The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-06 00:00:00

LIFEBOATS AND THE ROYAL FAMILY.

The Rev. E. Hewlett, of St. Paul's, Manchester,
and R. Whitworth, Esq., hare collected nearly the cost of
four lifeboats which are to be placed under the management
of the National Lifeboat Institution. An application was
made by Mr. Hewlett to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales that one of the lifeboAta, which was to be sent to Ber-
wick-on-Tweed, might be named after the infant prince, the
"Albert Victor." To that application the following anti.
tying reply has been received

" Sandringham, King's Lynn, April 2.
"Sir,-1 em directed by the Prince of Wales to inform
you that his royal highness is much gratified by the pro-
uosal of the South Manchester branch of the Royal Na-
tional Lifeboat lostitution that their new boat should be
associated in name with the infant prince, and that he
wishes her all encores. —I have,
" The Rev. E. Hewlett." " HERBERT FISREIL
With the special permission of the late Prince Consort,
the Padstow lifeboat of the institution was named the
"Albert Edward," after the Prince of Wales, who is also
the Duke of Cornwall. By • singular and happy coinci-
dence that lifeboat was the means of saving four poor
c.a./Ames from an inevitable' death on the very day that
thp prince attained him majority.

PZOBAIILL
THIMIDAY. 011 NORTIIII.3I num..
LE. to B.W. and N. W., COAne. &W. to N. W. and
eartable, moderate, back, moderate to
with some rain. fresh.
As above. WWFMUI. As above.
B.W. to N.W.and to florriuma. W. to N. and back to
places to N Z., earl. B. W., moderate te
able, moderate, with fresh, generally tine.
some rain in places.
&L to &W. and N. W., IAMB& 8.8. W. to N.N.W.,
fresh to moderate, moderate, One.
generally flue.

kartheramßoatlaatt Weetern=lrelantl. Woks, and ad-
faceacko. Bouthora=BasUmh Channel and Biscay Bay. Sagami
I=Kaatward Ragland sad Rellgoland.

A letter from the German camp says :—" I hew
that three of the officers wounded on the Mb are dead,
and that another is dying. There are with this army six
servitor-brothers of the Raabe Haus, at Hamburg, a chari-
table institution, who go on the field under fire to bear away
the wounded. The Prince of Plea and Count Stolberg
(President of the Presairn Upper Chamber), who have been
here in connexion with the establishment of the hospitals of
Bt. John, accompanied them, and led the way on the first
occasion on which they performed this dangerous service."

THE EMPEROR'.ltia.v.—Several members of par-
liament have visited Paris this Easter, amongst whom may
be named Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald. Mr. Pope Hennessy, Sir
R. Clifton, Re., B:4—Paris Correspondent of Post. Certain
gobenowAt correspoodeote ware from Paris their respec-
tive journals in the provinces that all preliminaries have
hese fully arranged for the coming change of ministry
by two distinguished visitors now io this capital, the hoes
member for Horsham and Mr. Disraeli's devoted hench-
man, 11.1 . for King's County ; the latter has again been
in attendance yesterday at the Tuileries, as wo are told by
these court chroniclers.—Paris correspondent of Ririe.
STRANDING or HER MAJ/DITY'S SHIP MAGPIE.—
A telegram from Galway states that her Majesty's ship
Magpie went ashore on Crab Island on Monday morning
during the fog. The steamer Rover has gone down to her
assiatanee. She was expected to be got off that sight,
having been stripped of everything moveable to lighten her,
es the see via running high.