The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.

A meeting of this Institution was held on Thursday,
September 1, at its house, John Street, Atk
Captain Sir Edward Penctt, Bart., V.P., in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having being
read, rewards amounting to £62 were voted
to the crew of the lifeboats of the
Institution stationed at Pembrey, Barrage, New
Brighton, Odder. and Arklow, for going off to vessel.
in reply to signals of disuses in stormy weather, but
whose crews had been saved by other means before
the arrival of the lifeboats. It was reported
than the lifebosts had on every eon ion behaved
very well. The silver medal of the Insti-
tution, and a copy of • vote on perches,. nt, was
voted to Miss Le Geyt, a resident of Bath, in acknow-
linlgement of her noble and eounsgeoes conduct in
',seeing two Win from drowning, at Lyme lie.is, on
the 4th ult. Idiot Le Geyt bad bees • visitor at Lyme
Regis for come few week., and on the day iii gnee.tii
was out rowing in • small boat in company with a Isely
mend. The two lads were out plat tog at the extremity
of the outer pier, and by some means unfortunately
fell into the Pea. Upon seeing the accident, bliss Le
Chit immediately rowed at much ri-k throneb the
broken water to their rescue, and throwing an oar to
one of the bop., and holding the other lad in her arms,
until further assistance came, she fortunately was the
means of saving them both from • watery grave.
A reward of £2 vas also voted to • boat's
crew of six men, or putting off and saving
three out of five of the ere. of • fishing.
boat, which had capsized in a heavy Rea near
tlogher Head, Louth Harbour, on the 11th June last.
Two men were unfortunately droened on the occasion.
A reward was likewise granted to four seen for
putting off in a shore-boat, and rescuing, al coneider-
able risk of life, eight persons from s fishing-boat which
had struck on a sunken rock daring stormy weather oft
North Roe, Sbetlend, on the 24th May last. A reward
of £3 was also voted to several fishermen for saving sic
ooastguard-ruen, whose boat was capsised off Fernteee
Cove, Dinele, on the coast of Kerry, on the sth July.
Various other rewards were also granted to the crews
of shore-boats and others, for saving life from different
wrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom. Pay-
ments amounting to upwards of £l,OOO were made on
veriCl2S lifeboat establishments, and several lifeboat.
houses were oidered to be built on various parts of the
coast. The committee decided to station • new lifeboat
at Calstor, near Great Yarmouth, in lien of the present
one at that station, which had become nearly unfit for
service. That boat had, during the past twenty years,
saved a large number of lives from shiperreeks on the
outlaying sandbanks in the locality. The lestitutioe
lied, during the peat month, sent new lifeboat, to the
Land's End, Gurdigaa, and Portbdiallsee ; the
Great Western, the London and North-Western,
and the connecting railway companies had, with
their usual liberality, Today given • free no..
espies.* to all the lifeboats. The lifeboat presented
to the Institution by the Ancient Order of Forestere
bad, during the past week, been exhibited at the
Crystal Fallow. and had excited general attention nod
admiration. The Home Guards had applied to the In-
stitution for an additional supply of it. new instructiooe
for the restoration of the apparently drowned, in order
that the same might be extensively circulated in every
hospital and barracks of the Britieb army at home and
abroad. Some of the French porta were having these
valuable rules tranalated and circulated on the coast.;
and we trust that mayors, town commissioners, and
others, will at this period of the year assist the Institu-
tion in extensively distributing these directions on the
coma, banks of rivers, docks, and elsewhere. The
French Government heel instructed Ceepitaine de
Vaisseau de In Roche Kerandraon, of the Imperial
Navy, to visit the Institution end some of its lifeboat
stations, with the view of making himself acquainted
with the mode of the operations of the Society on the
coasts of the United Ktngdom. Heesrs. Forrestt are
now building three lifeboat. far the French Govern-
meet, under the superintendence of the Institution.

