The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM-JULY 11.

There was a quiet business doing, and prices closed ra-
ther firm. Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed stock,
72 74—Midland Stock, 103 I—Birmingham1—Birmingham Canals, 92 93
—General Steam, 241 —Birmingham Bank, 27 }—Stour
Valley, 58—Birmingham Gas, 143.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.-A
meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was
held on Thursday last at its house, John-street, Adelphi ;
Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., in the chair. Among
other gentlemen present we observed, Admiral Sir Thomas.
Herbert, K.C.8., Admiral M'Hardy, Sir Edward Perrott,
Mr. Montague Gore, &c. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having
read the minutes of the previous meeting, a reward of money
was voted to a boat's crew for their laubable conduct in
putting off and rescuing three men and one woman,. whose
boat had been capsized during a heavy squall of wind off
Castletownsend, on the coast of Cork. Several other re-
wards were afterwards voted for meritorious services in sav-
ing life from various wrecks on the coast. It was reported
that during the past month the institution had sent anew
lifeboat and transporting carriage to Ayr, Scotland. Life-
boats are still much wanted at the following, places on the
coast of that country :—Elie Donmouth, Newburgh, Banff,
Sylester, Dunbrath, Ronaldsha, Caithness, Scrabsfer,
Thurso, Oban, Eskdale, -Campbeltown, Dromore-Troon,
Tumberry, and Ullapool. The institution voted its thanks
to Commodore Eden, R.N., C. 8., Lord Commisioner of the
Admiralty, and lite Controller-General of her Majesty's
Coastguard, in acknowledgment of the valuable services he
had rendered in his official capacity to the lifeboat cause.
Principally under his vigilant supervision the Coastguard
had been thoroughly reorganised, and was now one of the
most effective naval reserved forces of the country. The
officers and men of this useful corps have always dis-
tinguished themselves for their intrepidity in saving life
from shipwreck, and for their hearty co-operation in carry-
ing out the useful and important objects of the Lifeboat
Society on the coast. 'The institution decided to forward
a new lifeboat and transporting carriage to Whitburn, on
the coast of Durham, and to order the boat to be called the
"Thomas Wilson," in memory of one of the benevolent
founders of the society. Mr. Wilson was a native of the
county of Durham, and was formerly the representative in
Parliament of the.eity of London. Lifeboats were likewise
ordered to be built ,for Fowey and the Lizard, on She
Cornish coast. The cost of the latter boat the Hon. Mrs.
Agar and Mr. Agar Robartes, M.P., had munificently
offered to defray. . The quarterly reports of the numerous
lifeboats of the institution were said to speak very favour-
ably of their efficiency. The society has now 82 life-
boat establishments under its management, each of
which requires about £3O a year to keep it in a state of
thorough effieiency. Payments amounting to £946 were
ordered to be made for various lifeboats, transporting car-
riages, boat-houses, &c, To meet the large and increasing
demands on the'lirnited funds of the society, the committee
earnestly appealed to. the benevolent fox support to enable
them to prosecute with undiminished vigour their impor-
tant labours. A legacy amounting to £lOO hail been left
to the institution by the late Mr. Biggs, of the Strand, and
Mr. F. Magenis had presented to it an additional sum of
£lOO. The proceedings terminated with a vote of condo-
lence to the family of the late General Blanshard, who Tree
a member of the committee.

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