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13 0Y AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM
SHIPWRECK,
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Bliklesty the Queen.
Pnr stotyr -Tice-Admiral his Gre2e the Duke of Northum-
berland, K. G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Bari-eg, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, 'Es q., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, during
the past two years, the Institution has incurred expenses
arnountng to £28,650 on various Life-boat Establishments
on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Duri.ng the past two years the Life-boats of the National
l'ire-boat Institution have I eon instrumental in rescuing
the Crews of the following Vessels:—
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone 6
Brig Pallas, of Shields .. . 3
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow . 9
Smack John 80, of Yarmouth .. .. • • 5
Schooner Cathetine, of Newry P• e• •• 4
Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11
A Barge of Teignmouth
Brig George and James, of London
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. •••
• • 7
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool
Nrig,antine Nancy, of Teignmouth .• • • 9
Smack Wonder, 01 Teignmouth .. 2
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. 6
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole
.. • • • • 5,
ScoopCbt'alotte, of Woodbridge .. • •
RD
Brig Ann, of Blyth
•• • • • • • • - Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth •• • • 5
Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby .• •• •• 5
Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. •• 3
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. •• 9
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5
Schooner Rose, of Lynn 3
Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11
Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough •• •• •• 7
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6
Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .• • . 7
Brig Lovely Neily, of Seaham .• 6
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford ..
Schooner Prospect, of Berwick `,;
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives
• • • • 3
' Fishing-boo*

A Ffshing-boat of Whitburn
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth
Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portnladoo
Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris . 2
Schooner William, of Mo,:avambe . 5
Smack Gipsy, of Newry
Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. 4
Brig New DrapG, of Whitehaven .. • . .. 8
Schooner of Liverpool .. •• 5
Lugger Ntnrod, of Castletown
Brig Providence, of Shields .. .. • • • . 8
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. .. 4
Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. 19
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. • • .. 10
Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide .. 2
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna .. • • 8
French Brig La Jenne Marie Therese
.. 6
Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough • • • 5
Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater
Ship Danube, of Belfast • •
Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. 4
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4
Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. 8
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) . • .. 1
Schooner Burrell, of Penzance (Saved vessel and
crew) . . 4
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8
Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and
crew) • • • • •• •• •• •• •• 6
Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. 1
Barque Peace, of London 2
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft 11
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew
of four hands) .. .. 4
Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. 10
Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. • . .. 7
Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen 11
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
coast, saved one man .• • . .. 1
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. • • .. 6
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. • .. 5
•
Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland . 5
Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth ... • . 6
Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. ..
Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin ..
.. 5
Brig Content, of Sunderland
Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan .. . • • • S
Gailiot Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. .. • 5

Total
For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £1,893 as rewards to the crews of the Lifeboats. It has
also granted rewards amounting to £515 10s. for saving 173
shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak-
ing a total of 871 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last two years,
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society,
and other means, since its formation, is upwards of 12,2(0;
for whit'n services 82 Gold Medals, 704 Silver Medals, and
;£15,2:;0 in cash have been granted as rewards. The Institu-
tio'n has also expended £57,200 on Life-boat Establishments.
The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts
atow being made by the Society to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
the Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man-
agement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
Efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated.
The Committee gratefulty acknowledge the following con
tributions

