brighton.
Disparches rvero received yesterday at the Colonial -
office from the. Governor of Gibraltar.

E riTOMILIG ICA sOC MTV.— he usual monthly
mvti,sg of this society was held r n Monday; Mr. G. R.
Waterhouse, president, in the chair. Mr. G. H. Dalton, of
George Town. Dm M etara, and Herr I. Bach, of Boppard, on
the Rhine, were elected corresponding members. Mr. West-
woo4 exhibited a new coleopterous insect (Cliolovocera
derae), remarkable .fur haring the usual facetted eyes re-
placed by ocelli, a peculiarity not hitherto observed in any
matamorphotie winged insect. Mr. Douglas exhibited ;a
new Tinea ( Enehiakt neculteta), and read brief descriptions
of it, and or the Tortrix ( Grapho'itha Weirana) be had ex-
hibited in February. Mr. Stainton exhibited a mining larva
in the leaves of Helianthenium vulgare. A paper by Air. S.
S. Saunders was read on two new t=trepsipterous.insects from
Albania, parasitic on the genus Hylrens, with some extremely
interesting remarks on their habits and metamorphoses. Some
discusoicepal esatati 9a the wit§ OK 8,4144 Nemo,