The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-03 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Mr. Thomas
Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present—Lord Henry Cholmondeley, Admiral
Sir George Sartorius, Captain Sir Edward Perrott,
Bart., Colonel Fitzßoy Clayton, Mr. S. Cave,
M.P., Admiral M'Hardy, Mr. W. H. Harton, Ad-
miral Gordon, Mr. A. Boetefeur, Admiral Bullock,
Captain Egerton, R.N., Mr. George Lyall, M.P.,
Captain Ward, R.N. (inspector of lifeboats to the
institution), and Mr. Richard Lewis (the secretary).
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £lO was voted to the crew of the
institution's lifeboat at Tramore, county Waterford,
for putting off to the brig Stefania, of Palermo, dur-
ing thick weather on the night of the 3d ult., and
bringing the vessel to a place of safety. A reward of
£5 was also voted to the crew of the society's life-
boat at Rosslare, county Wexford, for going off and
saving the crew of five men and a pilot from the
schooner Thomas, of Liverpool, which was totally
wrecked on the Dogger Bank on the 14th ult. The
silver medal of the institution and a copy of its vote
on parchment were voted to Captain T. H. Fellowes,
R.N., inspecting commander of the coastguard at
Penzance, and £lB ss. to the crew of the lifeboat
belonging to the institution at that place, for res-
cuing the crew of eight men from the brig Willie
Ridley, of Plymouth. Also £4 10s. to the crew of
the Fowey lifeboat of the society for rescuing the
French lugger Le Maria Francois, Le Pere Samson,
and her crew of four men from drowning. The in-
stitution voted £lO5 12s. 6d. to pay the expenses of
the lifeboats of the society at St. Ives, Bude Haven,
New Brighton, Walmer, Tenby, Middlesborough,
Wexford, Cahore, Arklow, and St. Andrews, for
different services during the recent stormy weather.
The silver medal of the institution and a Copy of its
vote on parchment were presented to Major F. W.
Festing, of the Royal Marine Artillery, who, with
12 fishermen of Hayling Island, put off in a boat and
rescued two of the crew of the schooner Ocean, of
Plymouth, which was wrecked on the Woolsiner
Land Banks, near the entrance of Langston Har-
bour, on the 14th ult. The fishermen will receive a
large sum from a local subscription for their gallant
services. Various other rewards were also granted
to the crews of fishing boats and others, for saving
life from different wrecks on the coasts of the United
Kingdom. Payments, amounting to upwards of
£2,000, were ordered to be made on various
lifeboat establishments. The committee decided to
give an annual payment to the assistant-coxswains
of the lifeboats of the institution, who had hitherto
been unsalaried. It was reported that the institu-
tion had sent during the past month new lifeboats to
Poole, Dorset ; Penzance, Cornwall ; Bridlington,
Yorkshire ; Tramore, Waterford ; and Girvan,
Ayrshire. New lifeboats had also been recently
forwarded to the lifeboat societies in South Holland
and at Marseilles. Reports were read from the in-
spector and the assistant inspector of lifeboats to
the institution, on their recent visits to some of the
lifeboat stations on the coast. It was stated that a
legacy of £2OO had been left to the institution by
Mrs. Morgan, of Cheltenham ; that Mr. Henry
Nixson, of Manchester, had intimated his intention
of defraying the entire cost of a lifeboat establish..
ment ; and that Messrs. Leaf, Sons, and Co., of
Old Change, had likewise expressed their desire to
present the institution with the whole expense of a
lifeboat station. The commercial travellers had,
through Mr. Bishop, of Boston, transmitted a con-
tribution of £149 10s. 11d, to the institution in aid
of the cost of their second lifeboat. The proceed-
ings then terminated.

The South-Eastern Banking Company's report,
for presentation at the ensuing half-yearly meeting,
has been issued. The accounts show a gross profit
of £14,117, and, after deducting expenses, &c.,
there remains £4,845. A dividend is recommended
at the rate of £6 per cent. per annum, free of income
tax. It is also proposed to hold an extraordinary
meeting for the purpose of authorising the alteration
of the name of the company to the " Counties Joint-
Stock Bank," and to increase the capital by the
issue of new shares of £25 each.

THE NEW DOLLAR FOR v CHINA.—The London
and China Telegraph says :—" The Secretary of Stato has
decided that the new British dollar for China shall have a
milled, and not a lettered edge. It is found that to place a
letter edge upon the dollar would require a complicated and
expensive addition to the coining presses, \villa would be
ery difficult to work and liable to disorder."