The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
was held at its house, John-street, Adelpki, on the 4th inst.,
Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There
were also present :—Captain Sir Edward Perrott, ,Bart.,
V.P., Admiral Gordon, Alexander Boetefeur, Esq., Col.
Palmer, High Sheriff of Essex, W. H, Harton, Esq., and
Richard Lewis, Esq., the Secretary.
A reward of £l4 was voted to the crew of the Ne
Brighton tubular lifeboat of the institution, for the laud-
able exertions in putting off, in tow of the steam tug Uni-
verse, of Liverpool, and rescuing, during a strong wind, and
in a heavy sea, the crew of ten men from the brig Levant, of
Bristol, which had stranded on the inside of the North Bank,
in Liverpool Bay on the 11th ult. This lifeboat has only
been on this dangerous station a few months. She was re-
ported to have beha.veu well what alongside the wreck.
Voted £8 135., to pay the expenses of the Hastings lifeboat
of the society, in going off and saving tfto crew of four mcn
from the smack Britannia, of Ramsgate, mthich was totally
w reeked on the East Groyne Rocks, off Has, ings, during a
gale of wind, on the 19th ult. Mr. Roe, the c;.,ict officer of
the Coast Guard, was thanked by the institution for going
off in the lifeboat on the occasion.

The Lyme Regis lifeboat of the institution was alex) the
means of rescuing from destruction the schooner VulCtan,
of that place, which was observed, during a heavy gale of
wind, to be rapidly driving on tbo rocks off Lyme Regis,
on the 19th ult. This valublo lifeboat had, on one or two
previous occasions, rescued shipwrecked crews under the
most perilous circumstances, during dark and stormy
weather.
Various other rewards were likewise voted to the crews
of ether lifeboats of the society, and to those of other boats,
for putting off with the view of rescuing vessels in distress.
The Second Service Clasp of the Institution was voted
to Mr. G. B. M. Beatson, inspecting chief officer of the
Coast Guard at Fraserburgh, and the silver medal of the
Society to Mr. Alexander Forbes, shipbuilder, of Peter-
head. Also the thanks of the institution inscribed on;vellum, to W. J. Parsons, A. Grey, J. Simmons; and £5
to them and two other coastguardmen, in testimony of their
gallant conduct in rescuing, at considerable risk of life,
eleven out of fourteen of the crew of the ship Genoa, of
Liverpool, which, during a very heavy gale of wind and
high surf, was wrecked some time since on Rattray Brigg
Rocks, near Peterhead. This was reported to have keen
a very gallant service, and that Mr. Beason, Mr. Forbes,
and the coastguardmen had exerted themselves most nobly
on the occasion

A reward of £lO was also voted to the crew of n fishing
yawl, for putting off and rescuing, at risk of life, the crew
of ten men from the brig Faith, of Colchester, which,
during a gale of wind and very heavy sea, was wrecked
on Blakeney Bar, on the 19th ult.
A reward of LI was likewise voted to the crew of a .fish-
ing smack, for putting off and rescuing the crew of thirteen
men and a pilot from the brig Alli, of Helsingfors, which,
during squally weather, was wrecked some time since on the
Hasborough Sands, on the Norfolk coast.
A reward of £5 was also granted to the crew of the smack
John Hooper, of Plymouth, for rescuing the crew of four
men from the ketch Helena, of Newport, Monmouth, which
had sunk, during a strong gale of wind, near the Eddy-
stone Lighthouse, on the 18th March.
It was reported that the Admiralty had ordered H.M.S.
Curacca, under the command of Commodore Sir William
Wiseman. Bart., to be supplied with some of the most
important stores for her lifeboat, like those used in the boats
of the National Lifeboat Institution.

It was likewise reported that the executors of the late Mrs.
Ann Cutto had paid to the society her munificent bequest
of £l,OOO. The trustees of the late Mr. James Miller, of
Glasgow, had also paid to the institution a legacy of £lOO
left to it by that gentleman.

It was also stated that at the annual meeting of the Man-
chester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
held on Saturday last, it had been resolved to make a
voluntary subscription throughout the order in aid of the
National Lifeboat Institution, in consideration of its philan-
thropic and national character.
It was also reported that Lieut. W. Farquhar, R.N., of
her Majesty's ship Racehorse, on the China station, had
forwarded a kind donation of £5 to the institution.

Payments amounting to £384 having been made to
various lifeboat establishments, the proceedings termi-
nated.

THE " PARLIAMENTARY DODO."

