CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite Cemlyn, wrecks in that neighbourhood are of very rare occurrence, and in ad- dition to that fact, a difficulty was ex- perienced there latterly in finding a suit- able crew for the boat. Accordingly, as Cemaes was reported to bo a desirable station for a Life-boat, and as there were plenty of men there ready to undertake its management, the transfer has been effected, and a commodious house pre- pared for the boat at its new station.

This Life-boat is named the Sophia, and was the gift to the Institution of Mrs. Colonel VERNON, in memory of her late son, an officer in the army, who was drowned while on a foreign station.

PAKEFIELD, SUFFOLK.—The large sail- ing Life-boat at this place having become unfit for further service, it has been re- placed by a new Life-boat, on the same plan, specially built at Lowestoft for the station. It is a very large boat, 46J feet long, 12 feet wide, and fitted to row 14 oars, double-banked. The one it had superseded' had done excellent service in its time to the crews of vessels wrecked on the dangerous sand-banks that are met with off this part of the coast. It had been brought into connection with the Institution in 1855, since which period it had saved 88 lives from various wrecks, besides contributing to the rescue of five vessels from destruction.

THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.—The small Life-boat stationed at this well-known point on the coast of Cornwall, was seriously damaged, on the occasion of her going off to save the crew of the barque Fomalhaut, of Greifswald, on the 4th March last. She was fortunately enabled to effect the rescue, but she has since been replaced by another boat of the same length as the old one, 30 feet, but more powerful, inasmuch as she is fitted to row 10 oars, double-banked, instead of 6 oars, single-banked, as was the case with the former boat. There is an excellent boat-house at this station built a few years since, and the Life-boat estab- lishment is now in a thoroughly efficient state. It should be mentioned, that the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies readily granted the new Life-boat a free convey- ance over their line between Bristol and Penryn, and brought back the old boat to the former place on similar liberal terms.

PLYMOUTH.—The Life-boat at this im- portant port was seriously injured while saving a shipwrecked crew on the 8th December last, and it has since been re- placed by a new 10-oared boat of the best description, constructed so as to be as fast and as light as possible, and mea- suring 34 feet in length, by 7 feet 9 inches in width. The expense of the same has been defrayed by J. G. HUBBARD, Esq., of Prince's Gate, in memory of his late son Mr. FRANCIS EDWARD HUBBARD, formerly a midshipman in the Royal Navy, who had in his lifetime partly collected the cost of a Life-boat. In accordance with a wish expressed by the deceased, the boat has been named the Clemency, after a sister, to whom he was much attached, and who had devoted herself to him throughout his long illness. It was pub- licly launched at its station for the first time on the 30th May last. A large party of ladies and gentlemen assembled on the occasion, at the invitation of the Local Committee, along with numerous relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. HUBBARD, who had specially come down from London so that they might be present at the launch. Some of the officers and crew of H.M.S. Indus, on board of which Mr. F. E. HUBBARD had served till he retired from the service, also attended and witnessed the pro- ceedings, which were opened by Mr. J. G. HUBBARD, who, in a very appropriate and feeling speech, explained the circum- stances which had led to this gift to the Institution, and then formally handed over the boat to its care. The gift was received on behalf of the Society by Capt.

WARD, E.N., its Inspector of Life-boats, and Capt. PICKFORD, K.N., Chairman of the Local Committee. The Lord Bishop of EXETER afterwards offered up some prayers for the success of the boat, and several psalms having been chanted by the Choir of St. Peter's Church, Miss HUBBARD stepped forward and named the boat in the usual way, after which the BISHOP addressed the crew with much earnestness, and the boat was then launched and put through the usual evolutions. Mrs. HUBBARD and a large party of her family and friends after- wards went on board the boat. The boat was then rowed to the dock in the Royal Victualling Yard and capsized under a crane to show its self-righting and other properties. The Hon. Sir HENRY KEPPELL, G.C.B., Port Admiral, Eear Admiral Sir WILLIAM K. HALL, K.C.B., Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard, Vice Admiral Sir JOHN HAY, Bart., C.B., and others who were present expressed themselves as highly pleased with the boat, and grati- fied by the whole proceedings. The crew were also much impressed with their new Life-boat, which they could see possessed some important advantages over their old.

one, and appeared likely to row fast in a heavy sea. It should be added that the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies readily gave the boat a free conveyance over their lines on the way to its station.

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—The Life-boat on this station was built some eighteen years since, and as it had become unfit for fur- ther service it has been replaced by a powerful new boat, specially constructed so as to be fast under oars. Tf is 37 feet long, 9 feet wide, and rows 12 oars, double- banked. The expense of the new boat and equipment was defrayed from a fund raised amongst the Out Pensioners of the United Kingdom, chiefly through the indefatigable exertions of Major J. A. BROCKMAN, of Manchester, and the boat is named the Out Pensioner. It was sent to its destination in June last, being taken by railway to Holyhead, and thence rowed and sailed across the Irish Sea to its station by some of the crew, who were much pleased with their new boat. A handsome and substantial house has been provided by the Institution on a new site; and this important Life-boat establishment has thus been rendered one of the most efficient on the Irish coast, and, doubtless, the boat will do good work to shipwrecked crews before many months have elapsed.

SUNDERLAND (No. 1 STATION). The Local Committee, and the Coxswain of the Sunderland No. 1 Life-boat, which is stationed at Roker, on the north side of the River Wear, having stated that they would be glad to have a new self-righting boat in the place of their former boat, which was not on the plan of the Society, such a boat has accordingly been provided for them, 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, rowing 10 oars, double-banked, and possessing the usual valuable properties characteristic of the self-righting boats of the Institution.

