The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

Stands 455 to 450, Smithfield Club Show, Dec. Bth to 1 I th, and at
COTTAM and HALLEN, 2, Winsley-street,
Oxford .street, London, W., patentees and original inventors
of the improved system of FITTING-UP STABLES, patronised by
the English and French Governments. Security from accident by
the use of the patent halter guide and improved curved top plate ;
promotion of heal,h, comfort, and condition by the cleanliness and
power of resitting infection of the mangers and troughs, and also of
the patent drop cover, to curtail the quantity of water to be im-
bibed. Economy in the use f food, from the improved formation
of the fittings, and by means of the patent portable seed box, are
some of the peculiar recommendations of Cottam's patent compo-
nised, enamelled, and galvanised iron fittings for stalls and loose
boxes. Cottam's patent combined saddle and harness brackets,
improved surface drains, and everyarticle required for the stable
and harness room. Illustrated catalogues and lithographs free on
application to Cottam and Hellen, 2, Winsley-street, Oxford-street,
London, W.

PRESERVATION OP LIFE PROM Si:l'lP-
R' RECK.

On Thursday a meeting of the Royal National Life-
boat Institution was held at its house, John-street,
Adelphi. The Duke of Northumberland, MG., Presi-
dent, in the chair. There were also present Captain
M`Hardy, RN. ; Mr. Thomas Chapman, V.P.,
F.R.S., Mr. George Lyall, Mr. Alexander Bootefour,
Mr. Montague Gore, General Blanchard, C. 8., Mr.
James Peake, Rev. C. B. Gribble, M.A , Admiral
Cator, Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., Captain
Perrot, and Captain Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats
to the institution.

Mr. LEWIS, the secretary, having read the minutes of
,he previous meeting, _ _ .

A reward of 10/.vas voted to the crew of the life-
boat of the institution, stationed at Teignmouth, Devon,
had been capsized from their boat on Teignmouth Bar,
in a very heavy sea, on the 27th ult. It being at the
time ebb tide, the swamped boat, with the three men,
drifted out through the heavy sea to seaward. Small
boats in vain attempted to reach her, but the lifeboat
majestically pursued her way through the rolling surf,
and soon reached the disabled boat, to which the two
poor men were clinging, the third having unfortunately
sunk to rise no more. The lifeboat proved herself in
every respect a first-rate one, and every praise was also
due to her gallant crew.
Rewards to the amount of 46/. 10s. were also granted
to the crews of the Aldborough (Suffolk), Portmadoc,
and Rhyl (tubular) lifeboats, for laudably putting off,
some of them in the night, with the view of rendering
assistance to the crews of ships in distress. It is satis-
factory to find that wherever the lifeboats of the institu-
tion is stationed no difficulty is over experienceed
in
manning them on cases of emergency; and although the
gallant men are always sure to receive their well-earned
rewards from the society, still they are ever forward to
render what assistance they can to a fellow-creature in
uistress apart from the prospect of any pecuniary rem.
neration.
A reward of 201. was likewise voted to a boat's crew
of ten men, for putting off in her and rescuing at the
risk of their lives, the crew of three persons from a billy-
boyc h wase(3 Seeing
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salvors immediately launched a frail fishing
coble. It was just low water at the time,
heavy sea. The coble was hardly in a condition for use,
and the wonder was how the men collected oars, and
trusted themselves to such a boat in going on so perilous
an adventure.
A reward of 21. was also voted to two men for wading,
at considerable risk of life, into the surf at some preci-
pitous rocks, to the rescue of three men of the wrecked
sloop Brothers, of Red Bay, near Belfast. Oee of the
salvors, a coast-guardsman, had lost his hold on tee
rocks, and was precipitated into the see,. He was only
saved from being drowned by the other men.
A reward of 51. was also granted to a boat's crew for
their laudable exertions in rescuing. close to the Barber
Sands, seven men of the crew of the brig Robert and
Ann, of Sunderland, which had sunk during a gale of
wind near the Scroby Sands, on the 22d ult. The crew
bad taken to their boat, which was partly stove, and
without any oars. In this state they were fortunately
found on the night of the above-named day by a Yar-
mouth lugger.
The silver medal of the institution was presented to
James Hogbin, coxswain of the Ramsgate Royal Har-
bour lifeboat, in acknowledgment of his repeated ser-
vices in assisting to save life in that excellent lifeboat.
This boat has been off on service during the last four
years between sixty and seventy times, and has been
instrumental in saving a large number of persons ship-
wrecked on or near the fatal Goodwin Sands. Hogbin
has, we believe, been afloat in her on s very occasion.
The life-boats, together with a steamer to tow her out, is
maintained exclusively by the liberality of the Rams-
gate Harbour trustees, and there is no lifeboat in the
kingdom which in so short a time has done anything
like the servioe of this valuable life-boat. She was built
by Beeching, of Great Yarmouth, but was afterwards
altered to the plan of the life-boats adopted by the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution.
An interesting resport was read by the inspector of
life-boats to the institution on his recent visits to the
several life-boat stations belonging to the institution on
the Irish coast. These periodical visits of a responsible
and thoroughly experienced officer are everywhere at-
tended with much benefit. On these occasions, what-
ever may be the state of the weather, he always takes
the life-boats afl ;at to teF t their efficiency, and closely
examines everything connected with the lifeboat estab-
lishment. Thus, as far as the parent institution is con-
cerned, aided by the zealous co-speration of its several
branches, efficiency is secured in the management of its
lifeboats, and experience has demonstrated that unless a
lifeboat is carefully examined and looked after, she will
assuredly fail in her service in the hour of need.
The institution decided to station new lifeboats at
Holyhead and at Ardmore, on the Irish coast. It was
also resolved to take into connection with it, under cer-
tain conditions, the Norfolk lifeboats. There are six or
seven lifeboats on that dangerous coast, and in times
past some of them have rendered efficient service to
shipwreck! crews. But most of these boats will now
require to be replaced by new lifeboats at a large cost.
It cannot be too generally known that during the current
year the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has ex-
pended nearly 4,0001. on lifeboat establi:hments alone ;
but that has only been accomplished by intrenching to a
considerable amount on its small funded capital. It,
therefore, rests with the British puolic to say whether
an institution which is one of the noblest in our land,
and which will soon have under its management about
70 lifeboats, shall pursue its career of usefulness with
uninterrupted vigour.
A contribution of 1501. was most liberally presented
to the. institution by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and
Mariners' Society, which had been collected from its
members in aid of the lifeboat.cause.
The proceedings then closed.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Dec. 5 were 2,084, of which 665 were new
CMOS.