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R OIAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATuoNEF•,s—lier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, K.G., P.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPu'rr-CHAmmAN—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 incurred expenses ,mount ng to £27,260 on
various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of Eng and,
Scotland, and Ireland.
During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution
have een instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow-
ing Vessels :
Barque Vermont, of Halifax. U.S. ..
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby
Smack Elizabeth Ann. of Lyme Regis
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven ..
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rocheste;
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee ..
Schooner Rose, of Lynn ••
Brig Prodroma, of t•tockton ••
Bri',-;• Eliza, of Middlesborough
Erigantine Freia, of Konigsberg
Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .•
Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham • • • •
Brigantine IVtigget, of 131deford .. • • •
Schooner Prospect, of Berwick • •
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone
Brig Pallas, of Shields ..•• • • •
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • •
Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. ••
Schooner Catherine, of Newry •• ••
Barque Niagara, of Shields .• .. • •
A Barge of Teignmouth • • • • • •
Brig George and James, of London
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• 4
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats .
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. • • •
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth
Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .•
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge ..
Brig Ann, of Blyth
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega(saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) ..
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth
Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew)
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew)
•
Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and
crew) C
Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved yes-
and crew) .. .. • • .. 3
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives 3
Fishing-boats of Whitburn
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• •• ••
Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc
Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris
Schooner William, of Morecambe ..
Smack Gipsy, of Newry •• • ••
Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston ..
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven • • ••
Schooner William, of Liverpool ..
1 ugger Nimrod, of Castletown
Brig Providence, of Shields ..
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood
Barque Guy ,na, of Glasgow .. •
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields ..
Brig San Spirid one, of Galaxide
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna
French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese
ssl 3chahirpoq
ouDne
Danube,
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ze, vaoebtreakci et
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Belfast
t Bridgewater Scarborough. .
Schooner Flortensia, ot Hanover ..
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven . •
Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. • • •
Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam
Barque Druid, of Sunderland • • ••
Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. • •
Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon • • • •
Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich 5
Prig, Minerva, of Workington
Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh 6
Brig Sisters, of %% hitby .. • • • • • • • • 9
Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .• •• .. 4
Brig Jane, of North Shields .. • • ..
Brig Trial, of Poole •. • • • • • • • •
Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • • •
Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and
crew) .. . • • • • • • • '
Barque Frederick, of Dublin ..
Barge Peace, of London
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft ..
Sma3k Adventure, of Harwich.. ..
Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft
Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen .
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
coast•• •• •• ••
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk ..
Schooner Rook, of Liverpool
Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland ..
Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth ..
Schooner Friends, of Lynn ..
Schooner Eliza Anne, Of Dublin
Brig Content, of Sunderland
Smack }Alen Owens, of Cardigan
Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda
Smack Frodsharn, of Liverpool
Sloop William, of Liverpool ..
Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth
Portuguese Barque Cruz V. ..
Ship Annie E. Hooper. of Baltimore, U. 5...
Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester

.. 16
.. 2
.. 5
.. 3
.. 9
.. 6
.. 5
- 3

.. 4
.. 8

.. 4
.. 19

.. 2
.. 8
.. 6
.. 5
.. 4
.. 17

.. 7

.. 5

- 6
.. _ - 5

.. .. ..134
.. 1+
.. 18

Total

For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £2,1513 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has
also granted re, ards mounting to £572 for saving 5('.2
,hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means. mak-
'ng 4 total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last two years and a half.

The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society. -Ind other means, since its formation, is 12,890;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 713 Silver Medals, and
£16,0f0 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transportinv-care iages, and Boat-houses.

•
The public cannot but sympathise with the viaorous efforts
now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
'.he present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
'he Society has made within the past few years, it has now
nne Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man-
: dement, or the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
fficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, it its humane mission is to be perpetuated.

