GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent for the new boat. The cost of the boat and its equip- ment is the gift to the Institution of a benevolent English lady, and at her request the life-boat is named the Florence. The London and Belfast Steam Ship Company readily undertook the free conveyance of the boat to its station.

OEME'S HEAD, NORTH WALES. — An accident having happened to this life-boat, and it being considered too small for the station, it has been replaced by a larger 10- oared boat, 33 feet long, and 8J feet wide, with a new transporting-carriage. The cost of the boat on this station was originally de- frayed by two ladies resident at Liverpool, in memory of a deceased sister, and the boat was appropriately named the Sisters' Memo- rid. One of these ladies has since died.

On the 20th September, 1867, this new life- boat was happily the means of saving from destruction the smack Jane, of Caernarvon, and the men on board, that vessel being in a dismasted state.

NORTH BERWICK, N.B.—This life-boat having been reported to be unfit for further service, the Institution has replaced it by a new 30-feet 10-oared life-boat. The cost of the first boat was presented to the Institu- tion by Messrs. JA FFRAT and Co., and at their desire it was named the Caroline. The new boat also bears the same name. A free con- veyance was given to the boat to its station by the Great Northern, North Eastern, and North British Railway Companies.

BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—Another j,Iife- boat station has recently been formed by the Institution on the island of Anglesey, viz., at Bull Bay. It was considered that an additional life-boat would be useful on that rocky coast, there being a large passing trade, and a long gap between the two life- boat establishments at Moelfre and Cemlyn.

The life-boat forwarded to Bull Bay is a 32-feet 10-oared boat, and is provided with a transporting-carriage. The same are the gift to the Society of a lady resident in Wale's, who has requested that the life-boat should be named the Eleanor. A suitable house has been built for the reception of the life-boat and carriage on an eligible site, which has been kindly granted by the Marquis of Anglesey. The boat can always be readily launched from a small sandy cove near the boat-house, under shelter, and be able to board vessels in danger before their coming on to the rocks.

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—The Society has also placed another new life-boat on the island at Penmon, in the place of a boat on that station which was never liked by the crew. The new boat is 30 feet long, and rows 10 oars, double banked, the old boat only pulling 6 oars. It was contributed to the Society by the Settle Branch, through the indefatigable exertions of Christopher BROWN, Esq., of Stainforth, who during the last three or four years has collected upwards of 800?. for the Institution, and whose name the Penmon life-boat now bears to commemorate his philanthropic exertions in behalf of the life-boat cause.

On the way to its station the boat was taken to Settle for exhibition, and it was seen by a large number of persons, the dis- play taking place on Easter Tuesday last, which was also market-day at Settle. The boat was drawn on its carriage from the railway station to the market-place in a pro- cession comprising the leading persons of the neighbourhood in their carriages, rifle volunteers, school children, and others. The boat having been named in the usual manner and a hvmn sung, it was presented by Lieut-Col. W. MORRISON, M.P. for Ply- mouth, on behalf of the subscribers, to the Institution, which was represented by its Assistant Inspector of Life-boats, Captain D. ROBERTSON, R.N. The boat was after- wards forwarded to its station, where it was tried by its crew, who formed a very favour- able opinion of the boat.

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life- boat establishment at Douglas in the Isle of Man. Many years since, so far back as 1803, in fact, the need of a life-boat at the Port of Douglas was greatly felt, and one was presented to the town by the then DUKE OF ATHOL. This boat went to decay, and in 1824, the year in which the Institution was founded, strong representations were made on the subject to the late Sir WILLIAM HIL- LARY, Bart., who, by his able and earnest writings, urged, in 1823-24, the formation of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT (then SHIPWRECK) INSTITUTION'. He took, as might have been anticipated, a warm interest in the proposed establishment of a life-boat at Douglas, where he lived. The result was that another life-boat was sent to Douglas, where it remained for several years doing good service; but after the death of Sir WILLIAM the boat, which was not kept under proper management, became neglected and ultimately unfit for service, Douglas being again left without a life-boat.

Latterly the attention of the Life-boat Society was called by Mrs. CECIL HALL and others to the necessity of a life-boat being placed there, and its Inspectors having visited the spot, they recommended the Institution to reorganize the Life-boat Es- tablishment. A 10-oared life-boat, 32 feet long and 7J feet wide, and a transporting- carriage, were accordingly placed by it on the station. This life-boat was con- tributed to the Institution through the Manchester Branch by the scholars and teachers of the various Sunday schools in Manchester and Salford, mainly through the continued and zealous exertions of the Rev.