Mr. Whalley is a parliamentary dodo; he belongs to the
past, and has slipped by some mistake into the present. Ho
was meant to be the contemporary of Lord Eldon and Mr.
Perceval—not of Lord Palmerston and Mr. Gladstone.
His lot has fallen on evil times, and he preaches the old No
Popery doctrine to an unbelieving and indifferent genera-
tion. Year after year he re-appears as the forlorn
champion of an extinct cause; Maynooth is the bugbear of
his life.; visions of Papal bulls, and cardinals in purple
stockings, and auto da fes in Smithfield, float before his ex-
cited imagination. The " Wandering Jew" of politics, he
conceives it to be his mission in life to defeat the machina-
tions of Jesuit plotters at home and abroad. We have
no wish to deny the member for Peterborough the merit of
consistency; he is a worthy successor of Mr. Spooner; and
the orange mantle of genuine old Protestantism could not
have fallen on an Elisha more fitted to follow in Elijah's
footsteps. The veteran antagonist of Maynooth had, how-
ever, a claim for consideration on the score of his age, which
his successor, happily for himself, cannot yet advance. Mr.
Whalley is sufficiently young, and possesses sense enough,
to learn by experience; and surely the teaching of the last
few years cannot have been lost apon him utterly. With
each succeeding session the house has grown more weary
of his annual protest ; the number of his supporters has
fallen off vote after vote; and it is with difficulty he
can obtain leave to speak in behalf of his favourite
hobby. The Ma) nooth grant is a sorry instalment towards
the debt due to those of our Irish fellow citizens who belong
to the Catholic faith ; but it is an instalment, and as such
we feel it must be productive of good, not evil. Consider-
ing that the Established Church receives some twenty shil-
lings per head for every one of its members from
the resour3es of the country, it is unreasonable, as
Mr. Black pointed out in the course of the debate, to
grumble at a grant not amounting to more than five far-
things per head allowed to the members of what in Ireland
is the religion of the majority. The force of those reflec-
tions has caused the English public to acquiesce in a mea-
sure which undoubtedly is distasteful to its prejudices;
and it would be well if its opponents would consider whether
the common decision is not a right one. We have no
hope of converting the member for Peterborough to
acknowledge the justice of the verdict which has been pro-
nounced again and again ; but what we do hope is, that the
Liberal members who gave him their support will reflect on
what they were really about. Men like Mr. Baines and Mr.
Ayrton ought not to be found in the same lobby with the
members for Warwickshire. Surely, the hundred gentle-
men who were bold enough to record their votes in favour
of abolishing the grant to Maynooth must, with few excep-
tions, have known what their success would lead to. Years
of just and tolerant rule have only begun to eradicate the
bitterness and which centuries of oppression have
created in Ireland. We will not do the sup-
porters of Mr. Whalley's motion the injustice to
suppose that any large portion of them desired
its success. The dread of giving offence to the
sectarian prejudices of their constituents caused, we believe,
the larger proportion of them to afford him an impotent and
silent assistance. Happily, the majority of the house was
too honest to yield to such influences, and it dismissed Mr.
have
now almost without a hearing. We trust that W
now heard the last for some years to come of anti- lair th.
and
agitation. These annual discussions breed -
powder magazine,
of the United Kingdom. Ireland is still a
delay the growth of real union between the
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hers of the E division of police, accompanied
POLICE EXCURSION TO THE RYE HOUSE.—The
members
by their brass band, under the direction of Inspector Pierce,
and about 200 of their friends, paid a visit to that delightful
place of amusement, the Rye House. It may be mentioned
that this is the third anniversary, and it is much to the
credit of Superintendent O'Brien, seconded by inspector
Pierce, that the police have at least one day's holiday in
the course of the year. Arrived On the spot, the company
separated themselves over the grounds. The rosery is in
full bloom, and the castle gardens presented a very gay ap-
pearance, having been now completely rebid, and ex-
clusively arranged in beds, in which about 20,000 plants
present a striking display of floral beauty. The cricket fields
are in good order, and invigorators (like those at the Crystal
Palace), and the trapeze amusement have been added to the
means of recreation. The brass band of the E
under the able direction of their leader, Mr. Lane, late •f
the Royal Horse Artillery, played several popular air;
during the course of the day, much to the satisfactiono
the company. After a pleasant day's amusement, the com-
pany retired to town, highly gratified with all they had
seen.
of Great Grimsby
of coal exported from the
EXPORT OF COAL.—Return showing
port
tTo France, 3,433 tons;
during the month of May, 1863,:ak,
1,717 ; Prussia, 556
the quantity
Hanseatic Towns, 2,584 ;
1,503. Grand total,
Total, foreign, 10,087;
coastwise,
1862—Total foreign, 7,157;
11,595. Corresponding
Canada, 430 ; Russia,
total, 7.758. Increase, 1863, 3,837
coast wise, C 01; grand ,
32D6e;nt:Siwsee,den, 804; Spain, 147,

