THE LATE VICE-ADMIRAL THE HON. SIR CHAS. PAGET, G.C.H.—The demise of this distinguished officer had been for some time expected, owing to his health being shattered by the climate of the West Indies. Sir Charles was in his 61st year. Sir Charles was the fifth son of Henry, the late Earl of Uxbridge, by Jane, eldest daughter of Arthur Champagne, Dean of Clonmacnoise, and a brother of the present Marquis of Anglesey, was born October 7, 1778; entered the naval service at an early age, and commanded the Martin sloop of war, attached to Admiral Duncan's fleet, in the memorable battle off Camperdown, October 11th, 1797. His commission as Vice Admiral of the White, bore date January 10, 1837. He was appointed one of the grooms of the bed chamber to his late Majesty William IV., July 22, 1830. He was first returned to Parliament as a member for Milbourne Port, in 1804, and represented the Borough of Carnarvon from 1806, up to the passing of the Reform Bill, and also sat for the same borough in the first parliament returned under the Reform Bill. He succeeded Vice Admiral Sir Peter Halkett in the command of the West India and North American squadron, in 1837, when he hoisted his flag in the Cornwallis. Captain Douglas will command on the station, with the rank of commodore, until the arrival of Sir Charles's successor. Sir Charles has left a numerous family of ten children, by his lady, Elizabeth Araminta, [second daughter of Henry (and Lady Elizabeth) Monck, esq. ] whom he married in 1805. His eldest son, Captain Charles Paget, commands the Howe flag-ship at Sheerness.