The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-03 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday,
at its house, John street, Adelphi,—Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S,, V.P.,:in the chair. There were
also present Sir E. Perrott, Bart., V.P., A. Boete-
feur, Esq.. Col. Palmer, High Sheriff of Essex ; J.
Griffith, Esq. ; Captain Ward, RN., Inspector of
Lifeboats of the Institution; and Richard Lewis,
the secretary.
A reward of £l2 was voted to the crew of the
Ipswich lifeboat of the institution, stationed at
Thorpe, Suffolk, for putting off at midnight on the
11th ult., and rescuing with great difficulty the crew
of six men from the brig Florence Nightingale, of
London, which, during a heavy gale of wind, was
totally wrecked on Sizewoll Bank, on the Suffolk
coast. While engaged in the rescue of the ship
wrecked men a heavy sea struck the lifeboat and
carried away one of her brave crew, but he fortu-
nately regained the boat by means of his lifebelt and
a line. William Alexander, the gallant coxswain,
had, on several occasions, in this and another life-
boat, been off to save life under very perilous cir-
cumstances. The institution voted to him yester-
day its silver medal, in testimony of his valuable
services as coxswain of the Thorpe lifeboat. The
cost of this lifeboat was presented, about 12 months
ago, to the National Lifeboat Institution by the
residents of Ipswich. She has since then been the
the means of rescuing two shipwrecked crews from
an inevitable death, besides rendering important
services on one or two occasions to vessels in dis-

tress during stormy weather.
A reward of £4 10s. was also voted to the crew
of the society's lifeboat at St. Ives, Cornwall, for
going off and saving the crew of four men from the
schooner Azores, of Falmouth, which, during a
heavy gale of wind, had stranded and afterwards
sunk at the entrance of the harbour of St. Ives, on
the 12th ult. The cost of this and of three other
lifeboats was presented to the institution by a bate-
volent lady who has withheld her name.
A reward was likewise granted to the crew of the
ttrewat of the instit illavocolyu, near Holy-
head, for going off and rendering important services
to the barque Diadem, of St. John's, New Bruns-
wick, which, during foggy weather, was observed
in a disabled condition off that place on the night of
the 27th ult, The lifeboat landed four paseengers
prom the vessel. _ _

A reward was also given to the crew of the New
Brighten tubular lifeboat belonging to the society,
for putting off and rescuing the crew of six men
from the schooner Vigilant, of Kirkcaldy, which was
totally wrecked during a strong wind on Taylor's
Bank. near Liverpool, on the 27th ult. The life-
boat was towed to windward of the wreck by the
steam-tug Blazer, and remained by the vessel some
hours to see if she would float off or not, before the
crew were taken off. Before the lifeboat had pro-
ceeded far on her return, the vessel was seen to cap-
size and become a total wreck.

The thanks of the institution, inscribed on Tel.