X s. d
Tier Majesty the Queen .. annual 50 0 0
Clark, Mrs. .. annual 210 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. annual 1 1 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. don. 25 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
G W., Esq., Sherborne Castle .. annual 5 0 0
!laic, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. 2d don. 25 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
Lambton, Messrs. W. 11. & Co., Bankers don. 21 0 0
Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0
- Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. . • •• .. don. 15 15 0
Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. anneal 5 0 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. annual 30 0
Stirling., Cot Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Donations and Annual Su'lcriptions will be thankfully re-
reived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 78, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
CO., 59, Strand ; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
aames's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United
Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at
the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolph', Lon-
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Among the manias to which the human race is
liable, that of book collecting holds a prominent
place; and if it cannot always pretend to a high
degree of usefulness, it is at least comparatively
harmless. Among collectors generally aesthetics
are at a discount. the rarity of a thing, not its
beauty, is with them the test of its value. The dif-
ference in appreciative power between a collector of
criminals' relicsi of snuff-boxes, or of prints, would
be, we fear, inlinitessimal. And it is pretty clear
from Mr. Burton's amusing revelations of the mys-
teries of his craft, that literary merit is, generally,
the very last quality that causes it to bring a high
price in the market. Thus book collectors must by
no means be confounded with scholars, though they
may number scholars in their ranks; they consist
rather of men with means, leisure, and largely-de-
veloped organs of acquisitiveness, whose energies
have been directed into this particular channel ;
and, once commenced, the practice would seem to
be like that of gambling, beyond the reach of
remedy. Treating his subject systematically, Mr.
Burton divides it into four parts ; the first discuss-
ing the " nature" of the book-hunter, the second his
" functions," the third his " club," and the fourth
" book-olub literature," these being again elabo-
rately subdivided. Thus, under the head of
" Mighty Book-hunters," he gives us clever
sketches of some of the Tritons of the race ; and
under that of " Classification," some of the points
upon which collectors lavish their regard, are ex-
plained to us thus :—" Some collectors may be styled
Rabricists,being nfluenced by a sacred rage for books
having the contents and marginal references printed
in red ink. Some "go at" flowered capitals, others
at "broad margins;" again,"collectors there have been,
not unimportant for number and zeal, whose mis-
sion it is to purchase books marked by peculiar
mistakes or errors of the press. The celebrated
Elzevir Cesar,' of 1635, is known by this, that the
number of the 149th page is misprinted 153." To
collectors of this class an accident which occurred
to the recent work known as The Men of the lime,
is a godsend. It sometimes happens in a printing
office that some of the types, perhaps a printed line
or two, fall oat of "the forme." Those in whose
hands the accident occurs generally try to put
things to rights as well as they can, and may be
very successful in restoring appearances with the
most deplorable results to the sense. It happened
thus in the instance referred to. A few lines drop-
ping out of the " Life of Robert Owen," the paral-
lelogram communist, were hustled, as the nearest
place of refuge, into the biography of his closest
alphabetical neighbour—" Oxford, Bishop of." The
consequence is, that the article begins as follows :
" Oyford, The Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce,
Bishop of, was born in 1805. A more kind-hearted and
truly benevolent man does not exist. A sceptic as regards
religious revelation, he is nevertheless an out-and-out be-
liever in spirit movements."

