BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged, and it was thought desirable to place a new lifeboat in its stead. The cost of the new boat and its equipment, amounting to 300Z., was generously given to the Institution by M. P. G., through T. JONES GIBB, Esq., of Old Broad Street, and the boat is named, at the donor's request, the Becompense. The General Steam Navigation Company kindly allowed their steamers to tow these boats between London and Great Yarmouth.

CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.— The life-boat on this station, which was a very small and old boat, and was not on the plan of the Institution, has been replaced by a self-righting boat, 30 feet long, and rowing 6 oars. The cost, amounting to 2001., of the latter boat, has been defrayed by Mrs. Colonel VERNON, in memory of her late son, an officer in the army, who had recently been drowned on a foreign station. The boat is named the Sophia, It was readily granted a free conveyance to Holyhead by the London and North Western Railway Company.

BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE—A life-boat, which was only recently supplied to this station, was found on trial to be too heavy for the locality. A new and lighter lifeboat, 32 feet long, and rowing 10 oars double-banked, has now been forwarded.

It is provided with a transporting-carriage.

The expense of this life-boat was defrayed from the Manchester Life-boat Fund, the boat being named the Robert Whitworth.

The boat was carried, free of charge, to its station by the Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies.

RYE, SUSSEX.—The life-boat at this place has been replaced by a new one, 32 feet long, the expense of which has been defrayed from a legacy of 400Z,, bequeathed to the Institution by the late Hon. Mrs. FrrzROY ; and, in accordance with the request of the deceased lady, the boat is named the Arthur Frederick, after her late son. The boat was granted a free conveyance to Rye by the South Eastern Railway Company. She has since been tried in bad weather, and has given great satisfaction to the crew.

LIZARD, CORNWALL.— The life-boat stationed at the Lizard having been destroyed while out for its quarterly exercise, during a hurricane, in January last, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at once sent there in its stead a new 30-feet life-boat, rowing 6 oars single-banked. The Institution had wished to supply a 10-oared life-boat to the locality; but its offer had to be declined, from the want of sufficient boatmen or fishermen in the neighbourhood to man such a boat. The Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and Cornwall, and the West Cornwall Hallway Companies readily conveyed, as before, the new boat to its destination free of charge. . The boat has since been tried in rough weather, and behaved admirably; and notwithstanding that such an unfortunate accident happened to their previous life-boat, the crew expressed their continued readiness to go off in the life-boat whenever required.

WHITEHAVEN, CUMBERLAND,—This lifeboat establishment has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and has been completely renovated ; the Society having forwarded there a 33-feet* life-boat, pulling 10 oars, and provided with a transporting-carriage, and a commodious boat-house having been erected by the Harbour Board for their reception.

The expense, amounting to 300L, of the new life-boat, has been defrayed by Miss LEICESTER, of London, at whose desire the boat has been named the Elizabeth.

The boat was sent to its station in March last, the Whitehaven and Furness Junction, and the Furness Railway Companies making no charge for its conveyance over their lines.

GORLESTONE, SUFFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has just formed a life-boat establishment at Gorlestone, near Great Yarmouth, at the mouth of the river Yare, and has placed there, in a substantial and commodious boat-house, a 33-feet lifeboat, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The boat can either be launched into the river, and thence pulled out to sea, or she can be conveyed along the shore on her carriage for several miles south of the Yare, in the event of her services being required at any time in that direction.

It may be remembered by our readers that in January last a fearful calamity occurred at Gorlestone to one of the life-boats belonging to the boatmen, when 13 of the crew unhappily perished. The men had launched their two salvage life-boats in reply to a signal from a passing vessel for some ship's stores, and while one of the boats was going over the bar in a strong breeze and heavy sea she caught the ground, aud capsized, and not being a self-righting boat, she remained bottom upwards. Out of the 16 men forming her crew 12 were drowned under the boat, and 4 men were rescued by the other life-boat, although one of them subsequently perished from exhaustion. The boatmen subsequently expressed to the Institution a wish to be supplied with a selfrighting life-boat, as they considered that had one been there on that fatal occasion, she might have been the means of saving some of the poor fellows who were lost.

The Society forwarded the boat to her station in July last, and on her arrival there she was publicly launched in the presence of a large number of persons, Mr. COOK, the excursionist manager, having arranged to run a special excursion train to the locality on the occasion, from Leicester, Nottingham, and other towns in the midland counties.

The cost of this boat was defrayed by the town of Leicester, after which place the lifeboat is named, and in which town she was exhibited before she was sent to her station.

The Great Eastern Railway Company readily gave a free conveyance to the boat over their line to Great Yarmouth, the Great Northern Railway Company having also kindly taken the boat, free, to Leicester.

RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—A life-boat station has recently been established by the Institution at this place. A wreck occurred last winter near Whitby, when a deplorable loss of life took place; and it was thought that if there had then been a life-boat at Runswick she might have been launched when the vessel was first seen passing there, with signals of distress flying, and might, in all probability, have saved the men. Accordingly, a 32-feet medium-sized life-boat, pulling 10 oars, and provided with a trans- porting-carriage, has been sent to Runswick, and a substantial boat-house has been erectec there. Their cost is the gift to the Institution of the people of Sheffield, after which town the boat is named, the fund having been mainly collected through the exertions of the ex-mayor, THOMAS JESSOP, Esq.

