THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there, together with a transporting-carriage and complete equipment. The whole were conveyed to Thurso in October last.

The position of Thurso on the south shore of the Pentland Frith, through which dangerous channel numberless vessels pass every year, makes it a very desirable station for a life-boat. The cost (1801) of this boat was presented to the Institution by A. W. JAFFRAT, Esq., of London, who had also given the cost of the St. Andrew's and Whitby life-boats to the-.Institution.

BUCKIE, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been established at the important fishing- village of Buckie, on the coast of Banffshire, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

A similar boat to that sent to Thurso was forwarded there in October last, with a transporting-carriage. The cost (180Z.) of this life-boat was also presented * The life-boats hereafter named, were, as usual, liberally conveyed to their several stations, free of charge, by the following Railway and Steam Packet Companies:—viz., Railway Companies—Great Western; London and North- Western; Great Northern; London, Brighton, and South- Coast; South Wales; Chester and Holyhead; North-Eastera; North British; Glasgow and South-Western; Scottish North-Eastera; Great North of Scotland; Banff and Portsoy.

Steam Packet Companies—General Steam Navigation; London and Belfast; Aberdeen, Iftith, and Clyde; Londonderry and Belfast.

to the Institution by the same benevolent lady who gave the cost of the St. Ives, Newquay, and Tyrella life-boats.

POKTRUSH, IRELAND.—A branch of the Institution has been formed at Portrush, on the north coast of Ireland, and a 30-feet single-banked boat was placed there, with a transporting-carriage, &c., in December last.

A lady (M. A. C. S." presented 1801 to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, to pay the cost of this life-boat. She also gave a similar amount for the Porthcawl life-boat.

LLANDUDNO, NORTH WALES.—A branch of the Institution has been formed at Llandudno, and a 32-feet double-banked lifeboat and transporting-carriage have been placed there. The cost of this boat (200?.) was presented to the Institution by two ladies, resident at Liverpool, in memory of a deceased sister, and she has accordingly been appropriately named The Sisters' Memorial. She was conveyed, with her transporting-carriage and stores, to her station in January last. This boat completes the series of life-boat stations on the north coast of Wales, for the protection of the immense shipping trade sailing to and from the great port of Liverpool.

PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—A life-boat station, in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has been established 'at Penarth, on the northern shore of the Bristol Channel, where vessels frequently get stranded on the shoals of the neighbourhood, and lives are sometimes lost. A single-banked life-boat, 30 feet long, with transporting-carriage, &c., has been supplied to the station, and was forwarded to it hi January last. The cost (200Z.) of this life-boat was given by GEORGE GAY, Esq., of Cotham Park.

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. —• The Whitby Life-boat Society have recently joined the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and become one of its branches, and a 32-feet double-banked life-boat, on the Institution's self-righting plan, has been placed there, together with a transporting-carriage, in lieu of the unfortunate boat which upset there and drowned all her crew except one man in February last. The cost (2001.) of this boat was likewise presented to the Institution by A. W. JAFFRAY, Esq. She was, in April last, conveyed gratuitously to her station by the several railway companies between London and Whitby.

IRVINE, SCOTLAND.—This life-boat station has been transferred to the management of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which has sent there a new 30-feet single-banked, 6-oared life-boat and transporting-carriage.

Some lamentable wrecks have occurred on this part of the west coast of Scotland.

The cost of the life-boat (180Z.) was generously presented to the Institution by Miss PRINGLE KIDD, of Lasswade Bank.

The life-boat, transporting-carriage, and stores were forwarded to Irvine, in May last.

SELSEY. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently placed a life-boat at Selsey, in Sussex, for the protection of the crews of vessels which get stranded on the Ower's Banks, and other shoals in the neighbourhood of Selsey Bill. Selsey being only a poor fishing-village, a branch of the Institution has been formed at Chichester, to aid in supporting this establishment, with the title of the Chichester and West Sussex Branch of the National Life-boat Institution. A double-banked life-boat, 35 feet long, and rowing 12 oars, was forwarded to Chichester, together with a transporting- carriage, on the 5th of June, whence, after a public exhibition of some of her properties, she was drawn to her station on her own carriage. The cost (180Z.) of this boat was presented to the Institution by some members of the Society of Friends.

At each of the above stations substantial boat-houses have been built for the protection of the several boats, and local committees of management have been organized in accordance with the custom and rules of the Institution..