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

Directory, p. 2,166 B. Further than this—th e
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. While 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.
121, and in the Court Directory, p. 2,176 D.
Again, the Scottish Amicable Life Office haying
removed from Lombard street to 1, Threadneedle-
street, on the sth of October, the alteration is
here dulrnotified 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—. it action credens, durn quid superes-
set agendum never allowing him to leave a
single stone unturned 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
ing up
the vast aggregate of our London population.

P.ROTIDENTIAL ARRITAL OF THE
BROADSTAIRS LIFE-BOAT.

EIGHT LIVES SATED.

Those who have read Eliza Cook's song of " The
Young Mariners" may very readily apply the simile to
the boatmen of Broadsiairs:—

" We long had borrowed sail and skiff—obliged to be con-.
tent
With any crazy, sluggish hull that kindly fisher lent :
At last our spirits, like our limbs, all strong and broad
had grown,
And all our thoughts were centred in a `Life-boat' of
our 021:21
With this introduction we have to narrate the various
incidents connected with the rescue of a brig's crew from
a wreck which occurred off Broadstairs on Saturday
last (Nov. 3). The circumstances are so much con-
nected with the welfare of the port of Cowes, and the
talented shipbuilders which inhabit it, that by referring
to the mere effect without naming the cause would be
partial justice to the merits of the case.
" The Boatmen of the Downs," or, in other words,
the Kentish mariners, are called upon, "amid the pelt-
inf4 of the pitiless storm," to render succour to their
fellow-creatures, whose vessel may perchance have got
entangled in the net of quicksands which nature seems
to have formed as a breakwater for the numberless
shipping who seek an anchorage in that celebrated ren-
dezvous—the Downs. The heroic and daring conduct
of these men have often fonnd a record in the daily
journals, yet, probably, no circumstance has occurred
more deserving of notice than the recent adventure of
the-life-boat, which, within 36 hours from her being out
of her builders' hands at Cowes, had reached the haven
of her future adventures, and was the means of rescuing
eight parsons, forming the crew of the brig Hope, of
Portsmouth, from the danger which seemed to await
them—either to be ergulphed in the breakers, or to
perish in the flames which shortly after their rescue de-
stroyed their vessel. Before, however, we relate the
circumstances attending this providential rescue, we can-
not but refer to the means by which the same was
accomplished.
Some ten years ago public attention was more 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 construction
of a life-boat on such principles as would possess all the
necessary qualificatioes which a life-boat ought to have
—in the hope thereby that the loss of life from ship.
wrack mi.;lit be lessened. •
A short time afterwards the Duke of Northumberland
very humanely took the subject up, and a premium was
offered for the best life-boat. There were several com-
petitors for the prize, and various life-boats were sub-
mitted, possessing, as was imagined, the principles
elicited by the prize offered by his Grace, for the "least
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-
ticular model over the others-euough that we say that
Mr. Beeching's life-boat was selected aStlen prize boat,
and which has singularly proved to be. on:more than two
or three occasions most disastrously unfortunate—yet,
we believeritehael the sine gua non merit of promptly
righterring 'itself after being capsized ;-which qualifica-
tion was -never 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 capsiie. 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, belieeing, as we suppose, they had obtained the
pliilosopher's stone, or in other words, had combined the
whole principles on which a "lifeboat" ought to be con-
structed. The prize boat was subsequently stationed at
Rainsgate,-and in order to afford the men of Broadetairs
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 sons,
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
tha " Broadstairs life-boat," as it was named,
some of the inhabitants there were induced
t 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 embodiel. 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 heree on Friday morning last, and we are
gratified to add tl-at within 30 hours from her departure
she arrived at Broadstairs, and succeeded in saving
eight persons, the crew of the above-named brig, which
had 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 one after the other, and soon leav-
ing them out of sight. About 1 p.m., off Brighton,
passe, Iclose 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 Ilarberough's lugger, as we had all colours
flying ; rather light wind. Stood away for Bushy Head
with a fine breeze, then steered for Fairleigh and Dunge-
ness. Now and then speaking a boat from the shore.
As darkness 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 tremen-
dously, wind about west. Lights all round us from ves-
sels and fi-hing-boats ; suceeeicd in clearing everything
in good style. Gale continued to increase, and the boat
behaved beautifully—rain coming down in torrents, and
the weather very dark. Sighted the South Foreland
Lights, and kept on at a rattling pace. At 10 p.m.
passed through the Downs and brought up under
down Castle ; our anchor being small we were afraid to
wind at
run for Broadstairs, it being low water.e _ Aont 2 in the
morning, weather moderating, proceeded d
sea very
north. At 5 o'clock (24 hours out), tot.
wind, sea
E.S.E., and blew a heavy flew out
mile of Broad-
stairs,When we had fetched to within half afrom Ramsgate.
rough. We were then about 2gmaieles
tl e clas of the
mizeuniast came unhooked,
through some unlr
cdou:ven came tee mast,
I no one was hurt.
rail and all a-top
cleared away and got the
ot the foresail up again,
close in with the breakers,
safely into harboer about ' after
shipping very
u Obligedrh
etaaogvalyio.
again
-we
wl
g,
seas over the quarter, which drenched
The gale continued to increase. At
arrived
two seas
!:rig Hope, of Portsmouth, parted
usa
hsn and
ph
ranorgur
hrisis4clior and drove on the rocks at the back of
We immediately hoisted out our small life-
boat e eo
n pier.
to the pier, and launched it over the back part
through a tremendous sea, and gained the vessel before
the other life-boat could get there, and we rescued the
crew of eight persons,
were landed in who with six of our own people
safety (the boat full of water), in the pre-
sence of a large concourse of people. At 6in the even-
ing the 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
Broadstairs life-boat which has saved the crew. Both
boats are the admiration of every one.—J. COLLINS,
Master of Dreadnought."

On Sunday last Marshal Radetzky reached his 90th
year.
Lady
On Thursday morning the Earl of Carliele,nda°°"
panied by Mr. F. Howard, private secretart,lie Friao.a
F. Howard, sailed from Kingstown on board
Arthur mail contract steamer. His Eoe
.11 rjtay for some
nation is Castle Howard, where he will last night
dash-
time. The viceregal party were toa , Atty.
at Manchester, and proceed northrwara....7 J
It has now been
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL or IN.
is to leave Mar.
ben Iris lordship proceeds
We understand that it is
fiseniaillelys
oanrrtahnegleadt tohfatpLoard Owning
"-:ty's steamer Caradoc, where
to Alexandria in her 19th.
of about three weeks is
° mazeiration of that time he will em.
hisile will
intentionarri v e
Egypt, and at 2
thet
erozepore at Suez for Calcutta. Dr.
Leckie on board the
appointed as surgeon in attendance
:boutkthea
stay
Leckie has been
willform
one of
.
his lordship, and
. ne of the suite accom-
upon. h* to India.—Home News,
pani mg him
AT NEWCISTLE.--Th
Tan 11/lIRDER e Durham Advertiser
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 was rent-
day, had laid in wait in the wood for some of the te-
nants, who would go that way with considerable sums of
money on their persons. The police are making *well
exertion to find out the perpetrators of the daring
.o!_i-
rage, but as yet without effect, and the Home Secretary
has been written to on the subject.