Its cost was contributed by the Inde- pendent Order of Good Templars: Mr. E. P. J. SIMPSON, of Liverpool, having been the first to suggest that the Order might present a boat to the Institution, and the Rev. JAMES YEAMES, of Kirkstall, -having acted as Honorary Secretary of the Life- boat fund, and having been indefatigable in his exertions to promote its success.

The boat was publicly exhibited and launched at Sunderland on the 16th September last, in the presence of a large number of spectators. Mounted on its transporting carriage, and decorated with flags, it was drawn by eight fine horses through the principal streets of the town in procession, with music and banners, a number of the Members of the Order of Good Templars, decorated with their insignia, taking part in the proceed- ings, and the boat being manned by its crew equipped as for service. On its arrival at Roker, where an excellent house for the Life-boat, with Pilot's room at- tached, has recently been erected, it was formally presented by Mr. SIMPSON, on behalf of the Good Templars, to Capt. D. EGBEBTSON, E.N., the Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats, who represented the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION on this occasion, and who acknowledged the gift in suitable terms. It was afterwards launched, and a race took place with the other Sunderland Life-boats and the Life-boat belonging to the Whitburn Station.

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the appli- cation of the Local Committee, and the crew of the Life-boat on this station, the Society has sent there, in the stead of the former boat, a 33-feet 10-oared Life- boat, provided with a transporting car- riage. That boat has since been taken out on trial, when it behaved to the entire satisfaction of the crew. It was • granted a free conveyance over the lines of the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies, which are always ready to extend their co-ope- ration on behalf of the Life-boat cause.

BLAKENEY, NORFOLK.—The coxswain and crew of this Life-boat having repeatedly urged that it was not suitable to the requirements of the station, it not having sufficient beam, and having stated that they had consequently lost confidence in the boat, it has been removed from Blakeney, and a larger boat has been sent there, the new one being 37 feet long, 9i feet wide, and pulling 12 oars, double-banked. Its cost was the gift to the Institution of a gentleman living at Bradford, who has also promised to sub- scribe a liberal sum every year to defray the expenses of the Life-boat establish- ment. The new boat was towed to its station last month, free of charge, by the steamer Mack Diamond, belonging to Messrs. FENWICK and Co., of Abchurch Chambers, and the old boat was granted a free conveyance from Wells to London by the Great Eastern Railway Company.

DUNWICH, SUFFOLK.—Some shipwrecks had occurred in this neighbourhood, ac- companied by a lamentable loss of life, which it was thought might have been avoided had there been a Life-boat here.

There are Life-boats on either side, at South-wold and at Thorpeness, the former | being about 4J miles away, and the latter about 7 miles distant. It occasionally happens, however, that vessels striking on the Sizewell Bank, are wrecked at Dunwich, owing to the strong current setting in that direction, before either of i those boats can come to the rescue. Ac- cordingly, an application was made to the Institution by the local residents to form a Life-boat establishment at that place, there being enough fishermen, and other efficient able-bodied men, to work a small Life-boat. As there was a probability of its being occasionally useful, the Society decided to station at Dunwich a Life- boat, 30 feet long, 7 feet 9 inches wide, and rowing 8 oars. It is provided with a transporting carriage, and a boat-house has been erected on a suitable site. The expense of the boat and equipment has been defrayed by some members of the family of the well-known author of the Christian Tear, the boat being named the John Keble, after that good and great man. It was sent to its destination last month, a free conveyance having been kindly and readily granted to it over the line of the Great Eastern Railway Com- pany. On the 9th October, a pleasing demonstration took place at the little village of Dunwich on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Life-boat station.

The Life-boat ceremony was of the simplest character, yet at the same time one calculated to impress all who beheld it. First, the members of the Corporation, the crew of the boat, the boat itself, drawn by half-a-dozen fine horses, and the Local Committee, with the Coastguard, Volun- teers' band, &c., formed themselves into a procession, which made for the church, which was speedily filled, numerous visitors having come in from the neigh- bouring towns and villages to take part in ! the proceedings. The service was con- ducted by the Vicar, the Rev. J. F. NOOTT, i who acts as Honorary Secretary of the j Branch, an impressive sermon being j preached by the Rev. G. I. DA VIES of Kelsale. Eeferring to the distressing cir-cumstances attending a shipwreck, he re- marked that if we could really witness the harrowing sight of a ship destined perhaps to circle the globe itself in safety; and then, just when within sight of England's shore, full of eager and joyful hearts, suddenly on some dark and stormy night to be dashed to pieces on the very shore towards which the longing hearts of all on board had for months been turned in hope and expectation, not one but would strain every nerve to prevent its recurrence; not one who would not give all that h'e possessed if, by so doing, he could rescue one such vessel from the fearful doom that awaited it.

On leaving the church the procession was re-formed, and, with the band playing, wended its way to the beach. By this time there was a large number of people assembled to witness the ceremony. The launch was superintended by Cap! Ward, E.N. - The Eev. J. F. NOOTT then offered a prayer for the success of the boat, which was successfully launched, after it had been named in the usual way by Lady CONSTANCE BARNE, wife of Colonel BARNE.

It was afterwards tried under oars and sail, although the weather was not severe enough to show the boat off to advantage.

The crew were, however, much pleased with the Life-boat.