The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-22 00:00:00

TILE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

Yesterday a meeting of governors of this society
was held at the offices,Trafalgar-square----Mr. Baker,
treasurer, in the chair. Mi. Young, the secretary,
stated that the number of cases for the considera-
tion of the committee were very much on the in-
crease, and he had to submit 40 for their decision on
that occasion—a number which was unprecedented.
Thanks on vellum were awarded to John Eller-
thorpe, dock foreman, for saving John Eaby, a
labourer, who fell into the Humber Dock at Hull on
the 30th July, making the 29th life saved by him
during the last 40 years. Ellerthorpe received the
silver medal of the society in 1855. The thanks of
the society and a gratuity of £2 10s. towards the
purchase of a boat (the Society for the Protection of
Life from Fire, which has already awarded him its
silver medal, also contributing £2 10s.), were given
to Thomas Wilson, labourer, for saving two men,
whose boat was drawn into the flames at the great
fire in Tooley-street on the 23d June. The bronze
medal was given in the following cases :—To Thos.
Warren, a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, for try-
ing to save Corporal J. Edwards, of the 2d Life
Guards, who fell into the Basingstoke Canal, at
Aldershot, on the Bth of August ; to Sub-Con-
stable John Daly, of the Irish police, for savine.
Michael Foley, who got beyond his depth while
bathing in the river Callooney, county of Sligo, on
the 16th of June; to Mr. W. H. Wallace, for sav-
ing Allwell Ireland, saddler, who fell into the
river at Cork on the 14th of July ; to Charles
Murphy, cabinetmaker, for saving Jeremiah Healy,
who fell into the river Lee, at Cork, on the 30th
of June; to John Robe, shoemaker, for saving
Joseph Toppliffe, who fell into the sea at Hen-
don-bay, near Sunderland, on the 9th of July ;
and to James Freeman, for saving Charles
Hill and Joseph Taylor, who had sunk while'
bathing in the reservoir at New Holland, Hull, on
the 27th of June. Thanks on parchment were given
to the following :—Mr. Arthur B. Donnethorpe, for
saving Charles Page, who fell into the Thames at
Twickenham on the sth of June ; to Cornelius
M'Lean, mariner, for saving George Winn, who fell
into the river at Sunderland on the 31st of July;
to Mr. Joseph Curtis.and Mr. R. Gilston, for saving
John Rogers and Beechey Rogers, who were car-
ried by the current beyond their depth while bath-
ing at Kilkee, county of Limerick, on the 16th of
July; to Mr. John Knight, for saving F. J. Sworn,
who fell into the New River, at Hornsey, on the
18th of July; to James Dallen, clerk, for saving R.
Barnes, groom, who sank while bathing in the
ornamental water, Victoria-park, on the 10th of
July. ; to John O'Brien, labourer, for trying to save
Mr. R. Campion, whose horse ran into the river at
Fermoy on the 18th of June; to John Hill, whip-
maker, for saving John M`Garry, who fell into the
canal at Leicester on the 7th of July ; to Charles
Clarke, plumber, for saving George Parfitt, who
fell into the Regent's Canal, Queen's-road, Dalston,
on the 11th of July; to John Fryer, waiter, for
saving Harmond Clayton, who fell into the New
River, Highbary, on the sth of July ; to Alexander
Hay, carpenter, for saving the chief officer of the
bark Robert Fennie, of Dundee, who fell into the
Grand Surrey Docks on the 14th of July; to J. W.
Murray, clerk, for saving Richard Marshall, who
fell into the Thames at Richmond on the 15th of
July ; to Mr. Thomas Borras, agent, for saving R.
Charles Walker, who sank while bathing in the
ornamental water in Victoria-park on the 13th of
August; to Mr. Wm. O'Reardon, for saving Peter
Callaghan, who fell into the river at Cork on the Bth
of July ; to Patrick Murphy, for saving Patrick
Fenton, who fell into the river at Cork on the 7th
of July ; to Mr. Charles E. Siddall, surveyor, for
saving William Shillaker, butler, who got beyond
his depth while bathing in Endcliffe-dam, near
Sheffield, on the 9th of July ; to Charles
Cloke, labourer, for saving John White, who
fell into the canal at Hythe, Kent, on the 21st
of July; to Elizabeth Byrne, for saving Margaret
Byrne, who sank while bathing in the sea at
Wicklow, on the Ist of July ; to George Day, for
saving James Hall, who got beyond his depth while
bathing in the Kennet and Avon Canal at Pewsey
on the 29th of June ; and to Mr. Thos. Fitton, for
saving Thos. Bolster, who sank while bathing in
the lake near Dodges Glen, Cork, on the 4th of Aug.
In addition to these, pecuniary rewards, amounting
in the aggregate to £l2 10s., were given to persons
who had been instrumental in saving life. The
secretary reported a legacy of £5OO which had been
bequeathed to the society by the late Mr. R. For-
rest, of Camberwell, and that new stations had been
established and drags placed at Twickenham, and
the Old Barge-house, North Woolwich ; after which
a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and
the Court adjourned.