Thursday, Sept. 6, 1855. Captain LAM- BERT PERROTT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and the Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Read letter from Count WALEWSKI, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating, in respect to the papers which had been forwarded to His Excellency respecting the models of life-boats, &c., exhibited by the Royal National Life-boat Institution at the Paris Exhibition, that he had called the at- tention of Prince NAPOLEON, as President of the Exhibition, to the same.

Mr. BENNETT, Agent to the Institution at the said Exhibition, stated that several offi- cial persons had inspected the models.

Read letter from the Swansea Harbour Trustees, requesting information respecting life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus.— Directed that the usual information on the subject be supplied to the Trustees.

Read letter from the Rev. JAMES WIL- LIAMS, transmitting a copy of the Report of the Anglesey Life-boat Branch, which stated that the six life-boats stationed on that island were in thorough repair, and that they were now in a more efficient state than they had been at any former period. The boats had been instrumental in saving 116 shipwrecked persons during the last eight years.—To ex- press the satisfaction of the Committee at receiving so favourable a report of the effi- ciency of the Establishment.

Reported the arrival of the Teignmouth and Tenby life-boats, and also the one formerly at Lytham, at Messrs. Forrestts yard; and that Mr. PEAKE had been requested to give instructions to have the three boats altered, as far as practicable, to his plan, agreeably to a previous decision of the Committee.

The Great Western, South Wales, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies, had kindly given a free pass to the two first- named life-boats.

Reported that the two set* of the 24- pounder MANBY Apparatus, ordered for the Commissioners of the Ramsgate Royal Harbour, had been forwarded from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to their destination.

Read letter from the Kessingland Company of boitmen, stating, after acknowledging the grant made to them by the Institution, in aid of their life-boat, that they had tested the set of life-belts presented to them by the Society, and that the result had been satis- factory.

Read and approved the Report of the Inspector of Life-boats on the state of the life-boats recently visited by him on the Lancashire and the Welsh Coasts.—Decided that the several suggestions in his Report be carried into effect as early as practi-' cable.

Read letter from Inspecting-Commander ADAM, of the Kenmare, County Kerry, Coast-guard District, transmitting replies to the life-boat queries of the Institution, from which it appeared that wrecks were not of frequent occurrence at Kenmare Lough, but stating that a life-boat would often be of service there in assisting fishing-boats in distress. The people were too poor to con- tribute anything towards the expense of a Life-boat Establishment.—Decided that a life-boat be placed on this station at an early opportunity.

Read letter from Captain SHOVELLER,R.M., chief-officer of the Kilmore Coast-guard Sta- tion, stating that he had been unsuccessful in organising a Committee to manage the life-boat of the Institution on that station.

The boat required various repairs to make her serviceable.—-Gave instructions to have the necessary repairs executed, previous to placing a new life-boat on the station.

Reported that His Grace the President of the Institution Lad given instructions to engage the services of a competent swim- ming-master from London, to teach some of the Northumbrian fishermen the art of swimming.

Reported that the Hauxley new life-boat had, during the past month, been sent from London to her station, in lieu of the former one, which was found too heavy for the locality.

The Inspector submitted to the Committee a hand-binnacle and compass for life-boats designed by him.—The same was approved, and the Committee decided that some of the life-boats of the Institution should be provided with them.

Resolved— 1. That a life-boat carriage, on the plan of the Whitby carriage, be supplied to the Fishguard life-boat.

2. That a truck and launching-ways be provided for the Portmadoc life-boat.

3. That the Aberdovey life-boat be re- paired, and supplied with a complete refit of stores.

4. That sundry stores be supplied to the Rhyl, Cemlyn, Penmon, Barmouth, and Car- digan life-boats.

Voted the silver medal of the Institution to Mrs. ELEANOR GALBRAITH, and to WM.

RAE, fisherman, in testimony of their humane and gallant conduct in rescuing one out of three persons, who, with RAE, had been upset in a cross sea from a small boat, near Whit- burn, on the coast of Durham, on the 6th ultimo. One of the men tried to cling to the boat, and was instantly drowned; and of the four men, RAE alone was able to swim. By his extraordinary exertions he succeeded in getting two of his comrades to a sunken rock, from which, however, the sea soon washed them all off. He then bade them cling to his clothes; and he thus actually swam with both some distance.

One of them, however, fell off exhausted, and was drowned; but the other man, named MURRAY, RAE succeeded, after almost super- human exertions, in getting to a safe footing in shallow water. Here Mrs. GALBRATTH rushed, with much presence of mind, over some precipitous and slippery rocks, into the water, which was attended with considerable danger, to their assistance. Both men were quite exhausted—indeed so much so, that MURRAY, it was stated, must have perished but for Mrs. GALBRATTH'S timely asistance.

