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. Perrott, Bart., M.P., Admiral Gordon, W. H.
Harton, 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. Baetefeur, Esq., and It. Lewis, Esq., the
secretary.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been read,
rewat 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, ccnsisting 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 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 promptiinde
and skill of the salvors, the two raen 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 oapsivd in a strongwind and heavy sea off
Inniskeragh, county Donegal, on the 17th inst. One poor
fellow unfortunately perished befort assistance could reach
him. _ _

The committee expressed their doep condolence with the
family of the late Admiral Bertie, C. Cator, who had been
for nr.ny years past a valuable and zealous member of the
committee of management of the institution.

Payments amounting to upwards of £9OO were made on
various lifeboat establishments.
The committee decided to place lifeboat on the coast at
a favourable opportunity, and to WI it the " Sir Samsetjee
Jejeebhoy," in acknowledgment cf the munificent gift of
£5OO to the institution by his Bei, the Hon. Rustomjeo
Jamseljee Jejeebhoy, of Bombay.
The executors of the late Miss Enna Keate, of Kensing

ton, had paid her legacy of 2300 to the society ; and the
bequest of the late Mrs Duroure, of Blackheath, of £59,
had also been received.

Lieutenant Rodney Blane, R. 1,1,, had collected in China
£27 15s 10d, and .L 6 28 had also been received by Lady
Blanc, his mother, from her friend 3 and others in Derby, in
aid of the funds of the institution. _ .

Daring the past month the so3lity had sent new lifeboats
to Blackpool, Now Brighton, ancl Senner Cove, Cornwall,
They were all gifts of benevolent ?ersons to the institution.
The several railway companies hid as usual, given the
boats free conveyance over their lanes. The New Brighton

lifeboat had been off already to assist a vessel in distress,
aLci her crew spoke very highly sf 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 ;0,003 people were present
on the occasion. _

The Seaman's Association at Drontheim, Christianson,

and Nalesund, in Norway and Sweden, had forwarded to
the institution £59 13s in admiration of its great and na-
tional objects, and in acknowledonent of the services some
of its lifeboats had rendered tc their shipwrecked fellow-
countrymen on our coasts.