THURSDAY, 4th January, 1883.

Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- committees.

Read letter from His Royal Highness the DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., addressed to His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Presi- dent, acknowledging the vote of thanks of the Institution, and stating that it had given him much pleasure to render it such assistance as it had been in his power to afford during his term of service as Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves.

Read and approved the Report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his visits to Grimsby and Mablethorpe.

Also the Reports of the five District In- spectors of Life-boats on their recent visits to the following Stations :— . 1. Hythe, Dover, New Romney, Lydd, Win- chelsea, Rye, Hastings, Eastbourne, Newhaven, Worthing, Brighton, Shoreham, Selsey, Chi- chester, and Hayling.

2. Rhyl (two Boats), Llanddulas, Llanduduo, Porthdiullaen, Portnmdoc, Abersoch, Barmouth, Aberdovey, Holyhead, Rhosneigir, Rhoscolyn, Cemlyn, and Llanddwyn.

3. Greystones, Wicklow, Carnsore, Wexford (two Boats), Cahore, Courtown, Arklow, Kings- town, Poolbeg, and Howth.

4. Newburgh, Port Erroll, Peterhead, White- link Bay, Fraserburgh, Banff, Buckie, Lossie- mouth, Nairn, Huna, and Ackergill.

5. Bridlington and Hornsea.

Reported the receipt of a contribution of WOOL from " E. M. S." to defray the cost of a Life-boat Station.

The Committee expressed their sincere thanks to the benevolent donor for this munificent gift, and decided that it be appropriated to a Life- boat Station at the'earliest opportunity.

[The other special contributions and legacies received by the Institution during the month of December are given in the Annual Report, published on the 1st May last.] Reported that the following legacies had been bequeathed to the Institution:— The late W. F. MAYOTT, Esq., of Camber- £ well 100 The late Mrs. JANE WASHBOURNE, of Tor- quay 100 The late Mrs. HANNAH DUKE, of Hornsea 50 Read letter from Colonel HILL, Chairman of the Cardiff and Penarth Branch of the Institu- tion, of the 22nd December, stating that the MARQUIS OF BUTE had kindly promised to have erected, at his own expense, the new Life-boat House at the Bute Docks, Cardiff.

Decided that the best thanks of the Com- mittee be conveyed to the MARQUIS OF BUTE for his liberality.

The Committee expressed their deep regret at the lamented death of Admiral McHARDY, why had for upwards of thirty years been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and had ever been ready to promote its interests.

Also at the decease of Mr. W. H. WEBB, of Salcombe, Devon, who had for many years been the zealous Honorary Secretary of the Salcombe and Hope Coye Branch of the Institution.

Voted the thanks of the Committee to J. P. BAUMGARTNER, Esq., in acknowledgment of his long and valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Gorleston Branch of the Insti- tution.

Ordered that various works be carried out at the Sunderland, Mablethorpe, and Littlehaven Life-boat Stations at an expense of 297?.

Paid 5,14AI. 17s. Wd. for sundry charges on various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 177/. 13fc. Sd. to pay the expenses of the Life-boats at Hauxley, Newbiggin, Tyne- mouth, Fishguard, Seaton Carew, Hartlepool,' Hayie, Saltburn, Scarborough, Blyth, and Irvine, in rendering the following services:— Lives saved.

S.S. AmuUt, of Rotterdam 21 Brig Cathmna, Begina, of Riga, ... 8 Fishing-cobles of Newbiggin, rendered as- sistance.

Schooner Argo, of Copenhagen, rendered assistance.

Brigantine Xanthus, of Aberystwith . . 6 Schooner Llaethline, of Newquay ... 4 Schooner John Stonard. of Aberystwith . 4 Schooner JJoppet, of Helsingborg ... 7 Schooner Anapira, of Kirkcaldy, assisted to save vessel and 5 Brig John, of Hartlepool 7 Danish schooner Edmund ..... 7 Lugger Ecureuil, of Gravelines .... 5 Schooner Star, of St. Agnes ...... 3 German schooner Libra 5 Schooner Etoile du Marin, of Dunkcrquc, rendered assistance.

