WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION forwarded to this important station, in September last, a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage, in the place of the boat and carriage previously there, the old boat having been found to be affected by decay. This lifeboat is named the Thomas Wilson, after the first Chairman of the Institution, who had assisted in its formation, and whose native county was Durham. The Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies readily gave a free conveyance over their lines to the life-boat and carriage. The new boat has already rendered good service by rescuing several shipwrecked crews.

NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Institution has just forwarded to this station a fine new life-boat, 34 feet long, and rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage, in the place of a smaller boat. The Society is indebted to the munificence of ELEANOR Duchess of NORTHUMBERLAND, for 4507., to defray the cost of the life-boat and its equipment, in memory of her late husband, the Duke of NORTHCTMBERLAND, K.G., and at her Grace's desire the boat is named the Algernon and Eleanor. The new boat was kindly carried free to its station by the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies; and on arriving there it was publicly launched, and tried in a heavy surf, where its behaviour gave great satisfaction to the crew.

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Institution has, at the request of the fishermen, removed the old life-boat from this place, and sent there in its stead a new and more powerful boat, 34 feet long. Its cost (400?.) was presented to the Society by Miss HOPKINSON, through W. ANDERSON OGG, Esq., in memory of her brother, after whom the boat is named the William HopTdnson (of Brighouse). The life-boat and carriage were readily conveyed to their station, free of charge, by the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies.

SELSEY, SUSSEX.—.The life-boat on this station has been exchanged for another boat, as it was found that the old boat required various alterations and improvements to render it thoroughly efficient. The expense of this life-boat was originally defrayed by members of the Society of Friends, and the boat is named the Friend. The new lifeboat was granted a free conveyance to Chichester by the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company.

COURTOWN, IRELAND. — The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has just formed a life-boat station at Courtown, on the coast of Wexford. Although wrecks have not been frequent in the immediate locality of that place, yet it was considered by the residents that a life-boat stationed there might be of service in rescuing the crews of vessels getting on the Arklow and Blackwater sand-banks, there being plenty of boatmen to man such a boat. Accordingly, a fine life-boat, 36 feet long, and 8 feet 4 inches wide, has been placed there, suitable for service on the outlying banks. The expense of the boat has been met from the life-boat fund raised by the Manchester Branch, through the benevolent exertions of ROBERT WHITWORTH, Esq., Rev. E. HEWLETT, and others, this being also their fifth boat, which is named the Alfred and Ernest, after Mr.

HEWLETT'S two sons. The life-boat was sent to its station in December last, vid Holyhead and Kingstown,—the boat's transportingcarriage being forwarded by steamer from London to Dublin, thence by railway to Courtown, free of charge. A new and commodious life-boat house has been erected for the boat.

ARBROATH, N.B.—The Institution has taken this life-boat establishment into connection with it, and has completely renovated the station, having placed there a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat, thoroughly equipped, and provided with a transportingcarriage, which have been placed in a substantial boat-house, constructed for them by the town authorities. The cost of the lifeboat has been defrayed, jointly with that at Peterhead, from the life-boat fund collected from the readers of the People's Journal, Dundee. It has been named the People's Journal, No. 2. A free conveyance was kindly granted to the boat and carriage over the lines of the Caledonian, Scottish Central, and Scottish North Eastern Railway Companies.

A public exhibition of the life-boat took place in Dundee, and the boat was afterwards forwarded to its station at Arbroath, and received a hearty and general demonstration on the part of the townspeople there. The life-boat was named by Mrs. LUMGAIR, the wife of the Provost, and was tried in a stiff breeze and some surf, affording much satisfaction to the crew.

KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—The Society has just formed a life-boat establishment at Kingsdowne, near Deal, and has placed there a fine 3 3-feet life-boat, rowing 10 oars, and provided with a transporting carriage. A commodious boat-house has also been built by the Institution for its reception. It was thought that a life-boat placed at Kingsdowne, where it could always be ably manned, would be very useful to go to the aid of crews of vessels stranded on the Main, or on the south end of the Goodwin Sands, as she could reach there more quickly than the life-boats on the contiguous stations. This part of the coast can hardly be over protected with life-boat stations, on account of the enormous shipping traffic constantly passing in the neighbourhood of these fatal sands. The cost of this life-boat, the Sdbrina, amounting to 300Z., was presented to the Institution by WILLIAM FERGUSON, Esq., of the Stock Exchange. The South Eastern Railway Company readily granted a free conveyance over their line to the life-boat and carriage.

CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The life-boat on this station, having been found to be seriously affected with decay, has been withdrawn, and a fine 33-feet 10-oared lifeboat sent there in its place, the cost of which has been given to the Institution by PETER REID, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, at whose desire the boat has been called the Palmerston. The old boat had done good service in her time to shipwrecked crews; and on many occasions the crew have, by her help, safely piloted their fellow-fishermen's cobles to land, when they have been suddenly overtaken by gales of wind while returning from their fishing-ground. With their usual kindness, the Great Northern and North-Eastern Railway Companies readily passed these life-boats free over their lines.

RAMSGATE.—The Institution has stationed at this important life-boat station, under the management of the Board of Trade, one of its finest self-righting lifeboats.

