The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-09 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT ,S 1 A TIUNS.

General Bosco sailed from Marseilles, three days
ago, in the Quirinal, for Civita Vecchia, whence he is to
proceed by land to join the King of Naples at Gaeta.
A TRAIN ON FIRE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—Mr. J. B. Owen, the secretary of the Eastern
Counties Railway, forwards us the following notice of an
alarming accident which occurred on that line on Tuesday :
—" An occurrence of an alarming description, though
happily unattended with personal injury, took place on
this railway yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon. A composite
carriage in the 10.57 a.m. London via Cambridge down
train caught fire on the roof, when within about six miles
of the Brandon station. Something unusual was observed
by the Lakenheath station-master as the train passed that
station, and he at once telegraphed to Brandon, where, on
arrival of the train, immediate assistance was afforded and
the fire extinguished. Se%eral of the passengers in the
carriage were much alarmed, but all were, I am happy to
say, able to prosecute their journey by the same train, after
an interval of about a quarter of an hour. An investigation
of the circumstance has been made, from which there seems
to be no doubt that the fire originated in the spontaneous
combustion of some of the articles in the passengers' lug-
gage on the roof of the carriage ; a small oil lamp, some
cotton shirts, and a fusee-box about four inches long, being
among the damaged articles found in the debris."
A MURDER CLEAN WASTED —The San Francisco
correspondent of the New York, Times, writing in Septem-
ber last, describes with a keen professional feeling the in-
jurious restrictions placed on the press in that city :—" To-
day we are to hang a man, but probably not one in a hun-
dred of our citizens know it. There bas not a reporter been
to see him since he was sentenced. Nobody has asked
whether he has made a confession. Having requested that
none but the priest and the Sisters of Mercy be permitted
to visit him, his request has been complied with. We don't
swirk up our sensations, you perceive, artistically. You
remslmber we let off the same ' Japs' out of whom you
sqeezod so much good reading, with oily two or three din-
ners, a law rides, and the dedication of 8 or 10 columns each
in our newspapers to their doings. This Whitford, pro-
perly managed, might have been made quite a criminal
hero. He os,sed a street contractor a few dollars, and, not
wishing to pay him, called him out of his house one dar.k
night and shot h im. The jury found him guilty; the pri-
soner made a sha rP t an
brisk speech for his life ; the judge
sentenced him • no body asked pardon for him.
extra paper will be sCld on his account. . n
can
THE ENGLISII IN RUSSIA.—An Englishora,:k vs
scarcely form an idea of the petty annoyancteesrst
ur: He
foreigner is subjected on .las arrival at St. Pde is
circumstantial
is first required to give in writing a long!,
Ho hasu then to under"
declaration on a variety of subjects.
go a personal examination at k a single false step,
and woe be to him if he falter or ins.
ast,nt with his written,
or say anything that seems iiseVoil. If his examination
and perhaps forgotten declare
1; 1, he will receive a pass -
the bureali, of the secret police ;
prove satisfactory to the peivicsi
indeed, Northern
if
yPeouwr wisheds , i s
T precious passport system,
port at the Foreign-office.
ed
to
now
wri happilyabsuarbdolliesnhgedthob
'the principl f
burlesque on e o ss-
to invent a practical plan
cannot legally Cuter a town, or sleep
of surveillance. You .
ports, you could not do better than a dopt the Russian
at an inn, or even
.spend a night at a icxiend's house, with-
yinthneuostlet:
~,,,t lou cannot change y our residence even if
out a pasor-: - •
were going to live nextdoor, without first keadiug
you
passport to the police-office,—Once (4 ,creek.
Sour

At this period of the year, when wrecks are unhappily of
frequent occurrence on our coast, it is desirable to give a
list of the lifeboat stations of the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution. They are as follows :
ENGLAND—Northumberland—Berwick-on-Tweed, North
Sut,derland, Boulmer, Alnmouth, llauxley, Newbiggin,
Cullercoats. Durham—Whitburn. Seaton Carew. York-
shire—Middlesborough, Rodear, Saltburn, Filey, Bridling-
ton, Hornsea. Norfolk—Cromer, Mundeeley, Bacton,
Winterton, Caister, Yarmouth (No. 1), ditto (No.
2). Suffolk—Lowestoft, Paketield, Southwold, Thorpeness
(No. 1), Thorpeness (No. 2), Aldborough. Kent—Mar-
gate, Walmer, Dover, Dungeness. Sussex—Camber, Rye,
Hastings, Eastbourne, Newhaven, Brighton. Isle of
Wight—Grange, Brook. Dorset—Lyme Regis. South
Devon Exmouth, Teignmouth. Cornwall Fowey,
Lizard, Penzance, Sennen Cove, Newquay, Padstow, Bude
Haven. North Devon—Appledore (No. 1), ditto (No. 2),
Braunton. Lancashire—Lytham, Southport, Fleetwood.
Cumberland—Silloth. Isle of Man—Castletown.

