The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-30 00:00:00

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NORTHAMPTON RACES.
(THIS DAY.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Althorp Park Stakes.

Sister to Arkwright
Filly by Cotherstone, out of lialmia 2

N ins

Won by a head.

Northamptonshire Cup Stakes.

Bellenden
Fergus ..

.. 1

Dacia

Won in a canter.

LLorn's.—A general meeting of the members of
Lloyd's was held yesterday, Mr. G. R. Robinson, M.P.,
in the chair, for the purpose of receiving the half-yearly
report of the committee; after which the following votes
were unanimously passed:-51. to the widow of John
M`Donald, who lost his life in attempting to rescue the
crew of the Pearl of Nairn, wrecked at Banff in a gale
on the 17th of November last; 201, being 101 each, to
the widows of two fishermen (leaving families) who lost
their lives in the attempt to save the crew of the Llan
Rumney, of Hull, wrecked on Ship Ledge, Isle of
Wight, on the 30th of December last; 51. to a surviving
fisherman who accompanied them, and 101. to Lieutenant
Bulley's crew and the people who assisted in launching
the boat employed on that occasion; 31. 3s. to Robert
Williamson, fisherman, as a reward for his meritorious
exertions in assisting to save the crew of the Britannia,
of Ardrossan, wrecked near Thurso, on the 22d of August
last. Mr. Robinson, in alluding to the vote of 101. to the
boat's crew of Lieutenant Bulley, called attention to the
gallant and meritorious services of that officer, not only
in the case of the Llan Rumney, but also on several
other occasions, by which he had been enabled to says
no less than 48 persons from drowning, in consequence
of the wreck of their vessels. He regretted, that as
Lloyd's had on a former occasion presented Lieutenant
Bulley with the honorary silver medal, they could not,
other than verbally, further evince their sentiments in his
favours but he hoped that his gallant conduct would be
remembered by the Admiralty. The following is a
statement of the services of Lieutenant J. Bulley, and
his boat's crew of the Coast Guard station at Atherfield,
Isle of Wight, in rescuing the crew of the barque Llan
Rumney, of Hull, 14 in number (including one fisher-
man), which ran on a very dangerous reef of rocks
called Ship's Ledge, near Brixton, Isle of Wight:—
On the morning of the 30th day of December last,
during a fresh gale, and dark thick rainy weather,
Lieutenant Bulley with his men, eight in number,
proceeded in haste to the spot, taking Domett's
rockets. From the violence of the surf and being nearly
high water, no boat could be launched, a distance of
about three miles, and at daylight fired the first rocket,
which did not reach by nearly 50 yards; a second was
fired with the same result, the ship being too far off—
about three cables' length or more. Lieutenant Bulley
took his crew back to the station, launched his boat
through a heavy surf, under shelter of the Atherfield
Rocks. A fisherman's boat, large ;and buoyant, with
three old and experienced fishermen, preceded him about
twenty minutes, went directly alongside the stranded
vessel, and was immediately turned end over by the
violence of the sea, and two poor men drowned, named
William Wearn, leaving a wife ali five children de-
pending, and John Heal, leaving a wire and five small
children also depending. The third man was hauled
on board the ship. Lieutenant Bulley (after endeavour-
ing to find the poor lost fishermen) pulled near the ship,
but was only enabled to rescue five men, being driven
from the vessel through the violence of the surf ; those
he safely landed, and proceeded a second time, and pro-
videntially succeeded in taking off the remainder of the
crew, including the captain and the fisherman.
EMBLEM FOR IRELAND. —Different nations have
their different representatives, derived from the animal
creation. There is the British Lion, the Austrian_Eagle•
the Gallic Cock. The emblem of Ireland ought to be
the Ilysena, the creature—according to Wombwell 's
natural history—" wot kindness cannot conciliate, nor
hunger tame."—Punch,