Danish schooner Andreas 8 Steam-tug Irvine, of Irvine 4 The Caister, Holy Island, Grimsby, Shering- ham, Ramsgate, and St. David's Life-boats had also performed the following services:— Schooner Brothers, of Harwich, rendered assist- ance ; s.s. Bradley, of Liverpool, helped to save vessel and crew, 15; fishing-coble, of Holy Island, saved boat and crew, 4 ; schooner Laura Ann, of Faversham, rendered assistance; Nor- wegian barque Carolina, rendered assistance; barque Egmont, of South Shields, saved crew, 13; Norwegian barque, Storjoliann, assisted to save vessel.

[Full particulars of these Life-boat services are given in the last Annual Report.

Voted also 4:581. 18s. Gd. to pay the expenses of the Cresswell, Harwich, Cullercoats, Fish- guard No. 1, Holy Island No. 1, Tynemouth No. 2, Douglas No. 2, West Hartlepool No. 2, Berwick-on-Tweed, Flamborough No. 2, Donna Nook, Grimsby, Saltburn, Broadstairs, Kings- downe, Hornsea, Mundesley, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, Lowestoft, St. David's, Salcombe, Carnsore, Broughty Ferry, Withernsea, Mon- trose No. 1, Newcastle (Dundrum), Duncannon, Fraserburgh, Winchelsea, and Tenby Life-boats, in assembling their crews, or putting off in reply to signals of distress shown by vessels which did not eventually require the aid of the Life-boats.

The Ramsgate Life-boat had also been taken out to the aid of a distressed vessel, but her services were not ultimately needed.

Voted 32. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving, at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian schooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole gale from the N.B. on the 7th De- cember.

Also 3/. to three men for putting off in a boat from Southend, Essex, and assisting to save eight persons from the schooner Hero, which stranded off Southend, during a S.W. wind and a very rough sea on the 24th October.

THURSDAY, 1st February.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- Committees.

Also the Reports of the five District In- spectors of Life-boats on their recent visits to the following Stations:—1. Plymouth, Yealm River, Salcombe, Hope Cove, Dartmouth, and Brixham.

2. Cemaes, Moelfre, Bull Bay, Rhyl (two Boats), Penmon, Looe, Mevagissey, and Portloe.

3. Drogheda (two Boats), Skerries, and Bal- briggan.

4. Stromness, Thurso, Hauxley, Cresswell, Alnmouth, Boulmer, and Bamborough.

5. Redcar, Saltburn, Middlesbrough, Staithes, and Runswick.

[The special contributions and legacies re- ceived by the Institution during the month of January are given in the Annual Report, pub- lished on the 1st May last. Reported that the following legacies had been bequeathed to the Institution:— £.

The late Mrs. A. T. PRICE, of Peckham . 1,000 The late ROBERT ORMSTON, Esq., of New- castle 1,000 The late DAVID HAY, Esq., of Edinburgh, for a Life-boat for the Scotch coast . 1,000 The late HENRY BROWN, Esq., of Plymouth 100 The late HORACE MARTIN, Esq., of Battle 100 The late G. E. POWELL, Esq., of Cardigan 50 The late JOHN DOMETT, Esq., of Camber- well 10 Reported that Commodore BRAEM, of the Danish Royal Navy, had recently inspected the Store Yard of the Institution, and witnessed the harbour trial of a new Life-boat, which had afforded him much satisfaction.

Voted the thanks of the Committee to JAMES DARLING, Esq., CHARLES CLIFT, Esq., Captain E. M. ISACKE, and the Rev. J. DAVIES, in acknowledgment of their past valuable co- operation as Honorary Secretaries respectively of the Blyth, Falmouth, Kingsgate, and Llaud- dulas branches of the Institution.

