The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-29 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution,

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday at its
house, John-street, Adelphi—Thomas Chapman, Esq.,
F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair. There were also pre-
sent Sir E. I'errott, Bart., M.P., Admiral Gordon, W. H.
Harton, Esq., Col. Palmer, G. Lyall, Esq , M.P., Capt. de
St. Croix, M. Gere, Esq., Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8.,
F.R.S., Alex. Boetefeur, Esq., and R. Lewis, Esq., the
secretary.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read,
rewai ds, amounting to £2l, were voted to the crews of the

lifeboats of the institution stationed at Arklow and Wicklow
for going off, in reply to signals of distress, to the assistance
of the crew and passengers, consisting of nearly 300 persons,
on board the emigrant ship Constitution, from Liverpool to
New York, which had stranded on Arklow Bank on the
night of the 20th inst. As the weather was not vary bois-
terous, steam-tugs were enabled to approach the versel.and
take the passengers on board, and afterwards to bring the
ship to Wicklow,
A reward of Li was also voted to the crow of a shore-
boat for saving, at considerable risk of life, two men from
the cutter Fantail), of Preston, which during squally wea •
ther had stranded on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay, on
the 2d inst. It was stated that, owing to the ptompti ude
and skill of the salvors, the two men of the cutter were
saved.

A reward was likewise granted to two men for rescuing
at some risk of life, in a small boat, one out of two men
whose boat had capsized in a strong wind and heavy sea off
Inniskeragh, county Donegal, on the 171 h inst. One poor
fellow unfortunately perished before assistance could reach
him. _ _ - •

The committee expressed their deep condolence with the
family of the late Admiral Bertie, C. Cater, who had been
for many years past a valuable and zealous member of the
committee of management of the institution.
Payments amounting to upwards of £930 were made on
various lifeboat establishments.
The committee decided to place a lifeboat on the coast at
a favourable opportunity, and to call it the " Sir Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy," in acknowledgment cf the munificent gift of
£5OO to the• institution by his en, the Hon. Rustomjee
Jaraseijee Jejeebhoy, of Bombay.
The executors of the late Miss Emma Keate, of Lensing
ton, had paid her legacy of £3OO to the society ; and the
bequest of the late Mrs Duroure, of Blackheath, of £5O,
had also been received.
Lieutenant Rodney Blane, R.N., had collected in China
£27 los 10d, and £6 2s had also been received by Lady
Blanc, his mother, from her friends and others in Derby, in
aid of the funds of the institution, ,
During the past month the society had sent new lifeboats
to Blackpool, New Brighton, and Senner Cove, Cornwall.
They' were all gifts of benevolent persons to the institution.
The several railway companies tad , as usual, given the
boats free conveyance over their lines. The New Brighton
lifeboat had been off already to assist a vessel in distress,
aul her crew spoke very highly
of her behaviour on the
occasion. At Blackpool a grand demonstration had taken
place on the occasion of the launch of the lifeboat; and it
is calculated that from 20,000 to 30,003 people were present
on the occasion.
The Seaman's Association at Drontheim, Christiansund,
and Nalesund, in Norway and Sweden, had forwarded to
the institution £59 13s in admiration of its great and na•
tional objects, and in acknowledgment of the services some
of its lifeboats had rendered to their
shipwrecked fellow
countrymen on our coasts.

The Pursuit of the Murderer of Mr, Briggs,

By a telegram received yesterday from Liverpool,
west (about 60 miles Fouth_west 0
an-
nouncing the arrival of the Moss- Rose, we learn that on
Monday afternoon, in latitude 51.16 north, longitude 10.15
spoken with by the Victoria, f Cape Clear), she was
a, from London to New York,
The Victoria requested the Moss Rose to report her speaking
with her upon her arrival in Liverpool. The Victoria having
only got as far as the south coast of Ireland on the eleventh
day after she left London it is thought probable she will have
an unusually long passage,and that both Inspector Tanner
in the City of Manchester,
and inspector E.erressey on
board the City of Cork, will have arrived out long before
she reaches New York, consequently rows of the arrest of
Muller cannot be expected in Engload before the middle of
September.
It is believed that the City of Cotk steamer, with Inspec-
tor Kerressey on board, had passec the 'Victoria before the
latter was spoken with by the 111o3s Rose. If the autho-
rities had taken the precaution of sending out a Govern-
, went steamer to intercept the -Victoria it is clear that the
supposed murderer of Mr Briggs would be now in safe cus-
tody. It is the more surprising that this course was not
taken, as in the case of the Manniags,it will be remembered
that the Lords of the Admiralty, on being informed that
two persons bearing the name of Manning had taken pas-
sage on board a ship that left the London Docks for New
York,immediately despatched the Fire Queen Government
steamer in chase down Channel. The ship was come up
with and overhauled without difficulty off the Bill of Port-
land—the suspected parties were exarnince,and being found
not to be the Mannings that were wanted, the question was
at once set at rest. The Victoria had a fair run down to
the Chops of the Channel, where she must have been de-
tained for some days by the contrary winds that set in. A
despatch boat could easily have overhauled her, ar d the
omission to do so left open to Muller the chances of
escape that would have arisen had the ship put into any
harbour in England or Ireland, and still leaves
him in a position to avail himself of any opportunity of get-
ting off that the chapter of accidents may throw in his way.

THE IN ESTERN BANK, Ia the case of "Graham
v. the Western Bank," which has been four days
under trial in the Court fo Session, the jury has given una.
nimously a verdict for the pursuer. The effect of this deci-
sion is that Col. Graham is entitled to restitution from the
liquidators of the Western Bank of the sum originally paid
for shares in the bank purchased by him in August, WO,
and also of the two calls made on these shares by the liqui-
dators, on the g:ound that he was induced to purchase the
shares by false and fraudulent representations made by the
park as to the state of its atfAirs,—Sofsman,