SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and a new boat-house is being built at the Mumbles Point, at the entrance of Swansea Bay. The Harbour Trust, which is required by its Act of Incorporation to provide a life-boat, will contribute 100Z. towards the large expense incurred in the renovations of the station, and will make an annual grant towards its permanent maintenance. On account of the great and increasing trade at Swansea, this is an important life-boat establishment, although wrecks have not very frequently occurred in its immediate neighbourhood.

This life-boat has been named the Martha and Anne, after the two daughters of MICHAEL STEELE, Esq., of Begbrooke-house, near Oxford, who presented the Institution with 100Z. towards its cost. The boat was liberally conveyed to its station, free of charge, by the Great Western Railway Company, in October last.

FILEY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has placed a new 10-oared lifeboat at Filey, in Yorkshire, where there was previously one of the old class of boats, which was built as far back as the year 1825.

The new boat was sent to her station in November last, and was publicly launched there on the 26th of that month, under the superintendence of Captain DAVID ROBERTSON", R.N., the assistant inspector of life-boats of the Institution. Her cost was generously presented to the Institution by R. W. HOLLON, Esq., and Mrs. HOLLON, the Lord Mayor of York and his Lady, and it is named the Hollon, after them. Situated near the dangerous locality of Flamborough Head, wrecks have always been numerous in Filey Bay, and a large number of lives have been saved at different periods by the life-boat formerly stationed there. The new boat was liberally taken to Filey from London, free of charge, by the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies.

We append to this brief account a Report from the local newspapers of the inauguration of the life-boat on the 26th of November last.

" At twelve o'clock a procession was formed at the railway station, consisting of the members of the 2nd East York Artillery Volunteers, the Orders of Ancient Shepherds and Odd Fellows, the local Life-boat Committee, the clergy, and a large number of the gentry from Scarborough and the neighbourhood. The artillery were drawn up in lines at each side of the road, preserving a clear space for the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.

Previous to the starting of the procession, Mr. J. Unett, addressed bis Lordship, thanking him on behalf of the town for his munificent gift. The Lord Mayor then made the following reply:— ' Ladies and gentlemen, for this extraordinary demonstration of your feelings towards me, I can scarcely find words of acknowledgment; but I assure you it is from my heart that I thank you on behalf of myself and Mrs. Hollon. We feel that if ever there is a worthy institution amongst us— one deserving of the generous support of all classes —it is the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

We are all in some measure indebted to the services of our brave sailors for many of the comforts we enjoy—from the tobacco of the poor labouring man to the more costly luxuries of the rich. Nationally, we ought to feel bound to protect the lives of our loyal tars, who have ever been ready to defend our shores from the attacks of the invader, both in times of yore and even now. But for them our homes might be subject to the torch of the invader, and we might have to sit down like Marius and deplore the fallen glory of our once great empire. It must indeed be a proud consideration for the men of Filey if they have to think hereafter that they have saved but one single life.

It might be thought singular that I, who reside in an inland part, should be the donor of a life-boat to the coast. But we once—my wife and myself— had the misfortune to be placed in a situation of the most imminent peril at sea during a storm.

We were providentially saved from a watery grave, and since then Mrs. Hollon suggested to me the appropriateness of commemorating our merciful preservation by presenting a life-boat, through the Institution, to some place where it might be needed.

This boat is the result of my acquiescence in her wishes, and I assure you nothing could give me greater pleasure than I now feel in presenting this boat to the people of Filey.'—Three cheers were then given for the LORD MAYOR, three for the LADY MAYORESS, with cheers for Mr. UNETT, the crew of the life-boat, and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the life-boat was then launched from her carriage into the sea." We are happy to add, that the life-boat has already done good service. Mr. R.

WHITE, the zealous honorary Secretary of the Branch, reports, " that very early on Tuesday morning, the 1st of December, some fishing-cobles belonging to Filey were caught in a strong gale from S.S.E. and a rough sea. One coble was upset while coming in, but as it was near the beach, the men were fortunately enabled to get ashore.

Seeing the dangerous position of the other cobles, the new life-boat was at once launched, and put off to give help. She was, fortunately, instrumental in saving the lives of two out of three men, whose boat had capsized in the heavy surf." LLANELLY, SOUTH WALES.—A new lifeboat station has been formed at Pembrey, near Llanelly, and a new 6-oared life-boat has been forwarded there, in lieu of a smaller boat that had been previously kept at the floating light-ship off the entrance to that port. The cost of the new boat was raised by subscription in Bath and its neighbourhood, chiefly through the exertions of F. BEDWELL, Esq., of Bath. The life-boat has been named the City of Bath. It is provided with a transporting-carriage and all other useful appliances, and a substantial boat-house has been erected at the joint expense of the Institution and of the locality.

The Great Western. Railway Company, with their usual liberality, conveyed the boat and carriage from London to Llanelly free of charge, on the 27th of November last.

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—A new 32-oared life-boat has been placed at Arklow by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of a smaller boat previously there which had become decayed. She was kindly conveyed to Milford from London, free of charge, by the Great Western Railway Company in November last, and thence sailed across the Channel to Arklow, in company with a Eevenue cruiser, which had been kindly permitted to take charge of her by the Controller- General of Coast-guard. She has been named the Arundel Venables, after a gentleman of that name, who left a legacy of 500Z. to the Institution.

EASTBOURNE.—A new 10-oared life-boat has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at Eastbourne, in lieu of an old boat which had been there since the year 1822. The cost of this boat was presented to the Institution by a gentleman under the signature of A. B., and has, at his wish, been named the Mary Stirling. She combines all the latest improvements in the life-boats of the Society. She was liberally conveyed to Eastbourne, from London, in November last, free of charge, by the London, Brighton, 'and South Coast Railway Company.