The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

ILSLEY.

Lord Lyon and Achievement have done no work
since they returned from the north, but they are
looking exceedingly well. Split the Difference and
Rust arc the only animals from Dover's doing much,
Commissioner, Grisette, Jezabel, the General, and
others being restricted to cantering a mile or so.
Peon's legs will never stand a Cesarewitch prepara-
tion ; and Paris's temper is, if possible, worse than
ever. Fitzroy, on the contrary, is a sweet tempered
colt, worth remembering for the Derby. Lowe is
giving the Celt nice work for the Cambridgeshire ;
and sends 'Threadbare two miles each morning.
Those at Stevens's, Richards's, Warmer's, &c.,
are in excellent health anti condition.

THE LIFEBOATS ON THE 'DEVON AND CORNISH
COASTS.—Most of the lifeboats on the Devon and
Cornish coas:,s have just been visited by the secretary
of the National Lifeboat Institution. He found the
establishments everywhere in excelient order, and re-
flecting much credit on the assiduity of the several
local committees, and on the care of the coxwains of the
boats. The secretary was gratified to learn from the
crows of every ono of the boats that the possessed thed
utmost confidence in them, and that they wore ready
to
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go afloat in them in the stormiest weather. Durin
rlng
past winter some noble lifeboat services were
on
the Cornish coast. The St. lve's boat was tvvice
a hurricane, yet her brave crew persevered,a
eta watery grave
termined that they would themselves perish
the shipwrecked Frenchmen should
, rather than
bioe°t crew saved four
on their coast. Ultimately the
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medri to Lovett, the
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the occasion. Again, noble sci vices were rendered by the
Lowey lifeboat in rescuing during a fearful storm twenty..
two men from the barque Drydens, of Shields, and the
brig Wearmouth, of Sunderland. The Penzance and St.
li
Ives boats saved last spring, dm ing a gale of wind, the
whole of the crew of the steamer Bessie, wrecked on
MITI° Bar, where the Isis lifeboat rescued on Monday
last eight of fhe crew of the br'g Nicholas Harvey. The
Bade liteboat saved four men from the schooner John-
son, of Exeter, and the St. Ives lifeboat again rescued
four men from the schooner Earl of Zetland, of Amlwch.
In times of yore some of the Cornish boatmen wore
conspicuous for their wreckage ; but in the present day
no men distinguish themselves more than they do in readily
perilling their own lives to save those of others. The insti-
tution has now 10 lifeboats on the coasts of Cornwall, and
seven on that of Devon. In fact, all the lifeboats on the
shores of both counties belong to it. Others aro nearly
ready to be sent to LOOO, in Cornwall, and to Brixharn, in
Devon. Altogether the Lifeboat Society has a noble life-
saving fleet of 172 boats under its charge, and it contri-
butes every year to the swing of between 700 and 800
Byes from. shipwreck.