Fully impressed as we are with the conviction that more life-boat stations, and improved organization of the boats already established, are the two most pressing wants on our coasts, we are gratified to be able to announce that since the publication of the Northumberland Report six new life-boats have been placed, while others are in course of construction. The first of these has been placed at Ramsgate, through the liberality of the Ramsgate Harbour Trustees; the others at Rhyl, Lytham, Teignmouth, Llanelly, and Tenby, by the Shipwrecked Fishermen's and Mariners' Benevolent Society.

RAMSGATE.—The vicinity of this station to the Goodwin Sands, from the north end of which it is distant only 6 miles, renders it peculiarly appropriate for apowerful life-boat.

The harbour trustees, accordingly, having witnessed the satisfactory performance of the boat built by BEECHING, of Great Yarmouth, after the model which gained the Northum- berland premium, have purchased her, and stationed her at this port. The boat is 36 feet long, 9 1/2 feet wide, 3 1/2 feet deep, and pulls 12 oars, double-banked; weight of boat and gear, 86 cwt., of water- ballast 60 cwt.; she frees herself readily of water, and will right in the event of being upset. A boat-house is in the course of construction, and the boat, placed under the charge of the well-known and experienced harbour-master Captain MARTIN, is sure to •be well taken care of. .Coxswain, JOHN HOGBIN ; second coxswain, STEPHEN PENNY.

Why should we not have a similar boat at the Dockyard Slip at Deal? RHYL, in Flintshire, on the north coast of Wales, lies about eight miles west of the Point of Ayr, one of the stations of the Liver- pool Dock Trustees. It lies in the track of all vessels bound to the river Dee and to Chester, and from the Menai Straits to Liverpool; several bad wrecks have occurred in the neigh- bourhood, and it is an important station. The boat placed here is a shallow, nearly flat- bottomed boat, of corrugated and galvanized iron, built by FRANCIS, of New York, 27 feet long, 7 feet wide, 2 1/2 feet deep, and pulls 6 oars single-banked. It stands in a boat- house on the beach, between the river and the sea, on the west side of the Clwyd, near high-water mark; OWEN JONES, coxswain of life-boat.

LYTHAM lies on the north side of the entrance of the river Ribble, which leads up to Preston, about seven miles north of Southport, where there is a life-boat chiefly supported by the Liverpool Dock Trustees.

The entrance of the river is encumbered by sand-banks, and many wrecks have hap- pened, one a very disastrous one in the sum- mer of 1851. The life-boat stationed here is 28 feet long, 7 feet wide, 3 1/2 feet deep, and pulls 10 oars double-banked; weight of boat and gear 35 1/2 cwt- °f water-ballast 25 cwt.; frees herself of water, and will right if upset; built by BEECHING, of Great Yar- mouth. The boat-house stands on the sands in front 'of the town. WILLIAM SWAN, coxswain of the boat.

LLANELLY.—A trial of a life-boat, built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, of Great Yarmouth, to be stationed at Llanelly, on the south coast of Wales, by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society, took place at Woolwich, the week before last, in presence of Admiral HENRY HOPE, C.B., Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY, and several members of that Society. The boat is 26 feet long, 6 feet 4 inches wide, 3 feet deep, has 26 inches sheer of gunwale, and pulls 8 oars, double- banked. She has side air-cases, fore and aft under the thwarts, and raised air-cases, 4 feet long in the extremes, up to the gunwale height. She is clench-built, of fir, and weighs, when light, only 21 cwt., gear 5 cwt., and water-ballast, when admitted, 18 cwt. Draft 'of water when light, 9 inches, when loaded 16 1/2 inches. On being hove keel out under a crane, the boat righted herself in 5 seconds of time, and freed her- self of water in 20 seconds.

The boat took 10 men on board, besides her crew, and in smooth water pulled fast. She is intended to be stationed at Llanelly, where she will be hoisted up to the davits of the light vessel that lies several miles off-shore, as a guide to the very intricate navigation of that part of the British Channel; which renders it liable to wrecks.

(To be continued.).