The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPTVRECK.

Yes. eirlay a meeting of the Royal 7:Tiede:ell Life
best Insatetion was lit ld at its hous.„ John-str. et,
Adelphi—Thoures Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., in the
chair. There were also present--Admiral Sir T.
Herbert, K.C.8., Admiral Cator, Lord Henry
Cholmondeley, Admiral Saumarez, K.L., Admiral
Bullock, Admiral M'Hardy, Alexander Boetefeur,
Esq., Captain Lambert Perrott, W. H. Harton,
Esq., Montague Gore, Esq., Captain W. R. Hall,
R. N., C. 8., F. R. S., Captain Heaslop, RN. , Ca pt.
Robertson, R. N., surveyor-general to the Board of
Trade, Captain Ryder, R.N., and Captain Ward,
R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the society.
Mr. LEWIS, the secretary, having read the
minutes of the previous meeting,
A reward of 61. 108., in addition to about 201.
collected locally, was voted to the crew of the in-
stitution's lifeboat, stationed at Youghal, in ac-
knowledgment of their gallant services in rescuing,
during a gale of wind, the crew, consisting of four-
teen men, of the Norwegian barque Galatea, which
was wrecked on Youghal bar on the Bth ultimo.
Immediately on observing the perilous position of
the ship two pilotboats and the lifeboat put to sea,
but the two former, after proceeding outside the
harbour, had to return, as no boat except the life-
boat could have lived in such a sea as now broke
over the bar. The vessel all this time was strik-
ing, and every sea rolled over her, and painful
anxiety was depicted on over two thousand specta-
tots, who crowded the cliffs to watch the fate of
the poor crew of the ill-fated vessel. Gallantly
land nobly did the lifeboat now gradually approach
her, though shipping every other breaker, which
was speedily self-ejected. Yet the lives of the poor
sailors on board the vessel were to be saved, and
the Youghal lifeboat-men determined to save them,
or perish in the attempt. Nothing could now equal
the state of suspense and intense anxiety of the
beholders, as every moment the lifeboat disappeared
in the trough of the sea, again to rise on its sum-
mit.
At length they came nearer ; and now it was
that the poor crew crowded on the bowsprit of their
vessel, and beheld the noble fellows struggling for
their deliverance. A rope wes suspended from the
bowsprit, and as each wave drove the lifeboat be-
neath it, one poor fellow was let d awn, and thus
one by one were fourteen lives saved. They
then pulled back to the harbour, where over 2,0u0
of the inhabitants welcomed their townsmen and
the poor fellows who thus escaped a watery grave.
This excellent lifeboat had only a few months
since been stationed at Youghal by the above insti-
tution. She is, like all the New life boats of the
society, on the plan of Mr. James Peake, of Her
Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, and was built by
the Messrs. Forrestt, of Limehouse.
The Tenby life-boat, which belongs to the Na-
tional Life-boat Society, had also on the same day
performed valuable service to a ship in distress off
Caldy Island. She proved to be the barque Bella
Donna, of Bristol, and was seen, when it was blow-
ing hard, to have a signal of distress flying. No
open boat would dare to venture out to her assis-
tance ; but the Tenby life-boat immediately pro-
ceeded out, remained by her some time, and after-
wards piloted her through the channel, The
shipowners sent the life boat's crew 10/. for their
timely and valuable services.
The Lowestoft life-boat, which is in connexion
with the above society, had a few days since rescued
the crew, consisting of six men, of the brig Owsy,
which in a gale of wind went on the Beach-flat,
near the Corton Sands. The ship had bean pre-
viously boarded by a yawl's crew, who, however,
were only too glad to come ashore in the life-boat.
A reward of 41. was likewise grantel to four men
for rescuing, at considerable risk of life, the crew
of a country boat, which foundered off Glinn,
Limerick, during a dark night a few weeks since.
On hearing the cries of the poor fellows the boat
was promptly launched, and at considerable dan-
ger they were save'', the vessel being nearly under
water at the time, and the tide flowing rapidly.

A reward of 21. 10s. was also voted,. to two
women and a man who had launched a boat, mid res-
cued, at some risk of life, a man and a boy who had
been capsized from their boat in the sound which
separates Yell from 'Just, on the coast of Shetland.
The generous and intrepid conduct of the two
women is the more worthy of notice, as they were,
with their aged father, the means of rescuing a por-
tion of a boat's crew last year in the same sound,
when some of the stoutest hearted fishermen were
afraid to venture out, owing to the state of the
weather. For that courageous service they were
presented with the silver medal of the institution,
and 2/. each.
A reward of 1/. 10s. was also voted to three men
for putting off in a boat during blowing weather, and
rescuing the crew of eight men from the French
schooner Topaze, which was wrecked on Pen
Towyn Sands, Carmarthen Bay, on the 9th olt.
A reward of 141. 10s. was likewise voted to the
Arklow lifeboat's crew, for putting off during th 9
gale of wind to the rescue of the crew of a vessel
which was seen on Arklow bank. They had, how-
ever, been previously taken off by a smack which
was cruising about. There was a tremendous sea
running at the time, and no other boat would ven-
ture out ; but the lifebz at, it was said, behaved
nobly, and proved herself equal to any sea. This
lifeboat was only recently sent by the institution
to this station, and she is like all its new clan's of
lifeboats made to self-right if upset.
A reward of 61. 10s. was also granted to the crew
of the institution's lifeboat at Wicklow, for putting
off with a view of rendering assistance to a ship in
distress. _ _

