The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

course of his long Indian experience. The Princes
who signed the address, of course, were not pre-
sent, but they were represented by an agent, and
every care had been taken that their letter should
be put before the ex-Governor in a gratifying and
arpropriate form. It was read, and received very
warmly, and evidently gave peculiar pleasure to Sir
Bartle Frere. The entire company, native and
English, were stirred into real enthusiasm by a
speech made by Mr. Dadabhoy Novrajee, who is a
member of the Parsetjee family, and a man much
respected. He praised Sir Bartle Frere so judi-
ciously for the works which he has done best, and
pointed out the merits of our rule in India so
shrewdly and faithfully, that when he had finished
the applause was loud and earnest. Solong as just
and upright men, he said, were sent to India as its
rulers Great Britain would be loved and respected,
and its rule would prove a blessing, as it had been in
times past, no matter what might be said of minor
defects and errors. The people of India needed, he
thought, such men among them as Sir Bartle Frere
to lead them from the immovable prejudices and
inertness which long submission had engendered.
The speaker continued in this strain for some
little time, and then Mr. Bannockjee Cur-
setjee: made an admirable address. Sir Bartle
Frere's reply to all these assurances of re-
spect and goodwill greatly interested the
company, and doubtless it will afford equal plea-
sure to the Prince and chiefs of Kattywar. He
accidentally gave a fitting commentary upon his
own career when he remarked that the only right
by which Englishmen held India was that which
they were always willing to acknowledge —" the
divine right of good government." In this expres-
sion, and also in remarks to the same purpose which
fell from Mr. Dadabhoy Novrajee, the native gen-
tlemen present expressed their acquiescence by loud
applause. The native speeches were certainly not
the least striking feature of the meeting.
Sir Bartle Frere was warmly congratulated by
several speakers upon the post he now holds as
member of the Council of India, and Lord Lyveden
expressed somewhat significantly a hope that his
recent knowledge of India—the India which exists
to-day—would be of great use in that body.
Finally, a vote of thanks was given to Lord Lyveden
at the request of Col. Sykes, and upon that the
company broke up.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBAO7 INSTI-
TUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. There were also
present Admiral Sir George Sartorius, K.C.8.,
Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral NH-lardy, G.
Lyall, Esq., Col. Palmer, Captain De St. Croix,
W. 11. Harton, Esq., Col. Fitzroy Clayton, Capt.
Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the institution,
and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, rewards amounting to £595 were ordered to
be given to the crews of the following lifeboats of
the institution for their noble services in saving life
during the late fearful g de :
The lifeboat stationed at Poole, Dorset, saved 46
lives from the brig Contest, of Guernsey.
The "Grocers'" lifeboat at Mundesley, Norfolk,
rescued seven men from the brig George, of Sun-
&Hand, and the schooner, Restler, of Peterhead.
One of the crew of this lifeboat had plunged into
the boiling surf to snatch one poor fellow from an
inevitable death.

During the fearful storm of Sunday the lifeboat
Princess of Wales, at Holyhead, was engaged
throughout the night in her noble mission, and
actually succeeded in rescuing 52 lives from six
different wrecks,

The Penarth lifeboat saved the crew of 11 men
of the brig Marie, of Griefswald, Prussia.
The Caister lifeboat, " The Birmingham No. 2,"
assisted by a steam-tug, brought the Norwegian
schooner Polydera and her crew of five men safely
into harbour.

The Sheriugham lifeboat saved three persons from
the schooner Hero.
The Buckle lifeboat rescued the crew of four men
of the sloop lichens, of Alloa, N. 13.
The Donna Nook lifeboat brought ashore six men
from the schooner Esk, of Montrose.
The Pakefield lifeboat saved one man from the
brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields.
The Licensed Victualler lifeboat, stationed at
Hunstanton, was the means of rescuing 16 men
from the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg.
The Lowestoft lifeboat also succeeded in saving
two men from the brigantine Madora, of Yar-
mouth.

The Yarmouth surf lifeboat brought into harbour
the smack Plowman, of Yarmouth, and her crew of
seven men.

The Whitburn lifeboat rescued six men from the
brig Jenny, of Whitby.
The St. Ives lifeboat had brought ashore one man
from a wrecked vessel ; the boat had made three
attempts to rescue the shipwrecked crew.

The Winterton lifeboat saved two men from the
Sophia, of Colchester.
The Skegness lifeboat, the Herbert Ingram,
rescued two men from the Aunt, of Boston.
The Sutton lifeboat, the Birmingham No. 1, saved
seven men from the brig Clarinda, of Sunderland.
The Por'trush life boat rescued, after two pre-
vious attempts, six men from the brigantine
Virturius, of Liverpool.
The Bradford lifeboat, at Ramsgate, brought the
brig Cruiser, of Hartlepool, and her crew of six
men, into harbour, and likewise saved the crew of
eight men of the brigantine Amor, of Elsfleth, mak-
ing a total of 198 lives rescued by the lifeboat of
the institution during the recent heavy gales from
different shipwrecks.
The lifeboats of the institution at Newhaven,
Porthdinllaen, Bembridge, Hasborough, Dover,
Kessingham, and many other places, had also been
out with the view of saving life. In some cases the
vessels had happily got out of danger ; in others the
lifeboats had arrived in time to see the ships in a
thousand pieces and their crews drowned. Such a
terrific gale has not been witnessed on our shores
since the storm which wrecked the Royal Charter
on the Anglesey Coast. Various rewards were
granted to the crews of different shoreboats for
saving life from shipwreck on our coasts.
The committee expressed their deepest commisera-
tion with the families of the poor men who perished
from the Gorleston beachmen's lifeboat on Tuesday
morning last, on the occasion of the boat capsizing
with a shipwrecked crew on board, and voted fifty
guineas in aid of the fund now raising for the relief
of the families of the deceased lifeboatmen. This is
a salvage boat, belonging exclusively to the beach-
men, and in no way connected with the National
Lifeboat Institution. It is the same boat that un-
happily capsized nearly two years since with a fatal
loss of life. There is a fine self-righting life-
boat, belonging to the institution at Gorleston,
but hitherto the beachmen have not made much use
of it. The committee also expressed their deep sym-
pathy with the relatives of the suffers at St. Thomas,
in the West Indies, during the late fearful hurri-
cane there.

The committee decide d to form a lifeboat station
at Milford haven. Titus Salt, jun., Esq., of Brad-
ford, hadlkrally contributed to the institution, the
boat, and its equipment. Mrs. George Burgess had
also pre,ented to the society the Stone!, tven lifeboat
and its transporting carriage, B.z.t. It was reported
that th.: late It. Hewett, EA., of 01 'gate, Morpeth,
had left a legacy of 125, frte of duty, to the institu-
tion. It had just sent a new lifeboat to Grooms-
port, near Belfast; the cost of the boat had been
placed at the disposal of the society by a benevolent
lady (Mrs. D.) residing in Berkshire. It was stated
that it was proposed to hold a bazaar in Exeter in
the early part of next year in aid of the funds of
the institution. A letter was read from M. Stan-
dish, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Police at Mel-
bourne, in which he asked to be supplied with two
thousand copies of the instructions of the institution
for the restoration of the apparently drowned. Ile
stated that these instructions had already been
issued in placard form to all the police stations
iu that colony, and he was happy to state that
the constables acting upon the instructions had re-
suscitated many persons who would oth rwise have