The Express. — 1853-01-13 (London, England)

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.  Yesterday, the half-yearly general court of this institution was held at the offices in Trafalgar-square, B. BOND CABBILL, Esq., M.P., presiding. The Sacasesas reakthe minutes of the several monthly committee meetings held during the half-year, detailing several cases in which persons bad been saved from drowning. mid in wanideration of which rewards and medals had I been awarded by the society. The secretary also reported that the great proportion of fatal accidents in the Serpentine occurred in the bathing season late in the evening, after the society's boats were withdrawn, and that an application had been made to the police authorities, and also to the Office of Works, to prevent bathing at late hours, but the answer in both instances was that they had no power to interfere.  The CHAIRMAN suggested that the ranger should be applied to oa the subject, as there was no doubt he had the power to give the park constables orders to carry out the object of the society in this respect. In the following special cases which had been referred by the committee to the general meeting, silver medals were awarded: Mr. George 1.. Sullivan, Midshipman, H.M.S. Megera, saved William Tizzard, A. 8., at sea; Rev. James O'Reilly, curate of St. Peter's, Walwotth, saved Mr. Jesse Oldlield, publisher, of Fleet-street, at St. Paul's-wharf; Master Ilerbert Campbell (age 12), saved his brother, Skiney Campbell, off the Isle of Wight; Henry Bowden (age 17), saved James Y. Cockburn, in the Thames, at Btan; William Pope (age 17), H.M.S. Impregnable, saved two children, who had fallen into the Regent's Canal; George Webber saved George Lowe, in the Bristol Channel ; James Hearne saved four persons in the river Suir; Captain H. M. Dougall, R.N., saved J. Swadle, at Dundee; Edward B. Reeves, quartermaster of H.M.S. Bellerophon, saved Wm. Williamson, A. 8., at sea, off Malta; E. V. James and J. Quintin, saved Miss Baldock, off the coast of St. Halo; Commander T. W. Tarlton, of H.M.S. Fox, saved C. H. Bath, painter, of same ship, at Rangoon —Captain Tarlton had previously saved the lite of a pciuter at Genoa, and received the silver medal for the same in January, 1861; Captain John R. Ward, R.N , saved Ann Mellanby, at Stockton-on-Tees; and John Lee Creak saved Miss Wilkins, off the coast of Brighton. The total number of cues reported for the year was 166; comprising 190 persons, of whom 180 bad been successfully treated. Phe number of attempte I suicides was 29, being • considerable diminution from the number in previous years. 'flie total number of bathers in the Serpentine during the year had been 273,800; the number of casualties 30, of which 6 that had occurred after the hour at which the society's boats were withdrawn, had terminated  fatally. The financial statement showed receipts for the year, including a balance left from the previous year of 941. le. 5d., to the amount of 1,9951. 3s. 11d. ; and a total expenditure of 1,9601. Is. 6d., leaving a balance of 351. 2s. sd. in hapd. Resolutions thanking and re-appointing the trustees, committee, chaplain, and secretary were then pawed, and the usual complinitnta having been paid to the chairman and acknowledged, the meeting separated.