The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

BROADSTA IRS NEW LIFEBOA7.

The National Lifeboat Institution has forwarded
a fine new lifeboat to Broadstairs. The boat is 36
feet long, 9 feet wide, and rows 12 oars double-
banked. It possesses the usual valuable pro-
perties of self-righting, self-ejecting of water,
and other characteristics of the boats of the
institution. It was built by the Messrs. Forrestt,
of Limehouse. 'The cost of the lifeboat has
been contributed by a lady, a friend of Captain
Fishbourne, R.N., C. 8., in memory of her deceased
son, after whom it is named the Samuel Morrison
Collins. Through the kindness of the General
Steam Navigation Company the boat was towed to
the neighbourhood of its station. The institution is
much 'indebted to Captain Elyard, Dr. Walter,
and other gentlemen of Broadstairs for their valua-
ble co-operation in the organisation and manage-
ment of the sew lifeboat establishment. It may
be added that during the past year the National
Lifeboat Institution contributed to the rescue of

1,086 lives from various shipwrecks. In the same
period it expended £31,815 on its lifeboat establish-
ments, bides granting pecuniary rewards for ser-
vices in saving life to the amount of £3,189. The
society has now 186 lifeboats under its manage-
ment. Each lifeboat station, including cost of
boat, transporting-carriage, and boat-house,
involves an expense of about £650, and sub-
sequently each boat requires about £5O a
year to keep it always ready for instantaneous ser-
vice. It is therefore evident that a large sum is
required by the institution to enable it to maintain
in a state of efficiency its numerous lifeboat estab-
lishments, and that the great national work in which
it is actively engaged can only be perpetuated by
the continued support of the public at large.

Mr. Michael A. Boyd, of Roscommon, has ob-
tained the gold medal in surgery, medicine, and
midwifery, of the Catholic University for 1867.8.
There are said to be gold deposits in Peru equal
if not superior in richness to any yet discovered In
California or Australia.

Two weddings in which members of the Orleans
family are concerned are engaged to take place
this summer. The Duke de Penthievre, son of the
Prince de Joinville, and brother of the Duchess de
Chartres, is betrothed to the Princess Amelia Of
Saxe Cobourg. The Duke is at present travelling
in Brazil with Duke Philip of Cobourg, but is ex'
petted home in May. The other marriage is that
of the Duke of Alencon to Princess Amelia,
daughter of the Duke of Montpensier. The two
weddings will, it is believed, be solemnized at the
same time and place. One of the Princes of the
House of Orleans is in treaty for the purchase of a
mansion at Kingston.
The Rev. William Kelley, of St. Mary and St.
Michael's, Commercial-road, writes to the Daily
Telegraph to state that a letter purporting to be
signed by him, and describing the ill-usage he re-
ceived at the Protestant meeting in St. Jamesie
Hall, is a forgery. So far from having attended
that meeting, the rev. gentleman was employed in
his own church on Friday night until 10 p.m.
In the Church of Les Norrieres, the other dal,
just as High. Mass was concluding, a loud cracking
was heard, and the gallery over the principal en-
trance of the church suddenly fell down. It con-
tained at the moment about 90 persons, and maul
more were underneath. One woman was found to
be dead; about 120 persons were injured, 20 of there'
it is feared, mortally.
One of the incidental results of the present dead'
lock in the American Government is that the Court
of St. James's is likely to be without an accredited
representative of the United States. Mr. Adams
has remained at his post for a long time past only to
accommodate Mr. Seward, as no one whom the
President might nominate as his successor would be
likely to receive the approval of the Senate. gr.
Adams, it is understood, will not postpone his re"
turn to America beyond the time he has ahead,'
fixed, and unless Mr. Wade supersedes Mr. Johnson
almost immediately, and nominates a Minister sat's'
facfory to the majority, the post may lie vacant for
months.
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Mr. T. E. Smale, tb°
treasurer of this theatre, takes his first benefit ell
Monday next, when, in addition to the members of tiles
company, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Ada Cavendish, Mr. 'Walter
Lacy, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. a J. Montague, and other pop.a-
lar artistes, will appear, and the part of Shylock, in "
Tn
Merchant of Venice," will be, for the first time, assured
by Mr. Dominick Murray.
MR. BOUCICAULT'S ILLNESS still continuing, grt
Boucinult will not act at the Princess's beyond another
week. After this they will both take a long holulal
abroad.
MDLLE. PATTI.—At the last State concert give':
at the Tuileries Mdllo. Patti told the Empress that she ‘f
engaged to marry the Marquis de Caux ; the Iveddiart
takes place in the coming autumn, and_she is not to gulf
the stage until 1870. The Empress expressed her e°o.
pleased to learn that the betrothal was an affaire die C°s„,
The newspapers are teeming with references to eeo!su 0
my in tea by co-operation. Horninan and Co. have f
o re
years co- operated through Agents to supply tea 013 ,77it
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; thelr
reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it lead
grower, as it is Secured in packets.