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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain John 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 thenceforward 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 afios'. 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 Viseount Duncan, M.P. for Bath, by whom he
has issue two sons and two daughters. •
Commander John Lunn (1844) died on Friday, the
23d instant, at Dublin, while on a visit to Captain G.
Dyer, R.N., 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 P'neebe, of
46 guns and 300 men, Captain James Hiilyar, 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
Placebo 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 ho 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 tho Pluto and Locust steamers. In those
vessels, with the exception of a short period which in-
tervened between the paying off of tho one and the com-
missioning of the other, he served uninterruptedly on
the North America, and Wes.; India, and Mediterranean
stations, until advanced to the rank of commander,
December 19, 1814. Ou May 20, 1846, he 3 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 paymaster
R.N. (1808). His father was secretary to Admirals Sir
John Lockhart Ross, Duff, and This officer
entered the navy, Dec. 1, 1803, as first-class volunteer,
on board the Illustrious, 74, Captains Sir Charles Ha-
milton, Michael Seymour,- -nnd William Shield, with
whom ho served in the Channel, on the north-coast of
Spain, and in the West Indies, until November, 1805.
On May 22, 1807, he joined the Royal Naval College;
and on leaving that institution ho 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 SJlvador del Mande, 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, 1845, 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 LDrds of the Admi-
ralty, one of the Salvage Islands, with a plan of the
great Salvage; thirteen of the Cape 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 Devonport.
Paymaster Frederick Mundy (1841) has been ark•
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, 13ehring's
Straits
Clerks-Charles C. Isk, to the Britannia, 120, Spit-
' head; G. H. Shopperd, to the Waterloo, 120, flag-3hT,
Sheerness; James Lewis (1850), to the Victory flag-sh 11),
Portsmouth.
Masters' Assistants-G. W. Bertchall, to the Tyne

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store-ship; W. B. Bastian, to the Victory.
The Gorgon, 6, steam-sloop, Commander 'James A.
Paynter, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon
c
from the PaCific, bringing a mail. last from Rio, from
whence she has made a
bad weather she has had, of 43 days. Sbe sailed from .
considerieg the
Rio en the same day as the Tay mail-steanier, which
vessel has forestalled her news . The Gorgon brought a
freight of about 45,000 dollars from Valperaiao, the
greater part of which she landed at Rio, having now on
board about' 8,000 tiollare. Itlr. Gibson, pay and
purser, late of the Diiver, and two other invalids, have.
come home in the Gorgon. Commander Chamberlain we.:,
to have returned in her, but the Cormorant having been
ordered home he has waited at Rio to come ho ma in her.
'rho Gorgon has come home under steam and canvas,
On
Thursday, in latitude 21 deg. N., she p issed the East
India ship Plantagenet, lying to in a
.gale.
advantage
The Gut.
gon'e engines are good, but her boilers are defective, -
9 having it is probable she will go to Woolwich to pay cff. so
lulled,
has been in commission nleaatrtelyrlyfouwr
iythears, and has been
e
proceeded to
most actively employed, Inure
than formerly in the Tigre Island affair.
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith
lightened, and the wind having been
wDeaenicdesa•g'so fl, g,
Woolwich
o'clock yeeterdAayfteficsrtneoaona
vessel,h
Spithead at three
towed out by the Echo and Sprightly 13' —e`ng
Dished ore on each side of her,
saluted the flag of Admiral Sir The, anchoring she
for receiving
made
ad
eAadbmo lurta
al
guns. , To-day she wil take en bo„.dlts Briggs with 17
and forecastle guns, powder, and licr quarterdeck
live sllells, and make
all ready
proceeding to sea. g and for
• Application was
Dockyard for an old anchor of the Victory, which had