The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-04 00:00:00

Royal National Lifeboat Insltution.

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 the Right lion. Stephen Cave, M.P.,
Admiral Gordon, Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Cap-
tain De St. Croix, W. H. Harton, Esq., Admiral
W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S. ; George Lyall, Esq.,
Admiral M'Hardy, Captain 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 £27 were granted to the
crews of the lifeboats of the institution stationed at
Arklow, Courtown, and Cahore, for various ser-
vices in the boats during the past month. A reward
of £l2 was also voted to the crews of the fishing-
smacks Water Lily and Jane, of Beer, near Axmin-
ster, and £2 to each man of the crews of two smaller
boats, belonging to Budleigh Saltertop, for their
valuable services during a thick fog on the 10th
July, while fishing some distance outside Torbay, in
assisting to bring ashore the officers and crews of
H.M.S. Amazon, and the steamer Osprey, which
vessels had sunk after being in collision a short time
previously. At the time the boats containing the
shipwrecked men were fallen in with they were
pulling away from the land, and were so heavily
laden that the gunwale of one of the boats was said
to be actually only an inch and a half above the
water. Shortly after they had been assisted by the
smacks a breeze sprang up, which would inevitably
have swamped the boats had they not been thus so
opportunely lightened by the fishing boats.
A communication was read from Robert Whit-
worth, Esq., of Manchester, stating that he had re-
ceived £l,OOO for the institution from a lady giving
tne W." Tli b ftmount was Intended
for two lifeboats, one of which was to be named the
" William Woodcock." She had approved of her
gift being appropriated in renovating the Lyme Regis
station, and in providing a new lifeboat for Lland-
dwyn, near Carnarvon. Capt. J. M‘Gregor had
handed to the institution the handsome sum of £4O,
being the half share of the profits realised by his
interesting work on the " Rob Roy Canoe."
At the suggestion of Colonel Hargreaves, a col-
lection, amounting to £l6 165., in aid of the funds
of the society, had been made in the Volunteer camp
at Lytham, after a sermon by the Rev. R. Robinson.
New lifeboats had been sent during the pastmonth
to Hasborough, Ballycotton, Gorlestone, and
Brightstone Grange, and on Tuesday next a new
lifeboat will be launched at Margate, when either
the D uchess of Sutherland or the Countess Fitzwilliam
will be present to name theboat. New lifeboat houses
were ordered to be built at Queenstown (Cork har-
bour), Lyme Regis, and Chapman's Pool, Dorset,
at an expense of £656 10s. Earl Percy presented to

the institution a fine portrait of the late Duke of
Northumberland, who had been its president for
many years. It was stated that Captain Montagu
Pasco, R.N., had banded to the institution an instal-
ment of £lO5, which he had collected in the London
southern district, in aid of the cost of a lifeboat. E.
Absolom, Esq., of Rood-lane and Snaresbrook,
was also using his best efforts to increase the
annual subscriptions of the institution. C. F. K.
had also collected from 45 persons £2 ss. in aid- of
the funds of the society. Legacies had been re-
ceived during the past month from the executors of
the late George Anstice, Esq., of Chipping Norton,
£67 10s. ; the late G. Scott, Esq., of `Yarborough,
£45 ; and the late Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, Chel-
tenham, £204. It was also reported that the late
Mrs. Story, of Kensington, had left the institution
a legacy of £5OO to defray the cost of a lifeboat.
Payments amounting to £2,770 were made on
various lifeboat establishments during the past
month, and upwards of £7,000 have thus been made
by the institution since, June last.
The proceedings then terminated.