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.
Harlon, Esq., Col. Palmer, G. Lyall, Esq , M.P., Capt. de
St. Croix, M. Gore, 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,
rewards, amounting to £2l, were ♦oted 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 very bois-
terous, steam-Lugs were enabled to approach the vessel and
take the passengers on board, and afterwards to bring the
ship to Wicklow. _ _

A reward of £4 was also voted to the crew of a shore-
boat for saving, at considerable risk of life, two men from
the cutter Fantom, of Preston, which during squally wca•
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 sea off
Inniskeragh, 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 the
comniittte 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, and to call it the " Sir Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy," in acknowledgment of the munificent gift of
£5OO to the institution by his son, the Hon. RUStOlDieO
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, of Bombay.
The executors of the late Miss Emma Keate, of Tensing •
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. .

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Lieutenant Rodney Blane, R.N., had collected in China
£27 15s 10d, and £0 2s had also been received by Lady
Blanb, his mother, from her friends and others in Derby, in
aid of the fends 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 had, as usual, given the
boats free conveyance over their lines. The New Brighton
lifeboat had been off already to assist a vessel in distress,
and 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,

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an-
nouncing the arrival of the Moss
By a telegram'received yesterday from Liverpool,
west (about 60 miles south-west of
Monday afternoon, in latitude 51.16 north, longitude 10.16
Rose, we learn that on
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
day after she left London,it is thought probable she will have
in the City of Manche:ter,
an unusually long passer's., and that both Inspector Tanner
and Inspector Kerressey on
beard the City of Cork, will have
arrived out long before
she reaches New York, consequently news of the arrest of
Muller cannot be expected in England before the middle of
September.
It is believed that the City of Cork steamer, with Inspec-
tor Kerreasey on board, had
passed the Victoria before the
latter was spoken with by the
Moss Rose. If the autho-
rities had taken the precaution
of sending out a Govern-
ment 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 this course was not
that
taken, as in the case of the M
annings,rt 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
were examined,and being found
notlandt—o
bt he et
hs suspected sbpiescnt endi
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with a'nd overhauled withoutN::cuweltynteodff, thethe
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The Victoria had a fair run down to
domipsastiocnh boat
to d ocou so could
lefte a
opentained for some days by the contrary winds that set in. A
es
easily halve
to Muller the chances ofhave overhauled her, and the
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•
tug off that the chapter of accidents may throw in his way.

THE WESTERN BANK.—J 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 sb,ares in the bank purchased by him in August, 1850,
and also of the two calls made on these shares by the liqui-
dators, on the ground that he was induced to purchase the
shares by false and fraudulent representations made by the
bank as to the state of its affAirs,—Scotsman.