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 , Capt, de
St. Croix, M. Gore, Esq., Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8.,
F.R.S., Alex. Boetefour, Esq., and R. Lewis, Esq., the
secretary.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been read,
rewards, amounting to £3l, wore 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 end 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 very bois-
terous, steam-tugs were enabled to approach the vessel and
take the passengers on board, and afterwards to bring the
ship to Wicklow. •
A reward of XI was also voted to the crew of a shore-
boat for saving, at considerable risk of life, two men from
the cutter Fantorn, 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 prompti 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 eea (if
Inniekeragh, county Donegal, on the 17th 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. Cator, who had been
for many years past a valuable and zealous member of tho
committee of management of the institution.

Payments amounting to upwards of £9OO were made on
various lifeboat establishments.

The committee decided to place a lifeboat on the coast at
a favourable opportunity, aid to call it the " Sir Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy," in acknowledgment of the munificent gift of
£5OO to the institution by his son, the Hon. Rustomjee
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, of Bellboy.
The executors of the late hiss Emma Kcate, of Kensing
ton, had paid her legacy of
bequest of the late Mrs Dtroure, of Blackheath, of L5O,
had also been received. £3OO to the society ; and the

Lieutenant Rodney Man?, B, N,, had collected in China
ti 7 153 10d, and £6 2s hed also been received by Lady
Blanc, his mother, from hei friends and others in Derby, in
aid of the funds of the institution. _

During the past month tle so3iety had sent new lifeboats
to Blackpool, New Brighten, and Senner Cove, Cornwall-
They were all gifts of bene,olent persons to the institution.
The several railway companies had. as usual, given the
boats free conveyance over their lines. The New Brighton
lifeboat had been off alrettly to assist a vessel in distress,
aLd her crew spoke very highly
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,(00 to 30,003 people were present
on the occasion. of her behaviour on the

The Seaman's Asseciaticn at Drontheim, Christiansund,
and Nalesund, in Norway and Sweden, had forwarded to
the institution £59 l3s in admiration of its great and na-
tional objects, and in ackncwledgment 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 vesterday from Liverpool, an-
nouncing the arrival of the Moss nose, we learn that on
Monday afternoon, in latitude 51.16 north, longitude 10.15
west (about GO miles south-west of Cape Clear), she was
spoken with by
the Victoria, 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
an unusually
day after she left London it is thought probable she will have
in the City
she reaches New York
ypoar:ks:gelsaenciduthetalttly news of the arrest of
Muller cannot be expboth Inspector Tanner
of Manchester, and InspectorKerressey on
board the City of Cork, will have arrived out long before
eeted in England before the middle of
September.

had taken the precaution
It is believed that the City of Cork steamer, with Inspec-
tor Kerressey
of sending out a Govern-
on board, had passed the Victoria before the
latter was spoken with by the Moss Rose. if the autho-
ritiesment 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 Mannirgs,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 loft 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 Fort-
land—the suspected parties were examined,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, and the
omission to do so left open to Mailer 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 WESTERN BANK.—In the case of "Graham
v. the Western Bank," which has been four dlys
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
'or shares in the bank purchased by him in August, 1850,
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