The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-03 00:00:00

ROYAL .NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION:

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelpbi —Thomas Baring,
Esq., M.P., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also
present—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., Sir Ed-
ward Perrott, Bart., Rear-Admiral Sir W. H.
Hall, K.C.8., W. Harton, Esq., Admiral ➢lHardy,
Captain De St. Croix, John Griffith; Esq., Eugene
F. Noel, Esq., Captain Ward, R.N., and Richard
Lewis, Esq.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, the silver medal of the institution and a
copy of the vote inscribed on vellum were ordered
to be presented to Captain James Elyard, of the
2d Royal Surrey Militia, in testimony of his gal-
lant services in being one of the first to volunteer
to go off in the Broadstairs lifeboat, when she re-
cently saved 13 of the crew of the ship Frank Shaw,
of North Shields, which was wrecked on the Good-
win Sands during a very heavy northerly gale and
in a high sea ; the crew of the lifeboat had already
received for their gallant services on the occasion a
reward from the institution which, with local sub-
scriptions, had amounted to about £3 10s. each
man, or about £5O altogether. 10 15s. were also
voted to pay the expenses of the Sister's Memorial
lifeboat at Llandudno, in going out in a heavy gale
from NNW, and saving the crew of five men of the
Dutch brigantine Catharina, which was totally
wrecked in Llandudno Bay ; when the vessel's signal
of distress was observed the lifeboat was promptly
manned and launched, and was alongside the wreck
in half an hour ; £l4 14s. were likewise granted for
the service of the Palling lifeboat, the Parsee, in
rescuing the crew of six men from the wrecked brig
Waternaillock, of Sunderland, during a N.N.W. gale;
£ll 15s. to the Donna Nook lifeboat, North Briton,
for bringing ashore the crew of nine men of the
barque Hannah, of Drobak, Norway, which during
a gale had stranded at Grainthorp Haven ; and £22
11s. to defray the expenses of the Burton-on-Trent
lifeboat at Redcar, in saving six out of eight of the
crew of the brig Dawson, of Newcastle, which went
on the Long Skar Rocks in a high sea. The two
other poor fellows had endeavoured to reach the
shore in the ship's boat before the arrival of the
lifeboat, and had lost their lives in the attempt.
A reward of £6 10s. was also voted to the crew of
the Barmouth lifeboat Ellen, for assisting safely
ashore the crew of seventeen men of the barque
Medoc, of Bordeaux, which struck on St. Patrick's
Causeway, in a strong wind and heavy sea, and
was ultimately totally lost; £lO 2s. 6d. were like-
wise given to defray the expenses of the lifeboat
City of Manchester, stationed in Carmarthen Bap
for assisting to save the crew of eight men of the
brigantine St. Areta, of Santander, which was
wrecked on the Langhorne Sands in very rough
weather; £25 were also granted for the service of
the Caister large lifeboat, the Birmingham, on
Wednesday, in saving, under very perilous circum-
stances the crew of fourteen men from a portion of
the wreck of the barque Elsinore, of Elsinore. The
usual reward was also ordered to be given to the
crew of the Redcar lifeboat., Burton-on-Trent, for
rescuing yesterday morning, the crew of three men
of the wrecked sloop Frances Mary, Phillip, of In.
verkeithiug. Re wards to the amount of £126
were also granted to the crew s of the lifeboats
at Margate, Southport, Holyhead, Aberdovey,
Whitehaven, Theddlethorpe, Newhaven, Southport,
Peterhead, Rhyl, Girvan, Lossiemouth, Wexford,
and Selsey, for going out on service during the gales
of the past mouth. Various rewards were also
granted to the crews of shore boats for saving life
from wrecks on our coasts. Payments amounting to
upwards of £4,000 were also ordered to be made on
various lifeboat establishments, making a total of up-
wards of £18,447 expended by the institution on its
215 lifeboat stations during the 11 months of the
present year. It had also during the same period
contributed to the rescue of 1,033 lives from various
wrecks. Altogether the Lifeboat Society had con-
tributed since its establishment to the saving of
18,882 lives from shipwreck. It is hoped that the
British public will continue to strengthen the
hands of the committee at this stormy period,
when its lifeboats are engaged day and night in
saving life from wrecks. Letters were read from
the Marquis of IVestruinster and the Earl of Derby,
expressing their high appreciation of the sym-
pathy of the institution with themselves and
their families on the occasion of their late sad
and irreparable bereavement. Peter Reid, Esq., of
Threadneedle-street, had munificently presented one
thousand guineas to the society to defray the cost
of the Ardrossan lifeboat establishment. He had
ou a former occasion given the institution the
Palmerston lifeboat, at Cullercoats. The Earl of
Strafford, P.C., had expressed his intention to
present to it a third lifeboat. Mrs. Boetefeur, of
Bayswater, and Mrs. Hounsfield, of Sheffield, had
also each decided to defray the expenses of a life-
boat station. The Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, M. U., had sent a contribution of £5O
towards the support of their lifeboat at Clee-
thorpes, on the coast of Lincolnshire. An addi-
tional £46 had also been received through B. L.
Judkins, Esq., towards the support of the Mark-
lane lifeboat at Great Yarmouth. The trustees of
the late Thomas Boys, Esq., of Brighton, had also
sent a further donation of £2OO ; and the late
Robert Fox, Esq., of Falconhurst, had left the in-
stitution a legacy of £100; and the late Benjamin
Noton, Esq., of Chichester, one of £2O, both free
of duty. A new lifeboat had been sent by the in-
stitution to Wells, Norfolk, the Great Eastern Rail-
way Company kindly giving the boat a free con-
veyance over their line. A grand demonstration
had taken place on the inauguration of the lifeboat
station on the 12th ult. New lifeboat establish-
ments were also ordered to be organised at Troon,
Ardrossan, and Ballantrae, in Scotland. Reports
were read from the inspector and the assistant in-
spector of lifeboats on their recent visit to different
lifeboat stations.
The proceedings then terminated.

COURT OF SESSION, EDINBURGII.—At a meeting
of the Faculty of Advocates, held on Wednesday, a reso-
lution was adopted to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Faculty, continued delay in filling up the vacancy on the
bench, caused by the death of Lord Manor, is not consis-
tent with the due and efficient administration of justice.
On Wednesday next a detachment of non-com-
missioned officers and men belonging to the Royal
Artillery will leave 'Woolwich for Portsmouth, to
embark at the dockyard for conveyance to Malta
and Gibraltar. The draught, which will be under
the command of Second Captain T. C. Price, Royal
Artillery, will comprise 63 non-commissioned officers
and men, and two women, for Malta, to fill up
vacancies iu the 10th Brigade, and one officer, three
men, two women, and three children for Gibraltar,
to join the 15th Brigade. In addition to the above,
three men belonging to the Royal Malta Felted)le
Artillery will lea',e Woolwich at the same time for
Malta.

Capt. V. D. Majendie, Royal Artillery, Assist.-
Supt. Royal Laboratory, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich,
took over the temporary superintendence of the
department yesterday, vacant by the resignation of
Col. E. M. Boxer, F.R.S., Royal Artillery.

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