The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-08 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a deputation of this institution was
held at its house, St. John-street, Adelphi—Thos.
Chapman, F.R.S., and president, in the chair.
There were also present—Captain Sir Edward Per-
rott, Bart., W. H. Harton, Esq., Admiral M'Hardy,
Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., Capt. Egerton,
R.N., Colonel Fitz-Roy, Clayton, Richard Lewis,
Esq., the secretary.

The minutes of previous meeting having been
read, rewards amounting to £224 were granted for
different noble services by the following lifeboats
of the institution during the recent storms :—The
Portrush lifeboat rescued the crew of four men from
the schooner Clara Brown, of Barrow ; the Wex-
ford lifeboat saved 19 men from the ship Savoir-
Faire, of Liverpool ; the Cahore lifeboat rescued
four men from the same vessel; the Palling life-
boat saved 20 men and a pilot from the ship Orso,
of North Shields ; the Whitburn lifeboat rescued
six men from the schooner Token, of Jersey, and a
few days after again went off and saved six men
from the schooner Test, of Southampton ; the
Tenby lifeboat saved a lad from the smack Mary,
of Cardigan ; the Theddlethorpe lifeboat savednine
men from the fishing smack Splendid, of Grimsby ;
the Howth lifeboat saved five men from a lighter;
the Plymouth lifeboat saved 11 men from the brig
Espoir, and 11 men from the brig Commerzle-
weathin Hanpt, of Mecklenburgh ; the Penzance
lifeboat rescued five men from the brigantine
Tobaco, of Hamburg ; and the Fowey lifeboat went
off twice in one day, and saved 13 men from the
barque Drydens, of North Shields, and nine men
from the brig Wearmouth, of Sunderland.
The silver medal of the institution was voted to
Mr. J. Heath, chief boatman of the Coastguard,
and coxswain of the Fowey lifeboat, in admiration
of his skill and daring in assisting to save, under
very perilous circumstances, the shipwrecked crews
of the vessels before named.

Rewards amounting to £l7B were also voted to
pay the expenses of the lifeboats of the institution
stationed at Ilowth, Pakefield, Berwick, Rosslare,
Barmouth, Portcawl, Swansea, Cemlyn, Penzance,
Porthdiullaen, Penrith, Newquay (Cornwall), Cais-
ter, Broughty Ferry, Skerries, and New Brighton,
for either going out and rendering assistance to
vessels in distress, or for putting off in reply to
signals of distress to render services to different_
vesssls which, however, had afterwards got out of
danger.
It appears that during the gales of November the
lifeboats saved 124 shipwrecked persons in addition
to bringing two vessels safely into port. Altogether.
421 lives have been saved by the lifeboats of the in-
stitution during the eleven months of present
year, in addition to bringing fourteen vessels safely
into harbour.

It was reported that its lifeboats had been manned
during the past three years by about 18,000 per-
soils, and that out of that large number only three
men had been lost.

General Sir George Bowles, the donor of the
Howth lifeboat, was so pleased with the services of
that boat on a recent occasion in saving five poor
fellows from a watery grave, that he has decided on
giving the institution the cost of another lifeboat.

The silver medal of the institution and £1 were
voted to Gunner James Moore, and £1 each, and
the thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum, to
two other men of the Coast Brigade of Royal Ar-
tillery, stationed at Aberdovey, for rescuing, at
some risk of life, 17 men of the crew of the French
ship Carioca, which had struck on the rocks under
the Hermitage Rock Battery during a gale of wind
on the 19th October last.

The silver medal of the institution and £2 were
also voted to Peter Pascoe for rescuing, at the risk
of his life, a man who had previously attempted to
assist in saving the life of a sailor belonging to the
barque William of Sunderland, which was wrecked
off Porthleven, on the 24th ult. A reward of £1
was also granted to the man Pascoe had saved.
Various other rewards were granted for saving
life from wrecks on our coasts.

Payments amounting to upwards of £3,000 were
ordered to be made on various lifeboat establish-
ments. The sale of £2,000 stock of the institution
was ordered to be made to meet these heavy pay-
ments.

Reports were read from the inspector and the as-
sistant inspector of lifeboats to the institution on
their recent visit to the various lifeboat stations on
the coasts of England and Scotland. It was re-
ported that G. Jeremy, Esq., and Mrs. Jeremy had
presented £4OO to the institution to defray the cost
of a lifeboat and carriage to be stationed either on
the coast of Devon or Cornwall.

