POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.

As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and as wrecks attended with danger to the crews must be liable to occur to vessels in making for Poole Harbour, or from their parting their cables if anchored in the Bay, it was considered that a life-boat might advantageously be placed at Poole, especially as the pilots and fishermen had represented that they had frequently undergone great risk in rescuing the crews of stranded vessels. A very commodious and substantial life-boat house has been erected at the northern entrance of the harbour, and a fine new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage have been forwarded there. A benevolent lady gave 500?. towards the cost of this life-boat establishment, and at her request the boat has been named the Manley Wood. A grand demonstration took place at Poole on the arrival and launch of the life-boat on the 19th January last. The London and South Western Railway Company readily gave a free conveyance to the life-boat and carriage over their line.

DUNBAR, N. B.—The Institution has formed a life-boat station at Dunbar on the coast of Haddingtonshire, and has placed there, in a substantial boat-house, a new 33-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage.

It is anticipated that the boat will be of great service to the fishing-boats of the place on occasions of storms, as well as to other vessels that may be wrecked in the locality. The life-boat will be available for a considerable length of coast, as there are sandy beaches, both north and south of Dunbar, with good roads leading to them, which will enable the boat to be readily transported thither on its carriage. The cost (3001.) of the life-boat was presented to the Institution by Lady CUNINGHAMFAIRLIE, and by her ladyship's desire the boat is named the Wallace, after the wellknown patriot and hero of Scotland. A free conveyance was kindly given to the life-boat and carriage to Dunbar over the lines of the Great Northern, North Eastern, and North British Railway Companies. A grand demonstration took place on the occasion of the arrival and first launch of the life-boat in April last.

ALNMOUTH. — A new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transporting-carriage have been sent to AInmouth, on the coast of Northumberland, in lieu of a 4-oared boat on that station, which was found too small for the locality. Miss WARDELL, of Tunbridge Wells, generously placed 3201. at the disposal of the Institution, to defray the cost of the new life-boat and carriage, and at her request the boat is named the John Atkinson. A free conveyance was readily granted to the life-boat over the lines of the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies.

PENZANCE.—The Institution -has just replaced the life-boat at Penzance by a larger boat, 32 feet long and rowing 10 oars, double banked, it having been decided that the smaller boat was not large enough for the requirements of the station. The cost of the new life-boat was generously defrayed by a benevolent gentleman, who readily approved of the suggestion of the Committee of the Institution that the life-boat might be called the Richard Lewis, after the Secretary of the Institution, whose long services to the life-boat cause are well known. The new and old life-boats and their transporting-carriages were readily conveyed as usual, free of charge, over the lines of the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and Cornwall, and the West Cornwall Railway Companies.

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—The life-boat on this station having become from dry-rot unserviceable, she has been replaced by a new boat 32 feet long, and fitted to row 10 oars, double banked. The new and old boats and their carriages were liberally granted free conveyances over the lines of the same Companies who took the Penzance life-boats, as above stated. The cost of this and three other life-boats was generously presented some years ago to the Institution by a benevolent lady who gave no name or address. Her lifeboats have since then saved many lives from shipwrecks. The life-boats are respectively named, at her request, the Moses, the Miriam, the Joshua, and the Tyrella, the last having been named in compliment to A. H. MONTGOMERY, Esq., of Tyrella House, Dundrum Bay, who not only readily gave the site of ground for the boat-house, but also kindly undertook the superintendence'of the station.

NORTH SUNDERLAND.-—The life-boat on this station has been replaced by a 33-feet double-banked life-boat better suited to the locality. The cost of the new life-boat and its transporting-carriage (400Z.) has been presented to the Institution by Mrs. ANSTICE, of Tynemouth, through A. S. STEVENSON, Esq., and the boat itself is named, at her request, the Joseph Anstice. This life-boat was readily conveyed to its station, free of charge, by the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies.

MARYPORT. — The Institution has just formed a Jife-boat establishment at the port of Maryport on the Cumberland coast. The inhabitants were very desirous of having a life-boat, and as there was a considerable shipping trade at the port, and vessels were occasionally wrecked, when their crews were only saved at much risk of life by ordinary shore-boats, a new 32-feet 10- oared life-boat has been placed there. The boat is provided with a transporting-carriage, and a commodious house has been built for their reception. The Society is indebted to the generosity of HENRY NIXSON, Esq., of Manchester, for a handsome donation of 550Z. to defray the expense of this new life-boat station. The boat was conveyed to its destination by the London and North Western, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Companies. A public inauguration of the life-boat took place on arriving at its station. The boat is named after its benevolent donor.

