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in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus at King's-cross.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
FRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMA.N—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
trry-CtiranatAli—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
,he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society. and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for' which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, end
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Tristitu-
don has also expended £67,00 on Life-boate, Life-boat
Transporting-can cages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h cat) only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all clagses of' their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefuhy acknowledge the following con-
tributions :

Her Majesty the Queen annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. annual 5 0 0
Clerk, Colonel, B.A. .. annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm. Esq., • .. 4th don.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and 'frau-
sportlmr Carriage .. 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. .. don. 3 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • - • •• don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George. Greenwich 3 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. annual 2 0 0
Thom.a, Lady, Weston-super-Marc, collected by her
Ladyship • • • • • • • • • • .. 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord • • • • .. annual 50 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
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Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; slessrs, Berries, Faronhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London; by a'l the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the UnitedKilig•dom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 11,
John-street, Adelphl, London, W.C.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
GALICIAN-VOLRINIAN FRONTIER, June 23.
Veay few particulars of indubitable authenticity
have reached me as to the proceedings of General
.louravieff at Wilna, but quite enough to stamp
him as one of the most savage monsters who have
appeared in Europe since the days of the French
Revolution. Of course this is not the Mouravieff
who took Kars, or he would not have allowed
Kmeti to escape, and would have murdered his
prisoners. It is well known that the Mouravieffs
in Russia are divided into the Mouravieffs who
hang and the Mouravieffs who get hanged, and the
bloodthirsty chief who is allowed by his " well-in-
tentioned" Emperor to rule at Wilna, and to execute
without even the semblance of a :trial men who
have not so much as contravened one law of the
Russ'an Empire, is base enough to have boasted
that he is not of the same breed as the unfortunate]
and noble-minded Mouravieff who suffered on the
scaffold at St. Petersburg with Pestel, Ryleieff, and
Bestoujeff, after the failure of the insurrection of
1825. The Polish newspapers agree in stating that
Mouravieff has ordered all ladies who may transgress
his regulations on the subject of mourning, national
costume, &c., to be whipped, but whether he issued
the command publicly, or made the threat privately,
does not appear. It is certain that the relatives of
Lithuanian gentlemen who have joined the insur-
rection fully believe that the mothers, sisters, or
daughters of the latter are being detained as hos-
tages. I also know that until the news of Count
Plater's execution arrived in Cracow several of his
friends, who took the deepest interest in his fate, and
imagined that he had already died of the wounds in-
flicted upon him by the Prussian peasants of
Livonia, had not heard of any accusation whatever
being made against him. That he intended to join
the insurrection no one will do him the injustice to
doubt. That he had committed any illegal act up
to the moment of his arrest has not, as far as I can
learn, been ever. asserted. He was killed because he
bore an illustrous name, and because the Russians
know that whenever there is a national movement
in Poland some of the Platers are sure to be at the
head of it. " I saw," says a correspondent of the
Czar, writing from Dunaburg, "this young man of
26 walk with brow erect and with a smile on his lips
to the place of execution. He did not fear his execu-
tioner, and after the sentence of death had been
read to him he went down on his knees, prayed fer-
vently, embraced his confessor, and put on the con-
demned shirt himself. The soldiers then bandaged
his eyes and marched him forwards. A report was
heard, and the victim rendered his noble soul to his
Creator. I withdrew in silence, and passing the
only Catholic church in the place, entered it to offer
np a prayer for the unhappy young man. There I
found all family
y assembled, and their heart-
rending sobs a loss they had sustained.
his
told what
The mother alone was calm, and did her best to con-
sole her poor children. "Do not weep," she said ;
"you see that I am not weeping, but I should have
shed bitter tears if he had trembled at the sentence
of the Russian Government. I know that he did
not, for I saw him before he left the prison, and
prayed with him and for him."
One word more as to General Mouravieff. When,
about a year and a half ago, he was forced to resign
his post as Minister of Domains—for which, as for
every other occupation except that of executioner,
he is by nature and education quite unfitted—every
respectable Russian congratulated himself on his
country being at length freed from such an incubus.