Decided, That the present Life-boat at Margate be replaced by a new and larger Boat, more suitable for use on the outlying sandbanks.

Paid 1,9402. 6s. 4d. for sundry charges on various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 1011. 14s. to pay the expenses of the Sennen Cove, Poole, Cullercoats, Huna, Moelfre Littlehaven, "and Holyhead Life-boats in ren- dering the following services:— Lives saved.

Smack Spring, of Guernsey i! Brig Victor, of Neustadt. Remained by vessel.

S.S. Libelle, of Hamburgh 20 Fishing-boat Margaret Gunn, of Wick . . 7 Smack Frens, of Beaumaris S Schooner A'anteos, of Aberystwyth ... 4 Schooner Nellie, of Bridgwater. and brig Lewis, of Cainarvon, remained by vessels.

The Life-boats at Arbroath, Cresswell, Fish- guard, Holyhead, Caister, and Fleetwood, had also performed the following services :— Schooner Vigilant, of Dundee, rendered assist- ance ; s.s. Congo, of Cardiff, rendered assistance; smack Ina Lass, of Newquay, saved vessel and crew of 4 ; barque Brothers, of Yarmouth, N.S., assisted to save vessel and 12 men; brigantine Dare, of Sunderland, assisted to save vessel and crew of 6; and s.s. Eden, of West Hartlepool, rendered assistance.

[Detailed accounts of many of these Life-boat services will be found on pages 187-190.] Voted 2162. 6s. to pay the expenses of the Holyhead, Flamborough No. 2, Camsore, Court- macsherry, Bridlington, Lowestoft, Porthdin- llaen, Palling No. 2, Caister No. 2, Southport, Lytham, Hythe, Porthoustock, New Brighton, and Porthcawl Life-boats, in assembling their crews or putting off to the assistance of vessels which did not eventually require the aid of the Boats.

Also the Silver Medal of the Institution to Mr. JENKIN JENKINS, coxswain of the Mumbles (Swansea) Life-boat, who had on many occa- sions rendered good service in saving life from shipwreck.

Voted 102. to five men, for putting off in a boat from Carrick-a-Eaide Island, Co. Antrim, and rescuing at much lisk of life the, crew of four men of a fishing yawl, which was in danger of being wrecked, during a gale from the N.W., on the 2nd August.

Also 52. to several men who -waded into the surf and rescued, by means of a line and a hawser, the master, his wife and three children, and the crew, consisting of three men, of the ketch Q. E. D., of Dartmouth, which was totally AUGUST 1,1883.] THE LIFE-BOAT.

193 wrecked off Lowestoft, during a whole gale from the N.E., on the 28th October.

Also 31. to three men, for putting off in a boat and saving another man, whose boat had been capsized off Eyeries, Co. Cork, during a N.N.E. wind and high surf, on the 26th October.

Also 21. to the crew of a boat for rescuing three men who had been working on board the s.s. Troubadour, of Liverpool, which, had stranded off Drogheda, Ireland, and were in some peril during a gale of wind from the S.W. on the 29th December.

Also 21. to four men for saving four men from the boat of the ship Base of Sharon, of Shields, which, when returning from the shore to that vessel, had been caught in a sudden gale from the N.W., and had been driven out into the Bristol Channel on the 26th November.

Thursday, 1st March.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- Committees.

Also the Report of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats on his recent visit to Mablethorpe.

Also the Reports of the five District In- specters of Life-boats on their visits to the fol- lowing Stations:— .

1. Torquay, Teignmouth, Exmouth, Sid- mouth, Lyme Regis, Weymouth, Kimeridge, and Hastings.

2. Newquay, Fowey, Penzance, Sennen Cove, Porthcawl, and Falmouth.

3. Drogheda, Blackrock, Giles' Quay, Green- castle, Portrush, and Groomsport.

4. North Sunderland, Berwick, Dunbar, Tynemouth (two Boats), Cullercoats, Kirkcud- bright, and Whithorn.

5. Upgang, Robin Hood's Bay, "Whitby (two Boats), Scarborough, Filey, Mablethorpe, Flam- borough (two Boats), and Withernsea.