The meeting expressed much sympathy for the
families of the three gentlemen amateurs who had
been unforttinately thrown out of the Southwold
lifeboat and drowned, on S tturday last. The life-
boat on that station does not, Ike the new class of
lifeboats of the institution, posess the important
quality of self righting if upset, the boatmen at
Southwold having rejected a self-righting lifeboat
in favour of their present one. Thu crew of the
lifeboat had, according to the strict rule of the
society, their life-belts on, but the unfortunate de-
ceased had declined to put them on.
The society decided to station a first-class lifeboat
at Fraserburgh, on the north-east coast of Scotland,
a benevolent gentleman having offered to make a
present of the cost of a lifeboat to the institution
for that coast.

A Lew lifeboat had just been sent by the society
to Ardmore; and it was said that it had now 70
lifeboats under its management, to maintain which
in a state of thorough efficiency involved a large
annual outlay.
The yearly accounts of the institution were laid
on the table as audited by the usual paid auditor of
the society, Mr. Begbie, public accountant, from
which it appeared that the liabilities of the institu-
tion for lifeboats, carriages, and boat-houses, were
upwards of 3,0001.
Grants amounting to 201. having been voted in
aid of the Seamen's lifeboats at Sunderland and
Margate, and the annual meeting of the institution
having been fixed to he held at the London Tavern
the week afier next, the proceedings closed.

THE LATE PRINCE OF OCrDE.—The body of the deceased
Prince of Oode has arrived in Paris. It had been placed
in three coffins, one being in zinc, and which was taken
off on its arrival. The bier i 3 an enormous care of ma-
hogany, the weight of which was so great that it required
the united strength of all the servants of the Prince to
lift it from the carriage which brought it to the Hotel
Laffitte. The carriage in which it was conveyed was
drawn by two white horses. One of the rooms on the
ground floor of the hotel was fitted up for its reception,
being hung with crimson cloth, fringed with gold. The
coffin, which is covered with gold brocade, is placed
along the side of the wall, near the door ; perfumes are
burnt in a large copper vessel, and in the middle of the
court a large fire is kept burning. The servants and
attendants of the Prince remained watching during the
night near the coffin. The mortal remains of the Prince
have been accompanied to Paris fey Mohammed Ahmot,
nephew of the deceased, a young man aged 18, of digni-
fied apea,rance, and who was dressed in a magnificent
Eastern costume. The funeral procession to Pere-la-
Chaise takes place at 12 to-morrow. A magnifioent
tneueoleum is to he erected in the Mussulman cemetery
at Pere-la-Chaise, to perpetuate the memory of the late
Queen and of the Prince now deceased.—Galignani.

,
ALDZEIIAN KENNEDY —Mr. Alderman Kennedy has
addre,sed a ciroular to the electors of the ward of Cheat',
resigning his position as the representative of that
ward. Mr. Kennedy takes the opportunity of defeed-
ing his conduct in reference to the Royal British
Beek. After eayieg to the eleotore, " I have not know-
ingly done anything by which I ought to f3rfeit your
&learn," he enter, into an explanation of the circum-
stances under which he rejoined the bank in Nov.,
1854. ,Alderman Kennedy proceeds to state that his
relatives, Mr. Spews and Captain Valiant had joined
the bank before him, and when the former left in
May, 1855, it was more from a desire to leave L• IP
do n and return to Scotland than any acknowledged
apprehension of danger. He had taken the opportu-
nity to state to the general manager the suspicions
wheel) he hid heard surmised and to ask for explanation.
His letter of 1855 wa3 never sent, but delivered per-
sonally. It was carefully read by himself, and such
an answer asked and received, paragraph by paragraph,
as fully removed lis uneasiness. All the cireunislances
referred to in that memorandum which had operated
acknowledges so injuriously against him had eceurred before he re-
joined the bank. They were utterly unknown to him
in their origin, and hie suspicions were not raised by
anything he met in the bank, but by public rumours,'
which he was too ready to believe were ill-founded.
itM Mr. a
sK Kennedy, n
"greatedy, in
error"
attend during the year of his tehrievalty, and
conclusion,when he ackao
mentions, as a proof of his confidence in the bank,
that fifteen days before its stoppage he allowed the
produce of the sale of 3,500/. stock to remain the bank
for three days. He had also induced his nearest and
dearer 1 relatives to becxne depositors, an
c those rela-
tives were among the sufferers,