E. HEWLETT. This is the thirteenth boat the Manchester Branch has contributed, through the benevolent exertions of EGBERT WHIT- WORTH, Esq., the Rev. E. HEWLETT, and other gentlemen. The life-boat was taken, to Manchester en route to its station, and on the 5th February last it was formally pre- sented to the Institution by the Rev. F. A.

STOWELL in Peel Park, Salford, in the presence of about 10,000 Sunday-School children and others, the Inspector of Life- boats, Capt. WAKD, R.N., attending on behalf of the Society. The ceremony of naming the boat was performed by Mrs.

HEWLETT. The life-boat, manned by the South port Life-boat's crew, and mounted on its transporting-carriage, had been pre- viously drawn by six fine horses through the principal streets of Manchester and Salford, accompanied by a large number of persons, a brass band heading the pro- cession. After the boat reached Douglas it was taken afloat by the Inspector in a strong wind and some sea, when it behaved well, the crew expressing themselves much pleased with it. Subsequently, on the 5th June, after the completion of the boat-house erected on the Promenade at Douglas for the life-boat, a demonstration took place on the occasion of the public inauguration of the life-boat. The Sunday-School children of the town escorted the boat through the town to the harbour, where it was launched in the presence of the Governor of the Isle of Man and a number of the inhabitants. In August last the life-boat was launched in stormy weather to the assistance of the dis- tressed schooner Mary Ann Bond, of Bar- row, but her services were not ultimately required.

HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—A new Life-boat Establishment has been formed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Ross Links, Holy Island, on the recommendation of the Local Committee of Management of the Holy Island Branch and the Inspector of Life-boats. A boat, partial]/ fitted as a life-boat, had been stationed at Ross Links for many years, and had at different times been instrumental in saving life, but it was not considered suitable or sufficient for the requirements of the station. Vessels fre- quently get on shore on the sands south of this spot, and the life-boat, Grace Darling, on Holy Island, could not get to them with- out crossing a point where it had to be ex- posed to a heavy broadside sea. A com- modious boat-house has therefore been erected on a suitable site at Ross Links, and a 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transporting- carriage have been placed there. Both the Holy Island life-boats are under the pare of one local committee. J. G. FRITH, Esq., and Mrs. FEITH, of London, have gene- rously defrayed the expense of the Ross Links life-boat and equipment, and at their request the boat has been named the Bombay.

The other life-boat at Holy Island, as above stated, is named the Grace Darling, after the young woman whose name was im- mortalized by her heroic services to the crew of the Forfarshire steamer, wrecked on that coast in 1838, and who will always be associated with the Northumbrian — or rather the world's — worthies. In October last the Bombay life-boat was named by Miss HARDY, of Ross, and launched for exercise ; the wind was blowing hard at the time, and the crew were pleased with the behaviour of the boat.

N.B. — The Kincardine- shire Life-boat Society having joined the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the latter has completely renovated the local society's life-boat establishment at Stone- haven. A new and substantial boat-house has been erected on a more suitable site than the old one, on the south side of the pier, some of the rock having been removed to make room for the house. A fine new life-boat, 33 feet long, 8J feet wide, and rowing 6 oars, double banked, has also been forwarded, the local boatmen having en- tirely lost confidence in the boat already on the station, and having refused to enrol themselves any longer as its crew. That life-boat would not self-right in the event of its being capsized, and was very heavy to pull. The new boat, which is named the St. George, and is the gift to the Institution of Mrs. BURGESS, of London, sister-in-law of Capt. BURGESS, the able Secretary of the United Service Institution, Whitehall, has been provided with a transporting-carriage, like most of the boats of the Institution. A very grand demonstration took place at Stonehaven on the 12th March last, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new life- boat establishment. In the afternoon of that day most places of business were closed, and the different trades and professions made holiday in order to be present at the in- teresting ceremony. A procession, com- prising the magistracy and council, the trades, the artillery and rifle volunteers, fishermen, sailors, schools, Freemasons, and others, accompanied by a Highland piper and bands of music, was formed at the railway station, and proceeded with the life-boat, fully equipped, mounted on its transporting-carriage, and decorated with flags, to the boat-house, where the boat was received by the members of the local com- mittee. It was then named in the usual manner by Mrs. DOVE WILSON, the wife of Mr. SHERIFF WILSON, the President of the Branch, launched, and put through various evolutions under the superintendence of the Inspector of Life-boats, including capsizing, to show the self-righting and other qualities of the boat, which gave much satisfaction to the crew. It should be added that the Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company readily granted the life-boat and carriage a free conveyance on board one of their steamers from London to Aberdeen, whence they went on by railway to their destination.