WATEHe POUT NUS SW/WAG& —A gentleman writing
to • con temporary says: "Yesterday afteroooe
(August 254 h) about two o'clock, • waterspout of grist
COO was seen from Sammie. Standing on the pier,
situated at the east end of the town, its position was
NE by Fa end apparently at • distance between five
and MX miles. The atmoephere at the time was thick
and ninety, while dark heavy clouds pawed rapidly
alone the besvena. Its first appearsees was like a
cloud of smoke, bright at the top, where it mingled with
the clouds, and dark downwards. In shape it was
somewhat singular and irregular, large and funnel-
shaped at the top, gradually narrowing until it come
within 50 feet of the ren, frosts which point it gradually
increast d in eise till it reached the water. Its height
sensed to be abut 150 feet, and its ban bad ail
apparent diameter of 30 feet. The surface a the sea
at the spot whence it ascended was in • perfect foam
the wlittentas of which strangely contrsated •ith the
dark column :aiming upwards. It lasted about ten
minute., when it soddenly broke. The afternoon wee
cloudy, but only little rain fell." . .

THI RIOTS IN BELFAST. —The Belfast riots have oak
yet oeased to produce bitter fruits. Two inquests were
held on Saturday on the bodies of men who died of
wounds. One of theme was a navvy, who died from lb&
effects of • blow of an adze, inflicted by • ship carpenter
in the famous fight between these classes. The jury
were only able to return open verdicts. It ie now
sacs-I-Mined that 150 persons were more or km injured
during tbe riots, and nine persons have died. Of these
five were Protestants, and four Roman Catholics.

Tea NSW CON/ILDIMATS TALLAHASSZL-
-The New York papers contain the following
Mon of the daring and successful Confederate cruiser
Tallahassee, which has just destroyed some 30 Federal
vessels of the port of New York:—" The privateer
Tallahassee is an iron steamer, painted white, with two
smokestacks, two sorest', about 230 feet in length, 20
feet beam, and draws about nine feet of water. Her
bell I. marked • Tallidowee, of London, 1864.' Engin*
marked 'J. and W. Dudgeon, London.' She is fere
and aft ;schooner rigged, mounts Mose guns, one =el
one on the topgallant forecastle, a long 32-pounder
amidships, and a 24-pounder aft. She carries four
waist boats. Her crew consist, of about 120 persists,
including the °Moen. lien of all nationalities me re-
presented on board, most of whom are said to be
soldiers from Lee's army. She is said to have run out
of Wilmington about six days's°, without haeing been
seen by any of Admiral Lee's ttlockadera She has
quite • quantity of cotton on board to protect her
boilers and there are four barrels of turpentine on deck
to be Lad in arlng yowls. She is commanded byJohn
Taylor Wood. C.S.N. The surgeon, Sheprardson, say*
he was one of the Chempeake pirates. A Mr. Hall is
II • boarding °Moen The crew are dreamed in rags and
tatters. Soon of them wear their pistol' tied to than
with Manilla rope yarns. They are • hard-looking set.
The chief engineer says he is a Boston man, or that he
was born and brought up in that city. The last seen of
the privakor she was steering south-out, with Mk Pilot
boat James Funk in tow as a tender. All the odious
and crews of the vessels captured by the privateer were
paroled, and signed a document promising not to take
up arms against the rebels until regularly exchanged."
The s.atensent of the crew of the pilot both inferred to
is to the following elect: —" On Thursday morning, at
half.past seven, Fire Island bearing north-west, distatioe
'3O miles, discovered • steamer steering west. Kept off
for her and net our colours. On approaching her es per-
ceived that she dew the pennant and Union flag. On
nearing us she stopped. Thinking she wanted a pilot, we
hove our yawl out, and Mr. Smith and two men went
alongside of her. As soon as the yawl got alongid•
the steamer down came the eters and stripes nod up
went the rebel deg. The pilot and men who were ha
the yawl were taken on board as prisoners, and they
lowered two boats full of armed men, whouune and
took possession of the pilot boat in the name of the
Confederate States. Before taking us he had captured
the schooner Sarah A. Boyce, of Great lisg Harbour,
bound from Boston for Philadelphia. Al nine a.m. the
privateer captured the brig Carrie Estelle, of Boston,
bound to New York. She was burnt. At eleven a.m,
she captured the barque Bay State, from Alexandria to
Boston, and burnt her also. At one p.m. captured
brig A. Richards, of Boston, from Glace Bay, bound to
New York. She was burnt also. At three p.m. ear-
tared schooner Atlantic, of Addison, and burnt her.
At half-past three she boarded the schooner Carroll,
from East Machias, bound to New York. She was re-
leased on signing loads for 10.000 dole., she taking all
the crews of the captured vessels to New York. All of
the prisoners were paroled, and during all this time the
privateersmae would not give us anything to eat or
drink. August 12, of Fire Island. 15 of the paroled
men left the 'choosier Carroll in • row boat, and steered
for Fire Island Inlet, where we were kindly taken in
tow by the yacht Lily, Captain Johnson, who brought
us into the inlet."

