DEATH OF ADMIRAL EDWARD HAWKER.—This gallant officer died on Friday last at Brighton. The deceased admiral became a midshipman in 1793. As lieutenant of the Thames frigate, Captain Hollis, after witnessing Sir James Saumarez’s action of 12th and 13th July, in 1801, in the Gut of Gibraltar, he commanded her boats in a spirited capture in September of a Spanish privateer. He was afterwards employed in the West Indies in command of the Swift, and afterwards as first lieutenant of the Bellerophon, 74, Captain Loring. In December, 1804, he was appointed to the Tartar, 32, in which vessel in June, 1806, he in company with the Bacchus cutter, captured L’Observateur, French brig of 18 guns. Captain Hawker exchanged into the Melampus, 36, in which frigate he was engaged in convoying transports in January, 1809, from Halifax to Barbadoes, and on the 16th of that month succeeded in capturing Le Colibri, French brig of war, mounting 16 guns, conveying flour and gunpowder for the relief of St. Domingo. On the 14th of the ensuing December he intercepted Le Beauharnais, of 16 guns, laden with flour and warlike stores, bound for Guadaloupe. He assisted at the reduction of that island, and captured with the Driver, sloop of war, La Fantome, French letter of marque. While in command of the Bellerophon, 74, bearing the flag of Sir R. G. Keats, he captured Le Génie, French privateer; and in 1827 and 1829 was captain of the Britannia and St. Vincent, flag ships of the Earl of Northesk; and in April, 1830, went on half-pay. His commissions bore date as follows:—Lieutenant, July 14, 1796; commander, August 29, 1803; captain, June 6, 1804; rear admiral, Jan. 10, 1837; vice admiral, Sep. 22, 1847; and admiral, Sept. 17, 1853. Admiral Hawker had been in receipt of a good service pension since March 1858, which by his demise becomes at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Captain Robert Spencer Robinson (1840) becomes rear admiral of the blue, in consequence of the demise of Admiral Edward Hawker, thereby placing a captain’s good service pension at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty; and Captain Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds, C.B. (1841), a recipient of the good service pension, becomes the senior officer for promotion to flag rank. The good service pension rendered vacant by the death of Admiral Hawker, has been awarded to Admiral Sir H. Prescott, K.C.B.