The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-22 00:00:00

THS NEW EMPEROR.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU.

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On Tou..day last. the 17;b ;net., the anutlet Punts'
inxting of toe I ri.1.4. end supporters of toe Royal
Milieus! Lifeb at lustetoAon wee hell at W.lltis Rooms.
St. Janie .'33. Landon. In the unavoidable abeince of His
Grac, Ise Doke of Nortbuosherland. President of the
Institution. the chair wee oecopiel by the Z6'l Percy.
M.P. Th 3 meeting woe numerously and influentially
attended. and three .ere present. .moment itoes. the
Ein of Shot tesbury. the Eal of 8 3lkl, It, the RiAbt 'Um
W. 11. Smith, hi P., Sir William Cowin. Q.C.,
_Sir
Edward
Parrott, Bart., I; lwai.l Birbeck, Eq.,M P..
A i astral Foil tom lre, CllOllOl Ft emy (.3.ayt in. the D34,61Pf
I : ounc,mi of Roast, J. Corbett, Eq. H.P. View-Mmiral
lisnd, It ..irze Lynn. Itog.. Deputy•Cosirman. L. T. Case.
, EN.. Fit U.S., Vic-Admiral Ward. Samuel Lovelock.
EN.. Captain we Hon. F. Uvalde, R.N., Captain H. C.
Parrott, KILN.. I'. Parrot. EN., Hon. Mrs. Cnetwynd, Ead
of Curt tern, Caotatu Pr0w1..., R.N., J. Gm.n. El..
1(I iplain 11. R. Pr-r, lon I. Heroilton. EN., M.P.
' Admiral Sir it. Collieson, K.C.8., Lord Sanwa, Hugh
Cunnyine .am. KN., R. H. Ball.ntyne. E q . H. Lea,
Esq., It E. Buksr. EN., and twiny othiere, including
labor.
From the annual reptrt we htsrn since the last meeting
nineteen new lifeboats had been placed on the British
Isles. there now Icing 270 lifeboats under the manage-
ment of the mei. ty. During to. year 18.30 the lifeboat
of the instituton hid saved 577 parsons tiom wreck d
Ivesaels, nearly the whole of thew under perilous circum-
*Lancer. Th 3 stunis of the past winter had been
unusually violent and most desti netted to life and
I property. but happily the lifetsnt weu had performed
, ti)me ot tie sent heroic exploits that bad ever luen
, rec rded, testifyins nit ow; to thar humanity and
Icourage. but to their vrosderful physical endurance. In
, addition. the lifeboat, bad helped last year to rescue 27
. vewels from de.truc ion. For throe services, and for,
! saving 120 lives by Whine boate sod other wean.. gold
, aid silver tn..' 0., tn. thank, of ttie losututios inscribed
i on vellum, and II Ni bail beeo granted. Tbe number of
i lives saved sin, the °stabile...ant of the institution.
I either by its lifeho.te or by spscial ex.rti M. for wb ch it
had granted rewsr le was .222.603 The committee
cordially acknowledce.d tbs c mtinued ce-tmeretinn of the
1.3-,csl Branch C 'outfitters and their li mow, 8 mysteries
and Ow C not hivard, boetusen. and fishermen. Many
very liberal d,alatione arid leiaciei received during the
poet year *ere gr Ad it:ly echo., i edged. The t AA' sionista
.4 the donations, eitb•cripti 'a. and dividends recq•ivei
duriog that per,of had h ',a .C. 34,507. of which sum £7.550
were special gifts to defray the c •-t of eight lifeboats. The
expenditure tied amounted to £37.677. The committee.
in concluiion. spimiiiii I with i clewed confidence for
summit ,o the inditution. Mittel had under i's immediate
control a noblo Ine-avinz fleet ot 270 boats, Many ti
iwhich, under the blessing of ISA, tenderel such signal
services to saipwreceed crews during the storms of last
witstar. . . _.. . .

wilbeisrl of Shalt &bury moved the following remlu•
ti,!n

Loa. tens meeting desires tu testify anew It. apprecia-
tion of the great and national work of the Lifeboat
Institution. and of the continued sums. which attends
its extensive awl perilous eirr ddons ; and therefore cmt-
eiders that it has, and musts mtinue miters, the strongest
claim to the eupp ort aid sympathy cf the pi,,bc
psrticuisrly when it is rem.rubered that the Jost Unions
has contributed, iliac., its Unit sts..liMment, to the vacant
ot more. than tweutpseven thou.and persons from Ship-
Wrc cit.' .

Warrlp said that anyone who wag at all ami minted
with the character and eondition of our seafaring popula•
Lion, must ..t one r see the ecorinoos ant inexpreseVile
value of such an I a.Ctet•on al thi Lifebmt Society. He
himself had hwl the tumour sni pleasure of going to
Norfolk some years sirc , to he preset,' at the nammg and
launching of the "Briitsh Workman,- a lifeboat which
was construct. d from the contaihutions of readers of the
paper of that new. (Hear, hear.) And he rememb.r,d
that the it:spread n vendee don his tutted was the alheniuts
necessity, as well as the day. • f tuaintaining au:h an
institution as this. (Hear, hiar.) Aesio, while reading
at Weimer (Jamie, he bad tusk the acquaint ince of
manr of the Dead boatmen, an i he confemed that every-
thing be bad heard about their habits, their calninem,
their regolution, and courage had tilled him with
amassment. (Cheers.) He eat told that in the dead
of night, in tbie most Comm, wens weathers. when
once the signal wes given, there never was the
slightest hevitation, but the mos cams down in crowds
at ooc volnnteerinr h,r the boat,. (Hear, heir.) He had
heard it said sonsetitnes that the lifeboat men sere
somewhat exacting in their demands for payment; bat
when we considered the hat wait run by them, and the
'masher co limas they s amid be felt sure that the National
Lifeboat Inatitut.on was doing rightly in rewarding them
, liberally, especially when they remembered that nothing
Wan considered at the time of the rescue but the fact that
men were in danger; character. nationality, or anything
else, are all form turn. (Hear, bear.) The work of the
Lifeboat Institution came 11 .me to everyone, and he
strongly recommended it to the sympathy and 'urinal of
the public. (Cheat...)
The Right lion. W. H Smith, M.P., late First Lord of
the Aduatratv, seconded the resolution, and nail, with
regard to the remarks mei. by 1, .rd Shattesbury, that he
knew that the National Li-boat Institution rewarded the
men in • ItheNti manner, and that was only what the men
deserved. (Hear, hear.)
The proceedings were of an unusually interesting
character.