A communication was read from Captain A. R.
Weston, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na-
vigation Company's steamer Simla, forwarding
£5O Bs. 7d., and stating that he was using his best
endeavours to collect the cost of a Simla lifeboat
amongst the passengers sailing on board his vessel
between Calcutta and Aden, to be presented to the
institution.

The contributors to the Quiver magazine, pub-
lished by Messrs. Cassell and Co., had generously
contributed the cost of a lifeboat to be called the
" ,Quiver."
Legacies of £lOO by the late Capt. Brown, of
Kilmarnock, and £lOO by the late James M'Nab,
Esq., of Guildford, had been received by the insti-
tution. The late Mr. T. Boys and Mr. Dudley
Costello had also recently left the institution
legacies.
During the past month the institution had sent
new lifeboats to Anstruther, Tynemouth, Bacton,
and Cemlyn. The cost of the lifeboat for Tyne-
mouth had been contributed by the people at Ponte-
fract and Goole, where she was publicly exhibited
on the 6th inst. on her way to the station, Lady
Houghton, supported by Lord Houghton, Lord and
Lady Cathcart, and the gentry of the neighbour-
hood, kindly naming the boat on the occasion.
Other business, having been transacted, the pro-
ceedings of the meeting terminated.

FOUNDERING OF A STEAMBOAT AT SEA.—On Wed-
nesday morning the steamboat Leander, belonging
to North Shields, put out to sea for the purpose of seeking
vessels making for the Tyne, to tow them in. After the
boat had got out a considerable distance off the bar they
descried a vessel to all appearance making for the harbour.
The Leander immediately proceeded in the direction of
the vessel to inquire if they would allow them to take the
vessel in tow. The steamboat went alongside, and, while
matters were being arranged between the captains of the
Leander and the vessel, a terrific sea struck the steamboat
on her side, and sent her with great force against the right
beam of the vessel, smashing her paddlecase to pieces, driv-
ing the iron beam completely through her, and nearly
' opening her in two. She began to sink almost immedi-
ately, and the crew just had time to jump into the boat
before she went down. Tho vessel by this time was reach-
ing before the wind, and was at some distance from them
quite unable to render assistance. The men in the boat
were tossed about on the waves, expecting every moment
to be swallowed up by the angry sea. They pulled as best
they could, but all their efforts seemed to bo fruitless, as
the force of the sea drove them hither and thither. Anothet-
gretml-Qat, however, the Renard, belonging to Shields, had
seen the oCcu'rrence, and knowing the imminent peril the
men were exposed to, bore down upon them and succeeded
in laying hold of the boat before any accident Occurred.
Tile crew were taken aboard and brought to the harbour
in safety.
'[ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of
60,000 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be
arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines,
which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in
reality no o.her tendency than that of increasin
and with it the danger of life, we were simply to sincly how
to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood,
upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame
depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's inva-
lids' and Infa .ts' Food, the Revalenta Ar.:blea, and its
thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mush
easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, sad for
children it i i the best substitute for human milk. Dr.
Route, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and
Children—the best authority on ouch matters —in his admir-
able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub-
stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its composition
is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con-
aining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of
potassium; it also includes casein, the same principle which
is fouud in milk in its constituent part?. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the bedyl, and marked debi
have completely recovered. I have given it wi th the hreatest
advantage in such cases ; and so far as m
I ay judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate—
In tins, 1 lb., is. 9d. ; 21b., ls. tad ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b., 228. ; 241 b.
408.—Barry 1)u Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dealers, F, King William-street ; likewi e
at 61, Graceehureh-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate-
streA Within ; 63, 130, and 295, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand;
51, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 90,
Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close
Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's•wcod, London; and all respectable grocers and che-
mists.--Beware of spurious imitations.

JAMAICA.

-4.--

[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 8.

The steamer Californian, with advices from
Jamaica to the 19th November, has arrived off
Holyhead.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

WAR-OFFCE, DEc. 6.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Henry Burrard Farnall, Esq., an
Inspector of Poor Laws, and Robert Rawlinson, Esq., an
Inspector in the Local Government Acts Office, to be
Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third
Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath.