ROGERSTOWN, Co. DUBLIN.—In Feb- ruary 1873, a vessel was wrecked near this place, and the crew were nearly all day in the rigging before they could be rescued, there being no Life-boat at hand; the exposure resulted in the death of one of the shipwrecked people, a boy. It was afterwards 'suggested that it would be de- sirable to form a Life-boat establishment at Rogerstown, other wrecks having pre- viously occurred in the neighbourhood.

Accordingly, the Assistant-Inspector of Life-boats to the Institution, Captain D. ROBERTSON, R.N., visited the locality, and being successful in securing local co-oper- ation in aid of the undertaking, and there being a sufficient number of competent men to take charge of and man a Life- boat, he recommended the formation of a Life-boat station at Rogerstown. The Committee acted upon that suggestion, and a commodious Boat-house having ac- cordingly been erected, from the designs of C.H. COOKE, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., Honorary Architect to the Society, on a suitable site, a new Life-boat and transporting carriage were sent to the station in February last.

The boat is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars, double-banked. The expense of this new Life-boat establishment was presented to the Institution by THOMAS PEAKE, Esq., of Tunstall, the boat, i at his request, being named The Tileries, Tunstall (Good be to Erin, and to all).

On the 17th February, the village of Rogerstown was the scene of a very inter-esting ceremony on the occasion of the 1 naming and first launch of the Life-boat, j A large number of the neighbouring j gentry and the country-people assembled on the occasion. Colonel Sir ROGER PALMER, Bart., the President of the Branch, introduced to their notice Mr. J. N. PEAKE, eldest son of the generous donor, who had specially proceeded from England to j be present at the launch. Mr. PEAKE then expressed the pleasure his father felt at giving the boat, and his earnest prayer that, under the blessing of God, she might do good work in saving life, whenever the time came to make use of her services. He then handed the boat over to Captain ROBERTSON, who repre- sented the Institution on the occasion, and by him it was placed in charge of the Local Committee. The Rev. E. WRIGHTSON then addressed the meeting, and offered a prayer for the success of the boat; after which the Rev. M. O'HEA, C.C., gave a very interesting address, and the boat was named by Miss FLEMING, the daughter of BECHEB P. FLEMING, Esq., J.P., the zealous local Honorary Secretary, with a few appropriate words, and in the usual manner, by breaking over the bow a bottle of wine, gaily decorated with the colours of the Institution. The crew and crowd responded with a loud cheer, and the boat was successfully launched into the water, when several evolutions were gone through, and the crew, having been ex- ercised in the boat for some time, returned to the shore. They and the other sea- faring men of the neighbourhood after- wards had a dinner provided for them by Sir ROGER PALMER, that gentleman also giving a luncheon to his friends and others at Kenure Park, to celebrate the occasion.

SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station has been replaced by a larger and more commodious boat, in deference to the wishes of the crew. Ac- cordingly, the boat sent there last April is 33 feet long, and 8 feet wide—the former boat having much less beam, and only rowing 8, instead of 10 oars, as in the boat now forwarded. Like the former, it is provided with a transporting car- riage, and named the Herbert Ingram, after the late Mr. INGRAM, M.P. for Boston, whose friends, soon after his lamented decease, had contributed the expense of the Skeg- ness Life-boat in his memory.