The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l enclose you a bank-note struck and issued
by M. Mazzini, showing Mr. Stansfeld as his agent
(see the last line). The note is in the name of Italian
Liberty, and it is complete with the exception of the
date, which has only A.D. 185 , leaving a blank to
be filled up by the fourth figure. This note is ten
years or more old.—l am, sir, yours, &;b.,
London, March 15.

M. A

Other notes can be forwarded of the same age and
issue. ...............

Dio e Popolo. Prestito Italia a Roma,
Nazionale Italiano,
Diretto unicamente ad affrettare I'indipendenza a la liberal

d'ltalia.
W 5102. FRANC HI 100.
Ricevuta di FRANCRI CENTO di Capitale, col mercantile
interesse di mezzo per canto al mesa, a datare de gusto giorno
185'

Pel Comitato Nazionale,
G rus. MAZZINI
Republica GIUSEPPE SIRTORI Comitato
Roraana, MATTIA MONTECCHI Nazionalo
9 Febbrajo, 1849. AURELIO SAFFI Italiano.

A. SALINTZ.
La Circolare No. 1, contenente le basi e i particolar:
dell' Imprestil o, si distribuiaca colle cedole.

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London agent, James Stans.feld, 2, Sydney-pla3e, Brompton

Royal National Lifeboat Institution,

The annual general meeting of the friends and
supporters of this institution was held on Tuesday
the 15th inst. at the London Tavern. The Right
Hon. Sir I. S. Pakington, Bart., G.C.8., M.P., in
the chair. The meeting was influentially and nume-
rously attended. There were present amongst
others—T. J. Miller, Esq., M.P.; Admiral Sir
George Sartorius ; Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
Colonel Palmer, High Sheriff of Essex; Captain R.
Robertson, R.N., Surveyor General of the Board of
Trade; Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S. ; E. J. Reed,
Esq., Chief Constructor of the Navy; James Mc-
Cann, Esq., M.P. for Drogheda ; Thomas Sopwith,
Esq., F.R.S.; Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P.; Captain
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., V.P. ; Joseph Somes,
Esq., M.P.; John J. Rogers, Esq., M.P.; Francis
Brodigan, Esq., J.P. ; Admiral Hall, C. 8., F.R.S. ;
Col. Moore; Admiral Gordon; Captain the Hon. F.
Maude, R.N. ; Captain Hyde, H.C.S. ; Captain
Howes, R.N. ; R. Clowes, Esq. ; Capt. Nairne, R.N..
Commander Jesse, R.N. ; John Proctor, Esq.;
Montague Gore, Esq.; Col. Fitzroy C ayton ; W.
H. Harton, Esq.; Colonel Sykes, M.P.; Louis Par-
nell, Esq. ; Samuel Hibbert, Esq.,; Thomas Hanam,
Esq.; G. C. Begbie, Esq.; Admiral Bullock; J. D,
Alcroft, Esq. ; Rev. George Wilkins, Be.c.
The CHAIRMAN expressed the great satisfaction
he felt in taking the chair on this, the 40th anni-
varsary, of so important and national institution.
It was an institution of which Englishmen might
be truly proud. (Hear, hear.) The clear and ino-
prtant facts which were detailed in its annual re-
port could not fail to elicit the admiration of every
one. (Hear, hear.)
After some further appropriate remarks, the
chairman called on
RICHARD LEWIS, Esq., barrister-at-law, secre-
tary of the institution, to read the annual report.
The report stated that on this, the 40th anniver-
sary of the institution, the committee had once more
to place oa record the success which, with the
Divine blessing, had rested on their labours, and to
express their gratitude to a liberal public for its
continued generous support. Perhaps the most
striking feature in the history of the institution
during the past year was the large number of noble
gifts, in the shape of the entire cost of twelve new
lifeboats, which had been presented to it by philan-
thropic individuals. The committee had the gratifi-
cation to know that the Lords of the Admiralty
were taking steps to provide every ship-of-war with
an efficient lifeboat, their lot dships having paid the
Institution the compliment to consult it on that
important subject. The committee proposed to build
and place at some of the principal fishing stations
model or standard insubtnergible fishing boats,
from which, after sufficient trial, others might be
built in the several localities; and thus a permanent
improvement be established, which might lead to
the saving of many lives on occasions of such boats
being overtaken by gales of wind when at long dis-
tances from land. During the past year the insti-
tution has been enabled to send no less than 15 new
lifeboats to the coast, and numerous others were in
course of construction. The lifeboats of the
institution numbered 132 ; and some of them

were the means of saving no less than 4:7

lives and 17 vessels during the past year, nearly
the whole of them under dangerous circumstances,
amidst high surfs, when no other description of
boats could have been launched with safety. For
these services, and for saving 297 shipwrecked per-
sons by iiihing and shore boats or other means—

the institution had granted rewards amounting to
£`1,35.1. On occasions of service, and on those of

quarterly exercise of the life-boats, about 6,000
persons were afloat in them, yet not a single life
had been lost. Transporting-carriages and boat-
houses had been provided for most of the said new

life-boats. The committee regretted to report that
the number of wrecks during the past year was, a,
usual, very large, and that the gales in October
and December were perhaps the most destructive
that ever visited the shores and seas of the British
Isleo.

It was, hovfover, most gratifying to be Able