The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions :

£ s. d
Her Majesty the Queen annual 50 C 0
A Lady at ; eith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0
Clerk. Colonel, B.A. annual 1 1 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. don. 25 0 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0
Erle, Lord Chief Justice . don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. 2d don. 25 0 0
Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 3 0 0
Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0
Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0
Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of
Salt ord .• 100 0 0
• •
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. don. 15 15 0
Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. .. annual 5 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Trench, Lady Helena .. .. don. 80 0 0
Donations and Annual sn'-‘scriptions will be thankfully re-
eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 18, St.
,Tame•t's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United
Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at
the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lon-
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the immediate vicinity of Boteler's Mill, by which designa-
Ball's Bluff affair, as we learn from various sources.
resting details of the battle. It says that on Saturday
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the Potomac, near Shepherdstown, became aware that a
heavy column, commanded by Burnside, had arrived on the
opposite bank, and was preparing to attack him. General
Jackson concealed his troops as well as possible, so as to
show but a small force, leading the enemy to believe their
capture would be en easy matter. A battery of four pieces
was placed on a hill, in close proximity to the river, but the
artillerists were ordered to fire only one round, and then to
abandon their guns. The ruse had the desired effect. Four
brigades of the enemy rushed across the river and towards
the guns, when Jackson precipitated his whole force upon
them, as with the power of an avalanche. The enemy were
literally mowed down, and *eh. entire body nearly anni-
hilated. Our informant states that the slaughter was the
most terrific ever known in so short a space of time. Many
of the poor wretches endeavoured to regain the south bank
of the river, but were slain in the attempt, and we are as-
sured that so great was the number of the dead that the
stream was almost dammed up by their bodies.
About one thousand five hundred prisoners were taken,
and of the whole force, estimated at ten thousand, not more,
it is thought, than two thousand escaped.
Our own losses are represented to be very inconsiderable,
but the extent was not precisely known. It was supposed,
however, that two hundred and fifty, killed, wounded, and
missing, is a large estimate.
Thus has the invincible Stonewall and hia brave band
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LITERAltikg.

