The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-14 00:00:00

PO.RTRUSII LIFEBOAT.

The National Lifeboat Institution sent by steamer
yesterday one of its best single-banked 'lifeboats,
accompanied with a transporting carriage, to
Portrush, on the north coast of Ireland. She pos-
sesses the usual important qualities of the boats of
the institution, of self-righting and self-ejecting
seas shipped. She was built by Messrs. Forrestt,
of Limehouse, under the superintendence of the
surveyor of the society. The boat's transporting-
carriage was built by Mr. Robinson, of Camden-
town. It is admirably adapted for its purpose, and
the boat can thus, in addition to many other ad-
vantages, be made available for a long line of coast.
The cost (X 180) of the lifeboat and her equipments
is the gift of a benevolent Staffordshire lady. A
con,modions and .übstantiesl house has been built
for the reception of the lifeboat, her stores, and
carriage. In fact, there will probably not be a
more complete lifeboat establishment on the Irish
coast than at Portrush. A free conveyance has
readily been granted to the boat and carriage by
the London and Belfast and Londonderry Steam-
packet Companies. Arrangements will forthwith
be made by the local committee for the organisa-
tion of a crew and for the appointment of an effi-
cient coxswain for the boat, who will have the
charge of the station, and who will, every time she
is required, go afloat in her. Captain the Earl of
Antrim, R.N., Laura, Countess of Antrim, Mr. J.
C. Beresford, Capt. ould, R.N., and other gentle-
men; have cordially co-operated with the National
Lifeboat Institution in the establishment of the
Portrush lifeboat, and in obtaining public support
in aid of its cost, which cannot be much less than
£4OO. The National Lifeboat Institution has also
sent recently lifeboats and transporting carriages
to Margate, in Kent ; Thurso, Buckie, and North
Berwick, in Scotland ; and Tyrella, in Ireland. The
institution Las likewise lifeboats and transporting
carriages nearly ready to be sent to Selsey, in
Sussex ; St. Ives, in Cornwall ; Southport, near
Liverpool ; Pennarth and Llandudno, in Wales ;
and Irvine, in Scotland. The society has also life-
boats building for several other places. To meet
the heavy charges on its new lifeboat establish-
ments, and to maintain those already formed in an
efficient state, the support of the public in aid of
the-funds of this important and philanthropic in-
stitution is much needed, the committee having
only recently been compelled to order the sale of
£l,OOO from its small funded capital, the interest
from which is very essential to aid in meeting the
present and 'future heavy charges on its 108 life-
boat establishments.

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INSPECTION OF THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS BY
THE. PRINCE Loins OF HESSE.—Yesterday afternoon
Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt inspected the Royal
Horse Guards in the barrack-square, Spital, near Windsor.
His Serene Highness arrived at the barracks shortly before
one o'clock on horseback, attended by Lord Charles Fit zßoy
and Baron von Wcsterweller, and was received by a royal
salute. The prince paraded the regiment, and afterwards
inspected the riding-school, and expressed himself to Col.
H. S. Baillie, the officer in command,
highly gratified with
everything he had witnessed,