The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-07 00:00:00

mile.

To name at the same time as for the Fitzwilliam Stakes,
and the weights to be published the evening before
running.

Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.
There were also present Sir Edward Perrott, Bart.,
Admiral Gordon, Sir Francis Outram, Bart., Capt.
De St. Croix, Admiral I\l'Hardy, W. H. Harton,
Esq., Colonel Palmer, and Captain Ward, R.N.,
the inspector of lifeboats to the institution.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £6 10s. was voted to the crew of
the institution's lifeboat at Lytham, for assisting to
a safe anchorage the French brigantine Jean Fran-
cois, which was in a very dangerous position near
the Salthouse Bank, during a heavy gale of wind on
the 4th ultimo.

A reward of £6 was also granted to the crew of
the Fraserburgh lifeboat for putting off, in reply to
signals of distress, and rescuing the crew of five
men of the lugger Betsy Ann, of Port Gordon,
N. 8., which vessel had lost all her sails, and was
driving towards the dangerous reef of Cairn Briggs
during a severe gale from N.N.W. on the 4th ult.
It was also reported that the Blakeney lifeboat
was instrumental, on the 11th ult., in bringing safely
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into harbour a pilot coble and her crew of thresetwm
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Whilst in tow of the lifeboat the co was
capsized as they went in.
Rewards amounting nearly
£l7 5s Gd were likewise
voted to defraythe exp.ens
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of the Waltnerthe ad North
out, whilewind was
Deal lifeboats,
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blowing bard from the w, with the view of rescu-
ing the crew
of the ship North, of Liverpool, which
wawrecked on the south side of the Goodwin Sands
on s
the 30th ult. It appeared that the ship and the
steamer towing her were both driven on the sands
and wrecked. The crews were forced to take to their
boats, but were fortunately rescued by passing vessels
and taken to shore. The lifeboats encountered some
heavy seas while passing over the sands. The Rams-
gate lifeboat also went out in tow of the harbour
steam-tug, with the view of rendering assistance to
the crews of the same wrecked vessels.
Rewards amounting to £46 11s. Bd. were also
voted to the crews of the lifeboats of the institution
stationed at Selsey, New Brighton, Scarborough,
and Cahore; and to those of shore boats, for various
services during the past month.
It was dated that the Emperor of the French had

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just forwarded a first class gold medal with certifi-
cate to the coxswain of the institution's lifeboat at
St. Ives, and a first'class silver medal with certifi-
cate to each man of the crew, for their services in
rescuing four of the crew of the brigantine Provi-
dence of Granville, France, which was wrecked on
Hayle Bar during a heavy sea on 28th October last.
The institution decided on sending to the Paris
Universal Exhibition some of its best models of life-
boats, and various apparatus for saving life from

shipwreck.
New lifeboat stations were ordered to be formed at
the entrance to Chichester harbour (West Witter-
ing), Stromness, N. 8., and Douglas, Isle of Man,
the local residents promising cordial support to the
undertakings.
During the past month various liberal contribu-
tions had been received by the institution, and
amongst them was the munificent sum of £343 from
the Ancient Order of Foresters, contributed in sums
of one penny and upwards.

Legacies had been received during the past mouth
from the executors of the late Mrs. Sarah Small, of
Brighton, £76 7s. 6d., the late Mrs. M'Gregor, of
Camberwell, £45, and the late John Barnard, Esq.,
of Walworth, £lO. The late Mr. Dudley Costello
had also left the institution a legacy of £450, pay-
able after the death of his sister, for the purpose of
placing an additional lifeboat on the Sussex coast.
The Rev. John Buckle had also sent the society £7
7s. 6d., being the amount realised after a lecture he
had recently delivered at Ledbury on its behalf.
A grand fancy fair had been held in the Zoologi-
cal Gardens, Clifton, under the auspices of the Bris-
tol Histrionic Club, to assist in defraying the cost of
a lifeboat to be named the " Bristol and Clifton."
The institution sanctioned standard barometers
being placed at Sidmouth, Sheringham, Swansea,
and Sunderland. Each barometer of the institution
being made by Messrs. Negretti and Zambra, and
tested at the Greenwich Observatory by Mr. Glaisher,
F.R.S., who is a cordial coadjutor with the society.
During the past month the institution had sent
new lifeboats to Margate, Southwold, Swansea,
Llanddwyn, and Wicklow, and public demonstra-
tions had taken place with all those boats. In every
case free conveyances were readily granted to the
lifeboats by the railway and steam packet companies.
The institution decided on completely renovating
the Brighton lifeboat station, and on sending there
the London Sunday School lifeboat the Robert Raikes.
New lifeboat houses were ordered to be erected at
Love, Courtmacsherry, Ilfracombe, Sheringham,
and Cullercoats, at an expense of £1,078.

Reports were read from the inspector and the as-
sistant-inspector of lifeboats of the institution on
their recent visits to lifeboat stations of the society
on different parts of the coast.
A plan of a valuable life-raft, invented by Mr.
Edward L. Parry, of New York,was brought under
the notice of the institution.

The Director-General of Stores for India had
requested the committee to superintend the build-
ing, by the Messrs. Forrestt, of two self-righting
lifeboats, on the plan of the institution, for the
Bombay Government.
The institution was about to send to the coast the
" G. V. Brooke" lifeboat, the cost of which had
been collected amongst the friends and supporters
of the late Mr. Brooke, the eminent tragedian, who
perished on the occasion of the wreck of the ill-
fated screw steamer London. Another lifeboat was
ready to be sent to Ilfracombe. It was the gift to
the institution, on the 21st June last, of Mr. Robert
Broadwater, of Hornsey-rise, in conjunction with
his friends, in commemoration of his 50th birthday.
Payments amounting to £2,215 having been
made on various lifeboat establishments, the pro-
ceedings terminated.