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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTI-

TUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held,
Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presi-
dent of the society, in the chair. There were also
present Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., F.R.S., Admiral
Sir W. Bowles, Mr. T. Chapman, F.R.S., Captain
Sir E. Perrott, Bart., Mr. T. B. Potter, V.P., Ad-
miral W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., Mr. Montague
Gore, Colonel Palmer, High Sheriff of Esser, Mr.
John Griffi'h, Aduliral M'Hardy, Mr. A. Boetefeur,
he Dean of Norwich, Mr. G. Lyall, M.P., Admiral
Gordon, Captain Egerton, R.N., Mr. W. H. Hor-
ton, Captain J. R. Ward, R.N., Inspector of Life-
boats to the Institution, and Mr. Richard Lewis,
the secretary.
A reward of £ll was voted to the crew of the
Seaton Carew lifeboat, belonging to the institution,
for putting off in reply to signals of distress, on the
night of the 12th ult., and rescuing the crew of
seven men from the brig Regalia, of Whitby, which
had suck during stormy weather, and in a heavy
sea, off Leaton Carew. This valuable lifeboat had
been the means of rescuing the crews of the follow-
ing wrecked vessels ;—brig Din, of Middles-
borough. 7; brig Mayflower, of Newcastle, 8 ; brig
Providence, ofShields, 8 ; barque Robert Watson,of
Sunderland, 5; and Brig Regalia, of Whitby, 7;
making a total of 35 saved by that lifeboat alone.
Its cost was the gift to the institution of Mr.
William M'Kerrell. On being informed of the
last service of the boat on the 12th ult., Mr.
M'Kerrell transmitted to the society a contribu-
tion of £lO, and at the sama time stated how

very much gratified he was to learn that the life-
boat had providentially been the means of saving
so many lives from shipwreck, and that those ser-
vices had been performed without a single accident
occurr ng to her brave crew. The silver medal of
the institution was also voted to Mr, Robert Hood,
cockswain of the Seaton Carew lifeboat, in testi-

mony of his long and valuable services in tha

lifeboat in saving life from wrecks.
A payment of £7 7s. was also made on the Fra-
serburgh lifeboat tor going off with the view of
rescuing the crew of the ship Genoa, of Liverpool,
which, during a heavy sea and dense fog, had
stranded on Rattrayhead, near Peterhead, on the
night of the 12th ult. Before the arrival of the
lifeboat the vessel's crew had been rescued by
other means. The lifeboat had to proceed a dis-
tance of 15 miles to the site of the wreck against
a heavy sea and head wind. The cost of this life-
boat, which is called the Havelock, was also pre-
sented to the society by Mr. M'Kerrell.
Voted the silver medal of the institution, and
a copy of its vote on parchment, to Mr. T. Row-
lands and Mr. G. Lewis, and £3 to some other
men, in admiration of their brave services in
wading into the surf and rescuing the crew of
three men from the sloop Frances, of Cardigan,
which, during a heavy gale of wind and a high
sea, had sunk on Newport Sands, near Fish-
guard, on the 17th March. Mr. John Harries, re-
ceiver of wreck at Newport, had also rendered
valuable assistance on the occasion, and the thanks
of the institution were given to that gentleman.
Voted the thanks of the institution, inscribed on
vellum, to Mr. William Nicol, officer of Customs, at
Appledore, and £2 to his boat's crew, for putting off
with the view of rescuing the crews of two smacks
which had stranded on Bideford Bar during squally
weather on the 15th March. A heavy sea had
struck the salvors' boat, and washed overboard one
of the crew. While endeavouring to recover him
a second sea struck the boat, and carried away three
of her oars. She was thus completely disabled, and
her crew had a very narrow escape of their lives.
The crews belonging to the smacks fortunately
afterwards succeeded in reaching the shore in

safety.
A reward of £2 10s. was likewise granted to five
men for wading into the surf and rescuing, at some
risk of life, a man who had been capsized from his
boat, and had got entangled under it in a heavy
surf off Great Yarmouth, on the 19th March. It was
stated that bad it not been for the prompt and valu-
able services of the salvors the poor man must have
perished. Various other rewards were also voted to
the crews of shore boats and others for saving life
from wrecks on our coasts.

During the past month the institution had sent a
new life-boat to Fishguard, in lieu of one previ-

ously stationed there. The new life-boat had, on
her way w the coast, been exhibited at Bath, where
the cost of a life-boat, to be called the City of Bath,
is being raised. The life-boat since her arrival at
Fishguard had been tried in a gale of wind, and
bad answered admirably. A free conveyance to the
now and old boats had as usual been readily given
by the Great Western and South Wales Railway
Companies.

It was reported that Mr. Thomas Clayton, of
Wakefield, had presented to the institution £250,
to enable it to place a larger lifeboat at Lytham, a
most dangerous locality on the Lancashire coast.
Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats of the
institution, was directed to proceed to Ireland, to
examine its lifeboats on the coast of that country.
An interesting report was read from Capt. David
Robertson, R.N., the assistant-inspector of lifeboats
of the society, on its Welsh lifeboats, which he had
recently visited. He found them nearly all in good
order.

Payments amounting to nearly £BOO having been
made on various lifeboat establishments, the pro-

ceedings terminated.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

The will of Viscountess D'Alte, wife of Viscount
D'Alte, of the kingdom of Portugal, was proved in
London, on the 22d ult., by the trustees and execu-
tors, Mr. Andrew M. Drummond, of Charing•crose,
and Mr. R. G. Clarke. The personal property was
sworn under £60,000, and the grant of probate
limited to certain property under deed of settle-
ment. The testatrix was formerly Miss Harriet
Mangin Brown, residing at Hyde-park-gardens,
and afterwards at Park-lane, and married, in 1840,
the Chevalier Joao Carlos de Horta Telles Machad:,
Knight of the Portuguese Order of Christ, now
Viscount D'Alte, who became a naturalised
Viscountess
teiss
subject and domiciled in England. V
D'Alte executed her will in
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neof,uiltilisoeor itaodytehteli
contains 1848,
1849 ; and died at Civita Vecehii
18th of September last,
Thein7luding bequests to
pviv:srvneolsrsanodt
nume-
rous legacies and ainnda Italy,codoicni i
thein
servants, and a sutanrni
the charity
her mother not survive her
mother;a
but, a
the residue ooffhC;larsZded property she leaves to her
ladyship, the residue is then to become the property
of the acting execu their own benefit. Vis-
countess D'Alte possessed a right of disposition
over a sum of £20,000 upon the decease of herof
,E mother. 2, )0 bequeathing
e Thisacb °sumtv h
leaving the remainder, with the
dividends, to the Royal Soeit.ty for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals, to be applied more
particularly in the establishment of
slaughter-
housesinvoLpounladtoend laapndeleVs,estininster away from
the
densely
and for protection against
the Cruelty to the animals slaugl-tered. The will
of the Right lion. Charlesliinbury-Tracy, B Aron
Sudeity, of Teddington, near Winchcome, Glouces-
tershire ; Gregynog, near Newton, Montgomery-
shire, and Dover-atreet, Piccadilly, was proved in
London by his son, Lord Sudeley, and Mr. Philip
Pleydell Bouverie, the executors. The personalty
was sworn under £140,000. The father of the late

lord Sudeley asssumed by sign-manual the sur-
name and arms of Tracy, having married the only
child and heir of the last Viscount Tracy (title now
extinct). The testator died on the 19111 of Febru-
ary last, at Pau, in France, having executed his will
in June, 1862, and added two codicils on the 15th