Yet, at the present moment, Mouravieff is thought
by the Government to be " just the man for
Poland," and the Polish papers even assert that he
is soon to replace the too gentle Berg at Warsaw.
General Berg, by the way, is said to be on the
worst possible terms with the Marquis Wielopolski,
and to have become at length fully persuaded that
he is the chief director of the Polish National
Government. I do not think I have mentioned that
the Marquis's steward at Chroberz (in the King-
dom, near the Galician frontier) was compelled last
month to pay 17,000 Polish florins (£425) as the 10
per cent. contribution from the estate to the ex-
penses of the war. The steward did not positively
refuse to pay, but made excuses, saying that he had
not enough money in the house, should like the
collector to call again after the wool fair, and so on.
Ultimately, however, the sum demanded was handed
over.
The following official justification of the late
transfer of money from the Exchequer of the Con-
gress-Kingdom to the treasury of the National Go-
vernment has just been published :
" The object of the National Government is not only to
employ all the resources of the country in the insurrection,
but also to deprive the enemy of the means of repressing it,
by keeping from him all means of continuing the war. The
money of the country must be employed in working out its
liberation ; accordingly, Stanislas Janowski and Stanislas
Hebda have, on the order of the National Government, car-
ried over the sum of 24,012,992 Polish florins end 20 grossy
(L 600,000) from the treasury of the Kingdom ' to that of
the National Government. The National Government, in
making this fact public, declares that the officials Janowski
and Hebda have rendered a service to their country, and
that, by the order of the National Government, they have
been sent abroad on a special mission."
One of the two chief cashiers left a letter for the
Marquis Wielopolski, saying that he had served the
Government for 38 years, but that he could no longer
bear to see the public money spent in paying spies
and sbirri, and had therefore made over the sums
intrusted to him to the Government recognised by
the Polish nation. One might imagine from this
letter that during the last 38 years, and until the
present insurrection, such things as spies and sbirri
bad never been heard of in Poland.
All the officials of the Treasury are said to have
escaped except one, named Koltanowski, who, fail-
ing to get away, committed suicide, fearing (as the
Gazeta Narodowa states) that he would be tortured,
and in his agony might say something to compro-
mise his associates.
Letters from Warsaw say that the rage of the
Grand Duke on hearing of the transfer of the
24,000,000 Polish sixpences was unbounded, and
the execution of Abicht, the official, and Konarski,
the Capuchin monk, on the following day is said
to have been one of its results. Konarski was
formerly one of the chaplains of Langiewicz's army.
He afterwards joined a small detachment, which
soon after its formation was dispersed. He then
attached himself to the corps commanded by Kono-
wicz , and was taken prisoner when Konowicz him-
self was killed. It must be understood that Konarski
was never a combatant, but occupied himself in the
insurgent camp with tending the sick, and giving
religious consolation to the dying.
The (National) Governor of Warsaw has issued a
proclamation in which he complains that some of
the inhabitants have been base enough to pay their
taxes to the Russian Government, and warns them
against any repetition of the offence. It appears,
too, that some of the contractors who have been in
the habit of supplying the Russian army with corn
have written to the National Government to ask
permission to dispose of their present stock. The
Government replies once for all that it has issued its
orders, can make no exceptions, and will answer no
more letters on the subject.
As to the officials dismissed from their posts for
aiding the national cause, the Government engages
to provide for them, and to reinstate them in due
time, and in the meanwhile cautions all Poles against
replacing them.
Finally, in reply to the Russian order command-

" 7. All that has been ordered in the above six
paragraphs relates equally to individuals of the male
sex found publicly wearing mourning symbols, as
also to persons; furnished with czamarks, confede-
ratkis, long boots above their trousers, or other
tokens of the insurrectionary party.
"' The Governmental tribunal has communicated
this present order by special circular to all district
police-courts, for the general guidance."