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

BROADSTAIRS NEIV LIFEBOAT.

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. 'I he 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 in
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 new 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, besides granting pecuniary rewards for ser-
vices in saving life to the amount of £3,189. This
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 i 3
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 elc-
pected home in May. The other marriage is that
of the Duke of Alencon to Princess Amelia'
daughter of the Duke of Montpensier. The eve
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 i 4
mansion at Kingston.
The Rev. William Kelley, of St. Mary and St'
Michael's, Commercial-road, writes to the Dail
Telegraph to state that a letter purporting to b°
signed by him, and describing the ill-usage be re"
ceived at the Protestant meeting in St. James,B
Hall, is a forgery. So far from having attended
that meeting, the rev. gentleman was employed is
his own church on Friday night until 10 p.m.
In the Church of Les Norrieres, the other day'
just as High Mass was concluding, a loud crackieg
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 many
more were underneath. One woman was found t°
be dead; about 120 persons were injured, 20 of then''
it is feared, mortally.
One of the incidental results of the present dead;
lock in the American Government is that the Coat:
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 longtime past only te
accommodate Mr. Seward, as no one whom
President might nominate as his successor would
.r
likely to receive the approval of the Senate.
Adams, it is understood, will not postpone his
re-
turn to America beyond the time he has already
fixed, and unless Mr. Wade supersedes Mr. Johnse.ll
almost immediately, and nominates a Minister satl°;
factory to the majority, the post may lie vacant f°
months.
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Mr. T. E. Smale, the
treasurer of this theatre, takes his first benefit elle
Monday next, when, in addition to the members of tb.`.
company, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Ada Cavendish, Mr. Waltita,
Lacy, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. 11. J. Montague, and other pc:i1,;10
lar artistes, will appear, and the part of Shylock,
Merchant of Venice," will be, for the first time, assail/
by Mr. Dominick Murray.
Alrg'
Mn. BOUCICAULT'S ILLNESS still CORtiLlUing, or
Boueicault will not act at the Princess's beyond alittl;y,
week. After this they will both take a long boll
abroad.en
MDLLE. PATTI.—At the last State concert gl v 0
at the Tuileries Mdlle. Patti told the Empress that elle:.tog
engaged to marry the Marquis de Caux ; the wed' dt
takes place iu the coining autumn, and she is not t° golf
the stage until 1870. The Empress expressed hecroir
pleased to learn that the betrothal was an affitire cl
_do°.
The newspapers are teeming with references to ercr, 30
my in tea by co-operation. Horninan and Co. have I oore
years co- operated through Agents to supply tea °n• tea
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; thel_ the
reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it leave
grower, as it is secured in packets.