The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-14 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFIBOAT INSTITUTION.

The annual general needs( of the friends and
mappens' et OAS isetitutios was yesterday at the Lon-
doe-tavern ; Reel PRICY in the chair.
JILL/MIL eseretery to she ieditation, mad the mend
need, which, after adverting to the late exoeptiosellt
stormy 11060014 stated that the mat noticeable feature
of the past twelve mouths was the large number
of splendid gifts of the smile east of new lifeboats
presented by individuals or by inland towns, that
had desired to show their sympathy with the eeetalet
mariner on our shores, and to take some share in the w
of affordieg him help in the boar of hie need. It this
noticed the formation of "LA Scant Centrals de &ave.
tags des Narangse„" of Freon. During the page
year thirtymven new lifeboats bad been built,_ end
most of them already placed ca the made of the United
Kiegdom by the Institution. Boat-liouses and transporting
carnage* had been likowies provided for wally the whets
ef these boat The lifeboats of the inatitstios stove and
bored 162. their dhoti. instramentalitf 53211 ea
and twenty vessels were saved dorieg the met year, nearly
all of them under °keelsons.* when so other deeeriptim
of beat could with safety Iran been used. For these. awl
far the saving of 182 lima by sherabode and other mesas.
and for exercising the lifeboats quarterly, the !digitalin
bad granted psyments amounting to 4,9661. The number
of shipwrecks on the coasts of the British Isles last year
was 1,738, attended with the loss of 471 panes. The
presenatioe of life from shipwreck motioned ettedily to
leatePrqome, mid the many lees, lesteadif bdag min
I former yeses 1802 peresems. was Pow PM men Mae 699-
The total number of lives men during the forty-two years
Omens establishment at the leedbelloe, elfter by its
Anode, ee by epeeist szediese ter win& has giembed,
seemsdo, way 14,980. The oommitters speak highly •
.st . the onatinsid nimble so-operatics afforded to
them by their load ommittess, the Board of Trade.
the' goad guard, end the railway and steam packet
compels. lines the twenties of the moiety it be.
(speeded ea lifeboat establishments 116,8811., sad
had voted 82 geld sod 759 silver medals for saving life,
besides pecuniary rewards to the amount of 22,1401. The
total amount of receipts devise the year had been
28,932 L ss. 2d.; sad thisexpeaditure, including its Habib-
, lb" 35,725 i. 17e. 4d.
The °gown congratulated the meeting on the posi-
tion the society occupied is the public mind. which wee
proved by the feat that they had now 206 bons collected
gad manned by more thee 20,000 vendee's. It WWI also
testifying to find that the subscriptions sum not eddy
deem maritime persona or those residing near the sea.
merits. but Largely also from the inhatemeln of inland
towns. The aptiety bad also set an example to foreign
nations, die rad! of which had been that the number of •
lifeboats had been increased along the whole estate the
Rohde and tire Oerrom Cone. The French, eve( sea lac to
[Meet soy proposal for the beadle of lonnandy, had is-
Minted a society Meeting with this, sad which had
almadutu:set of U bode. (Hear.) And Spain wee
ems steps in the mime direction. and bat
nemmentedied with the esemnittee of the isetituans
as •to the. establishment of a lifeboat asseciadoe
tar that country ; nor had Italy been behind is the move-
ment. The committee felt that they might well ammo
talon the sairimihme en the minneement made tetrads
the &Odorant of ita ultimate sod. the saving of bonne
life. The average number of lives lon of the coasts of this
'Misdealt by shipwreck to fernier years wee 1.000. That
had now happily fallen to little more Una half that num-
ber, and this reduction was mainly attributable to the
labours of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. (Hear.)
But this amber by se imam remessated the same peeper-
tion of lives saved to the maritime population as it did
when the average wee 1,000. Sines that time the maritime
population had nearly doodad, and tblear: sod tase7 ot lives
saved to the country, bad, therefore, the
risk had diminished proportionately. Still, whi so large
a number of valuable lives was annually lost they must
feel meadow that the work of the secisty was
by so mean done, and they might be snored
that the society would continue to use its best
efforts is diminish the pretest enrage of lees. Nun wen
to be expected from better lighting the coeds, imposed
construction of ships, and greater knowledn on the peat cd
those who navigated them ; but in spite of all this 00011611011
mould arise when seamen would fiad themselves exposed to
those fearful storms and that destruction from which it
was the object of the society to name them. Every effort
thatrprectical seines could suggest woeld be oldto is,
prove the mane now at their columned for saving life from
shipwreck, and be was quite sure that under these Giresun-
gnome the society would always have the confides°, end
support of the nation at large. (Hear, Mar.)
Red fignotoussn sad Tauter moved the adoption ot the
?Sport. which was emmedell 11 Wallufaira, ana
carried.
Mr. B. Whitworth, ILP., Mr. Lyall, ALP., Admiral
Mundy, Sir Edward Parrott, Captain Woodall, R.N., dr.
Chapman, and others. spoke hi support of reeointiees, area(
the claims of the assietv, tbsiokiag the Board of Trees Bed
the ooastluard service for the assistance afforded by them,
sod the committee of management for their c.re and Wan-
ing ; aid • eels et thanks to the noble °Minna emeleded
the Wises*.