The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was he'd yesterday
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Thomas Chap-
man, Eq., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present Sir Edward G. L. Perrott, Bart.., Ad-
miral Gordon, George .Lyall, Esq., M.P., Colonel
Palmer, Admiral Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., Alexander
Boetefeur, Esq., Admiral M'Herdy, W. IL Harton,
Esq., Captain Ward, R.N. (inspector of lifeboats of
the institution), and Richard Lewis, Esq. (the ccc-

retary).
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £6 was also voted to the me w of
the Witherneea lifeboat of the society, for going off
and rescuing a fishing boat and her crew of three
men on the 16th ult. A eeward of .1;9 was also

granted to the crew of the New Brighton tubular
iiLboat, belonging to the institution, for going off
to the barque Corea, of Guernsey, which had
stranded during squally weather on Taylor's Bank,
Liverpool, on the 19th ult. A reward of £9 was
likewise voted to the crew of the Campbeltown life-
boat of the institution, for saving the master and
crew of 12 men from the Norwegian barque Iris,
of Stavanger, in Alachrihanish Bay, near the Mull
of Can tyre. A reward of £5 10s. was also granted
to the crew of the lifeboat stationed at Castletown,

Isle of Man, for rescuing the crew of the schooner
Water Lily, of Pwllhell. A reward of £lO
was likewise voted to the crew of the lifeboat of the
society at Lossiemouth for going off and saving the
crew of three men from the sloop Barbara, of Burg-
head, which was totally wrecked during the heavy
gale of wind off Lossiemouth, on March 11. A
reward of 16 was also voted to the crew of the life*
boat belonging to the institution at Scarborough,
for going off and saving one man from the smack
Iloward, of Grimsby, which was totally wrecked off
Scarborough on March 27, A reward of 110 was
likewise granted to the crew of the Sheringham

(Norfolk) lifeboat for putting off and saving the
crew of five men from the French lugger Chassear,
which had struck on some rocks near the village of
Sheringham during some stormy weather on the 7th
March. Rawards amounting to /62 were likewise
granted to the crews of various shore and fishing
boats for going off and saving the following ship-
wrecked crews on different parts of the coast of the
United Kingdom—Schooner Britannia, of New
Quay, two men saved ; fishing boat of Shetland,
two ; sloop Shamrock, of Wicklow, two; pilot boat
_ _ _

in distress off Lerwick, seven ; smack Mary Ann,
of Portleone, seven ; brig Palladiam, of Shields,
seven ; brig Undaunted, of London, seven ; fishing
boat in distress off Hilton, Ireland, five; brig
Alice, of Newcastle, nine; fishing-boat, of
Cullercoats, four ; Norwegian sloop, Syken,
of Stavanga, five; and brig Jane, of 'Wise-
beach, six ; total, 63 lives saved. It was re-
ported that the French Government had requested

the favour of the institution to order for it three

lifeboats, to ha stationed on exposed points of the
French coast. The lifeboat bailders, Messrs.
Forrest, had also ready two lifeboats to send to
Holland and Bremen. A report was read from the
assistant-inspector of lifeboats, Captain D. Robert-
son, R.N., on his recent visit of inspection of its
lifeboats on the Irish coast, all of which he found in
excellent order. It is stated that Captain Reed,
R.N., of Marlborough, was collecting, in Wiltshire,
the cost of a lifeboat station; and that Mr R. Affleck,
of Manchester, and Mr W. Bishop, of Boston, and
other commercial travellers, were raising amongst
themselves the expense of a lifeboat establishment.
Legacies had recently been received by the institu•
lion from the executors of the following persons :
The late Mr Milborne Williams, of Whitclaurch,
£45; Mr W. Websdale, of Ipswich, £79 ICs ; Mr
Samuel Clatk, of Huddersfield, £l4 lOs ; Mrs Ann
t'hompson, of Blackheath, £B2 8s id. Edmund
Clowes, Esq., had also forwarded to the institution
a donation of 100 guineas. The institution decided
on issuing some new instructions for the restoration
of the appaiently drowned, based on the combined
principles of Dr. Marshall Hall and Dr. 11.
Silvester. Payments amounting to nearly £1,200
havii,g been made on various lifeboat estab!ish-
ments, the proceedings terminated.

THE wom ZN OF ALABAMA.—An Alabama paper,
the Columbus Sun, says :—" D. C. Humphrey has
issued a peace prcclamation to the people of Alabama, which
is not read, much less observed. A man named Greers gave
Miss Juliette Chapman a bundle of them to hand to her
friends. Upon being told what they were she, tossing them
into the river which she was crossing. replied—' Do you
think, sir, that I would bear such papers to my country men ?'
and turned in contempt from the wretch. ' There, now, said
Greers, ' look at that ; how can we have peace when the
women carry on so ?' A few Federal officers wore looking
on. The Federal officers endeavour to ingratiate themselves
into good society, but the ladies will not notice them. They
gave a concert, promenade, and supper, issued the gold-
edged tickets right and left, but not a single Huntsville lady'
would attend."