The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-04 00:00:00

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP-
- • - WRECK:

Yesterday a meeting of the Royal National Life-
Boat Institution was held at its house, John-street,
Adelphi, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., in the chair. There were also present Mr.
Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., Admiral Sir Thomas
Herbert, K.C.8., General Blanshard, C. 8., Mr.
Alexander Boetefeur, Admiral Cator, Capt. Wash-
ington, R.N., F.R.S., Mr. Montague Gott), Major
Palmer, Captain Lambert Perrott, and Captain
Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats to the society.
Mr. LEWIS, the secretary, having read the
minutes of the previous meeting,
The silver medal of the institution was presen-
ted respectively to Captain Johnston and George
Elphinstone, in testimony of their very gallant ex-
ertions on the occasion of the wreck, during a
heavy gale of wind, of the barque Mary Stoddart,
in Dundalk Bay. The institution had voted at its
last meeting to several other persons a similar dis-
tinction, in addition to a pecuniary award, for ser-
vices at that lamentable wreck.
A reward of 51. was voted to a boat's crew of five
men in consideration of their laudable services in
putting off and rescuing on two trips the crew of
four men from the schooner Nymph, which was
wrecked during a gale of wind on Irvit.• Bar.
When the vessel was first seen she was rapidly
sinking, the sea making at the same time a com-
plete breach over her. In vain the little boat,
although towed out by a steamer, attempted to
reach her. The boat was, therefore, compelled to
return to the shore. Another attempt, however,
was made to reach the poor fellows, which fortu-
nately proved successful, the ship immediately
afterwards breaking up in a thousand pieces. It
not unfrequently happens that light shore boats
fail entirely to reach distressed ships, proving how
indispensable it is Oat a life-boat should be able
to contend successfully with the heaviest gales and
seas.

A reward of 3/. was also voted to a boat's crew in
consideration of their laudable conduct in rescu-
ing the crew of a fishing lugger, which, during
squally weather, was capsized off Rushadalla, on
the coast of Galway. Ono of the rescued men, who
was able to swim, and who had been able to sup-
port himself on an oar, had nobly declined to be
picked up until he had seen all his companions safe.
A reward of 7/. was also voted to a boat's crew
of fishermen for rescuing, at a considerable risk of
life, the crew of the schooner Violet, of Speymouth,
which was wrecked during a gale of wind off Fort-
Gordon, on the' 2d of May. Whilst the crew of
this ship was being saved another vessel was seen
in imminent danger, and her crew were also safely
taken off by the same boat before returning to the
shore with the first crew.

A reward of 3/. 10s. was likewise voted to a boat's
crew for their praiseworthy conduct in putting off
in a heavy surf and rescuing the crew of the sloop
Mary, of Balbriggan, which had sunk at the mouth
of the river Boyne. . .

A reward of 121. was also voted to the crew of a
fishing-lugger, in testimony of their laudable and
persevering conduct in rescuing, at considerable
risk of life, the crew of eleven men of the French
brig Prosper, which was seen in a sinking state off
Cromer. The poor foreigners were save,' on four
or five trips by the small. boat of the lugger, and
after the last man had been out of the brig, she im-
mediately disappeared.

A re wird of 41, was likewise voted to several men
in acknowledgment of their courageous conduct in
wading into. the surf and rescuing, at the risk of
their lives, the crew of the Spanish brig Triton,which had been wrecked during a gale of wind off
Ballymartin, on the coast of Morne.

Tire lifeboat of the Institution stationed at Cul-
lercoats, was stated to have put off lately on two
different occasions to render assistance, if needed,
to several fishing boats which had been overtaken
by a gale of wind.
The quarterly report of the exercise of the life-
boats of the society was said to have been of a very
satisfactory character ; the crews had entire confi-
dence in the lifeboats, and the lifeboat stations
were said to b 3 everywhere in complete order.
This humane work, however, is not accon*,
plished without a large permanent outlay ; but
the result must be gratifying to every friend of the
cause of humanity. Last year 399 persons ship-
wrecked on our coast were rescued by lifeboats, a
large proportion of whom were saved through the
direct instrumentality of lifeboats of the National
Lifeboat Society. We need not dwell on the suf-
ferings endured by a shipwrecked crew ; but we
may be permitted to rejoice with those of our fel-
low-creatures who have thus been snatched from
an appalling death, and with the many others
dependent on them, who would now have been
widows and orphans, but fur the services of the
lifeboats of the tociety.
It having been reported that the late Miss Maria
Peterson, of Bromley, had left the institution a
legacy of 1001., the proceedings cl sed.

DARING ROBBEUY OF 7871. IN SILVER

COIN.

An instance of an extraordinary and daring rob-
bery, evidently long planned, came under the no-
tice of the City detective police yesterday, afford-
ing another strong illustration of the careless way
large sums of money are conveyed through the
streets of the isietropolis. On Monday afternoon a
confidential clerk in the house of Mr. Gardner, the
extensive skin salesman in new Smithfield Ma-
rket, Copenhagen-fields, Islington, was despatched
to the Bank of England in a cab to pay in 7871.
It appears this was his duty on all market days,
and for the last two or three years he had em-
ployed the same cabman to convey him and the
cash to the bank, and of whose honesty no suspi-
cion is entertained. The 7871. was entirely in silver
coin ; it was deposited in eight bags, which were
placed in a small sack, the whole weighing about 2
cwt. The clerk seeing it put on to one of the seats
in the cab, got in, and the vehicle proceeded on its
way to the Bank of England. On its way, how-
ever, through Islington, it brought up alongside a
public-house in Thornhill-road. Here both cab-
man and the clerk entered, leaving the cab stand-
ing at the curb in front of the house unprotected.
According to their statement to Mr. Gardner they
were only in the house a minute drinking a pint of
porter, and on their return to the cab the clerk,
upon opening the door, discovered, to his astonish-
ment, the sack with the 7871. was gone, but how
abstracted from the cab, or by whom, wad to them
a mystery. The police on duty in the vicinity wt-re
at once made acquainted with the robbery, but
all the inquiries made led to little good in recover-
ing the money. That the cab was watched by one
or more persons who were cognisant of the pur-
poses for which it was employed, and the practice of
the clerk and driver, there can be no doubt. A
horse and cart containing two men were seen com-
ing from the direction of the public house about
the time, driving fast, and as some vehicle must
have been employed to carry off the booty, there is
every reason to suspect that the robbery was com-
mitted by those parties ; but how they succeeded in
abstracting the money from the cab, considering its
weight (2 cwt.), and getting it into the cart unob-
served, seems somewhat remarkable. Th;s is the
sec,nd robbery of a large amount of silver
coin that has taken place within the last
few weeks, through carelessness ; the other it
will be remembered, took place at the Blackwall
Railway station in Fenchurch-street, where a clerk
in the service of the West India Dock Company
lost 2001. of the company's money, by leaving it in
au inner office while he got his railway ticket, a
course, it seems, he was in the habit of doing daily.
Up to a late hour last evening, notwithstanding a
large reward bad been offered for the apprehension
of the guilty parties, no clue had been obtained.

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