​BALLARD. (Lieutenant, 1843.)

James Boucher Ballard entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1831; and in Dec. 1836, while Midshipman of the Leveret 10, Lieut.-Commander Chas. Bosanquet, assisted, after a chase of 800 miles, at the boarding and capture, within musket-shot distance of a Portuguese frigate and an 84-gun battery at Mozambique, of the Diogenes a slaver, mounting five 24-pounders, with a complement of 70 men. Passing his examination 5 Oct. 1837, he subsequently served as Mate, in the Mediterranean and East Indies, of the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir Thos. Fellowes, Confiance steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Stopford, and Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads; from which latter ship he was promoted to an Additional-Lieutenancy, 20 Oct. 1843, in the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker. Since 26 June, 1844, Mr. Ballard has been serving, also in the East Indies, on board the Wolverene 16, Capt. Wm. John Cavendish Clifford.