Reported the receipt of 1,0002. from the Civil j Service Life-boat Fund, per CHARLES DIBDIN, , Esq., F.R.G.S., Honorary Secretary, for the ' endowment of their Life-boat Civil Service No. 3, j at Port Patrick, N.B.

Decided, That the best thanks of the Com- mittee be given to Mr. DIBDIN and the other Contributors to the Fund, for their further very liberal contribution.  [The other Special Contributions and Legacies [ received by the Institution during the month of February are given in the Annual Report, published on the 1st May last.] Reported that the late G. J. EYRE, Esq., of Hove, had bequeathed a legacy of '201)1. to the institution.

Reported the transmission to their Stations of the new Life-bouts for Swansea, Winchelsea, and Mablethorpe.

The South-Eastern Railway Company had kindly conveyed the Winchelsea Life-boat to Rye, and brought back the old one to London, free of charge.

—To be thanked.

Voted the thanks of the Committee to the Rev. F. C. JACKSON, in acknowledgment of his past valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary of the Cadgwith Branch of the Institution.

Paid 1,5122. 8s. 6d. for sundry charges on various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 1932. 19s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the Ballycotton, Padstow, St. Andrew's, Cahore, Ballywalter, Harwich, Scarborough, Kessing- land No. 2, Worthing, and Newhaven Life- boats, in rendering the following services :— Lives saved.

Barque Anjo, of Sunderland, rendered as- sistance.

Schooner Mary Josephine, of Padstow . . 3 Schooner Rosebud, of Goole 4 Brigantine Zephyr, of Rye, brought ashore 6 men from Blackwater Lightship.

Brig Euphemia Fullerton, of Londonderry. 6 Barque Lorely, of Memel 11 Fishing smack young Alice, of Scarborough 5 Brig Marnhull, of Weymouth .... 5 Schooner Teresa, of Weymouth .... 4 Ketch Thomas and John, of Fowey . . 3 The Port Isaac, Kessingland No. 1, Holyhead, and Caister No. 2 Life-boats had also done the following services :—Four distressed fishing cobles, saved boats and crews (7), and rendered assistance to several other boats; sloop Pioneer, of Lowestoft, rendered assistance; brig J.B.S., of London, rendered assistance; schooner Don, of Aberdeen, assisted to save vessel and crew of 5.

[Accounts of some of these services are given on pages 186-190.] Voted 3897. 16s. to pay the expenses of the Winterton No. 2. Castletown, Dungarvan, Holy- head, Llanddwyn, Southport, Lowestoft, Bern- bridge, Hayling Island, Ramsey, Anstruther, Southend, N.B., Douglas No. 2, Tynemouth No. 1, Aldborough, Harwich, Pakefield No. ], Broughty Ferry, Falmouth, Maryport, Plymouth, Torquay, Montrose No. 1, Arbroath, Hythe, and Great Yarmouth Life-boats, in either assembling their crews or launching to the aid of vessels, which did not ultimately need their assistance.

The Scarborough Life-boat had also been taken afloat, but her services were not eventu- ally needed.

Voted the Second Service Clasp of the Insti- tution to the Rev. J. O'REILLY BLACKWOOD, Honorary Secretary of the Ballywalter Branch, in recognition of his gallant conduct in going out in charge of the Life-boat at that port on the occasion of the rescue of the crew of the brig Euphemia Fullerton, of Londonderry, totally wrecked on the Long Rock during a very fierce E.S.E. gale on the 6th February.

Also the Silver Medal of the Institution to Mr. GEORGE PRIOR, Chief Officer of H.M. Coast- guard at Ballywalter, for gallantly wading into the surf and helping to get the Life-boat launched and hauled up on the above-named occasion.