lum, were voted to Mr. John Long, agent for
Lloyd's at Lymington, Hampshire ; to Mr. Wil-
liam Webb, and Mr. James Webb, pilots ; and £lO
to be divided between the ten pilots and three other
men in acknowledgment of their gallant and per•
severing conduct in their pilot-boat in rescuing, at
considerable risk of life, the crew of six men from
the brig Alabama of Gloucester, which, during a
very heavy gale of wind, was totally wrecked on
the middle of the Shingles while running through
the Needles passage on her way to Southampton.
Upon nearing the distressed vessel the sailors found
it impossible to rescue the crew owing to the fearful
sea, which ran so high as to break over the vessel's
maintop, completely obscuring the poor men in the
rigging, who were shouting for help and seemed
frantic with despair. The crew of the pilot-boat,
however, determined not to leave them, and stood
off and on all night until the weather had some-
what moderated, when they succeeded, with great
difficulty, in snatching the six men from an in-
evitable death.
It was reported that during the past month a new
lifeboat and transporting carriage had been for-
warded to Buds Haven, on the Cornish coast. The
cost of the same and of the new lifeboat-house,
amounting altogether to £6OO, had been munifi-
cently presented to the institution by the surviving
children of the late R. T. Garden, Esq., of River
Lyons, Ireland, as a memorial of their mother, the
late Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Garden. The South
Western Railway Company had, as usual, liberally
given a free conveyance to the lifeboat and carriage
to Bideford.
It was also reported that a lady resident in Exe-
ter had forwarded the institution a munificent dona-
tion of £lOO. The late Dowager Lady Bunbury
had also left the institution £lOO ; and the late Miss
Tin gcombe, of St. Germans, had likewise bequeathed
the society a legacy of £lO.
A report was read from Capt. Ward, R.N., the
inspector of lifeboats of the institution, on his
recent tour of inspection of the Irish lifeboats. He
found them generally in excellent order. It was
stated that all the lifeboats on the Irish coast are
now under the management of the institution, and
that it had placed on every station a new lifeboat.
Altogether the Irish lifeboat stations had cost the
institution nearly £8,500.
Payments amounting to about 11,600 were
ordered to be made to meet the expenses of the
numerous lifeboats of the institution. The com-
mittee earnestly appealed to the public for continued
support to enable them to meet the very large and
increasing expenses on the 125 lifeboats of the in-
stitution. It was stetted that each lifeboat establish-
ment required about £5O a year to keep it in a state
of thorough efficiency.
The proceedings then terminated.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

The market quiet ; no change. Sales—Probably
about 4,000 bales. Week's sales, 33,720 bales, in-
cluding 3,520 on speculation and 7,440 for export.
Quotations—Fair Orleans, 24; Mobile, 23k; UP"
lands, 23 ; estimated middling Orleans, 214; Mobile
21; Uplands, 204 ; estimated fair Egyptians,
Surats, 9 to 191 ; stock, 352,400 ; week's imports,
31,360 bales ; actual export, 9,539 bales.

A meeting was held yesterday of t e creditors of
Messrs. John Wilson, jun., n
mer-
chants, who euspended on the 10th Co, Russian
'Oth nit. with liabi-
lities of £26,468, and assets of £10,298, the latter
in dispute to the amount
subject to special claims
of £1,832. A resolution was passed to
Windup the
estate under inspection.
daysbeen less During the last few there has ac-
tivity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets.
Tea, however,'
has oustawe.prev. lops rates, not-
withstanding
a large quantity is announced for
public competition on Tuesday next. Sugars have
been dull, and prices generally have shown a down-
ward tendency. In coffee a fair business has been
negotiated without material alteration in prices,
while cite, fruit, and spices have barely sustained
former quotations. Tallow continued dull for both
present and forward delivery.
TREASURE-TROVE IN PARTS.—Galrgnani gives
the following particulars of the finding of a pot of
louts-d'or, in the Rue Lafayette. One of the labourers while
at work, struck his pick on to an earthen jar, which broke,
and cut of which rolled several pieces of gold. The other
workmen hearing the metallic sound, rushed round the
spot, probably to obtain a share of the treasure, when the
latter cried out " Stop I Form a ring round me, and then
let no one move. The others obeyed ; he then quietly
picked up all the pieces of gold, which he placed in his hat,
and, taking up the broken jar which contained the re-
mainder, he stood in the midst of the circle, and said,
" Now call a sergent-de-ville to accompany me to the
'nearebt police-office, where I will deposit the money." This
was done, and the prize was found to consist of 978 gold
louis- d'or of 21 livres each, bearing the effigies of Louis X.V.
and XVI., the whole amounting to more than 23,000 f. The
whole was forwarded to the Prefecture of Police, where it
will remain durtng the inquiry to discover the legitimate
owners of the property. It is only after that has been done
that the share, attributed by law to the finder of a treasure,
will be paid to the lucky workman.
The Czas of Cracow contains the following

" The position of the peasants in Podolia and Volhynia
has lately undergone a great change, so that they are
now favourable to the insurgents. The peasants
are indignan against the Russians, who ate malting levies
en masse in order to form an army of reserve, the Ituperihl
troops being no longer sufficient to contend against `those
bands of brigands,' as the Poles arc designated in the Rus-
-dam bulletins." .