We had hoped to publish in the current number of the Life-~boat Journal a synopsis of the Wreck Register foi the preceding year—or rather for the first six-months of that period;—but vre Lave been tinable to obtain in time from the publishers a copy of the Eegister and the Wreck Chart.

It appears that the BOARD OF TRADE have decided that this important and national document shall in future record Wrecks occurring from the 1st July to the 30th June of each year. Each arm-ual record will thus embrace a complete list of the casualties of the previous -winter, in an unbroken series, instead of, as hereto- fore, ending on the 31st December of each year. In our next number we hope to be able to furnish the Wreck synopsis of the first six months of 1873, accompanying it with a Wreck Chart for the same period..