Also the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, to Mr. JOHN GLOVER, a member of the Local Committee, who also nobly encouraged and aided the men to save the Life-boat from injury in the surf.

Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution to Mr, WILLIAM WEBB, late Coxswain of the Pad- stow Life-boat, in recognition of Ins gallant sendees in the Boat during the past thirteen years.

Also the Silver Medal to Mr, ROBUST FELL, Coxswain of the Ramsey Life-boat, in acknow- ledgment of his good services; lie had been compelled by ill-health and advanced ago to resign his office.

Also the Second Service Clasp to Mr, WILLIAM NORSWORTHY, Chief Officer of H.M, Coastguard at Carnarvon, and 41. to four other met), for putting off in a boat, at great risk—the boat being driven back four times—and saving the crew, consisting of one man and a boy, from the barge Neptane,of Carnarvon, which bad dragged her anchor and stranded on a sandbank off Carnarvon, during a storm from the W.N.W. on the night of the 25th January, Also 5L 10s. to the crews of two cobles be- longing to Redcar, Yorkshire, for putting off, 1 during » fresh gale, and saving the crew of four ' loen of the schooner Jim Crow, of Yarmouth, which had struck on the Saltscar Rocks on the 24th January.

Also tl. 4s. to the crews of two other Redcar cobles, for rescuing the crew, numbering three men, of the schooner Norfolk Tar, of Kjng's Lynn, which was wrecked at Redcar during the I gale of the 24tti January. 1 Also SI, to three men for patting off in a boat from Shoreham and saving the crew of six men of the smack Louisa, of that port, which had sunk in the harbour daring a whole gale of wind from the S. on the 2nd February.

Also 31, to sis men for towing safely ashore at Berehaven, Co. Cork, a boat containing the crew of five men of the brigantine Commodore, of Dublin, during a fresh gale of wind from the E.N.E. to E.8.E. on the 9th January.

Also SI. to three men for putting off in a bout and saying, at some risk, four out of five persons from a rowing-boat which had been capsized off Worthing by a heavy surf on the 1st February.

Also 11 to two men for rescuing two other I men, whose boat bad been run into by a sloop j in Plymouth Sound during a strong 8.W. wind on the 23rd January.

TUESDAY, 13th March.

The Annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the ROYAL, NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of j the Institution, in the Chair. The President having opened the meeting with some suitable' observations on the great j and national character of the operations of the  Institution, its Officers for the current year were chosen.

In the absence of the Secretary, the Chief Inspector of Life-boats read the Annual Report, which will be found in the' May number of the Life-boat Journal.

The meeting was then addressed by the Bight HON the EARL OF COCKTOWS, R, N. BAM.AJE- TJ-M, Esq., ION T. HASHMOS, Esq., M.P., Captain the Hon. FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N., F. J. ROBINSON, Esq., Colonel IRB»ELL, Admiral PHIL- LUIOBE, Colonel Fitzroy CLAYTON, EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., and Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart, V.P.

Various resolutions were moved, seconded, and carried unanimously, pledging the meeting to renewed exertions on behalf of the benevolent and national objects of the Institution.

The resolutions will be found in the May number of the Life-boat Journal.

THURSDAY, 5th April.

His Grace the DUKE OF P.C.. D.C.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair.

Vice-Admiral His Royal Highness the DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.0., was unanimously elected a, "Vice-Patron of the Institution.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- committees.

Read letter from EDWARD BIRKBECK, KSG..

Chairman of the Institution, of the 2nd April, stating that His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Rs the President of The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, had been appointed by the Home Secretary one of Her Majesty's Commissioners of the Great Inter- national Fisheries Exhibition.

Elected the members of the Sub-Committees —L. T. CAVE, Esq., Chairman—for the ensuing year.

Read and approved the Reports of the five District Inspectors of Life-boats on their visits to the following Stations :— 1. Winchelsea, Huntings, Worthing, Torquay, Chichester, and New Romney.

