The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

EXMOUTH LIFEBOAT.

On Saturday a gentleman connected with the
National Lifeboat Institution visited this station,
which is in connection with the society. He found
everything in excellent order—the lifeboat mounted
on her transporting carriage, ready for instan-
taneous service either day or night. Nearly the
whole of the equipments of the boat are kept in her;

they art of the most perfect character, no expense
evidently
fuming been spared in obtaining the very
;
best of every fathom: of rope, and of every other
article belonging to the lifeboat. How often it
happens in the lifeboat service that, after incurring
great risk, perhaps during a midt:ight storm, to
fetch a wreck, the whole success, undor the bless-
ing of God, of the lifeboat in rescuing the half-
drowned sailors, will depend on the strength of the
rope which the lifeboat has thrown to them.
The Exmouth lifeboat is, as is generally known,
the gift of Lady Rolle to the National Institution.
Under the joint supervision of Captain Agassiz,
R.N., and Mr. William Hawkins, the chief officer
of Coast Guard, the station is maintained in a state
of thorough efficiency, and fully sustains the graphic
description given of it some two years ago in
Dickens's All the Year Iteund.
Again, attached to this station is a beautiful
barometer (Negretti and Zambra's make) supplied
by the institution for the use of the seafaring popu-
lation of the town : its movements are very closely
watched by them. These are registered daily on a
chart, that any one can at once read off the instru-
ment. The barometer was, like all those made for
the institution, tested thoroughly at the Greenwich
Observatory, under the superintendence of Mr,.
Glaisher, F.R.S., before it was sent to this place.
A few remarks on the reading of this standard
barometer during the past month may not be unin-
teresting to the general reader. We observed that
the state of the instrument on the Ist ult., was 30.5.
It gradually receded until the 6th, when it was
29.40, blowing fresh from S.S.W. It then gradu-
ally rose until the 9th, when it showed 30.6, strong
breeze from W.S.W. The lowest point touched by
the barometer at 9 o'clock a.m. at this station, dur-
ing the month, was 29.53—this was on the 12th.
On the north-west of England its variations were
no doubt much greater, for the life-boats of the
society at Fleetwood and Penmon were, during
heavy gales of wind on the 25th ult., the means of
saving two vessels and their crews from destruc-
tion. At midnight, on the 6th inst., it blew at Ex-
mouth a gale of wind from S.S.W., the barometer
standing 29.78. One or two vessels got ashore in
the storm, but soon got off again.
The price of the barometer is only five or six
guineas, and we know not of a more valuable gift
to a fishing locality than such an instrument.
We trust the officer of the National Lifeboat
Institution will find all the lifeboats of the ecciety
on the west coast equally as efficient as the one at
Exmouth ; and that this great and national insti-
tution will continue to have its hands strengthened
by the benefactions of the public, and the legacies
of deceased persons.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'--YESTERDAY.
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst Marquis (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Caractacus (taken)
100 to 15 agst Buckstone (taken)
100 to 7 agst Exchequer (taken)
100 to 6 agst Carisbrook (offered)
18 to 1 agst Johnny Armstrong (taken)
30 to 1 agst Imperatrice (taken)
Nto 1 agst Old Calabar (taken and offered)

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fell to the extreme rear, and the two leaders vsn abreast b a
the distance, where Ma Mie quitted Incognita and vi, an
easily by three lengths. Two lengths separate, 1 the sec(
_aid
and third ; Elise was beaten off.
The Consolation Stakes of 3 sous each, with £25 adds d, for
beaten horses ; list 71i) each ; half-bred horses 92 dewed
71b. The last three-quemers of a mile.
het
Major Johnson's (12th L. ulcers) The Prop, liff t 71b
(Mr. Lao Axon) 1
Mr. Dakin's (6th Caroline, era) Reprieve, 4 yrs, 11 st 71b
(ar. S mith) 2
Captain Green (Military Train) na Strike, 11 at 71b
(Mr. 1,0111 ;man) 3

Medusa and ,botty also ran.
Betting-4 to lon The Proi lhet•
Reprieve made running to the
.) half-distant se, where The
a canter by two lengths;,
Prophet passed him, and won in
fhird•
three lengths between the second ,
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