Whenever this blunder was discovered, the leaf
was cancelled : but a few copies of the book had
got into circulation, which some day or other may
be very valuable. Diverging then to book sales, the
writer mentions some of the most memorable, among
which that of the Duke of Roxburghe takes the lead.
It lasted two and forty days, the books comprising
ten thousand lots, and being all of rarity and value;
but the great bone of contention was the Venetian
Boccaccio which the Duke's father had bought for
£lOO. The competitors on this occasion were the
Marquis of Blandford and Earl Spencer, and after
a " spirited competition" it was secured by the
former for £2,260. The largest sale, however, on
record, was that of Mr. Heber's collection ; the fol-
lowing will give some idea of its extent. " Some
years ago," says the writer in the Gentleman's
Magazine, "he built a new library at his house at
Hodnet, which is said to be full. His residence at
Pimlico, where he died, is filled, like Magliabechi's
at Florence, with books, from the top to the bottom
—every chair, every table,' every passage contain-
ing piles of erudition. He bad another house in
York-street, leading to Great James-street, West-
minster, laden from the ground-floor to the garret
with curious books. He had a library in the High-
street, Oxford, an immense library at Paris, another
at Antwerp, another at Brussels, another at Ghent,
and at other places in the Low Countries and in
Germany." Surely the lust of accumulation could
no further go! But one of the most amusing sec-
tions of the book is that called " The Gleaner and
his Harvest," which turns on the strange titles and
stranger contents by which some works are cha-
racterised. Those by natives of the Emerald Isle
furnish some good specimens, thus—" The Irish
Statute-book" opens characteristically 'with " An
act that the King's Officers may travel by sea
from one place to another within the land of Ire-
land." And further on we have a whole series of
acts, with a conjunction of epithets in their titles
which at the present day sounds rather startling,
" for the better suppressing Tories, Robbers, and
Rapparees, and for preventing robberies, burglaries
and other heinous crimes." A curious fact con-
nected with books is their comparative non-inflam-
mability. "In the days when heretical books were
burned, it was necessary to place them on large
wooden stages, and after all the pains taken to de-
molish them, considerable readable masses were
sometimes found in the embers; whence it was sup-
posed that the devil, conversant in fire and its
effects, gave them his special protection. In the
end it was found easier and cheaper to burn the .
heretics themselves than their books." Famous
librarians are then mentioned, and the origin and
function of book clubs commented on. A discussion
on "Early Northern Saints and their Miracles,"
succeeds, and the volume concludes with a few
words on Ancient Sculptured Stones. The ground
covered by the author is thus tolerably extensive.
Few topics directly or indirectly connected with
books escape his notice. His handling is light
and agreeable, and he has produced a very readable
volume.

Vie Channtngs. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 3 vols.
Bentley.
This is, upon the whole, an excellent novel, reli-
gious in tone, and a reprint (with slight variations)
from the pages of the " Quiver." " The Theme," a
very old one, is of the trials and triumphs of virtue,
and the key to the work is contained in the verse
with which the last chapter concludes—" I have been
young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their
bread." Thus the doctrine inculcated, that of material
reward of virtue, is more akin to the teaching of the
Old Testament than of the New, and is scarcely
borne out by the experience of life. That virtue
deserves (and gets) a reward, is true ; but it does
not often consist in " fourteen thousand sheep, and
six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she asses," as in Job's case, or in
marrying the idol of one's heart, finding a long lost
parent, and being declared rightful heir to a large
estate, as in that of the hero of a Victoria melo-
drama. Virtue must be loved for itself. In Tenny-
son's words—

" To live by law,
Acting the law we live by without fear;
And, because right is right, to follow right,
Wore wisdom in the scorn of consequence."
The true reading of the matter is contained in the
old adage, " Virtue is Its own reward." If other
rewards are added to it well and good, but it ought
not to be made the pretext for expecting them.
Consider Shakspere's handling of the subject. Vir-
tue, with him (as in life) often meets no better fate
than vice, whilst mediocrity steps in and gains the
prize. The noble Othello, the divine Desdemona,
and the execrable lago are alike cut off, whilst the
careless Cassio is ma de Governor of Cyprus. Ham-
let dies like the caitiff King, whilst to the young
Fortinbras falls the crown of Denmark. The end
of Cordelia is untimely, as that of Goneril and
Albany, in England, reigns supreme. True, Shaks-
pere's motive is never paraded on the surface. He
was a consummate artist, not a preacher. Yet
never do we meet with aught in him to shake our
faith in good, or cause us to rejoice in evil. Virtue
and innocence with him aro always fresh, always
we feel that
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and brighter
world, where weeping shall be no more, neither
shall the voice of lamentation be heard, " where the
wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary
shall have rest." A world which the heathen saw
faintly, and afar off, in their land of Lotos eaters,
and shadowy Elysian fields—one to which the
struggle with the powers of evil shall not reach—
where no bitter frost shall nip goodness in the bud,
but in which beauty, order, purity, and harmony
shall reign undisturbed for ever. But if, as we
think, the authoress takes a somewhat superficial
view of existence. If she rather implies that we
must be bribed to be good, that we want sugar after
the bitter draught, and insists somewhat
strongly in special providences in favour of the de-
serving. This will in no way damage the popu-
larity of her work. People nowadays, though they
like "sensation," can't bear their feelings harrowed
beyond a certain point. Woe, with them, if too
real, loses its luxury. At the right time the deli-
verer, whether errant knight or Jack Tar, must
arise, the distressed damsel MUSt, be rescued from

