ARDROSSAN, N.B.—This life-boat establishment, which was one organised-some years since by a local society, has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION through the kind co-operation of G. B. M. BEATSON, Esq., late Divisional Officer of Coastguard for that part of the coast, and other gentlemen. As the life-boat, one of the earlier class of self-righting boats, was of an obsolete form, and too short, the Institution has replaced it by a new life-boat and carriage, for which a handsome boat-house has been erected in a prominent part of the town. The entire cost of the renovation of the life-boat station was the gift to the Society of PETER REID, Esq., of Lon- don ; it is the second boat that gentleman has presented to it. At his desire the Ardrossan life-boat is named the Fair Maid of Perth; his other boat, which is placed at Cullercoats, on the Northumberland coast, being named the Palmerston. On the 18th June last, a public demonstration took place at Ardrossan on the arrival of the new life- boat at its station. The Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats superintended the proceedings on the occasion, which was made one of great rejoicing, much enthusiasm being shown by all classes in the proceedings, and the deepest gratitude being expressed for the munificent gift to the locality. The vessels in the harbour, the public buildings, and many private houses, were decorated with flags, and a procession was formed, which consisted of the local Artillery Volunteers, the Provosts, Magistrates, and Town Coun- cil, the Local Life-boat Committee, Free- masons, two bands of music, &c., and which escorted the boat through the streets to the outer harbour. The ceremony of naming was performed by Miss MACK. The usual tests were gone through with the boat after its launch, and all were much pleased with it, and with the munificence of the benevolent donor.

On New Year's Day last this life-boat was instrumental, during a gale of wind from the S.S.W., in saving a shipwrecked crew numbering 6 men, belonging to the brig Morning Star, of Dublin, which had gone ashore on the west side of Horse Island.

CHAPEL, LINCOLNSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has also recently organised a life-boat station at Chapel, a point on the Lincolnshire coast about mid- way between the Sutton and Skegness life-boat establishments of the Society, from each of which it is about seven miles distant. The lives of some shipwrecked men were lost off Chapel in the early part of last year, which it was thought might have been saved had there been a life-boat on the spot; and vessels had on other occasions been seen in distress from this place, but from the want of a life-boat no assistance could be rendered them. The local residents, therefore, having promised their hearty co-operation, and there being competent men enough to man a life-boat, the Institution as usual readily undertook to send over a boat there, and in July last a life-boat and carriage were placed on the station, a boat-house having been first erected for their reception, on a convenient site granted by the trustees of the late Mr. BRADLEY. " The life-boat is 30 feet long, 7 f feet wide, and rows 8 oars, double- banked. Lady BOURCHIER presented it to the Institution, fully equipped in every way, as a memorial boat, as will be seen from the following inscription, which has been engraved on a brass tablet, to be permanently attached to the life-boat: g s s ggtmorial 10 CAPTAIN SIR THOMAS BOURCHIER, K.C.B., AN OFFICER OF THE HIGHEST CHARACTER, AND THE WARM AND TRUE FRIEND OF SAILORS, JANE BOURCHIER, HIS WIDOW, DAUGHTER OF ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD CODBINGTON, HAS GIVEN THIS LITE-BOAT, IN HOPE THAT BY GOD'S BLESSING ON THE EFFORTS OF A BRAVE CREW IT MAY HELP THEM TO SAVE MANY SHIPWRECKED SAILORS.

The inauguration of the life-boat station, on the 22nd July last, passed oft' with great eclat, upwards of ten thousand persons, it is said, having assembled from all parts to do honour to the occasion, great numbers of them being conveyed from the Alford railway station in waggons lent by the | farmers of the neighbourhood. Early on I the morning of that day the life-boat, mounted on its transporting-carriage, and | drawn by six fine horses, lent by Messrs. J ADDISON, left the Alford railway station | accompanied by the Alford (llth Lincoln) Rifle Corps band. After passing through Bilsby, Mumby, and Hogsthorpe, it was taken to the shore at Chapel, where it was formally presented by the Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats to the care of the Local Committee, whose zealous Hon. Secretary, Dr. CROWTHER, gratefully acknowledged the gift. The Rev. G. BRYAN then offered up an appropriate prayer, dedicating the boat to its future mission, and to its humane work, and invoking the blessing of Almighty God on it, and after Mrs. CROWTHER had named the life-boat the Godsend, it was launched amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the multitude. The Sutton and Skegness life-boats had also come over to take part in the proceedings. A public luncheon was afterwards given, and the toasts of the donor, the Institution, and its Chapel branch, were warmly applauded. The boat had only been three days on its station, when it was taken out with the view of assisting a shipwrecked crew. A vessel had sunk off the Huttoft Coastguard Station, and on the alarm being given, the life-boat men promptly responded to the call to duty; but before they succeeded in reaching the spot in their boat, the shipwrecked crew had managed to gain the shore in their own boat. The behaviour of the life-boat, in a rather heavy sea, was highly spoken of by the crew.

The boat again went out on service on the 9th and 10th Dec., during stormy weather, and was happily the means of rescuing 4 persons from the distressed smack Robert Hellyer, of Hull.