tons.
TIT FOR TAT, OR A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER
Two travelers were one time hurried from their
dinner by the impatient horn of the coach guard. One
of them stuffed a roasted fowl into his pocket to eat by the
way, Baying that he had paid for "And you have paid
for the sauce too," said the other, pouring it in after tho
fowl. Our waittrs (says Mr. Waddell, writing about the
hotels of the West Indies) had orders to do the same with
them ; and whoever pocketed the Lune must pocket the
coffee too,

rtErunu PARLIAMENT

lIMTSE OF LORDS.—Last Evening.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack,
at five o'clock.

Lo►.d BERNERS presented a petition from Great liar.
mou th against the Prison Ministers' Bill.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Coventry Markets, and Bristol and P'Jrtesliead Pier
and Railway Bills were read a second time.
THIRD READINGS.
The Manchester Corporation Wa.ter ; London, Tilbury
and Southend Railway ; DT:tbl'in Corporation Water ;
Tremors Embankment; K.ni'ghton and Central Wales
Railway ; and Central W .ales Extension Railway Bills
were read a third time and passed.

Earl RUSSELL GREECE.
, -by command of her Majesty, laid on
the table certain rapers relating to Greece, to the election
of Prince Willi:am of Denmark to fill the throne vacant by
the flight of }ling Otho, and also to the cession of the
lonian Isl ends.
SECURITY FROM VIOLENCE BILL.
The Earl of CARNARVON moved the second raiding
of tiais bill, and said objections had been mind to this
roP4sure because it enacted, as was said, a particular pun-
ishment for a particular offence, in othe,e words, because it
liras looked upon as special legis'Ation, and it was ob-
jected to by those who were opposed altogether to
the infliction of corporal 'punishment under any
circumstances. Tie could not but think that the
objections, against the measure were perfectly futile, and
that the offences with which the bill dealt were of a nature
to juatqy the infliction of very severe punishment. The
crime of garotting, which last winter had created so
mucYa terror, had, it was true, subsided in a great degree ;
yet. it was not impossible that it might revive in the coming
dal* season, and if it did so it was of the utmost importance
that a power should be given to deal with such offenders
that was well calculated to deter others front committing
similar outrages. He could Dot agree in the opinion that
corporal punishment was alto nether ineffectual. If so, why
was it still retained as a punishment in both the army
and navy ? On the contrary, he thought nothing
so effectually put a map to repetitions of a pat ticular crime
as the infliction of tb,at description of punishment. The
governors of the if.Viferent gaols found from experience the
best results follry
/ from its infliction, and their lordships
might depend t'aat if something was not cone es
possible thc4, would more than likely in the coming
winter hose a recurrence of those robberies by violence
which pr.e-vailed so extensively last year. He hoped their
lord shi pi; would agree to the second reading of the bill.
Lo,:d CRANWORTH said the introduction of the bill
created in his mind a feeling of panic as well as sorrow. He
objee ted altogether to special legislation, because it was per-
fectr,y impossible to prevent particular crimes by special acts
of Parliament. If the bill passed it would become inope-
ri hive, because it would never be put in execution except in
'oases of persons under 16. By the bill the birch rod
was to be used in cases of youths, but with respect
to adults the flogging was to be administered
by any instrument the court might think fit. Now,
what was that instrument to be ? It was quite certain you
could not, at the present day, inflict the bastinado ; then,
what was the instrument to be used ? There were other
enactments in the bill which it was quite impossible to carry
into operation, and therefore he moved that it be read a
second time that day six months.
Lord WODEHOUSE supported the bill.
After a few observations from Earl GRANVILLE, who
objected to the measure,
The bill was read a second time without a division.
DUCHY OF CORNWALL MANAGEMENT; BILL.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE moved the consideration of
the report on the amendments to this bill.
A very long debate ensued upon the clauses making pro-
vision for the granting of aid in money or lands to Dissent-
ing chapels and schools.
Lord REDESDALE moved the adjournment of the de.
bate, in order to give time to consider the amendments.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE consented, and the further
consideration of the report was adjourned to next Friday.
VACCINATION (IRELAND) BILL.
This 'oil was passed through committee.
BAKEHOUSE REGULATIONS BILL.

Tie report on the amendments to this bill was brought
up and agreed to.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.
'PETITIONS.

Mr. Cox, from the 2d Surrey Volunteer Corps, against
the 20th clause of the Volunteers Bill.