The Sun. — 1859-01-13 (London, England)

THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.  The eighty-fifth annual general meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday at the office, Trafalgar-square ; Mr. B. B. Cabbell in the chair.  Mr. YOUNG (the Secretary) read the report, detailing the operations of the committee during the past year, -which stated that the total number of cases of rescue, or attempted rescue from drowning brought under the notice of the society during the past year was 169, involving 281 persons. Of these 179 were successfully treated, and 11 were unfortunately beyond recovery. 31 cases of attempted suicide had occurred, and 27 cases had been espeeially referred to the committee. The number of medals awarded for courageous and devoted conduct in rescuing drowning persons was 66. Thanks were also recorded on vellum and presented to seven persons, and on parchment to 14 persons; while pecuniary rewards had been given to 86 persons. The number of bathers in the Serpentine during the past season had been 165,200, and it was gratifying to record that in no case had any fatal casualty occurred. The statement of income and expenditure for the year ended the 31st December last showed that £lB2 had been carried forward from the preceding year ; that subscriptions, donations, &c., had amounted to the sum of £1,718, and legacies to £45, making a total of £1,946. After deducting the expenditure a balance remained in hand of £79. The report was adopted, and votes of thanks passed to the president and officers of the society. The following cases were among those especially submitted to the meeting, as deserving of the silver medal of the society :—The Hon. T. J. Wynn, for saving Charles Vernon Hassall, military student, from the Thames, June 3d last; Mr. C. Pates, for saving Lewis James Knight, surgeon, from the Exe, at Exeter, April 18 ; Mons. M.Jacques Fosse, for saving Foulchier, blacksmith, at Beruciere, Aug. 5; Mr. Francis Hixon, for having saved Thomas Ross, acting mate of H.M.S. Herald, at sea, off Port Jackson, June 4 ; Viscount Hastings, for saving Henry B. Gough, from the river Suir, at Waterford, Aug. 8 , Sergeant John Buckley, Royal Limerick County Regiment, for saving Sergeant Mathew Mahony and. Private J. Buston at sea off Hythe, Kent, Sept. 22 ; Captain Edward Robarts, for saving Charles Butt at Little Hampton, Sussex, Oct. 1 ; Mr. G. J. Anstruther, midshipman, her Majesty's ship Magician, for saving T. Mills, seaman, at China, Aug. 30 ; Mr. John Sullivan, boatswain, her Majesty's ship Gorgon, for saving John Martin, A. 8., at Halifax, North America, Sept. 6 ; Miss Lucy Rowbotham, for saving H. C. Rowbotham from a tank, at Woolwich, Oct. 12 ; May Stout Hectorson, for saving the lives of two fishermen at Yell, off the Shetland Islands, Sept. 9 ; Corporal Thomas G. Warren, for saving John Gee, boy, her Majesty's ship Waterloo, in the sea at Sheerness, Sept. 17 ;- Assistant Surgeon J. Davis, 57th Regiment, for saving Private Powell, 33d Regiment, at Bombay, Oct. 13 ; Joseph Saunders, A. 8., her Majesty's ships Liffey, for saving Frederick Wraith, A. 8., same ship, at Devonport, Sept. F. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned.  [