Also a reward of 2L to two fishermen for their laudable conduct in their curraghs in going to the rescue of a master of a smack, who was thrown out of his vessel, near Foy Island, Donegal, on the 5th July last.

Also a reward of 2L 10s. to the crew of the Cemlyn life-boat, for putting off with the view of attempting to rescue the crew of four men of the sloop Ann Susannah, of Bangor, which became a total wreck near the Skerries on the 17th ultimo. The life-boat had just returned from her quarterly practice, having been out six hours, when a sloop on the rocks was observed by her crew. They immediately pulled out to the wreck—a distance of four miles—and found her partly sunk in the water, her stern only being visible, and her crew in the act of landing * D in their own boat.

The special thanks of the Committee were voted to the Rev. O. LLOYD WILLIAMS, of Llanfairynghornwy, and 51. to his life-boat's crew of five men, for putting off, early in the morning, to render assistance to the crew of the barque Regulus, which was totally wrecked on the Skerries, on the night of the 27th August last. They reached the scene of the wreck in about four hours, having had to contend with strong wind and tide; they found, however, that the ship's crew had landed on the previous night, the weather being, at the time when the vessel struck, quite calm. The wind having freshened considerably during the day, the boat was unable to return to her station till the following morning, having been out twenty-seven hours.

Also a reward of 9Z. to the crew of a fish- ing smack, for their praiseworthy services to two of the crew of the American passenger ship John Bright, which struck, with about 450 passengers on board, on Arklow Bank, on the Ii'ish coast, on the 24th ultimo. The smack had tried to reach the ship; she could not, however, cross the banks, but at the risk of losing both their lives and their property; her crew ran her fearlessly into the breakers, on observing two of the ships' company, who had been capsized from a boat, struggling in the water. Both were rapidly drifting outwards. One of the men was observed clinging to a short piece of wood, and the other to a life-buoy which had been thrown from the ship to them. They were picked up by the smack about a mile from the ship in an exhausted state, and must otherwise inevitably have perished.

The ship fortunately got off, and proceeded on her voyage.

Thursday, October 4, 1855. — THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Eevvard Sub-Committees.

Elected CHARLES LOMBE, Esq., a Vice- President of the Institution, in virtue of his munificent donation of 100?. in aid of the funds of the Society.

Read letter from the Board of Trade, transmitting a list of life-boat stations re- ported on by Commander ROBERTSON, R.N., during his recent tour of inspection.—To express the satisfaction of the Committee on finding that out of 27 life-boats belonging to the Institution, visited by Capt. ROBERT- SON, 24 were represented to be in an efficient state; and to say, that in regard to the three boats reported on as inefficient, measures would be taken to put them in a serviceable condition as soon as the funds of the Institution would enable the Com- mittee to do so.

Read letter from the Secretary to the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' So- ciety, transmitting from the Society a dona- tion of 200/. in aid of the funds of this Institution.—To be acknowledged.

Read letter from HENRY RICHARDSON, Esq., stating that he had given authority to his builder at Manchester to construct a tubular life-boat for Rhyl. The cost of the boat, with masts, sails, and gear complete, would be 200Z.—Decided that Mr. LEES, of Manchester, be accordingly instructed to build a boat.

Voted 31. to Coast-guard Chief-boatman, JOHN STARKE, of Cloyne station, and 21.

each to his boat's crew of four men, for rescuing, at considerable risk of life, seven men from a ship's boat, which was capsized in Cork Harbour during a gale of wind from S.S.W., on the evening of the 1st August, 1854. After the men, who were quite benumbed and exhausted, had been taken into the Coast-guard boat, it was found im- possible to reach the shore with the boat, on account of the violence of the gale and the strong ebb tide which caused the boat to drift out into the sea. The men were therefore compelled to take shelter on board a schooner in the offing, where they re- mained till the following morning. It was supposed on shore that they had all perished in the course of the night.

Voted a reward of 21. to four Coast-guard men at Kingsgate station, Broadstairs, for their promptitude in putting off to the rescue of two out of three men capsized from a boat in a sudden squall from the land, on the 16th Sept. last. One man unfortunately perished on the occasion, having previously had his leg broken off.

Thursday, Nov. 1, 1855. Captain LAM- BERT PERROTT in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the* previous meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

Mr. PEAKE brought before the Commit- tee a model of his second class life-boat.