W. E. LAYCOCK, Esq., the Mayor, Mr.

Alderman JACKSON, and others. The Great Northern and North Eastern Railway Companies kindly gave a free conveyance to the boat; and carriage over their lines to Sheffield and thence to Whitby, and from the latter I place the boat was towed by a steamer to her station. The crew were much pleased with the behaviour of the life-boat, both while she was in tow and while being rowed and sailed in the bay.

ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The small lifeboat on this station has been replaced by a larger and more powerful boat. It will probably be remembered that last winter the St. Ives life-boat was instrumental in saving 4 of the crew of the French brig Providence, under circumstances of great peril.

It was afterwards thought that a larger boat would be better suited to the requirements of the locality, and the crew all expressing themselves to that effect, a 32-feet 10-oared life-boat has been placed there. She is provided with a transporting-carriage. The boat and carriage were readily conveyed to their destination, free of charge, by the Great Western and continuous Railway Companies.

The cost of the original boat on this station, as well as that of four other boats, was defrayed by a benevolent lady, at whose request this life-boat was called the Moses, CAHOEE, IRELAND.—The Institution has sent to this station a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat, provided with a transporting-carriage, in lieu of the previous boat there, which had been found too heavy for the locality. The cost of the new life-boat has been presented to the Institution by General Sir GEORGE BOWLES, K.C.B., who had previously given the Society the Howth lifeboat, and who was so pleased with a successful service performed by that boat, that he decided on providing another boat. - The British and Irish Steam Packet Company kindly took the new boat and carriage on board one of their steamere to Dublin, whence they were taken on, free, to their destination by the Dublin, "Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Companies. The same Companies also brought back the old boat and carriage on similar liberal terms.

SKERRIES, IRELAND.—The life-boat at Skerries, near Dublin, having unfortunately shown symptoms of decay, has been removed, and a new 32-feet life-boat, rowing 10 oaVs double-banked, and furnished with a transporting-carriage, has been sent there in lieu of the old boat. The cost of the Skerries life-boat was given to the Institution, in 1858, by Mrs. B. WOOD, and the boat is named the Admiral Mitchell. The new and old boats were conveyed gratuitously between London and Dublin by the British and Irish Steam Packet Company.

BALLYWALTER, IRELAND.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Ball/waiter, on the coast of Down, that place having been thought suitable for a life-boat station, as there was a considerable distance of coast between Groomsport, to the north, and Tyrella, to the south, unprotected by life-boats, and wrecks were not of unfrequent occurrence in the locality.

There were also plenty of fishermen to man the boat on all occasions. A 32-feet lifeboat, pulling 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage, has, therefore, been placed here in a substantial and commodious boat-house, built for its reception. The cost of the boat, carriage, and stores, amounting to 500/., has been munificently presented to the Institution by the Misses MEYNELL INGRAM, in memory of of their late uncle, Admiral HENRY MEYNELL, after whom the boat is named. The life-boat and carriage were conveyed, free of charge, to Belfast, in July last, by the London and Belfast Steam Shipping Company, and were readily taken thence to their station by land.

ROSSLARE, IRELAND.—It having been reported to the Institution that, although the crew of the small .6-oared life-boat on this station had a high opinion of their boat, yet they thought her too small for service on the banks which surround the entrance to Wexford Harbour, the Society has accordingly sent there a 32-feet life-boat, pulling 10 oars. The expense has been defrayed from a fund collected by MALCOLM GOLDSMITH, E q., and JAMES A. Dow, Esq., amongst the gentlemen connected with the civil service of the Crown, and the boat has been styled the Civil Service. The new boat was conveyed to' Milford by the Great Western Railway Company, and thence taken across to its station in tow of the revenue cruiser Royal Charlotte, by the kind permission of the Commodore Controller-General of the Coastguard.

BALLYCOTTON, IRELAND.—This life-boat was found too small on the occasion of a recent service she performed, as, with a shipwrecked crew on board besides her own complement of men, there was not sufficient space to manage the boat properly. Accordingly, a larger boat has been sent there, 32 feet ]png, and rowing 10 oars. She has been supplied with a transporting-carriage.

The boat-house has been altered and repaired for them. A free conveyance was, as usual, readily given to the new and old boats by the Cork Steam-Ship Company. The cost of the new boat—amounting to 2521.—was liberally given to the Society by a benevolent lady residing in Lancaster.

MARGATE.—It having been suggested to the Institution that the life-boat on this station might be advantageously exchanged for a new and krger boat, the Society has just forwarded to Margate a new 34-feet life-boat, rowing 10 oars, and provided with a transporting-carriage, in the place of the old boat and carriage; and has built a new and more commodious boat-house for their reception. The cost of the new life-boat and carriage, as well as that of the Queenstown and South wold new life-boats, has been defrayed from the Life-boat Fund collected amongst the readers of the Quiver Magazine, through the kindness of the Proprietors, Messrs. FETTER and GALPIN, and the co-operation of the Editor, the Rev. TEIGNMOUTH SHORE. The SouthEastern Railway Company readily carried the new and old life-boats free to and from Margate. On the 7th August the ceremony of presenting, naming, and launching the new life-boat took place at Margate, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators, numbering from 15,000 to 20,000 persons. The boat was drawn in procession through the town, and then taken down to the sands. She was then formally presented to the Institution by the Rev. TEIGNMOUTH.

SHORE ; and, having been named in the usual manner by Mrs. BATEMAN, the wife of the Rev. Canon BATEMAN, Vicar of Margate, was launched and tried in a fresh breeze, when she acquitted herself to the satisfaction of the crew.