The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-28 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain Jnhn James Allen (1841) died on the 23d
instant at Errol Park, county Perth. He was born in
May, 1806, entered the Naval College in 1818, and
served afloat 15 years. His first ship was the Active,
46. After an intermediate and uninterrupted servitude
on the America, West India, and Mediterranean sta-
tions, he was promoted (having passed his examination
in 1824) to the rank of lieutenant, by commission dated
the sth of April, 1827. His subsequent appointments
were-to the Chanticleer, 10; July 21, 1828, to the coast
blockade, as supernumerary lieutenant of Ramillies, 74;
April 23, 1829, and March 17, 1831, to the Sparrow-
hawk, 18, and Falcon, 10, both on the Jamaica station;
and September 30, 1831, to the Pallas, 42, also in the
West Indies. He obtained the rank of commander the
6th of October, 1832, but remained thencefor ward unem-
ployed until appointed, the 20th of August, 1840, to the
Lily, 16. After being for some months senior officer on
the coast of Africa and in the Indian Ocean, Captain
Allen was advanced to post rank on the 23d of Novem-
ber, 1841. He has not since been afloat. He married,
the 28th of August, 1832, Lady Henrietta Dundas Dun-
can, eldest daughter of the Earl of Camperdown, grand-
daughter of the celebrated Admiral Lord Duncan, and
sister of Viscount Duncan, M.P. for Bath, by whom he
has issue two sons and two daughters.
Commander John Lunn (1844) diod on Friday, the
23d instant, at Dublin, while on a visit to Captain G.
Dyer, RN., aged 56. This officer was son of Mr. Lunn,
late foreman of shipwrights of her Majesty's dockyard,
Devonport. He served as midshipman of the nice* of
46 guns and 300 men, Captain James Hillyar, and was
in company with the Cherub, 18, at the capture, March
28, 1814, off Valparaiso, of the American frigate
Essex, of 46 guns and 265 men, who struck her colours
at the close of a warm action of two hours, in which the
Phccbe lost four men killed and seven wounded, and her-
self 24 killed and 45 wounded. In 1821, having passed
his examination in 1817, and been appointed mate of the
Revolutionnaire, 46, Captain the Hon. Fleetwood
Broughton Reynolds Pellew, he assisted in the boats of
the ship at the capture of several pirates in the Medi-
terranean. His appointments in the capacity of lieute-
nant, a rank he attained June 12, 1829, were-November
29, 1831, to the Caledonia, 120, Captains James Hillyar,
Thomas Browne, and George Bohun Martin, in which
ship he was for nearly six years employed in the Medi-
terranean, half the time under the flags of Sir Josias
Rowley and the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford-and
August 10, 1838, and October 12, 1840, to the com-
mand of the Pluto and Locust steamers. In those
vessels, with the exception of a short period which in-
tervened between the paying off of the one and the com-
missioning of the other, he served uninterruptedly on
the North America, and West India, and Mediterranean
stations, until advanced to the rank of commander,
December 19, 1844. On May 20, 1846, hel was ap-
pointed to command the Virago steam-sloop, again in
the Mediterranean.

Captain Vidal (1825), who has received the good-
service pension, is stated in the Naval Biography to be
" brother of Commander Richard Emeric Vidal, R.N.,
and of Emeric Essex Vidal, Esq., purser and pay master
R.N. (1808). His father was secretary to Admirals Sir
John Lockhart Ross, Duff, and Kingsmill. This officer
entered the navy, Dec. 1, 1803, as first-class volunteer,
on board the Illustrious, 74, Captains Sir Charles Ha-
milton, Michael Seymour, and William Shield, with
whom he served in the Channel, on the north-coast of
Spain, and in the West ludies, until November, 1805.
On May 22, 1807, he joined the Royal Naval College;
and on leaving that institution he was received,
in November, 1809, on board the Lavinia, 40,
Captains Lord William Stuart and George Dig-
by; in which ship we find him for upwards of three
years employed on the Mediterranean, West India,
Cadiz, and Lisbon stations, the chief part of the time in
the capacity of midshipman. In the course of 1813-14
he was received in succession, on the Home station, on
board the Salvador del Mundt), flag-ship of Sir Robert
Calder; Niobe, 40, Captain William Augustus Montagu;
Cornwall, 74, Captain Edward W. C. R. Owen; Namur,
74, bearing the flag of Sir Thomas Williams; Bann, 20,
and Conway, 24, both commanded by Captain John Tan-
cock; and Niobe again, Captain Henry Collins Deacon.
Sailing in the latter ship for the Halifax station, he was
there, and on the Canadian lakes, employed from Feb-
ruary to November, 1815, principally on surveying ser-
' vice, although for a short time as acting flag-lieutenant
to Commodore Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen. He was
then presented with a commission bearing date Feb. 6,
1815. He was next, Aug. 25, 1818, appointed to the
Leven, 24, Captains David Ewen Bartholomew and Wm.
Fitzwilliam Owen, fitting for a surveying expedition to
the coast of Africa, where he was promoted, May
15, 1823, to the command of the Barracoutta, 10, also
a surveying vessel. He was advanced to post rank,
Oct. 4, 1825; and was afterwards employed, still on
surveying-service-for a short time in 1831, in the Pike,
12; from September 15, 1835, until the close of 1838,
and from Septembsr 15, 1841, until January, 1545, on
the coast, of Africa and among the Azores, in the /Etna
and Styx-and, from January 7, 1845, until the early
part of 1846, with his name on the books of the William
and Mary, yacht. In addition to charts, Captain Vidal
published, under the authority of the Lords of the Admi-
ralty, one of the Salvage Islands, with a plan of the
great Salvage; thirteen of the Capo de Verde Islands;
one of the coast of England, and one of Vidal Bank, on
the north-west coast of England."
Commander Frederick L. Barnard (1851), late of
Commodore Martin's flag-ship the Prince Regent, has
been appointed to commission the Vesuvius, steam-sloop
at Davenport.
Paymaster Frederick Mundy (1841) has been ap-
pointed to the Tortoise, guard-ship at Ascension, vice
Rickcord, whose period of service has expired.
Second Masters-Philip Going (1848), late of the
Havannah, to the Calliope, 26, Australia; Thomas A.
Hull, to the Plover, Arctic searching-ship, Behring's
Straits
Clerks-Charles C. Isk, to the Britannia, 120, Spit-
head; G. H. Shepperd, to the Waterloo, 120, flag-shiP,
Sheerness; James Lewis (1850), to the Victory flag-ship,
Portsmouth.
Masters' Assistants-G. W. Burtchall, to the Tyne
store-ship; W. B. Bastian, to the Victory.
The Gorgon, 6, steam-sloop, Commander JaftmerensoAon.
Paynter, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
Rio,
from the Pacific, bringing a mail, last frommsidlielrinr
the
whence she has made a capital passage,
bad weather she has had, of 43 days..
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purser, late of the Driver, and two other
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come home in the Gorgon. Commander othmemi
to have returned in her, but
ordered home he has waited at Rio to come home in her.
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saluted the flag of Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs with 17
guns. To-day she will take on board her quarterdeck
and forecastle guns, powder, aed live shells, and make
all ready for receiving Admiral Dundas's flag, and for
proceeding to sea.
Application was made about a week ago at Woolwich
Dockyard for an old anchor of the Victory, which had