GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a protection to the shipping frequenting that prosperous trading mart, which was much required. This boat is a 28 ft. boat, rowing six oars single-banked. She has been tried by her crew in a heavy sea, and is very highly spoken of by them. She will be supplied with a transporting-carriage, and a handsome, substantial, and serviceable boathouse is being built for her on a site of ground granted by J. W. MAXWELL, Esq., the proprietor of Groomsport. The cost of the house has been raised locally, by the inhabitants of Groomsport and its neighbourhood, and by residents at Belfast. Annual contributions towards the permanent expenses of the establishment have likewise liberally come forward.

Major PERCEVAL MAXWELL, of Groomsport House, the Treasurer of the local Committee, and Mr. BOAG, of Belfast, have taken great interest in the formation of this branch of the Institution.

PALLING, NORFOLK.—A new 30 ft. lifeboat, rowing ten oars double-banked, with a suitable carriage, has been placed at Palling, to replace another boat which had proved herself inefficient. This station being one of those recently transferred to the Institution, by the union with it of the late Norfolk Shipwreck Association, the cost of the new boat and carriage will be defrayed from the capital of that body, which it had been decided should be expended in renovating the life-boat establishments on the Norfolk coast.

DOVER.—A new 28 ft. single-banked boat rowing six oars, has been placed at Dover in lieu of the boat previously there, which had been found unsuitable to the locality.

HASTINGS.—A branch of the Institution has been formed at Hastings and St. Leonards, and a 30 ft. boat, rowing ten oars double-banked, has been 'stationed at Hastings, provided with a good transporting carriage.

A substantial boat-house has been built at the expense of the local subscribers to the undertaking, and a liberal annual subscription is promised for its permanent support.

Wrecks are not very freque at Hastings, but the wreck of a vessel and the loss of her whole crew, close off the town last winter, induced the laudable desire on the part of the residents of these rich and flourishing watering-places, to be provided with all means to prevent any such lamentable occurrence in future.

Th"e arrival of this boat on her station on Easter Monday last was inaugurated by a grand procession of the public authorities, headed by the members of the botough, in which the greater part of the population took part, the boat being drawn on her carriage, with her crew on board, through the leading thoroughfares of the two towns, and then launched before the assembled multitude.

BRIGHTON.—A Branch of the Institution has also been formed at Brighton, where a wreck, which was near being attended with loss of life likewise, took place last winter.

A double-banked 30-ft. boat, rawing ten oars, and similar in all respects to that at Hastings, and complete with a transportingcarriage, has been placed here, the work being liberally contributed to by the inhabitants of the town. This boat was also publicly tried on her arrival at her station, where she afforded general satisfaction to those who will be called on to use her.

FIRE AT MESSES. FORREST'S BOAT-BUILDERS, LIMEHOUSE.—An extensive fire took place on the night of the 19th June, on {he premises of Messrs. Forrestt, Limehouse, when, we regret to state, six life-boats belonging to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION were unfortunately consumed.

The life-boats were completed, or nearly so, and arrangements were about to be made to send them to their stations, at Cromer, Boston, and Mundesley, in Norfolk; Fraserburgh, in Scotland; and Rosslare and Kilmore, on the Irish Coast.

By this sad calamity the completion of these important life-boat stations will now be materially retarded. Some life-boat fittings, cork life-belts, liquid life-boat compasses, cordage, and other valuable stores, were likewise entirely lost to this philanthropic Institution, which has of late years been making such great efforts to supply the coast with efficient life-boots.