The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday
at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Mr Thomas
Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present Capt. Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., V.P.,
Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., Captain De St.
Croix, Mr W. H. Harton, Captain Ward°, R.N.,
Inspector of Lifeboats to the Institution, and Mr
Richard Lewis, the Secretary. The minutes of the
previous meeting having been read, a reward of £l5
was voted to the crew of its Arklow lifeboat for
putting off in reply to signals of distress, and ren-
dering important service to the ship Edinburgh
Castle,'from Glasgow to Singapore, which had struck
on the bank of Arklow on the night of the 20th ult.
The lifeboat, at the request of the captain, accom-
panied the vessel for some time, a portion of her
crew assisting in working the ship's pumps. The
captain gave the lifeboat's crew his note for .£4O in
gratitude for the valuable services rendered to his
vessel by the boat. A reward of £7 10s. was also
voted to the crew of the Institution's lifeboat at
Selsey for going off and rescuing seven out of twelve
of the ceew of the brig Governor Maclean, of
London, which was totally wrecked during a gale
of wind on the 0 wers Sandbank off Selsey on the
sth ult. The remainder of the crew were taken
off by a Deal lugger. A reward of £6 10s.
was likewise granted to the crew of the lifeboat
belonging to the institution at Blackpool, for going
off and rendering important services to the French
brig St. Michael, of Havre, which had anchored in
a very dangerous position on the Crusader sand•
bank during very stormy weather and in a high
sea, on the 18th ult- This was the first service
rendered by this lifeboat, and her crew spoke of her
qualities in the heavy serf, in the highest terms of
approval. It was reported that the institution's
lifeboat at Teignmouth, Devon, had rendered im-
portant services to the schooner Victoria, of that
port, which struck very heavily on the North Pole
bank at the entrance of the harbour during a gale
of wind on the night of the 3rd inst. Rewards
amounting to £29 were also granted to the crew of
the Lytham, New Brighton, Margate, and Port-
rush lifeboats, for going off in reply to signals of
distress, with the view of rescuing the crews of
various vessels in distress, but which did not ulti-
mately require the services of the boats. A reward
of .£2 was also voted to the crew of a small boat for
putting off and rescuing, at some risk of life, two
men whose boat was stove in upon some rocks near
the harbour of Lossiemouth in a heavy sea on the
26th of August. Various other rewards were also
voted to the crews of shore boats for saving life
from wrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The committee expressed deep regretat the lamented
demise of Mr. Montague Gore, who had been for
many years past an active member of the committee
of management of the institution, and took the
liveliest interest in the welfare of sailors,sparing no
expense to aid their cause when needed. Payments
amounting to upwards of £2,000 were made on
various lifeboat establishments. The Horse Guards
had applied to the institution for an additional
supply of the new "Instructions for the Restoration
of the Apparently Drowned," tobecirculated amongst
the several stations of the army at home and abroad.
By order of the Viceroy and the Governors of
India, these directions for the recovery of persons
apparently dead from drowning had also been ex-
tensively circulated throughout the three presi-
dencies. It was stated that the proprietors of the
Illustrated London News would give a beautiful
coloured engraving of the lifeboat of the institution
with the number of the paper on the 15th inst.
Letters were read from officers of the French and
Russian impetial navies, expressing their acknowa
lodgments to the institution for the important and
valuable information they had received from it,
while in England, concerning the lifeboat stations.
The institution had sent, during the past month,
new .ifeboats to Redcar, on the Yorkshire coast,
and to Cardigan. The railway companies had, as
usual, readily given the boats a free conveyance.
The cost of both lifeboats had been presented to the
institution by benevolent persons. A gentleman
bad intimated his intention to defray, in conjunction
with his sisters, the cost, amounting to about £6OO,
for a complete lifeboat station on the Irish coast, in
memory of their late father. They had previously
defrayed the expense of a lifeboat station at Bude
Haven, on the Cornish coast, in memory of their
mother. Reports were read from the inspector and
assistant-inspector of lifeboats of the institution on
their recent visits to the lifeboat stations of the
society on the north-east coast, and on the Kent
and Sussex coasts. They had found all the stations
in admirable order. A model of the institution's
lifeboat was ordered to be placed in the Royal
School of Naval Architects about to be opened at
the South Kensington Museum. A letter was read
from the Shipwrecked Sailors' Society at Mar-
seilles, requesting the institution to order for them
a thirty feet self-righting lifeboat, which request
the committee readily complied with. The pro-
ceedings then closed.

The South Staffordshire Colliers' Strike

BIRrINGIIAM, Oct. 6.

To-day a conference took place in this town be-
tween Lord Leigh, the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county and some 25 to 30 of the coalmasters on the sub-
ject of the colliers' strike. This took place at the Hen
and Chickens Hotel, at noon, and lasted more than
an hour. Lord Leigh was accompanied by Colonel
Mason, of the Volunteers, and among the principal
coalmasters present were Mr William Mathews,
Mr John Hartley, Mr William Barrows, &c. Lord
Leigh's attention has been in various ways directed
to the strike ; among others from the circumstance
of the district effected being so closely contigucns
to this town, and from the fact of it having been
deemed necessary to guard the stores deposited at
Bingley-hall belonging to the Volunteer corps.
Impressed with the desirability of putting an end
to the strike, if possible, Lord Leigh went to Dud-
ley on Tuesday, and had an interview with some of
the delegates of the men, also with Mr Frederick
yesterday Smith,
f(Wednesday)
the Priory,
esdy his
a a l Dudley's
Lordship
had a further
interview in this town with the men, at which the
circumstances connected with the strike were fully
discussed. At 12 o'clock to-day his Lordship met
the coalmasters, as above stated, a dozen of the col-
liers' delegates being in attendance. Lord Leigh
addressed the meeting at some length and with
much earnestness. He urged strongly the priva-
tions which so many thousands of the men and their
families are enduring, besought the employers to
have regard to the station of the men as well as the
nature of their employment, and begged that a
point might be conceded which would be the means
of putting a stop to the calamitous state of things
now existing in South Staffordshire. Finally, his
Lordship proposed that the men should have the
opportunity of returning to their work for a fort.
night at 4s Gd per day, on the understanding
that at the expiration of that time the 6d
per day extra, making ss, be granted. A long dis
cussion followed ; the result of it was that, although
all present admitted the desirability of the strike
being brought to a termination, there was an unani-
mous feeling against the proposition made by Lord
Leigh. It was declared to be impossible to accept
it with due regard to the interests of the trade; or,
lin fact, to make any concession whatever, it being
held that to yield to the men in this matter would
be to open the door to fresh demands on their part,
the end of which could not be foreseen. The result
was that Lord Leigh's well intentioned mediation
failed; indeed, in the attitude in which the masters
have placed themselves, nothing else could have been
expected. It was stated in the course of the meeting
that the strike will soon be over, This morning
many of the men have signified their willingness to
return to work in various pars of the district ; it is
only the well paid delegates who advocate auy other
course..

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