The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Mr. Thomas
Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present, Commodore Ryder, RN., controller-
general of coastguards ; Captain Sir Edward Per-
rott Bart. V.P. ; Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8.; W. H.
Harton, Esq. ; Admiral Gordon, Colonel Palmer,
Admiral Bullock, Alexander Boetefur, Esq., Ad-
miral M'Hardy, and Richard Lewis, Esq., secretary
of the institution.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £25 was voted to the crew of the
Caistor lifeboat belonging to the institution, for
putting off, in reply to signals of distress, and safely
bringing into Yarmouth Harbour, the brig Nautilus,
of South Shields, and her crew. The vessel had
struck on the Barber Sands while the wind was
blowing fresh from the E., and there was a good
deal of sea on. This lifeboat has contributed to the
saving of 113 lives from different wrecks, in addi-
tion to bringing some vessels into places of safety.
For these services her crew have received rewards
amounting to £650 from the Lifeboat Society.
The boat is now nearly worn out, and is about to be
replaced by a magnificent new lifeboat, the gift of
the people of Birmingham to the institution.
Payments amounting to £1,550 were ordered to
be made on various lifeboat establishments.
It was reported that the institution had sent new
lifeboats during the past month to Hayling Island,
Whitburn, Selsey, and Aberdovey. The boats had
been presented to the institution by different bene-
volent persons, and the public at each place had
turned out in large numbers to welcome their arrival.
The cost of the Aberdovey lifeboat had been con-
tributed to the institution by the people of Berk-
shire, and it was reported that Captain Stephens, of
the Bank, Reading, and Captain Butler, R.N.,
of Hungerford, had, with their friends, taken great
interest in collecting funds to defray the cost of
the boat.

During the past month the Secretary of the in-
stitution had visited some of the lifeboats of the in-
stitution on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall. He
found the boats everywhere in excellent order.
The admirable instructions of the institution for
the restoration of the apparently drowned were now
being extensively circulated throughout the United
Kingdom.

M. P. G. had, through T. Jones Gibb, Esq., pre-
sented to the society £3OO, to pay for a lifeboat to
be stationed at Bacton, on the Norfolk Coast.

The people of Bradford had also sent through
their Mayor, C. Semon, Esq., to the Institution,
£4OO, to pay the cost of a lifeboat now building for
Ramsgate.

New lifeboat houses were ordered to be built at
Worthing (Sussex) and
.Anstruther (Scotland).
N. Michell, Esq., has generously offered to the in-
stitution a new edition of his beautiful poem on the
" Wreck of the Homeward Bound."

Messrs. Forrestt and Son, the builders to the in-
institution, has just completed two additional life-
boats for the French Shipwreck Society. Three
others were also being built for that society. The
builders had also one boat ready to be delivered to
the Suez Canal Company. The Emperor and Empress
of the French took considerable interest in the life-
boats on the coast of France, and had recently
visited one or two of those stations, with which they
had expressed great satisfaction.
The meeting then adjourned.

THE CHOLERA IN ITALY.—A Naples letter, of
the 26th ult., says: —" The cholera is disappearing. The
town where it is most persistent, Lucera, has only eight or
ten cases per diem among 15,000 inhabitants. A quarantine
of nine days is now imposed on vessels coming from France.
Travellers must have a passport at least nine days old,
counting from the day of their leaving that country. Pre-
cautions against the malady aro being redoubled. The city
has been almost entirely whitewashed. This day tho heat
has diminished, as rain is falling."
THE "PRIVILEGES" OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—
At the Judges' Chambers, yesterday, in the case of
" Deane v. Law," and application for costs in an action
under £2O was opposed on the ground that up to £5O the
citizens of London were privileged from being sued, except
in the City Small Debt Court. The 39th and 119th clauses
of the City Act were relied upon. Mr. Justice Wiles said
he was " staggered." He certainly did not know his pri-
vileges as a citizen. He would consider the point, as it
was very important, and therefore adjourned the applica-
tion for a few days.

STRICT CONSERVATIVES. —A correspondent, writ-
ing from Rockport, after alluding to the ancient
building known as the " Garrison House," with its legends
of witches and Indians, says, " The Nutford family, con-
sisting of a brother and sister, have for7o years resided on,
and never left, Cape Ann. They have never seen railroad
cars, although the whistle of the locomotive can almost be
heard at their door. They are intelligent, and have many
visitors during the summer. Undoubtedly,' the writer
adds, they have enjoyed life better than many who enter
the busy cares of the world. They are true Conservatives,
of the strictest school.' "—Bodo, (U.S) Tranecript,