The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-07 00:00:00

INSII.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOS
TUTION".

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was hem.
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S.,
V.P., in the chair. There were
also present Lord Henry Cholmondeley, Sir Edward
Perrott, Bart., Admiral Gordon, George 41111,
M.P., Admiral McHardy, Alexander Boetefeur,
Esq., Admiral Bullock, and Capt. De St. Croix.
The SECRETARY read the minutes of the previous
, meeting.
I A reward of £34 was voted to the crew of the
Caistor lifeboat, belonging to the institution, for
putting off on the night of the 26th ult., during
fearful gale of wind, and rescuing, at much risk of
life, the crew of nine men of the brig Sisters, of
Whitby, which had sunk on the Barber Sands. The
case was reported to have been a very gallant

indeed.
A reward of £l4 was also given to the crew of
the Lowestoft lifeboat, in connection with ti,e B°'
ciety, and £3 15s. to the crew of the harbour sfe am
tug, and the thanks of the institution inscribed on
vellum to Captain W. Rivers, the harbour mast ext
for rescuing four of the crew of the brlgantine
Matilda, of Stockholm, which, during a heavy gale
of wind, was wrecked on the Corton Sands on the
night of the 26th ult. When so.ed lhe poor foreigne°
were nearly exhausted, and declared that they cot-tla
not have lived another half hour.
A reward of £7 was likewise voted to the crew ef
the Drogheda lifeboat of the institution, for going
off in stormy weather and saving the crew of
f°l2t
men of the brig Minerva, of Workington, &lie'
had stranded on Drogheda bar on the 7th ult. ,
A reward of £l7 was also voted to the crew' 0
the society's Buddon-Ness (near Dundee) lifeboat,
for going off in the night and saving the crevf of
six men of the schooner Elizabeth Hannah, of NB°burgh, which, while entering the Tay, had cone'
dered, during a gale of wind and very heavy sole'
on an outlying sandbank, on the 21st ult. Captain
Speedy, of the steamer Hamburg; xeceived also the
thanks of the institution for his Yaluable services
on the occasion.
also voted
d
Rewards, amounting to £lO 10s., were
to the crews of the institutions lifeboats si;:ati°llo
at Ferryside and Lossiemouth, for putting butcff
vessels which had signals of distress flying/ f
which did not afterwards require the assistance °
the boats.
The Redear lifeboat, belonging to this in,stitution;
succeeded, on the Ist inst., in bringing the scYloee
Banff, of Harwich, which was in a disabled 01
into a port of safety. This lifeboat is the e1d13./9„
one in the kingdom, and has been instrumental
I"
saving scores of shipwrecked men. ;so
Rewards, amounting to £2l 10s., were likely- 0
granted to the crews of shore-boats for rescuing tb
crew of three men of the schooner Diligent, of
Car'
crew
narvon, which had sunk off Abersoch, near PWet
hell, on 23d January ; 27 men from the ship Tige
of Bath, United States, which was wrecked
Templetown, near Waterford, on the 22d Jannarit:
7 persons from a fishing-boat which had drifted evo
the rocks near Spiddal, on the coast of GalwaY,
the 30th January ; 4 men from a boat which het
struck on a reef of rocks near Dunree, on the
°to
of Donegal, on the 29th January ; and 13 perei/tt
1
from a boat which had capsized off Belli:011e
county Mayo, on the 19th January.
A letter was read from the Lord Mayor, gal
that he would take the chair at the annual meetteo
of the institution to be held at the London Talef
on the 18th inst.
During the past month the institution had Olt:
new lifeboat to Plymouth, where a grand detnel
stration had taken place on the arrival of the 11,"
which was the gift of Miss Burdett Coutts. 'e",
other lifeboat was ready to be forwarded to DT here'
The Shipwrecked Fisheimen and Mariejch
Society had sent to the institution £l5O, into
had been chiefly collected in threepences troei or
sailor members. G. J. enwick, Esq., of Nortll
F 50,
berland, had also presented to the institutionn the
to enable it to plant an additional lifeboat o
north-east coast. fit 4
Payments amounting to upwards of £5OO h 00
been made on various lifeboat establi ohments,
proceedings terminated.