By no means favourable to the Broad Church
Party, this number opens with a severe rebuke to
Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, for the views ex-
pressed by him in his recent work, " St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans ; newly
.translated and ex-
plained from a missionary point of view." The
writer styles him a " most rash and confused
thinker," but ho makes Messrs. Maurice and
Kingsley row in the same boat, and raps Tenny-
son's knuckles after this fashion :

THEOLOGY OF TENNYSON.
We were willing to hope that the bishop had misun-
derstood the Poet Laureate, or made an unfair use of his
words. But on tut ning over the volume again, we find
what fully justifies his quotation. How can it be suffi-
ciently regretted that so fine a work as " In Memoriam"
should be used as a vehicle for the promulgation of anti-
Christian opinion? The refinement of feeling, the strength
of affection, the felicity of delineation, the purity of diction,
the subtlety of thought, the elevation of sentiment, which
we recognise with so much pleasure on a renewed exami-
nation, only lead us to indulge a deep sorrow at the author's
ignorance or perversion of evangelical truth. Air. Tenny-
son invokes the Son of God, and contradicts him on the
same dedicatory page. He yearns after " the Christ that is
to be," and virtually ignores " Him that liveth, and was
dead, and is alive for evermore." But if He has indeed
overcome the sharpness of death, and opened the king-
dom of heaven to all believers, why these complaints about
the darkness and uncertainty of the future ? What need
is there to fall upon the great worlds altar stairs,—
"That slope through darkness up to God,"
,a hen our Saviour has said, " I am the light of the world
he that followeth Ale shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life." If He has pronounced a special
blessing on " those who have not seen and yet have be-
lieved," why complain that
"We have but faith, we cannot know,
For knowledge is of things we Pee ?"

This faith that teaches nothing, and leaves its votaries as
ignorant and as much perplexed as the heathen, is certainly
not the faith of God's elect ;" and if we are to take the
Laureate's confessions as the praetioat embodiment of the
teaching of Dr. Colenso and Mr. Maurice, it is very plainly
seen that this "other Gospel is not another," but, as said
above, no good news at all. Instead of walking in the
light, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, its votaries
are infants "crying in the night," and ' for a light," " and
with no language but a cry." Instead of having a hope
entering within the veil, sure and steadfast, as an anchor
of the soul, they ask, " What hope of answer or redress
behind the veil ?" and cry out in vain to their deceased
friends to tell them something. They "faintly trust,"
even to the realisation of their own expectations. Where
the true Gospel provides certainty, they aro unable to rise
beyond the vaguest and most ill-defined expectations. They
" trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill ;" but
beyond this they cannot rise.
"Behold, we know not anything,
I can but trust that good shall fall;
At last—far off—at last to all,
And every winter change to spring."
And is this the most accomplished poet of the nineteenth
century in Christian England ? Have the ages brought us
nothing better than this? Do Tennyson maundering, and
Byron scoffing, and Maurice arguing, and Colenso ex-
pounding, all meet at a point ? Is the consummation of all
our labours a possibility of one day "sitting down with"
Lucifer "in the kingdom of God ?" Truly the Laureate
has "groped," and gathered "dust and chaff," to good
purpose at last.
The article on " Modern Sacred Art in England,"
glorifies the Pre-Raphalites and highly eulogises
their apostle, Ruskin. In " High Church Litera-
ture for the People," we find a very just condemna-
tion of the bad habit to which religious novelists are
addicted of twisting historical facts and distorting
characters to serve some special end. But among
the most generally interesting articles are those on
" Stephen Grellet, the Quaker Evangelist," and on
0 The Patriarch Nikon." The character of Grellet
is thus described—