A life-boat after it had been built for the National Life-Boat Institution by the Messrs. FORRESTT. A trial of the same had proved satisfactory.—The thanks of the Committee were given to Mr. PEAKE for having had the model made.

Read letter from Captain KENNEDY, R.N., Deputy-Comptroller General of the Coast- guard, stating that he had, on the application of the Committee, authorized the Inspecting Commander at Sunderland to take in charge the Rocket Apparatus at Tynemouth.

Read letter from Mr. LEES, of Manches- ter, stating that he had received the specifi- cations of the tubular life-boat for Rhyl, from Mr. RICHARDSON, the patentee, and that the boat would be commenced forth- with.

Read letters from Messrs. RANSOMES and SIMS, transmitting a model of a two-wheeled suspension carriage, designed by Captain WARD, R.N., and stating that the probable cost of a carriage, after it, would be 951.

Its weight would be about 42 cwt.—Decided that a carriage be built accordingly.

Read letters from the Aberdeen Harbour Trust, forwarding a tracing of their suspen- sion two-wheeled life-boat carriage. Its weight was about 2 tons, and its cost 200Z.

It was easily drawn, and answered its pur- pose admirably. A tracing of the carriage was presented to the Institution. They also reported, that the life-boat of the Trust, which is on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, and built by the Messrs. FORRESTT, under the sanction of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, had answered admirably, and that her crew had perfect confidence in her qualities.—De- cided that the thanks of the Committee be given to the Commissioners for the descrip- tion of the life-boat carriage, and for the tracing.

Read letter from the Rev. L. WYNNE JONES, transmitting an account, amounting to 721. 18s. Id., for making the launching ways to the Penmon (Anglesey) life-boat.

—Ordered the same to be paid.

Read letter from Captain AUSTEIST, R.N., of Newcastle, Dundrum Bay, expressing the satisfaction of the local Committee with the decision of the Institution to change their boat for one of a lighter description.

Read letter from Mr. BUTCHER, of Yar- mouth, reporting the completion of the Gorleston seamen's life-boat, and requesting that the payment promised by the Institu- tion in aid of the boat might be advanced to him.—Decided that the promised dona- tion of 501. be paid.

Read letter from Mr. WILCOX, of Whit- burn, transmitting accounts amounting to 15Z» 18s. Id., for exercising the life-boat, and sundry repairs to the life-boat house and carriage, and requesting payment of the same.—Ordered to be paid.

Read letters from Mr. SANDERSON, of Ber- wick, stating the safe arrival of the life-boat sent to them by this Institution. The boat had given them, as well as the fishermen of the place, much satisfaction, during a recent searching trial of her qualities.

Read letter from the Rev. WM. YATE, of Dover, stating that their life-boat, as recently altered for them under the directions of this Institution by the Messrs. FORRESTT, had acted admirably when tried. A good crew pulled her rapidly over a rough sea, and against the wind.

Read letter from Captain MAETIN, of Ramsgate, transmitting an account of the services of the Harbour Commissioners' life- boat to distressed vessels on the Goodwin Sands.—To be acknowledged.

Read letter from the Life-boat Committee at Aberdovey, transmitting an estimate, amounting to 2CW., for putting their life-boat into a state, of repair.—Ordered the boat to be repaired accordingly.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and two sovereigns each to THOMAS TEE- RETT, PATRICK HEAVEY, and MICHAEL NICHOLSON, three sub-constables, in testi- mony of their gallant conduct in putting off, at great risk of life, to the rescue of two men who were seen clinging to the mast of a boat which had sunk, during a heavy gale of wind, near Knock, on the coast of Clare, on the 19th of Sept., 1854. Also 21. each to two fishermen, who, on the entreaty of the constables, had accompanied them in the boat; and 2L to the owner for the use of his boat on the occasion.

Also 11. to two men for saving the crew of the sloop Hopewell, of Aberdovey, which, during violent and variable squalls, sank on the Swash Point, at the mouth of the Severn, in the Bristol Channel, on the 10th Oct. last.

Also 21. were voted to four Coast-guard men, for putting off in their galley to the rescue of two men who were upset by a rough sea and strong breeze, near Ardglass, on the coast of Down, on the 25th August last.

Also 21. to CHARLES CASE, and II. to his boat's crew, for saving four men, who were upset from a boat belonging to the Austrian brig Pridetta, in the Bristol Channel, on the 16th Oct. last The acci- dent appeared to have been caused by the boat running foul of a tow-rope. One boy was being carried away by the current, when CASE jumped overboard, and swam to his rescue.