DOVER.—A new life-boat and transporting- carriage have been sent to Dover by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the former boat stationed there being considered to be too small, and not to have sufficient rowing power. The new boat is 32 feet long by 7 feet 4 inches wide, and rows 10 oars double-banked. She is built of Honduras mahogany, and possesses all the latest improvements that have been introduced.

Her cost was collected in the county of Wiltshire by Captain N. J. REED, R.N., of Marlborough, and presented to the Institution.

She has been named, by request, The Royal Wiltshire. She was publicly launched on the occasion of the Dover Regatta, on the 25th of August last, Captain REED and his daughter being launched in her, on which occasion the boat was generally admired, and gave every satisfaction to her crew. The life-boat and carriage were liberally conveyed to Dover, free of charge, by the South-Eastern Railway Company.

HOLYHEAD.-—A new life-boat has been stationed at Holyhead, the former boat which was there being considered too small and deficient in sailing properties for this important station. The new boat is 36 feet long by 8 feet 4 inches wide, and rows 12 oars double-banked. Her cost was presented to the Institution by JOSEPH LEATHER, Esq., of Liverpool, and she has been named by him The Princess of Wales.

She is a noble boat, and has given the greatest satisfaction to her crew. She was conveyed to her station in June last, with their usual liberality, by the London and North-Western Railway Company, free of charge.

NEW BRIGHTON, LANCASHIRE.—A new life-boat was placed at New Brighton, at the entrance of the Mersey, by this Institution in July last, to be placed there, in addition to the iron tubular boat previously on that station, and which had been found too heavy and slow for general use. The cost of this boat was also presented to the Institution by Mr. LEATHER. She is built of iron, but on the usual plan of the self-righting boats of the Institution.

She is 33 feet long by 8 feet wide, and rows 10 oars. She has been named by Mr. LEATHER The Willie and Arthur, after two of his sons. She was also conveyed to her station, free of charge, by the London and North Western Railway Company. She has since been off three times to the aid of vessels in distress on the banks, and has given every satisfaction to her crew.

SENNEN COVE, LAND'S END. — A new life-boat has been sent to Semen Cove to replace a much smaller boat previously there. The cost of the new boat was presented to the Institution by Mrs. MARYANN DAVIS, of Bideford, and has been named by her The Cousins William and Mary Ann of Bideford. The new boat is 33 feet long, by 8 feet wide; built of Honduras Mahogany. She was gratuitously conveyed to Penzance in July last, by the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and Cornwall, and the West Cornwall Railway Companies, and thence towed to her station by a revenue-cruiser, by permission of the Controller-general of the Coastguard.

She has given great satisfaction to her crew.

As the coast here is exposed to the great swell that sets in from the Atlantic Ocean, which falls in huge breakers on the shores, a boat of the finest description is required.

PORTHDINLLAEN, CARNARVON BAY.—A life-boat station has been founded by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Porthdinllaen, and a first-class life-boat, 36 feet long by 8 feet 4 inches wide, has been placed there. Her cost was presented to the Institution by Lady COTTON SHEPPARD, being the third boat munificently presented to it by that lady. The boat has been named The Cotton Sheppard. She was liberally conveyed to Carnarvon, free of charge, by the London and North-Western Railway Company, and sailed thence to Porthdinllaen, where she has given great satisfaction to the men who will be called on to work her. A substantial boat-house and stone slipway have been built at the station; and an honorary Local Committee has been formed to superintend the establishment, in accordance with the usual custom of the Institution.

CARDIGAN.—A new life-boat has been sent by the Institution to Cardigan, to replace a boat of a different construction previously there. The new boat is on the Institution's self-righting plan, and is 32 feet long by 7 feet 4 inches wide, of mahogany build. Her cost was presented to the Institution, it having been raised by subscription in Manchester, together with the cost of three other boats, chiefly by the exertions of ROBERT WHITWORTH, Esq., of that city. She has been reported highly of by her crew. She was kindly conveyed to New Milford by the Great Western Railway Company, free of charge. She has been named by Mr. WHITWORTH The John Stuart, after a gentleman residing in Manchester, who had kindly promised to give Mr. WHITWORTH l0l in aid of the cost of every life-boat he would succeed in raising.

REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat has been sent by the Institution to Redcar, to take the place of an old boat which was completely worn out. The new boat is on the Institution's self-righting principle, is built of mahogany, and is 33 feet long by 8 feet wide, rowing 10 oars. Her cost was presented to the Institution by Messrs. JOHN CROSSLEY and SONS, of Halifax, and she has been named The Crossley. She was conveyed to her station by the Great Northern and the North Eastern Railway Companies, with their usual liberality, free of charge, in September last. The old boat, now replaced, was the oldest life-boat in the United Kingdom, having been built in the year 1802. She was on the original Greathead, or North Country model. She had at different periods saved a very large number of lives, and her crew had unbounded confidence in her. Having been handed down from one generation to another amongst them, and never having met with any serious accident, they entertained a great affection for her; and although unfit to go again afloat, they have requested that she may not be broken up, but that they may be allowed to retain her as a reminiscence of the past.