The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP-
WRECK.

Yesterday a meeting or the General Committee of
the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life
from Ship•reck, was held at the offices, John-street,
Adelphi. Admiral Sir TnoLAs 11EallEILT, M.P., in the
chair.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been read,
and the election of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., as
chsirman of the institution having been confirmed, the
committee proceeded to grant the following rewards for
saving life:—The silver medal of the society to Mr. William
Tegt, master mariner, and 21. to his beat's crew of two men,
is consideration of their gallant conduct to the ere w of the
schooner Comet, of Bristol, which was wrecked during a
RAo of wind at the entrance of the Gunnel, on the coast of
Cornwall, on the 26th ult. The schooner at the time was
lying broadside to the breakers, and the era making a clean
breach over her, and the risk of life' incurred by the :„1.,0ee
three roost have been considerable, as it rarely h.:opens that
a vessel is wrecked under the eireuntstan.zs in which the
Comet was plated without 1t... of life. Much credit was
alto she to Mr. lat'tel, Chief Officer of
Coast Gated, for his promptitude in bringing
the rocket apparatus into operation, by means of
which the boat, attached to a hawser, was hauled off along-
side the wreck. The silver racial was also voted to John
Redford, ea:swain of the new life-boat rtitioned at Culler-
coats, in admiration of his intrepid conduct is rushing into
the surf to the rescue of a poor fishing boy who had had
his but dashed to pieces in attemp.ing to enter the haven
during a 'navy gale on the 26th of February. The boy's
father and brother-in-law were unhappily drowned on the
mission. A reward of 31. 10s. was also granted to several
other persona who had very creditably exerted themselves
with their boats in attempting to resider assistance to the
boy, but which was unavailable, on account of the proximity
of the rocks.

Mr. Robert Anderson, a magistrato of Sarah Shields,
transmitted an nceount of a most lamentable shipwreck re-
cently on the Herd Sand. During a heavy gale and sea, a
schooner was observed from the Larve with signs'* of distress
flying corning round Tynernouth point, and making for the
hirbeur. A heavy snowstorm having come on, the vessel was
lost eight of. The Shields pilots immediately launched
two hie baste, and proceeded to the scene of the disaster,
but by the time the snow bad cleared off, nothing was seen
of the ship, and it was supposed that she had either suuk
or gone off to sea. After remaining some time there, the
wreck was discovered on her broadside some distance elf
Without leas of time the pilots rowed off to her with all
exertion, and (cold and severe as it was) being stripped to
their shirts, they succeeded in 1.5 minute*, when they found
her lying on her broadside with her masts in the water, and
nobody on board. Thos crew, it appiared (from the wheel
being lashed), had taken to the rigging, and when she
turned ever had been washed away and drowned. The
life boats lay close to the vessel's stern, and the crew shouted
as loud aa they could, but there was no answer. Being
convinced that there was nobody left on board, they with
great exertion pulled back to the harbour. There were 37
men in the two life boats, and they were paid 191. 12.. for
their service.
Other rewards having been made and grants sanctioned,
In aid of the several lite boats, the proceedings closed.

POSTAGE OF BOOKS TO NEW SOUTH
WALES.

GENERAL POST-OPVICE, MARCIL, 1853.—0 n and
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