The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of the institution was held at its
house, John-s treet, Ad elphi—Thes. Chapman, Esq ,F. R. S.,
V.P., in the chair. There were also present Admiral Sir
Wm. Bowles, K.C.8., Capt. Sir Edward Perrott, B4rt,,
V. P., Montagu..) Gore, Esq., Admiral Bullock, Alex. Boete-
feur, Esq., W. H. Ilarton, Esq., Capt. De St. Croix, John
Griffith, Esq., Admiral Gordon, Capt. Ward, R.N., inspee-
tor of lifeboats of the institution, and Richard Lewis, Esq.,
the secretary.

Payments amounting to £3O were voted to the crew of
the Fleetwood lifeboat, in admiration of their noble conduct
on two occasions. First, on rescuing on Thursday night
last, during a terrific gale of Wind, the crew of four men
from the schooner Northern Light, of Preston, which had
k on one sandbanks in the vicinity of
Fleetwood.
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the wreck the boat was cast adrift.
She was at once lost sight of in the intensely dark night,
and she in her turn lost sight of the wreck. But the cries of
heard even above the howl-
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touch skilful manoeuvring, the
wreck was at last fetched, and her crew snatched from a
watery grave, amidst the hearty cheers of the lifeboat crew,
who afterwards safely brought them ashore.
On the following night (Friday) this same valuable life-
boat again went out in tow of the same steamtug, in reply
to signals of distress from the ship Lillias, of St. John, N.B.
which had also struck on a sandbank off Fleetwood, but
this time her services were of no avail, the crew of the ship
having been rescued by two steamers.

A payment of £l3 was also made to the crew of the
Southport lifeboat of the institution, in acknowledgment of
their intrepid conduct in rescuing, on Saturday night last,
during a hurricane, the crew of 17 men of the Norwegian
barque Tamworth, of Skion, which had struck and after-
wards became totally wrecked on Trunk Hill Sande, about
five miles from Southport. This was another gallant rescue,
the captain of the ship expressing his admiration of it, and
stating that he and his crew must have met with a watery
grave but for the services of the lifeboat. The lifeboat atter
leaving the vessel, was filled by a heavy sea, but she in-
stantly cleared herself of the same. These poor foreigners,
when they return to their own country, are often lost in
admiration of the means provided on the English coast to
save their lives in case of shipwreck; and sometimes contri-
butions are received from them by the National Lifeboat
Institution as an acknowledgment of their gratitude.
Rewards amounting to 133 were also voted to the crews
of the society's lifeboats stationed at Dundalk, Drogheda,
Campbal town, Fraserburgh, and Tramore, for rescuing, dur-
ing recent heavy gales, the following shipwrecked persona :
Four from the schooner Anion, of Workington; 4 from the
schooner G ipsy, of Drogheda; 7 from the barque Providence,
of Dantzic ; 4 from the smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness;
and 1 from the brig Marietta, of Lisbon ; making a total of
210 lives saved by the lifeboats of the institution during the
current year, and a grand total of nearly 14,000 lives saved
by the society's lifeboats, or by special exertions for which
it has granted rewards, since its commencement.
While performing these noble services, some of which
were accomplished during the dark hours of the night, the
lifeboats in every ins,ance were reported to have behaved
admirably, and it was said that their gallant crews never
flinched for a moment under the most perilous circumstances.
Sometimes, indeed, the men's situations were truly awful.
Lost in the darkness of the night, and the sea rolling
mountain's high, the danger of the lifeboat men—many of
whom had left behind them, on quitting their beds to pur-
sue their mission of mercy, wives and children—can be
better iin zgined than described. But this is some of the
kind of work, be he high or low, in which an Englishman
has ever delighted to perform noble feats of daring; and
the lifeboat work develops it in its grandest form—to snatch
from a watery grave poor fellows that have long to live,and
that have to live for ever.

Rewards to the amount of £2O were also granted to the
lifeboats of the institution at Holyhead, Rye, Budden Ness
(Dundee), and Waltner, for assisting to bring safely into
port the Italian brit Comoglino, schooner Sir Colin Camp-
bell (of Whitby), schooner Giullia (of Palermo), and the
ketch Snip, of Amsterdam. These vessels must have gone
to pieces in the absence of the services of the lifeboats.

