The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-08-31 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ROLL OF TIIE BRAVE. it • meeting of the Royal Humane Society, held on Tuesday, it was stated that an unprecedented number of cases in which persons had risked their own lives in various parts of the world, many of them in saving distingnished by great gallantr othersy, from drowning, had been investigated by the committee of the society and rewarded. The silver medallion of the souiety was maul. mouldy voted to George E. Speed, k.igiesmas, of her Majesty's ship Glasgow, for trying, but unfortunately Without BUCCOBS, to save John Langley, a private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, who fell overboard at sea in lat. 4.37 8., and long. 84.17 E., under the following eireumstanoes :—Shortly after noon on the 24th of June, the ship being under steam and going at the rate of six knots an hour, an alarm of Man overboard" was given, and Sp..ed seeing the man pass under the quarter on Ms book in a helpless state, with his head net above water and his arms in the air, having evidently sustained a serious injury in Ids fall from the lower rigging (where hnV7l,6 hanging his clothes to dry), jutudemt from the poop after him. Langley, however, was seen from the ship to go down before Speed, in spite of his best efforts, could reach him, and was drowned.  The clasp of the society, the recipient having before been awarded the model for saving life, was given to John James Bone for resoning R. Mothersill, who was seized with cramp while lathing at Messenger's Island, Sarbiton, on the 17th of June. The bronze medallion was awarded to Francis Coates for leaving William Takla, who sank while bathing is the River lick, at Newport, Monmouth. shire, on the 4th ult.; to Woodas Johnson for savingThomas lienigham, who sank while bathing in 8 feet of water at Pier.head, Westport, on the Site ult.; to James Raper for saving Frederick Benda, whe attempted suicide by Funning into the sea at Hastings on the 9th nit. ; to Henry G. Percy 4 boy 14 year, of age, for caving another boy named Horses Pike, who was in danger of drowning at White Cliff Mill. Blandford, on the 17th of Jane; he George W. B. Creek for saving Charles King and Claude Clements, who each while bathing in the River Ooze, Ely, on the Bth nit.; to Owen Corley jor saving _Albert Bennett, who fell into 14 feet of water at Harwich on this 10th nit. ; to Samoa Sharpe, a boy 14 years of age, teslonging to the training-ship Mare, for saving an old woman named Morrison, who fell overboard at Woodhaven Pier, Fife, into 13 feet of water; to Henry James Renshaw, a youth of 16, for saving another boy named Thomas E. Whitehead, who conk while bathing in the Mill Shrine, Milton, Kent, on the 21st alt,; to John Phillips, a private in the King's Dragoon Guards for saving a comrade named Hawkins, who fell from his horse into the River Liffey on the 12th silt.; to Thomas W. Evans, for saving John Morris, who got out of his depth while bathing at Longhor. bridge, South Wales on the Ist inst. ; to Ernest If. Phillips and Richard Giles, of her Majesty's ship Thalia, for saving Mrs. Thompson, who fell a distance of MI feet from a bridge at Plroonth. into 15 feet of water, on tho let instant; to Alfred Ingham, a boy eleven years of age, for saving William who fell into 10 feet of water in the canal of Sowerbybridge, Yorkshire, on the 27th silt.; to John Stuart, for saving Margaset Allen, who fell off the rocks into the sea, into 12 feet of water, in Cove Bay, Aberdeen to George A. Thompson, for saving Jobe G. White, who sank while bathing at Mapledurhare Weir, Berkshire, on the 24th oil.; to John White, for saving Patrick Fay, who attempted suicide by jumping into 15 feet of water in the river Liffey Dublin, on the 10th inst. _ .  Testimonials, inscribed- on vellum and on parchment, were also presented to Robert P. S. Taylor and William John Le Grand, for saving Mr. Dorman, • student of Trinity College, Dublin, who was capsized from a canoe into nine fathoms of water, at Blackpoint, Queenstown, on the 6th ult.; to Alexander Payne, for saving Andrew Dahig, who sank while bathing in the Blandon River on the 7th tat.; to William Sampson, for saving John Ramon, ivhis sank while bathing in the Regent's Canal, Old Ford; toJohn Latimer Lyle, for saving Johnjones, whowas in danger of drowning at the Giant's Pool, Carmarthen, on the 22nd ;to William Toulman, for saying Richard Bernard, who fell into the mill stream, St. Giles', Reading; to James Bamford, for saving Samuel Norman, who fell loth the canal lock, at Slaithwaite, Yorkseire ; to Francis Ahier de. Is Marc, for saving Mrs. Clereaux, who was carried out to sea while bathing at St. Helier'a, Jersey, on the 20th silt.; to George Setohell, for saving three boys, who sank while bathing in 13 feet of water in Ithe River Onse, Bideford; to Sydney Friday, for saving Alfred Hooton, who sank while bathing in the River: Nose, Wisbech, on the 21th nit.; in Charles Good, for saving Thomas Caine, who was capsized from a boat in Douglas Harbour, Isle of Man, oaths 21st ult.; to Bernard Clanely, for saving Jeremiah Leahy, who fell into the River Lee, at Cork, on the 23rd ult.; and to Bernard Stiebel for saving Harry Willbond, who sank while bathing in the River Trent, at ft agleford Ferry, Notts, on the 6th ult.