One Murree= iSOITT out Asornint—He who ran
take the mental and moral measure of his neighbour
with perfect fairness lea rare bird in the mend gook.
We are too apt to gangs one another by standards
warped by prejudices arising from our own peculiar
habitat and assomations. In feet, only • great mind ma
judge other minds with entire impartiality. A good
classical scholar usually feela more or lees coetenipt for
• person utterly ignorant of lads and Greek. Even •
erillege-bred man, if caught tripping in his reading of the
dead languages, is sere to be taken to task by the
pedants and marinated the *shoots. Paley, the immortal
author of the Sadness of atristiassity, mapro-
Dossed • single Latin word in the grit sermon he
preached, after receiving his degree of doctor of divinity,
whereupon he was made • target for the epignunmatie
smartness of a wore of scribblers, wheat combined
Wain*, if they could have been put into one heed, would
have been no match for the grand intellect at which
I they presumed to jeer. To undervalue tbs man who
' knows little or nothing of a subject in which you your-
self are thoroughly versed is human nature. If the
greatest philosopher alive ahoeld call the captain of a
ship her binnacle, the man at the helm, though perhaps
unable to read or write, would sament him an ignorant
lubber. One of the most common mistakes committed
IZYSCl:ltirheo.t7ovte. in wh
men at arha, z., critermit the higher
Perseus who show no regard for the oonventiosalitir • if
the fashionable world ere generally held in Live esteem
by fashionable people. We bare more than once 1...,
with no smell degree of indignation, • plain, honest,
sensible man, unacquainted with the sieges of high
society, made the butt of • group of Reels& effeminate
poppies incapable of anything beyond the veriest small
talk. Beau Brumnal sonadered • fellow who could
send his plate twice for seep,* a erratum utterly beneath
the notice of • gentlemen. In the estimation of that
teilor-made men, to break • rule of table etiquette wee
• graver offence than to trustee.s one of the emu-
essadmenta. The opinion which an tuseueeeraftil
sea eapreesse of • fortunat• cml et tor is
almost aiway. unjust. The merits of time eminent
lawyer, who has mom Waste than he dedres are in-
visible to his threadbare proles-Waal brother, Counsellor
Snider; nor me the Rev. Drowsy Drawl, who preaches
a small emsgregation hi deep every Sunday, see any-
thing rennalable in the diarurses of Dr. Lucid, erlsoes
voice stirs men's Worts like the mound of • trumpet,
and into whose °Much the multitude crowd until the
very aisles are full. As a rule, if you don't entertain •
good opinion of. no who has eclipsed you in the world's
astimetion, the beat way is to keep that opinion to
yourself. The probability is that it is tinctured with
prejudice; but even If imp serial, few will believe that
there is not envy at the bottom of it. Again
—never deeptse • man not knowing something that you
de know. It is not improbable that he may know •
thousand things with which yon are entirely en-
sequateted • In forming .11 estruints of your follows,
try to come out of your own individuality, to discard
self, and to measure 1.11. by principles sus sot by pre.
Judie's.