The society's lifeboats at Seaton Carew, Rhyl, Kings-
town, Silloth, 'Fleetwood, Holyhead, Cemlyn, New Brighton,
Kingsg,ate, and Peuarth had also gone off in reply to a sig-
nal of distress, with the view of saving life ; but the vessel
had subsequently got out of danger, or their crew hed been
rescued by other means. For these services £7O were voted
by the institutions.

A reward was also granted to two coastguard men at
Southerness, near Dumfries, in testimony of their having
rushed into the surf and rescued 10 men from a boat belong-
ing to the brig Antigua Packet, of Liverpool, which during
a gale of wind had become a total wreck through the mis-
conduct of the master, at the entrance of the Solway Firth.
The brig's boat had drifted on to the Scotch coast on the
other side of the Channel.
Various other rewards were likewise voted to the crews of
shore boats for their laudable exertions in saving life from
wrecks on our coasts.

Capt. Ward, R.N., the inspector of lifeboats of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution, read a report on his recent visit
to the lifeboats of the society from Berwick-on-Tweed to
the Humber. ele found the boats everywhere in excellent
order, possessing the confidence of their crews, and reflect-
ing much credit on the superintendence of the local com-
mittees, who everywhere work so cordially with the Lifeboat
Institution.

New lifeboats had been sent during the past month by
the institution to Teignmouth, Devon, and to Swansea.
Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., the assistant-inspector of life-
boats of the society, had accompanied them to their stations.
The boats had, as usual, been conveyed free, by the kind
permission of the directors, over the Great Western and
the other connecting lines of railway.
It was reported that an erainenG Parsee mercantile &in
in the city of London had recently presented to the insti-
tution the sum of £2,000, to establish a lifeboat on the
English coast, and to permanently keep it up. The com-
mittee expressed their highest appreciation of this munifi-
cent gift, and decided upon calling the new lifeboat the
Parsee.

A communication was read from the Controller of the
Royal Navy stating it that was proposed to supply all the
vessels of war with a lifeboat in lieu of one of the boats
usually carried, and asking the institution for all the in-
formation in its power on the subject of ships' lifeboats.
A letter was also read from the Rev. E. Hewlett, of
St, Paul's, Manchester, stating that he was establishing an
association in connexion with his church on behalf of the
institution, in order that they might raise the cost of a life-
boat. Lady Maxwell, of Monreith, N. 8., had sent the
society a kind contribution of £2 25., which had been put
in a contribution-box, on behalf of the institution, in the
entrance-hall of her mansion.

Payments amouting to upwards of £l,lOO were ordered
to be made on various lifeboat establishments. The com-
mittee gave instructions for some of the funded capital of
the institution to bo sold to meet the heavy demands upon
it, The proceedings then terminated.

THE FEDERAL GENERALS.—It has been observed
that not many Federal Generals have been killed in
this war. Burnside, butting the heads of his rank and file
against the ramparts of Fredericksburg, and ensconcing
himself in a snug covert three miles from the roar of battle,
is a fair specimen of the military discretion of the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Federal forces. It is a rare thing
to hear of one of them who is unmindful of the great law of
self-preservation. Such slaughter as has been among the
common soldiers of the Yankee army has not often been
witnessed, nor such exemption from peril as their leaders
have enjoyed. Scott, N.'Clellan, M'Dowell, Buel, Pope
Burnside, Hooker, all live, and not even a scar to testify
that they have ever been engaged in a battle of this war-
And yet, though successful in escaping Confederate bullets
they are as dead to all intents and purposes as if they had
shared the fate of the thousands whom they have driven to
the slaughter. The Confederates have killed them one and
all, as effectually as if they had perforated their carcases with
Minie bullets. Better would it have been for their reputa-
tion to have perished in the smoke and din of battle than to
go down to posterity not only defeated but disgraced. They
have purchased a few years of life at the expense of all
that makes life desirable to a soldier. With them the pro-
cess of decomposition has begun before death, and they are
masses of living putrefaction—a stench in the nostrils of all
mandkind and of themselves. Our people, therefore, need
feel no discouragement if the loss of the enemy in generals
is so much lees apparently than our own. In reality it is
greater.—.Ricknond Dispatch.

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