The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

A liberal legacy of 2001. has been left to this institu-
tion by the late B. Coles, Esq., of Tonbridge-wells,
which is to be made payable after the death of his
widow. The deceased gentleman could hardly have
selected a more deserving charity for the exercise of his
benevolence than this old and valuable society, which is
now !riskily, the most strenuous efforts to provide addi-
tional life-boats on exposed points of the coast, and to
keep in a state of efficiency those already established by
it. As an index of the necessity of such a machinery,
we may state that the average loss of lives on the shores
of the United Kingdom is between six and seven hun-
dred per annum, and that in the year 1854 it was 1,549.
To meet the heavy liabilities on the institution for life-
boats, life-boat-transporting carriages, &c., the com-
mittee are now making an appeal to the public for
assistance, and we trust that it will be liberally re-
sponded to by all classes of society. They "earnestly,
c the attention of the public to the great and extraor-
dinary exertions which the society has recently made to
provide efficient life-boats at various parts of the coasts
of the United Kingdom, including Boulmer, Hauxley,
Southwold, Dover, Dungeness, Teigntnouth, Padstow,
Fishguard, Tenby, Lytham, Drogheda, and the Isle of
Man. To supply these life-boats, together with trans-
porting carriages and boat houses for some of them, has
involved an expenditure of upwards of 2,0001. Other
appeals for aid i❑ the establishment of life beats have
since been received by the committee. The life-boats
of the institution have, within the last few weeks, res-
cued the lives of fifty persons from shipwrecks ; and
during the same period the committee have voted nearly
2001. for meritorious exertions in saving the lives of two
hundred and ninety-one individuals from wrecks. This
important work can only be continued by the aid of a
generous public ; the committee, therefore, venture to
express a c usfident hope that their present appeal to
the nobility, gentry, and the public generally for pecu-
niary assistance, will be met with that. liberality which
is so characteristic of the British people of every class,
as it is evident that the lab Ours of the most zealous in
the cause of humanity can only be useful in proportion
to the amount of funds placed at their disposal."

MARKET NEWS.—(This flay.)

COVENT GARDEN.

The supplies of most articles were tolerably good, and an
average business was transacted, as follows :
FRTIT.—Pine apples, English, 4s to Gs per lb; oolonial
do., Os to Os each ; hot-house grapes, 6s Od to 103 Od per lb ;
foreign ditto, Od to Os ; melons, 2s Od to 3s 6d each;
peaches, 2s Od to Gs ; nectarines, is 6d to 4s per dozen ;
apples, is 6d to 2s 6d per half sieve ; pears, is Od to
3s per dozen ; plums, Os to Os per sieve ; green gages, Os
per punnet; apricots, is 6d to 5s Od per doz.; common plums,
Os Oil to Os Od per sieve ; cherries, Od to Od per poand ;
lemons, 6d to is Od per doe ; oranges, is to Ps per 100 ; fil-
berts, Os to Os per doz, lbs ; cobnuts, 14-3 to Os ; almonds,
Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 8d to 10d per 100 ; figs, Os 9d
to is Gd per doz ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose-
berries, Os Od to Os Od per half sieve ; currants, Os Od to
Os Od per half sieve ; raspberries, Od to Od per pottle.
VEGETABLES.—Greens, is Gd to 3s Od per doz. bunches;
cabbages, 10d to is Gd per dozen; Savoy ditto. is 6d to
2s Od per do. ; brocoli, is 6d to 3s per bundle ; potatoes, 60s
to 105 s per ton ; vegetable marrow, Od to Oa per doz, ; peas,
Os to Os Od per bushel ; French beans, 3s Od to 4s Od per
100 ; turnips, 2d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 5d to 6d per
bunch ; cucumbers, 4s Od to Gs Od each ; garlic, 6d to
Os 8d per pcund ; spinach, 4s Od to 5s Od per sieve ;
old onions, 2s Gd to 4s per bushel ; new ditto, Os to Os per
doz. bunches; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shallots,
Gd to 8d horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley,
4d to Gd per bunch ; celery, Os Pd to is Gd per
bunch ; endive, is Gd to 4s Od per score ; beet, is Od to 2s
per doz. ; parsnips, Os Gd to is Od per dozen ; small
salad, 2d to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, l s 3d to is 9d per
pottle; artichokes, Os to Os Od per half sieve; cabbage lettuces,
01 to Os Od per score ; sorrel, 6d to is per half sieve ;
radishes. is to 1s 3d per dozen hands ; tomatoes, 3s to 4s
per half sieve ; chillies, is to is 6d per 100; Brussels
sprouts, 3s Od to 3s 6d per half sieve; capsicums, is to 2s
nor 100 ; walnuts pickling, 6d to is per 100 ; cauliflowers,
6s to lOs Od per doz. ; rhuburb, is to is Cod per bundle ;
asparagus, 4s to lOs per 100 ; sea kail, is to 3s ; or punnet.