The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-02 00:00:00

Royal National L-feboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John- street,- Adelphi ; Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F. R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present—Sir E. Perrott, Bart. ; W. IL Harton,
Esq. ; Admiral Ryder, John Griffiths, Esq. ;
Admiral Gordon, Capt. De St. Croix, "Admiral
Bullock, Admiral M‘Hardy, and Richard Lewis,
Esq., secretary of the institution. The
minutes of the previous meeting having
been read, a reward of £l3 4s. was voted to
pay the expenses of the Institution's lifeboat at Ex-
mouth, in putting off on the 13th ult. in a strong
gale of wind, with the view of rendering assistance
to the crew of the brig Ranger, of Newcastle,
which was totally wrecked off Budleigh Salterton.
.The life-boat in crossing the bar, where a heavy
sea was breaking, was repeatedly filled with water,
and had four of her oars broken. She, however,
behaved very well under these circumstances ; but
while the boat was on her way to the wrecked
vessel, the crew were rescued by means of the Rocket
Apparatus, and the lifeboat was thereupon signalled
to return to her station. Rewards amounting to £32
were also granted to the crews of the society's life-
boats at Fraserburgh, Arklow, Cromer, andTeign-
mouth,for variousservices during recent heavy gales.
A reward was likewise voted to M. Curran, forswim-
ing off at the risk of his life, in a heavy surf, and
assisting to bring ashore the crew of nine men of a
shore-boat which had capsized off Meenacladdy,
Ireland, on the 25th June. A reward of £9 10s.
was likewise voted to the crew of a Pakefield yawl,
for rescuing on the 16th ult., in a strong wind and
heavy sea, the crew of six men of the French lug-
ger Edouard et Rose, which had sunk on the New-
combo Sand, Suffolk. Other rewards were also
granted for saving life from different wrecks on our
coasts. It was reported that the institution had
recently forwarded new lifeboats to Llandudno
(Wales) and Sheringham (Norfolk). The railway
companies had, as usual, kindly given a free con-
veyance to the boats. It was also stated that the
late Jacob Nathan, Esq., of Plymouth, had be-
queathed £5O to the institution. Legacies had
also been received from the executors of the
late Miss Caroline N. Oxenham, of Kensing-
ton (less duty), £lBO, and the late Mr. Edwin Bag-
shaw, of Nottingham, £25. Titus Salt, Esq., of
Bradford, had presented to the institution £620 to
pay for an additional lifeboat station. £3OO had
also been received from "Routledge's Magazine" for
Boys' Lifeboat Fund, to defray the cost of the surf
lifeboat now being built for Caister, Norfolk, the
amount of which had been principally raised through
the zealous exertions of Edmund Routledge, Esq.,
the editor of this very instructive periodical. £8
16s. 6d. had also been contributed to the Institu-
tion by the officers and passengers on board the
Cape mail steamers Roman and Anglian, on their
last passages from the Cape of Good Hope, through
the respective commanders, Capt. Walter Dixon and
Lieut. R. W. Ker, R.N.R. Payments amounting
to £1,486 were ordered to be made on various life-
boat establishments. New lifeboat houses were
ordered to be built at Kessingland in Suffolk, Cadg-
with in Cornwall, and Bembridge in the isle of
Wight. Reports were read from the Inspector and
Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats to the Society on
their recent visits to some of its lifeboat stations on
the coast. The proceedings then terminated.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

LONDON, Aug. 2.--Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
gloudy.
FALMOUT', Aug. I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—City of
Manchester, from Bassein. Aug. 2.—Arrived —Bertha,
from Bahia for Bremen.

LIVERPOOL, Aug. I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Cold-
stream, from San Francisco ; 3lendcza, steamer, from
Monte Video; Amoor, from Havannah ; Kedar, steamer,
from Alexandria. Aug. 2.—Arrived—Poly, from Macao ;
British Victory, from Bombay; Lagos, screw steamer,
from Africa.
OFF FALmorru, Aug. I.—Wind N.W. —Arrived—
Batavia, from Bassein for Hamburg ; Lizzie Garrow, from
Philadelphia.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Helen
Burns, from Rio Grande. . .

OFF THE LlzAitu, Aug. I.—Arrived —Dorwoutwator,
from, Madras.

LINES LEASED I'IT FIXED RENTALS.
London and Greenwich, 59

FOREIGN RAILWAYS,
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81
Luxembourg, 10i
Northern of France, 46

FOREIGN MINER.
Don Pedro. North Del Rey, 14 g ra
Scottish Austral'an, 1
St. John del Rey, lien., 541

BARS%

AKra, Rm., A, 6
Alliance, Rm., 13}
City, 13
Consolidated, lira., 4
Imperial Ottoman, lira., 8
London and River Plate,

13Vto,ditto, 1 1
London and $b estininster, 99 3
Merchant Bank, lim., 161
New South Wales, 41 :11
Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 31
Union of London, 391
MISCELLANSOU3. •
Anglo-American Telegraph, lim.,
Atlantic Telegraph,
Dit o, 8 per cent, 70
City Discount, lim,
Credit Foncigr of England, lim,. 31 I
East
lncli
Crystal Palace,
Ditto,
6 alprreirgeaetniotn. rp
Hudson's Bay, 141 4 paendectal.ndale.b,losl
li4
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 21
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. Ic7o, issued 90, 29
Lon od at,d Provincial Marine, 14
Madras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by
Indian Government). leol
National Discount k.ompany. 111 1
Peninsula and Oriental Steam,
Ditto, new, 1855, 46 71
Royal Mail Steam, 85
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 68

A MAN MAY NOT MARRY MS GRANDMOTHER.—
The advantage of old men marrying young wives
is discussed by Dr. Cohausen ; and he strongly urges all
who have entered on the sere and yellow leaf to take to
themselves wives of very early age : that if Providence has
not made them superintendents of orphanages, or school-
masters, they may be enabled at small expense to inhale
youthful breath. Men with wives already are to sleep
and spend their days in the nursery. As an instance of
the advantage patriarchs taking girlish wives, he re-
lates the story of a certain ancient man, with snow-
white hair and beard, who married at the advanced age of
eighty. After a while the old man fell ill, all his hair and
skin came off. On his recovery, he had a fresh transparent
complexion, and a magnificent bushy head and chin of
vivid rod hair. "Whatever you do !" earnestly entreats
the doctor, "never marry an old woman ; she will absorb
all the vital principal from your lungs, and poison you
with her exhalations. Alas, for him, who, in hopes of
gaining money, marries a rich old spinster. She becomes
youthful, and he prematurely aged. For old women," he
continues, "are like cats, whose broth is poionous in life.
7--Qacc a Week.