Les Altserables. By Victor Hugo. Authorised
English Translation, by Lascelles Wraxall. 3
vols. Hurst and Blackett.
Curiosity, long excited in England, respecting
Victor Hugo's master-work will now be gratified.
Thanks to the enterprise of Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett, it now appears in an English dress, and
the translation, executed by Mr. Wraxall, with the
valuable assistance of M. Esquiros, does credit both
to his industry and his skill. The work, as our
readers are doubtless aware, differs in important
respects from an ordinary novel. It is not a mere
tale of passion and event, but ib the expression of
the author's matured opinions respecting the im-
portant social problems of the age, which, from the
position he holds as one of the foremost thinkers of
his time, are entitled to careful attention. As the
title would indicate, the chief characters in the work
are by no means among the higher classes, the prin-
cipal among them being a released convict, named
Jean Valjean. He, a peasant by birth, having lost
his parents while young, had been brought up by
an elder sister, whom, with her family of seven
children, he, in turn, supported when she lost her
husband. But one hard winter having no work,
and the family no bread, Jean broke a baker's win-
dow, stole a loaf, was taken, and sentenced to five
years in the galleys. Having made various unsuc-
cessful attempts to escape, his term of punishment
had been gradually lengthened till, at the time of
his liberation, in 1815, he had served nineteen years.
" Let us," says the author, "make room for a short
parenthesis. This is the second time that, during
his essays on the penal question, and condemnation
by the law, the author of this book has come across
a loaf as the starting point of the disaster of a des-
tiny. Claude Gusux stole a loaf, and so did Jean
Valjean, and English statistics prove that in Lon-
don four robberies out of five have hunger as their
immediate cause. Jean Valjean entered the Bagne
sobbing and shuddering he left it stoically. He
entered it in dispair : he eame out of it gloomy.
What had taken place in This Soul ? "
On his release he proceeds to a town
in which resided an excellent Bishop called Mon-
seigneur Welcome, to whom, repulsed from the
inns and famishing with hunger, Valjean appeals
for succour. The good Bishop receives him as a
brother, regales him with the best, brings out his
silver plate in his honour, and gives him a bed
But nineteen years in the Bagne have borne their
fruit, and the convict, in the night, gets up and
goes off with his benefactor's silver plate. He is
taken, however, by the police, and brought back,
but the Bishop exonerates him by saying that the,
things were given him, reproves him for leaving;
behind a pair of silver candlesticks, and exhorts"
him to employ the money produced by their sale
in becoming an honest man. Valjean, astonished,
departs, but meeting with a little Savoyard boy hel
deprives him of a two-franc piece, and, although he.
immediately repents this crime, sows the seed of
many future troubles. We are now introduced by
the author to an episode of Paris life, the actors
being four students of the Latin quarter with their
attendant grisettes. These, with the exception of
the youngest, Fantine, call for no especial comment,
but she is one of the prominent characters in the,
carlier part of the story, as her daughter, Cosette, is
in the latter. Deserted by her lover, and having a
child dependent on her for import, she leaves Paris,
having placed Cosette on the road with an inn-
keeper's wife named Thenardier, and proceeds to a
town in which Valjean, who has assumed the name
of Father Madeleine, has set up a manufactory of
imitation jet, by which he has not only enormously
increased the prosperity of the neighbourhood, but
has accumulated a fortune of 600,000 f., notwith-
standing his expenditure of lirge sums in charitable
undertakings. In this manufactory Fantine gets
employment, but misfortune pursues her; the virtue
of the establishment is indignant that a woman
should be employed who was known to have an
illegitimate child ; she is dismissed, and after part-
ing with her hair and her front teeth to raise money
to supply the extortionate demands of the Thenar-
diers, who had charge of her child, she is forced to
resort to the lowest depths of female degradation.
A brutal jest practised on her by "a householder
and elector," and for which she retaliates, causes
her arrest by Javert, an Inspector of Police,
bat Father Madeleine, who is now Mayor,
instead of consigning her to prison, sends her,
notwithstanding Javert's opposition,to his infirmary,
where she dies. This Javert, one of the represen-
tative characters in the book, is thus delineated :
" This man was made up of two very simple and
relatively excellent feelings, but which he almost
rendered bad by exaggerating them—respect for
authority and hatred of rebellion ; and in hie eyes,
robbery, murder, and every crime were only forms
of rebellion. He enveloped in a species of blind
faith everybody in the service of the State, from
the Prime Minister down to the gamekeeper. He
covered with contempt, aversion, and disgust every
one who had once crossed the legal threshold of
evil. He was absolute, and admitted of no excep-
tions ; on one side he said,—' a functionary cannot
be mistaken, a magistrate can do no wrong ;' on
the other he said,—' they are irremediably lost :
no good can come of them.' He fully shared the
opinion of those extreme minds that attribute to
the human law some power of making or verifying
demons, and that place a styx at the bottom of
society. He was stoical, stern, and austere ; a sad
dreamer, and humble yet haughty, like all fanatics.
His glance was a gimlet, for it was cold and pierc-
ing. Hie whole life was composed in two words,
watching and overlooking. He had introduced
.the
straight line into what is the most tortuous thing
in the world ; he was conscious of hand was a SPY
had religious respect for his duties,
to
the wretch
usefuln_ss_,
as well as another is a priest.
prison,
who came into his clutches! he.wWoUeld have arrested
and denounced
his father if escaping
ban. And he would
his mother had she broken
from p
rhterof
inner satisfaction
have done it with that so
with all this he spent a
which virtue produc.eosiat
;on, self-denial,
s pchastity.arta,
life of privation,
He was the implacable deity, the police compre-
ss the Spartans comprehended
hended
a pitiless watchman, a marble-hearted spy
a Brutus ,
contained in a Vidocq." An inno-
cent peasant now being arrested in mistake
for Valjean
and about to be condemned, the latter,
finding no other way of saving him, nobly comes