PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The 30-feet Life-boat on this station has been re- placed by a new and larger boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double banked. The cost of the new boat, with its transporting carriage, has been defrayed by the legacy of the late Mrs.

ELIZA WEIGHT, of Southport, in memory of her late son, after whom the Life-boat is named the Charles Henry Wright. Since it has been placed on its station it has been tried by its crew, and has given every satisfaction.

SWANSEA.—It will be remembered by our readers that a sad accident happened to the Life-boat at the Mumbles, near Swansea, on the 27th of January last, while she was endeavouring to rescue the crew of the German barque Admiral Prinz Adalbert. On this occasion the Life-boat received such serious injury by being dashed with great violence over succes- sive ridges of rocks, that she was unfitted for further service, and has therefore been replaced by a new Boat 34 feet long, 8i feet wide, and rowing 10 oars double- banked. The Boat, the career of which was brought to so sad a termination, was pre- sented to the Institution in the year 1866 by the town of •Wolverhampton, and had been instrumental, in the hands of its gal- lant crew, in saving no less than seventy-six lives from different shipwrecks, besides rendering assistance to several distressed vessels. We trust there is a prosperous future in store for. the new Boat, which is also named the Wolverhampton.

Llanaelhaiarn , CARNABVONSHIRE. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Llanaelhaiarn, which is considered a very favourable position for such a station, inasmuch as it commands the entrance to the Menai Straits, Carnarvon bar, and the south shore of the bay, where vessels are often in danger. A suitable site for the Boat-house was found on the neck of the pier, under the lee of which the Life-boat will be launched, when required, in com- paratively smooth water. The boat sent is one of the 37 feet class, rowing 12 oars double-banked, and is furnished with a transporting-carriage. The gift of 800Z., received by the Institution from Mrs.

NOBLE, of Henley-on-Thames, through the Deputy-Chairman, Colonel FitzRoY CLAY- TON, was appropriated to this station, the same being specially contributed to provide a Life-boat for the Carnarvon- shire coast, in memory-of the late Captain  J. A. STBACHAN, who, on the occasion of the wreck of the s.s. Cyprian in Carnarvon Bay on the 14th of October, 1881, nobly gave up his own lifebelt to a poor stow- away boy, and was consequently drowned.

The boat, which is named the Gyprian, arrived at Carnarvon on the 18th of April last, and on the following day the crew proceeded there and sailed the boat across the bay to its station, the transporting- carriage being in the meantime sent on by road.

MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE.—It hav- ing been thought desirable to shift the Theddlethorpe Life-boat station to this place, where the boat is likely to be more serviceable, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT IN- STITUTION has recently effected the trans- fer, and the opportunity has been taken to furnish the station with a new Life- boat, carriage; and equipment, the entire cost, and that of the boathouse, having been defrayed by A. HETWOOD LONSDALE, Esq., a member of the Com- mittee of Management of the Institution.

The inauguration of this Life-boat station took place on the 4th of June last, in the presence of about ten thousand people, special excursion trains having been run for the occasion from all the neighbouring counties. A procession was formed in line, on the road by the railway station, at 1.30 P.M., and was constituted as fol- lows :—Four policemen in line to clear the way, Louth Artillery Band, Life-boat with masts up, decorated with flags, and drawn by twelve horses. The launchers were stationed in equal numbers on each side of the carriage and horses, to keep the crowd clear of the wheels, while the boat's crew followed the Life-boat, two and two, in their lifebelts and red caps, while the school children, numbering about one hundred, carrying banners and flags, brought up the rear. On arriving at the boat-house the ceremony began with an opening speech, and the presenta- tion of the Life-boat by Commander St. VINCENT NEPEAN, R.N., District Inspector of Life-boats, as the representative of the donor and of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The gift was acknow- ledged by the Rev. E. W. CRACROFT, Honorary Secretary of the Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association Branch, on behalf of the locality and of the Asso- ciation. The religious service then took place, beginning with the "Hymn for those at Sea," and finally the ceremony of naming the boat the Heywood was per- formed by Miss LOFT, of Trusthorpe Hall, amidst vociferous cheering from the as- sembled crowd. Afterwards the boat, with the crew on board, was launched from its carriage. A strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., and a rough sea running, and the spectators had a good opportunity of admiring the be- haviour of the Life-boat and its crew, which was all that could be desired.

Altogether the day's proceedings proved a great success.