The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-10 00:00:00

Directory, p. 2,166 B. Further than this—th 6
death of Frederick Lucas, Esq., the late lamented
M.P. for the borough of Meath—whose demise
was recorded in The Sun as recently as the 25th
ultimo—we find has led here to the erasure
of the name of Mr. Lucas from the Parliamentary
Directory, pp. 2,247 and 2,256, and from the
Court Ditto, p. 2,174 D. Wilde the death of Mr.
John May, of the Police Force (mentioned in The
Sun of the same date, namely, the 25th ult.), has,
in like manner, led to the erasure of his name
also in as many as three different places, in the
Law Directory, p. 2,046, in the Official Index, p.
21, and in the Court Directory, p. 2,176 D.
Again, the Scottish Amicable Life Office having
removed from Lombard. street to 1, Threadneedle-
street, on the sth of October, the alteration is
here duly notified in the Street Directory, p. 727,
in the Commercial ditto, p. 1,352, and in the
Trades ditto, p. 1,750. These being only a few
specimens out of many similar examples which
might, had we either the leisure or the space, be also
here specified. The motto of the proprietor of the
Post-office London Directory has throughout mani-
festly been—Nil action eredens, duin quid superes-
stage
stonendun —never allowing him to leave a
singleunturned in his researches, and
thus enabling him to present to us at last
in this extraordinary volume for " 1856," scarcely
so much a London Directory as a compendium of
the intellect and industry, the wealth and enter-
prise+ of the British Empire : hardly so much a
book of reference as a veritable microcosm—a
world in little, that world the busy and densely
compacted throng of 2,500,000 souls, making up
the vast aggregate of our London population.

PROVI,DENTIAL ARRIVAL OF THE
BB 9A DSTAI RS LIFE-BOAT.

E.T.GEIT LIVES SATED.

Those who hate read Eliz t Cook's song of "Ti e
Young Mariners" ,Tay very readily apply the simile to
the boatmen of Bro.stistairs:—

" We long had borrow ed sail and skiff—obliged to be con-
tent
With any crazy, slrsg.ish hull that kindly fisher lent :
At last our spirits, our limbs, all strong and broad
had grown,
And all our thoughts were centred in a `Life-boat' of
our own .1"
With this introduction v, '0 have to narrate the various
incidents connected with t.`te rescue of a brig's crew from
a wreck which occurred o ff Broadstairs on Saturday
last (Nov. 3). The circun xstances are so much con-
nected with the welfare of ,`,he port of Cowes, and the
talented shipbuilders which iblabit it, that by referring
to the mere effect without na wing the cause would be
partial justice to the merits of Cie case.
" The Boatmen of the Downs;." or, in other words,
the Kentish mariners, are ,•:allcd upon, "amid the pelt-
ing of the pitiless storm," to render succour to their
fellow-creatures, whose vessel Inay perchance have got
entangled in the net of quicksank is which nature seems
to have formed as a break wate r for the numberless
shipping who seek an anchorage it: that celebrated ren-
dezvous—the Downs. The licrrAt and daring conduct
of these men have often found a record in the daily
journals, yet, probably, no circu,'n.stance has occurred
more deserving of notice than the tecent adventure of
the life-boat., which, within 36 hours from her being out
of her builders' hands at Cowes, had .teached the haven
of her future adventures, and was the us eans of rescuing
eight pkasons, forming the crew of the brig Hope, of
Portsmouth, from the danger which sotsned to await
them—either to be engulphed in the .breakers, or to
perish in the flames which shortly after their rescue de-
stroyed their vessel. Before, however, u,o relate the
circumstances attending this providential res.ltle, we can-
not but refer rte the means by which the came was
accomplished.
Some ten years ago public attention was m e imme-
diately called to the number of wrecks which annually
occur on our coast, in the hope that the talents of our
scientific builders would be directed to the coast ruction
of a life-boat on such principles as would possess All the
necessary qualifications which a life-boat ought toe have
—in the hope thereby that the loss of life from ahip-
wreck
mid,ht be lessened.
A short time afterwards the Duke of Northumberl tnd
very humanely took the subject up, and a premium was
offered for the best life-boat. There were several cotn•
petitors for the prize, and various life-boats were
witted, possessing, as was imagined, the principles'
elicited by the prize offered by bis Grace, for the " best
model of a life-boat." Without entering into detail

of the proceedings which followed, or -the reasons
which led the committee to award the palm to one par-
.

Ocular model over the others—enough that we say that
Mr. Beeching's life-boat was selected as the prize boat,
and which has singularly proved to be on more than two

„ .
or three occasions most disastrously unfortunate—yet,
we believe, it had the sine qua nob merit of promptly
rightening itself after being capsized ; which qualifica-
tion was nev,r taken notice of by the designers of
” Lamb and White's life-boat," inasmuch as they had
constructed a lifeboat which it was almost utterly im-
possible to capsize. So confident were the projectors of
their lifeboat in the superiority over others, that they
(we believe) were not found to be among the list of com-
petitors, believing, as we suppose, they had obtained the
philosopher's atone, or in oth,l. %-.-ords, had combined the
whole principles on which a "lifeboat" ought to be con-
structed. The prize boat was subsequently stationed at
Ramsgate, and in order to afford the men of Broadstairs
the opportunity of competing with their neighbours in
the cause of humanity Mr. Thomas White, (the respected
parent of the present firm at Cowes), presented to his
native town, Broadstairs, a small lifeboat, which act was
followed by the donation of a larger boat by the song,
and it must be gratifying to know that these boats have
been the means of saving many lives when other boats
in the vicinity " would not show to it." It now

