The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-03 00:00:00

APPEAL.

The Committee of Management have to state that, since
I,e beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments n the Coasts of Eng and, Scotland, and *lreland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, end other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
or which services 82 Gold &Wale, 718 Silver Medals, and
£111,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67, On on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-car. lanes, and Boat-houses.

The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the gcnerou s 'poort which they have received from the
Pritish public during the past few years, a support which
has enab ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply senslb e, however, of the great responsibility that
res s on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and i,B Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h cat• only be of by a large and pe manent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions:—

£ s. d
Fier Majesty the Queen .. annual 50 C 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. • . .. annual 50 0
Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .. annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., Esq., 4th don 10 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 Tran-
sporting Carriage •• •• •• •• 250 0 0
Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore. Rev. G. B. .. •• •• .. don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • .. 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Thom s Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
LadyQhip • • •• •• •• •• 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual -u scriptions will be thankfully re-
eived by the Bankers of thv Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Ceutts and
Co., 50, Strand; 11essrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16. St.
•lame4's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the UnitedKingdorn ; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi, London. W.C.

SALE Ole CHIPS. SAWDUST AND SHAVINGS, &o.
NoTieß IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
CRETARY of S GATE Isl. WAR is prepared to
receive TENDERS for the REMOVAL of the CHIp4,
S AWDITST. SHAVINGS, Szo.. whin}, tray accumulate at the
Royal Carriage Department, Woolwich, during a p-rind of
three years from the st April, 186 t
Tenders must be mad,' upon the proper printed r rm.
wh eti msy be obt fined on applicstton to the Dir ,ctor of
Contracts, War-office, Pall-mall; or to the SupPrintend.nt
of t= e Royal Carria e ,rtment. Woolwich • are t,,
b d livered at •h. War-office, or or before the 9th April,
18'3, andressed to the ruder S cretary of State for s* ar, and
marked on the outside, "Tender for Removal of Chips,
dr,c "
The Secretary of State reserves the right of rejecting any
or all of the Tend, iv.
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TTTOM S HOWELL, Director of Contracts.
War-office, March 31, 1863.