WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life- boat, like the one it replaced, is named the Harriott Forteath, after the benevolent donor, the late Mrs. FORTEATH of Notting- ham. The Upgang boat is named the Joseph Sykes; it was provided from the late Mrs. A. E. SYKES' legacy, which was bequeathed to the Institution " in grateful remembrance of the rescue of Lieut, j.

SYKES, E.N., when H.M.S. Alceste was wrecked in the year 1817." The Upgang Life-boat was taken to its station by water from Whitby while a gale of wind was blowing from the W.; it was tried under oars and sails, and gave great satisfaction to its crew.

RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.—A new Life- boat has also been placed on this station by the Institution, instead of the one formerly there; the cost of the same was defrayed from a contribution given by a lady residing at Brighton for the purpose of placing a memorial Life-boat on the coast. A mutual promise had been made by the husband and wife that the sur- vivor should give, during lifetime or by will, a Life-boat to the Institution. The husband having died, the widow decided to carry out their mutual agreement during her lifetime. With her sanction the contribution, which she accordingly handed to the Institution, has been ap- propriated to the Runswick new Life-boat, the boat being named the Margaret and Edward. It is 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, rows 10 oars double-banked, and is fur- nished with a new transporting carriage.

It has already done good service since it was placed on its station in January last in bringing safely ashore some distressed fishing cobles and their crews.

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—The Life-boat on this station was the smallest on the coast of Anglesey, and was found to be not powerful enough to contend with the strong tides that are met with in that locality. Accordingly it has been super- seded by a larger 10-oared boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, named, like its predecessor, the Christopher Brown, after the zealous Honorary Secretary of the Settle Branch of the Institution, who had not only been successful in collecting the cost of this and another Life-boat, but had raised a sufficient sum of money amongst bis friends and others for the permanent endowment of his two boats.

A new boat-house and an extensive launching slipway are now being con- structed for the Penmon Life-boat, at a large expense, and when they are com- pleted the Life-boat establishment will be in every respect a pattern one, and cannot fail to reflect credit on the gentle- man whose name will ever be associated with it in conjunction with the

BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The No. 2 Life-boat on this station, -which was built in the locality in the year 1853, has been replaced by a new and lighter Life-boat of the modern type, measuring 30 feet by 8 feet, and rowing 8 oars double-banked.

A new Transporting Carriage accom- panied the boat. The members of the Local Committee and the coxswains were well pleased with the new boat and car- riage, which they thought were more suitable for the station than the old ones.

With the consent of the donors, the gift received by the Institution from T. JONES GIBB, Esq., and Mrs. JONES GIBB, of Tunbridge Wells, was appropriated in the renovation of this Life-boat Establish- ment, the boat being named, at their request, the Tom and Marion. Mr. and Mrs. JONES GIBB have since sent a parcel of magazines and periodicals to Blyth for the use of the crew of the Life-boat. It should be mentioned that the Institution is much indebted to Mr. JAMES DARLING, its Local Honorary Secretary, for his assistance in the management of the Branch, he having been connected with it for upwards of thirty years. The Committee have recently had the satisfaction to pre- sent to him the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in acknowledgment of his long and valuable co-operation on behalf of the Life-boat cause.