HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A new life-boat on PEAKE'S design has been recently placed at Hauxley by the National Life-boat Institution, in lieu of the one previously stationed there, which was found to be too heavy, and to draw too much water for so flat a beach.

This boat, which is one of a class that this Institution is now placing on the coasts, is of a very superior character, and well deserving the attention of all persons interested in the subject of saving life from shipwreck.

She is a similar boat to that placed at Boulmer last year. She is 30 feet long, with 7-Jr feet beam, and rows 10 oars. She possesses both great stability and speed, and would self-right if upset. Her crew have expressed much satisfaction with her. She was conveyed to her station in August last.

LYTHAM, LANCASHIRE.—A new life-boat on Mr. PEAKE'S design, in all respects similar to that above described, was placed at Lytham by this Institution in August last, in lieu of the one previously stationed there by the Shipwrecked .Fishermen and Mariners' Society, which was considered to be too small, and to be otherwise unsuitable for the locality. She was conveyed by the North Western Railway to Liverpool, and thence taken by water to her station. She is much approved of by her crew, and considered in all respects suitable to the locality.

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—A new life-boat, similar in dimensions and properties to the preceding, has been stationed at Berwick on- Tweed, at the joint expense of this Institution and of subscribers in the locality, to .replace the boat previously stationed there, which was completely worn out. Her crew have expressed themselves as much satisfied with her.

Some idea may be formed of the exertions now being made by the National Lifeboat Institution to supply the coasts with efficient life-boats, when we state that this is the fifth boat of this description placed by it during the past twelvemonths, and that the first cost of each is 156Z., independently of gear, carriages, and houses to contain them.

KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK.—In the account we gave, in our 15th Number, of the establishment of a life-boat by the seamen of Scratby, in Norfolk, we stated that we hoped to see this novel feature hi the cause of " preservation of life from shipwreck," exhibit itself in other localities; nor has our wish been long unanswered, as we have now the gratification to record the establishment of two other " seamen's life-boats." The boatmen at Kessingland, in emulation of their brethren in the neighbouring county of Norfolk, and having often experienced the want of a life-boat in their locality, determined to exert themselves to procure one; and having first put their own shoulders to the wheel, and collected amongst themselves the sum of 73Z.,' they applied to this Institution in July last for assistance; and as they could not hope to raise a sufficient amount to build a new boat suitable to the locality, the cost of which would have been 200/., they purchased one which happened to be for sale at Southwold, and which, with some repairs and refitting, could be made efficient. The application to the Institution was answered by a grant of 107. and a set of life-belts, value 141., for the use of the boat's crew.

Thus, through the enterprise and humanity of the coast seamen themselves, another lifeboat has been provided on a dangerous part of the coast for the relief of the shipwrecked mariner, who might otherwise have been left to perish.

The Kessingland life-boat is 40 feet long, with 11 feet beam, and is similar in character to the sailing life-boats on the Norfolk coast.

GORLESTONE, SUFFOLK.—The second instance, which we have now with much gratification to record, of the establishment of a life-boat in a manner so honourable to the coast-seamen themselves, is that at Gorlestone, near the south entrance to the port of Great Yarmouth. Encouraged, no doubt, by the "success which had attended the creditable efforts of their brethren elsewhere, and aided and encouraged in their undertaking by a gentleman of Great Yarmouth, who has always taken much interest in the life-boat cause—MATTHEW BUTCHER, Esq., —they set to work, and shortly, through their own subscriptions, the assistance of friends to the cause, and a donation of 501. from this Institution, they were enabled to order a first-class life-boat at a cost of 200Z., from Messrs. BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, This boat is 40 feet long, and similar in other respects to the Scratby lifeboat described in the 15th Number of this Journal. She was placed on her station at the latter end of October last, and has already rendered important service by saving the lives of a vessel's crew, who would in all probability have otherwise been drowned, —an account of which we had hoped to receive in time for insertion in this Number of our Journal.