The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

MILITIA.

The 7th Lancashire Rifle Regiment assembled at
Bury on Tuesday last, under the command of Lieut.
Madocks, for 21 days' training.
The Dorset Militia assembled for training at
Dorchester on Tuesday last. The regiment is re-
ported to be good condition.
The Norfolk Artillery met at Great Yarmouth on
Tuesday last for 21 days' training.
The Past Norfolk Militia Artillery assembled at
Yarmouth on Tuesday for three weeks' training.
The Third or Royal Westminster Middlesex
Light Infantry will assemble for training at Turn-
ham-green on Friday, the lith inst. Viscount
Chelsea is the colonel.

The Cornwall Rangers Militia met for 21 days'
training at Bodmin on Tuesday last.
The 2d Royal Lancashire Militia, commonly
known as the Duke of Lancaster's Own Rifles,
assembled at Birkenhead on Tuesday last, under
the command of Sir T. G. Hesketh.
The East Suffolk Militia will assemble for 21
days' training at Iptwich on Tuesday, the sth of
October.

LIVERPOOL SHIP TV.RECK AND
HUMANE SOCIETY.

The following interesting report has just ap-
peared, giving the award of the society's medals
and pecuniary acknowledgments to the heroes who
have saved the lives of others at the risk of their

own :

" The present is the 19th annual report of the
committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane
Society to the subscribers, and in presenting it the
committee take occasion to express the loss the
society has sustained in the death of the late Mr.
Charles Cotesworth, whose practical knowledge and
warm feelings towards those whose services in
saving life bore evidence of personal risk to them-
selves, made him a valuable acquisition to the com-
mittee, of which he was a member from its first
formation, in 1839. In the present report there
are fewer striking features than usual in the ser-
vices of those to whom rewards have been given
for their instrumentality in saving life, but the
committee have pleasure in alluding to the follow-
ing instances of courageous and energetic exertions,
though unhappily not in each instance altogether
successful, as exhibited in the case of the Earl of
Carrick, where only two lives were saved :—The
first case t o which the committee would specially dr..w
the attention of the subscribers is that of Capt Harr-
ison, of the steam tug Enterf rise, of Liverpool who,
• seeing a schooner, named the Mary Johanna, on
shore on the Dutchman's Bank, Weaumaris Bay,
during 'a gale, Jan. 21, launched his boat, and, with
four volunteers from his crew, pulled to the bank,
but not finding sufficient water on it to take
the boat to the schooner, they carried it over
that part of the bank, a distance of about 400
yards, and launched it in a swatchway, along which
they pulled to, the wreck, rescued the crew of the
schooner, and returned with them to the steamer
in the same manner. For this gallant service a
silver medal was awarded to Captain Harrison, and
£4 to his boat's crew. The second case is that of
Jas. Lewis, mate of the steamer Earl of Erne, who,
on two different occasions, jumped overboard into
the Clarence basin, and saved a man and a boy
from drowning. A silver medal was also presented
to Mr. Lewis, who, in the subsequent passage of
the steamer across the Channel, was himself rescued
from a watery grave. These are the only two
medals awarded this year. The third case is that
of the intrepid exertions of two men in thelsle of
Man, named Thos. Watterson and Wm. Hodgson,
on the occasion of the loss of the steamer Earl of
Carrick ; and though they only succeeded in saving
one man, who, with another, floated ashore by a
life-buoy, were the only persons saved, the commit-
tee considered their exertions so meritorious that
they remitted to Mr. Quirk £5 to be divided be-
tween them, after paying a small item to a third
party, who was useful in another way. The ser-
vices of Watterson and Hodson were brought un-
der the notice of the committee by Mr. R. Quirk,
of the parish of Kirkpatrick, Isle of Man, by a
letter, dated 17th Feb., from which the following
is an extract I hope I may be justified in re-
commending two fishermen, Wm. Hodgson and
Thos. Watterson, to your society's favourable con-
sideration to receive some reward of merit for be-
ing instrumental in saving the life of John Lyons,
one of the seamen on board the screw steamer Earl
of Carrick, trading between Ayr and Liverpool,
which was lost on the 25th Dec. last, on a reef of
rocks in this parish, called Nairble Point. Those
men, upon seeing Lyons approaching the rocks,
dashed through a narrow passage, where the sea ran
b etweenthe rocks in great force, carrying a rope with
them, which they subsequently threw to him, and
although tossed round by the force of the waves
several times after getting hold of it, they eventu-
ally succeeded in re •sc "nghim from a watery grave,
l
which became the fate of every other soul on board,
with the exception of Jam
there is sltcil lla aniidortlei ready
who was saved on a life-bues V
o `Watt,Besides these three
mannerdeserving
gatemen,i snpemc- hi le: which notice,ml-% r
is
the boMorton, one of the Prince's Dock
ed
into that dock, on a dark night, immediately on
hearing a cry of alarm, and swam about till he dis-
covered a man who had fallen into the dock, and
whom he succeeded in safely landing• In the
accounts will be four d a general summary of the
•
services rendered by t.he different parties to whom
rewards have been paidand while no less than 37
,
lives have been saved in the river, on two occasions
only were the exertions unsuccessful, so prompt and
and others in rendering
energetic are the boatmen