ALTHOUGH, considering its benevolent object, the small site of ground that is usually required to build a life-boat house on is not likely frequently to become the subject of litigation, yet the Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution have been occasionally requested by its branches to furnish them with information respecting the party in whose name the lease of a lifeboat house should be prepared.

A question of this character was recently submitted to them; and in order to remove any further misgivings on the point, it was decided to obtain counsel's opinion on the matter. That opinion has been promptly and gratuitously given by FRANCIS BRODIGAN, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, and of Pilton House, Drogheda. He himself takes much interest in the establishment of life-boats, and the extension of harbours of reiuge and light-houses, on the north-east coast of Ireland. He is now actively engaged, in conjunction with several local gentlemen, in stationing a life-boat at Drogheda, in connection with the above-named Institution.

Mr. BHODIGAN'S opinion is as follows :— " I have read the solicitor's letter from , of the 6th August, 1855, in reference to the question therein raised as to the proper party to act as lessee of the ground about to be given for, the site of a boathouse at , and am of opinion that it should be made to the trustees of the funds of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution.

When societies for public purposes, such as building or others, are constituted by Act of Parliament, express powers are generally given which designate the parties by whom and to whom leases and other instruments are made and granted, who are, in most cases, the trustees of such societies.

" In the clubs of London, and other selfconstituted societies, the same rule is gene- rally followed; and as the Royal National Life-Boat Institution and its branches are so far analogous, not being legally incorporated, I should say that die proper party or parties to whom leases of ground for lifeboat- houses should be made, would be to any or all of the trustees of the Institution, (Signed) " FRANCIS BRODIGAN.".