WALES.—Glamorganshire—Porthcawl. Cannarthen-
shire—Llanolly, Carmarthen Bay. Pembrokeshire—Tenby,
Fishguard. Cardiganshire—Cardigan. Merionethshire—
Aberdovey, Barmcuth. Carnarvonshire—Portmadoc. An-
glesey—Llanddwyn, Ithoscolyn, Holyhead, Cemlyn, Moel-
fre, Penmen. Flintshire,Rhyl (tubular).
SCOTLAND.—Ayrshire--Ayr. Caithness-eh ire, Thurso.
Banffshire—Buckie, Banff. Elginshire Lossiernouth.
Aberdeenshire--Fraserburgh. Fifeshire— St. Andrews.
Haddingtonshire—North Berwick.
IRELAND. Down uroornsport, Tyrella, Newcastle.
Louth—Dundalk, Drogheda. Dublin—Skerries. Wick-
low, Wicklow, Arklow. Wexford Cahore, Wexford
(No. 1), Rosslare Fort (2), Carnsore. Waterford, Tramore,
Dungarvan, Ardmore. Cork Ycughall, Ballycotton.
Mayo—Westport.
Lifeboat stations are al,o being formed by the society at
Selsey Bill, near Portsmouth ; St. Ives, on the Cornwall
coast; Orme's Head, near Liverpool; Penarth, on the
Glamorganshire coast ; and at Portrush, on the n irth coast
of Ireland. It is also proposed to form lifeboat establish-
, raents in Cantyre, and at Irvine, on the west coast of Scot-
land.
The following are extracts from the lifeboat rules cf
management :—" Each lifeboat to have a coxswain supes in••
tendent, with a fixed annual salary of £B. The lifeboat to be
regularly taken afloat for exercise once every quarter, fully
manned and equipped, so that the crew may be familiar
with her properties and proper management. On every oc-
casion of exercise, the men are paid ss. each in stormy wea-
ther or a rough sea, and 3s. each in fine weather and smooth
water ; and on every occasion of going off to a wreck to save
life, each of the crew receives 10s. by day and £1 by night,
and equal shares of any local subscriptions which may be
raised to reward any special act of gallantry or exertion.
The crew are provided with lifebelts. The coxswain is re-
quired to keep a list of all the lifeboat stores, which are to
be examined once a quarter, in order to their being repaired
or replaced, if in the least degree in a doubtful condition.
The lifeboat to be kept on her carriage, in the boat-house,
with all her gear in her ready for use, except articles which
require to be secured from damp. Signals are agreed upon
for calling the lifeboats' crews together; and immediately
on intimation of a wreck, or vessel in distress, the coxswain
is to muster his crew, launch his boat, and proceed to her
assistance. The local committee to snake quarterly inspec-
tion, and report to the institution as to the behaviour of the
boat during exercise, pointing out any defect that may
bo remedied, and offering any suggestion that may conduce
to the efficiency of the service."
By these arrangements the institution hopes to have effi-
cient lifeboat establishments all round the coasts of the
United Kingdom. To effectually attain the objects of the
institution it will be manifest that a considerable expense
must be incurred ; amounting, in fact, from £3OO to £4OO on
the first formation of a lifeboat station, and to an average of
£4O annually on the future maintenance of each establish-
ment. The number of lives saved by the lifeboats of the
society and other means since its formation is 11,821 ; for
which services 82 gold medals, 665 silver medals, and
£13,000 in cash have been paid in rewards. The institu-
tion has also expended £38,926 on lifeboats, boat transport-
ing carriages, and boathouses. Without, therefore, the
pecuniary assistance, and the hearty general co-operation
of the community at large, the objects of the society cannot
be carried out.

THE LATE LATE LORD DUNDONALD.— The Brit_isn, ,
Star, the Greek newspaper recently established ineL,r_ol4l.
puts its columns into mourning for the death of th ru
hellene," Lord Dundonald, and devotes a leading
enniemporary
his services in the liberation of Greece. Our,vi .
the deepest
article to
says :—" The whole Greek race mpurns tu
grief for Lord Cochrane, because with him:
but one of the few
one of its old defenders and benefactors it lost not only
so necessary to us
surviving English Philhellenes who are .
• CURIStanCOS , but little Greece
now in our present difficult cir
ndition to give to the sacred
not being now-a-days in
shadow of the gallant man
a eoether honours than its prayers
e places him in the pages of
'
to the Almighty for his P? e
pslraentiss, mavrocordatos, Botsarises,
history with the Y
ns,
Codringtons, and its other de-
Byroh Movromiehalis, is portrait with a simple branch of
fenders, and adorns
laurel." E
ARMSTRONG GUN.—Novir that
THE COST OF TI;
Armstrong gun of small calibre has been
use against the
the success of
placed thebeyonddoubt by its destructive
Chinese forts, it may be well to estimate the cost of then
•., The present is an opportune moment for this retrw-
wouP°.—n'snineh as it is only when its success is uppermost
Pc'et 1 • ds that the price we have paid for this gun will
.11 our nun
bear mentioning. It will ha recollected that £2,000,000
sterling have been voted by Parliament for the manufac-
ture of Armstrong' guns, and these £2,000,000 will all be
expended by the end of the current financial year. How
many guns have we yet obtained for this immense sum of
money? We are able to answer this question in detail from
information which is, we believe, perfectly reliable. There
had been made at 'Woolwich and Elswick together, up to
last week, the follo wing Armstrong guns :—Of 100-pounders
20 in number, of 40-pounders (strengthened) 25 in num-
ber, 25-pounders 36, 25 pounder boat guns 16 ; 12-pounders,
weighing Bcwt., 300 ; 12 pounders, weighing 6ewt., 16 ;
and 6-pounders
B—in all 401, of wh eh, it will be observed,
nearly the whole are small field pieces, weighing only Bcwt.
each. Now, if of the £2,000,000 granted by Parliament we
assume that only £1,500,000 are yet spent, and further
assume that of this £500,000 has been expended upon the
plant at Woolwich and Elswick, thus leaving but £1,000,000
to be accounted for as the cost of the guns already made,
we then find that every Armstrong gun yet manufactured
has cost the country no less than the arsazing sum of
£2,000. Unfortunately, too, the large guns have never my of
stood the tests required by the service successfully.
rUg_c_'
the present moment
gunt aval authorities refuse tor
iiseuiTn'
a single Armstrong above the 25-pounder fo 0 +
her Najestylillaips.-11cchgnics' Magazine.