PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by Miss BUEDETT COUTTS, was sent there in February last.

On this occasion a grand display was made; the boat being drawn through the streets with her crew on board, accompanied by bands of music and a procession headed by the Mayor and other town authorities.

Nearly the whole of the large population of the adjoining towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, and of their neighbourhood, being assembled in the streets to welcome and do honour to the first Plymouth life-boat.

A substantial boat-house has been built for the safety and protection of the boat and her gear, at the local cost, and a considerable annual subscription has been raised for the future support of the establishment, the salary of the coxswain, and the quarterly exercise of the crew.

KINGSGATE, KENT.—A new life-boat station has been this year established at Kingsgate by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a small 6-oared life-boat and carriage was sent there in January last. As the Institution has another station at Margate, and there are also life-boats at Broadstairs and Ramsgate, the protection of life on the southern shore of the entrance to the Thames may now be considered as amply provided for.

A local Committee of gentlemen of the neighbourhood, in accordance with the general custom of the Institution, has been formed for the management of the establishment, and the cost of a substantial boat-house for the reception of the boat and her transportingcarriage was raised in the locality.

DUNDEE, SCOTLAND.—The local Life-boat Association at Dundee has this year followed the example of the many others which have thrown in their lot with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION; and that Society has replaced one of their old boats by another of the latest construction, and refitted their whole establishment. A new and substantial boat-house has also been built at Broughty Ferry, on the north shore of the frith of Tay for the new boat, which has also been provided with an excellent transporting-carriage. The cost of this life-boat and her transportingcarriage was collected through the indefatigable exertions of Mrs. MART HARTLEY, formerly of Bideford, Devon. The boat and carriage were built, as usual, in London, by the builders to the Society, and were forwarded to Dundee in February last.

KINGSTOWN, POOLBEG, and HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY.—The Ballast Corporation of Dublin having requested the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to undertake the management of the three Life-boat stations of Dublin Bay, viz., at Kingstown, Howth, and Poolbeg, and their request having been acceded to, three new life-boats, with transporting- carriages, have been supplied and fully equipped; and new houses have also been erected at the expense of the Institu- tion at Howth and Poolbeg. The Kingstown and Poolbeg life-boats were forwarded in March last, and that for Howth during the past month. The Ballast Corporation will contribute 50?. annually towards the cost of these establishments, leaving the Institution to collect the remainder of the sum necessary for their efficient maintenance, and for the quarterly exercise of their crews and their coxswain's salaries, from the inhabitants of Dublin.

THORPE.—The inhabitants of the town of Ipswich and its neighbourhood having munificently subscribed the sum of 500?., and presented the same to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, to enable it to place one or more additional life-boats on the coast, and it being especially wished by the subscribers that one such boat should be stationed on the coast of Suffolk, the Thorpeness station was selected, at which place a larger and better boat was required than that already there. Accordingly, in May last, a new 10-oared boat, 33 feet long, and of the latest construction, furnished with a transporting-carriage, was sent to Thorpe, after being first publicly exhibited at Ipswich, and subjected to various experimental tests in the presence of many thousands assembled to witness the same. An account of the exhibition and the enthusiastic reception which the boat received, will be found in the last Number of this Journal, page 141.

WlTHERNSEA, YORKSHIRE. A life-boat station has been recently established at Withernsea, a few miles north of the entrance to the Humber, and a splendid boat, 34 feet long, rowing either 12 oars double banked, or 6 oars single banked, was forwarded there from London by the Institution in August last. The cost of this boat was presented to the Institution by Miss LECHMERE, of Hanley Castle, in Worcestershire.

The boat is provided with an excellent transporting-carriage, and a substantial boat-house has been built for her. On the arrival of the life-boat at Withernsea, she was publicly exhibited and tested, and was much approved of by her crew and all who saw her. On account of the large amount of shipping which enters and leaves the Humber, in addition to the great passing trade, it was very desirable that a life-boat should be stationed in this locality..