The boat is 40 feet long and 10 feet wide, rows 12 oars double-banked, and has been constructed with the especial view of being taken out from the harbour in tow of a steam-tug, to the Goodwin and other dangerous sand-banks in the vicinity of that place. The boat also possesses fine sailing qualities, and will, no doubt, like the previous life-boat on this station, the Northumberland, be of the greatest service in saving the lives of shipwrecked crews. The old boat had become worn out and unfit for further service, having been in active use during stormy weather for the past thirteen years. In that period she had been instrumental in saving, in conjunction with the harbour steam-tugs, 18 vessels from destruction, and had rescued altogether about 400 lives from vaviovis wrecks. We believe that such noble services, performed by one lifeboat, are unparalleled in the history of the dangerous life-boat work. It is a gratifying fact that in all this time not a soul was ever lost from the boat. The cost, amounting to 4501., of the new life-boat was contributed to the Institution by inhabitants of the town of Bradford, through the ex-Mayor CHARLES SEMON, Esq. The Bradford boat will always be kept afloat in the harbour in readiness to go out at any moment, in tow of the harbour steam-tugs, to the rescue of shipwrecked crews. The steamer Aid came to London in February last for the boat, and towed her thence to her station.

BRAUNTON, NORTH DEVON.—The Institution has just replaced the small life-boat stationed on Braunton Sands by a larger boat, 32 feet long, 7 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars double-banked. The boat is pro - vided with a transporting-carriage, and the boat and carriage are kept in a commodious wooden boat-house built on the Sands, and which also has a room attached, with every comfort for the relief of any shipwrecked crews that may be rescued by the life-boat— as, in the absence of such accommodation, the rescued men. might perish from cold and exhaustion after being brought ashore, there being no houses in the immediate neighbourhood to which they could be taken.

The cost of the new life-boat and carriage has been generously defrayed by GEORGE JEREMY, Esq., and Mrs. JEREMY, of Lea Coombe House, Axminster, the boat being named the George and Catherine. The London and South-Western Railway Company readily gave a free conveyance to the new and old boats over their line in April last. The boat was publicly launched at Barnstaple on the 26th April, and the ceremony was a most imposing and interesting one. The life-boat, mounted on its transporting-carriage, was drawn in procession through the town, escorted by the 6th Devon Rifle Volunteers, and taken to the banks of the river, where it was named with the usual ceremony by Lady Fortescue, and launched; then various evolutions took place with the boat, including capsizing, to display its self-righting qualities. Prior to the launch, Earl FOBTESCOE, in the course of some remarks, expressed the gratitude of himself and the local residents generally for the munificent gift of the new life-boat and carriage, and his satisfaction in assisting at the launch of a vessel which he hoped might for years be blessed with rich fruit on its errand of mercy. He added, that the benevolent donors of this boat would have the satisfaction of knowing, not only that their own gift was sure to be employed in a work of mercy, but that it would afford for years to come an opportunity to other benevolent persons to show their self-denial and their charity, and to call out in others a feeling of humanity and of heroism.

HAYLE, CORNWALL. — The NATIONAL. LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has just formed a life-boat establishment at Hayle, on the Cornish coast. Several casualties had recently occurred on Hayle Bar, and in particular the S.S. Bessie, of Hayle, was totally wrecked there in January last, and a French schooner in October. Fortunately, however, the St. Ives and Penzance life-boats were the means on the above occasions of saving 13 poor fellows from an inevitable death.

These disasters called the attention of the inhabitants to the necessity of placing a lifeboat at Hayle, which is a port of increasing importance. Accordingly the Institution has forwarded there a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat, provided with a transporting-carriage, and they have been placed in a substantial building provided for them.

The expense of the life-boat station was defrayed from a fund collected in the University of Oxford, chiefly through the exertions of the Eev. G. S. WARD, M.A., of Magdalen Hall. The boat before being placed on its station was taken to Oxford, in compliance with the wish of the donors; and on the 24th April, after being drawn on its carriage through some of the principal streets of that city, was taken to the towing-path on the Berkshire side of the River Isis, and manned by the "University Eight," who were recently successful in the contest with the sister University on the Thames: also two other members of the University joined that crew. The Vice- Chancellor then congratulated the University upon the successful termination of its labours in regard to this life-boat fund. The members had thus shown that in the midst of their amusements they had not forgotten their fellow-creatures, who, as merchantmen, or in their country's defence, had to encounter the perils of the sea. Mrs. LIGHTFOOT, the wife of the Vice-Chancellor, afterwards, amidst great cheering from the large multitude present, ascended the transporting- carriage, and named the boat in the usual manner the Isis. The life-boat was then launched from its carriage, and rowed up and down the river, and subsequently taken to the Folly Bridge Wharf, and capsized, to show the self-righting property.

When the boat arrived at Hayle, it was joyfully welcomed by the inhabitants, and launched with the usual ceremonies. On this occasion WUJLIAM HUSBAND, Esq., on behalf of the Local Committee, conveyed their best thanks to the Institution and the University of Oxford for the very handsome gift of the life-boat. The crew had undertaken to risk their lives on all occasions to rescue men exposed to shipwreck, and he felt perfectly satisfied that the boat would not be disgraced in their hands. The Great Western Railway Company liberally gave a free conveyance to the life-boat and carriage to Oxford, and back to Didcot, and then, in conjunction with the Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and Corn wall, and West Cornwall Railway Companies, forwarded it free to its destination.

[We hope to give in our next Number the particulars of the additional new lifeboats forwarded to the coast.