appears that owing to the success which attended
the " Broadstairs life-boat,", as it was named,
some of the inhabitants there were induced
to cause Messrs. John and Robert White to con•

struct for them a "lugger" on the lines of the Deal
boats, but to which their principle as a life-boat should
be embodied. Accordingly a lugger of about 40 tons
was constructed by that firm, and launched only last
week. Her intended crew arrived here (Cowes) over-
land to convey her to the site from whence her future
operations were to occur. They took their departure in
her from hence on Friday morning last, and we are
gratified to add that within 30 hours from her departure
she arrived at Broadstlirs, and succeeded in saving
eight persons, the crew of the above-named brig, which
bad just driven on shore in the easterly gale which pre-
vailed. The following is a copy of the log of the life-
boat, which has been called the Dreadnought :—" We
left Cowes at 5 a.m. of Friday, the 2d of November, and
ran to the eastward under storm sails till daylight, and
then hoisted the mainsail and went away at a slashing
pace,
sighting vessels ono after the other, and soon leav-
ing them out of sight. About 1 p.m., oft Brighton.
passed close in to the chain pier. A few boats came off
to look at us ; among them was a yacht's boat, thinking
it was Lord Harborough's lugger, as we had all colours
flyitig ' • rather light wind. Stood away for Bushy Head
with .e fine breeze, then steered for Fairleigh and Dunge-
ness. Now and then speaking a boat from the shore.
Asdark-ness came on fast and the weather looking bad,
took in the mainsail, but scarcely had we succeeded in
securing it when it came on to blow and rain tremor.
dously, wino; about west. Lights all round us from.vr
sels and fishins-boats ; succeeded in clearinger.,4l;3llo,l
in good style. Gale continued to increase, and t
kited the South
the weather ver,,T dark. Sight
ace. At 10 p.m,
behaved beautifully—rain coming down in torrents, and
Lights, and kept ou at a rattliogoupght
up
under San-
passed through the Downs and br
thetA
• it being low '
run for Broadstairs,
down Castle ; our anclior.benn
rating, proceeded on, wind at
morning, weather made sinsa.alltewre wAerte a2frainid
north. At # o'ci,ock (24 hours
gale of wind, sea very
at E.S.E. and blew a
2.4 out), the wind flew out
about 2 miles from Ramsgate.
ento avithin half a mile of Broad-
When cause the clasp of the
. nao one was hurt.
:nd
r\
stairs,Voub get w
throughßornee*haedwfeert ti tebd
u.
ne d
down came the mast,
mizenmast came unhook
4,uni,,,tely
wwitahythariedbrgeoatketX
tosa foresail,lorinc.wtlePrwtoehfewegr;c nc w ec‘loe as
close
mastOs abi sail
Obliged
une ddp
a very heavy sea running—got the fo, st:sail up again,
and arrived safely into harbour MAL st
six, after
shipping two seas over the quarter, whb 11, drenched
us through. The gateWe. At
continued to inci '
three p.m., the lerir, TT ijo parted
Eris 'l°P of Portsmout"
from her anchor and drove en the rocks at the' back of
the pier. We immediately hoisted out our 50k.42 life-
boat on to the pier, and launched it over the back" part
through a tretnend • fore
the sea, and gained the vessel be. re
the V other
crew life-boat could get there, and we rescued t:he
of eight persons who with six of our own peoplW
in safety were landed f '
ety (the boat full of water), in the re•
sauce of a large
in the concourse of people. At 6in the even.,
,g brig took fire, and continued burning until 8
o clock this morning (Sunday), and is completely gutted;
she lies in the south locker. This day hundreds of
people have been over to look at the wreck, and the
13roadstairs life-boat which has saved the crew. Both
boats are the admiration of every one.—J. COWIE',
Master of Dreadnought."

On Sunday last Marshal Radetzky
reached his 90th
year.
of Carlisle, accom-
On Thursday morning the
Earlt secretary, and Lady
parried by Mr. F. Howard, private on board the Prince
F. Howard, sailed from Ding is
Excellency's desti-
Arthur mail c intraot steamer.
re ." e
will
stay t for some
to remain last night
a da ,
r Wh
ntiamtieo. n
TheisCastle
viceregal
party weree
at Manchester,
L OF INDIA.—It h been
finally now
TEE GOVVINort-GENBR
d that Lord Canning is to leave Afar-
finally arrange and proceed northward today.
4 of December. His lordship proceeds
I.Bn her Majesty's steamer Caradoc, where
arrive about the 7th. We understand that it is
he will
intention to make a stay of about three weeks in
his .
steoliAlelsexoanndla i
Egypt, and at the expiration of that time he wiil em-
bark on board the Ferozepore at Suez for Calcutta. Dr.
Leckie has been appinted as surgeon in attendance
up
on his lordship, and will form one of the suite acoom-
panying him to India.—llome News.
THE MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.—The Durham 4 dvertiser
states that the day on which Mr. Stirling was robbed
and murdered was the rent day of Mr. Hutt, M.P., and
it is generally supposed in the neighbourhood that the.
murderer or murderers, being aware that it waseret,
day, had laid in wait in the wood for some.°l_ o%,:ns of
Dant% who would go that way with oonsidemraaNg
every
money on their persons. The
petraptoolricseoiretchine
;wing out..
exertion to find out the per Secretary
and the -Ad
rage, but as yet without effect,
has been written to on the subject.