The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

#S',IIIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOCIETY:

The Rev. R. H. Baynes, M.A., incumbent of St.
Paul's, Dock-street, Whitechapel, and chaplain of
the Sailors' Home, delivered a lecture on Monday
evening, in the new Vestry Hall of St. George in
the East, on the subject of " Shipping and Ship-
wrecks," the proceeds being intended to be devoted
to the funds of the above truly excellent society.
The audience, we regret to add, was only a scanty
one, and we fear the funds of the society will not
be augmented to any considerable extent by the
evening's prc ceed in gs.
Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, R.N., (vice
president of the society) occupied the chair.
The rev. lecturer in au exceedingly graphic man-
ner dwelt upon the part which shipping and sailors
play in contributing to the comfort and happiness
of humanity and to the prosperity and greatness of
this country ; and he deduced from those facts the
strength of the claim they have upon public sym
pathy, and to assistance in the sufferings and
distresses which are inevitable conditions of their
mode of employment. He referred to the sufferings
attendant upon shipwreck, in illustration of which
he dwelt upon the loss of the Kent, the Birkenhead,
the Royal Charter, and upon the calamities attend-
ant on the more recent storm off Scarborough, when.
Lord C. Beauclerk lost his life. Referring to the
various modes adopted for the preservation of
human life when imperilled by the dangers of the
deep, Mr. Baynes mentioned the gratifying fact
that there are now 141 lifeboats stationed
are maintained by that admirable society, the
along the
incoast2
of 3 e
sthpeaUrantie astecdesduringKingdom, th
70 ofsame which
National Lifeboat Institution; and that by their
means 399 lives were saved during the year just
passed. Another of the means of safety in regular
use was the rocket and mortar apparatus
savedwhich.
life
year. But there are times when neither of these
means of succour is available—when the lifeboat
cannot get off the coast to succour those in peril ;
and when the distressed seamen (as often happens.
in the case of coasting vessels) cannot avail them-
selves of the rope thrown by the rocket or mortar.
To meet these cases, the Shipwrecked Mariners'
Society offered a prize of £5O to the inventor of
the best, simplest, and least expensive mode of
effecting a communication with a lee shore
.from a,
Life
freely offered his invention for the
osunpcepliseidmpblye
simply stowed away.
Lieut. Nara, to his honour,
rLsehwi iepaurtid.:Ndaaanrnedg'se
declined to accept the
esi ti desideratum
ve , e w
andhic h
benefit of seamen generally. The uses of the in-
vention were deseribed by Mr. F. Lean, the secre-
tary of the society, who strongly recommended it
in use, quite inexpensive, The
to the notice of all shipowners and masters. The
rev. lecturer then concluded his address by again
dwelling upon the claims of the society on whose
behalf they had met that evening, and on the
great advantages which the small half-yearly sub-
scriptions of three shillings secured to the wives
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mo all , the
nationsa
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also
coma
sattnh
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n widowspa rnoy-
and families of seamen, of which advantages ho
Mariners' Society is supported
stated that 50,000 seamen had already availed
themselves.
earyyeacronltBr6iblu, contributions, aunmdbreerlioefvesshiap-11
A vote of thanks WAS passed to the rev. gentle-
man for his admirable lecture, and a similar com-
pliment
persons relieved was 7
ceedings closed with the Doxology,
wrecked
napepnenal shipwreckedidlsit The
eoeenlfy
DBtt hbhuyei orphans
rp i United
ywn havingorgolpeufcetnbkrhstseehoedillnp 8
of the society in 1839, fishermen
7,647, and
andof
widowsm a r i -
orphans, and aged parents of the shipwrecked 3,774;
or a total in one year of 11,421. Since the formation
no less than 109,955 per-
sons have been relieved. These figures speak
trumpet•tongued of the claims of the society on the
aid of the benevolent, and though the lecture may
not be immediately productive of benefit to the
funds of the society, we trust that the result of thus
introducing it to the notice of the east end of Lon-
don will be a grett accession of subscribers from
a locality which more than any other in the metro-
polis is connected with shipping and directly bene-
fitted by seafaring persons.

consequentlyction
SINGAPORE AND RANGOON ELECTRIC CABLE.--
A to be raised is £450,000, The
A project for connecting Singapore with Rangoon and
the Indian lines, antdhaetvgeunatially
reiteencdonintgrateet
for laying
seus.ppoihteedrewililliltsaire
from to Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and
and China, is now being promoted, and the desirability of
granting a Government subsidy of £30,000 per annum will
be discussed in Parliament in a few days. When the
Dutch Government agreed to lay a cable from Singapore to,
Batavia, it was on the understanding, in fact, a promise,
made by the Derby Government, that Singapore should bo
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cao., ble
nbo
dlpepthohsa
sei t
capitali
beenos foe
ccoonannreacutyed::thb.tbe infie2luncdnitai.nalliyin
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