UPGANG, NEAR WHITBY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Las just placed a 30-feet single-banked life-boat and transporting- carriage at Upgang, near Wliitb}-, in a new and commodious boat-house which has been erected for them. It was found exceedingly hazardous to launch the Whitby life-boat in a northerly gale; and this lifeboat has therefore been stationed at Upgang —about a mile to the northward of Whitby harbour—to be used instead ofj the Whitby life-boat in certain cases. The eost (180?.) of the life-boat has been presented to the Institution by Dr. H. W.

WATSON, of Derby, and the boat is named the William Watson. The life-boat and carriage were readily granted a free conveyance to their destination by the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies.

PETERHEAD, N. B.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Peterhead, on the coast of Aberdeenshire. There is a large shipping trade at this port, in addition to 400 fishing-boats, which proceed from it to sea every night in the season; and several cases of shipwreck have happened there during the past eighteen months.

For ten miles north of Peterhead there is a flat sandy beach, where -the life-boat could j be used on occasions of wrecks, but where j the rocket apparatus could -not be made j available. A new 33-feet life-boat and transporting-carriage have been sent to Peterhead by the Institution, and a commodious boat-house prepared for them. The cost of this and another life-boat has been defrayed from a fund raised amongst the contributors to the Dundee People's Journal, under the management of W. D. LATTO, Esq., the editor. The other boat is to be stationed at Arbroath, N. B. The Peterhead boat is named the People's Journal Life-boat, No. 1. The Great Northern and the continuous railway companies kindly conveyed the life-boat to her station free of charge. The boat was publicly exhibited at Aberdeen, on the way to her station, and a public demonstration also took place with her on her arrival at Peterhead. At both places the life-boat met with an enthusiastic reception.

The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has presented to Mr. LATTO the following testimonials, in acknowledgment of his zealous and valuable co-operation :—First, a beautiful model of the Peoples Journal Life-boat, No. 1, stationed at Peterhead, which model is enclosed in a plate-glass case.

Along with it there is a silver tablet bearing a suitable inscription. Second, the thanks of the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, illuminated on vellum, and enclosed in a handsome gilt frame. Third, a fine large photograph, also in a gilt frame, and suitably inscribed, representing a life-boat with its crew proceeding through a stormy sea to rescue the crew of a wrecked vessel seen in the distance.

At a public meeting convened by the Dundee Branch of the Institution, FRANCIS MOLISON, Esq., Chairman, presiding, these articles were formally presented to Mr.

LATTO. - After expressing his sincere thanks for this very handsome present, Mr. LATTO said— " I can scarcely take much credit to myself for the perfect success which attended that wonderful —I might almost say unprecedented—outflow of popular philanthrophy and liberality. It was not I who suggested the subscription. That was done by a gentleman residing, I believe, in Stonehaven, whose name deserves to be honourably mentioned, but which, I regret to say, has utterly escaped my memory. He will at least have the satisfaction of reflecting that he has been instrumental in originating a movement which has added two splendid boats to that noble fleet of life-preservers which has been built and equipped, and planted down at all the more dangerous points of our extensive sea-coast, under the auspices of that most useful Society, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. The only merit I can claim in connection with the movement consists in my having, as it were, seconded the motion—in my having given my correspondents full liberty to express their sentiments on the subject in the columns of the People's Journal—in my having advocated the project after I thought there was a reasonable prospect of its success—and in my having undertaken, at the request of numerous correspondents, the somewhat arduous duty of acting as general treasurer to the fund. The work was rather heavy — at times I might almost say overwhelming ; for the money came crowding in mostly in very small sums, all of which had to be counted over, of course, and entered in a book. In two 01 three weeks, however, the heat of the subscription work moderated a little, and on the whole I can truthfully affirm that no enterprise I ever entered into gave me more unqualified delight than did the gathering in of those small sums for the People's Journal life-boat fund. The money was in all cases given with such delightful spontaneity— such genuine, hearty good-will—that it was a duty affording me the highest pleasure and satisfaction to sit at my desk and gather it into the treasury.

The appeal in behalf of the shipwrecked sailors which I put forth, after I thought the matter was ripe for taking such a decisive step, seemed to have flashed to the popular heart with electric force, and the result was, as all of you are aware, that in the short space of four or five weeks the readers of the People's Journal contributed the munificent sum of 800/. and upwards as their offering to the cause of humanity. This sum, as has already been remarked, was mostly made up of very small items—pennies, sixpences, shillings —-for there were very few subscriptions of five, ten, or twenty shillings, so that the gift is, in the truest sense of the word, a people's gift—a. gift which includes the school-boy's penny and halfpenny, the poor widow's mite, and the sixpence and shilling of the town's artizan and the rural labourer. The working-men and women who united in subscribing this handsome sum of money for an object so truly deserving, have thereby done honour to themselves as well as to the class to which they belong—and have shown that there resides in the hearts of the industrial population of this country a real S3'mpathy with whatever is calculated to further the interests of humanity and of practical Christianity.