2. Cadgwith, Porthleven, Lizard, Molton, Porthoustock, Scilly, St. Ives, Hayle, Padstow, Port Isaac, Bude, Clovelly, Appledore (two Boats), Morte, Ilfracombe, and Braunton.

3. Bally waiter, Tyrella, Newcastle, New Brighton (two Boats), Southport, Lythatn, St.Anne's, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Piel, Seuecak-, and Whitehaven.

4. Port Logan, Port P«trick, Ballanteic, Girvan, Irvine, Troon, Ayr, Ardrossan, Kil- dotian, Southend, Campbellown, and North Berwick.

fl. Hunstanton, Brancaster, Wells, Blakeney, Sheringham, Cromer, MuwlesJey, Hasborough, Palling {two Boats), Winterton (two Bout's), Caister (two Boats), Yarmouth, Gorleston.Lowe- stoft, Pakefield (two Boats), Kessingland (two Boats), Clacton, Harwich, Aldborough, Thorpe- ness, Dunwich, and Southwold (two Boat«).

[The special contributions and legacies re- ceived by the Institution daring the month of March are given in the Annual Report, pub- lished on the 1st May last] Reported that the following Legacies had been bequeathed to the Institution:— i £ The hie T. IST. STRATFORD, Esq., of Wor- cester, for a Life-boat to ho named after himself 1000 The late Mrs. MARY SINCLAIR, of Cou- rock, N.B. £00 . The Committee expressed their great regret at the death of Dr. BEVERLEY R, MORRIS, who had for a long period been Honorary Stetetsry of the Bridgwater and Burnham Branch of the Institution.

Voted the thanks of the Committee to JAMES WARRACK, Esq., and WILLIAM HANKES, Esq., in acknowledgment of their long and valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretaries of the Montrose and Filey Brandies of the Institution.

Also to Mr. JAMES WEBBER, Honorary Secre- tary of the Covent Garden Life-boat Fund, for his long and valuable services, extending over many years, on behalf of that fund.

Also to Captain FLISHEE, of the steamer Cijijnus, of Weymouth, for his kind services in collecting contributions on board that vessel on behalf of the Weymouth Branch of the Insti- tution.

Paid 3362?. Ss. id. for sundry charges on various Life-boat Establishments.

Voted 2891. 19s. 6d. to pay the expenses of the Thurso, Holy Island No. 1, Ramsey, Hunstant-ton, Seaton Carew, Cemaes, Montrose, Filey, Holyhead, and Rhosneigir Life-boats, in ren- dering the following services:— Lives saved.

Schooner Hephzfliah, of Carnarvon ... 5 Smack Annie, of Port Duiorwic.... ii Bella, of Wick C William and Martha 3 Governor Loch, of Inverness .... 4 Schooner Enigma, of Port St. Mary . . 5 Ketch Mary Tweedlie, of Berwick ... 2 Trawler Emerald Isle, of Whitehaven . . 4 Barquentine Vicuna, of Hull .... !) Schooner Atlas, of Draramen .... f Steamer Annie Hope, of Leith .... 6 I Ketch London, of Jersey, rendered assist- ance.

Ketch Orange Blossom, of Jersey, rendered assistance.

Brig Eleonore, of Tonsberg 7 yawl William Clowes, of Filey .... (5 Barque Norman Court, of Greenock . . 20 The Caister No. 2, Grimsby, Lowestoft, Ramsgate, Morte, and Clacton Life-boats had also performed the following services:—s.s. Barnsley, of Grimsby, remained by vessel ; schooners Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, and Fides, of Nyborg, Denmark, rendered assistance; barque Georgia, of Fiume, saved crew of 13; s.s. Lynx, of Cardiff, assisted to save vessel and 7; barque Epsilon, of Swansea, rendered as- sistance.

[Accounts of some of these services will be found on pages 187-190.] Voted 260Z. to pay the expenses of the Hauxley, New Brighton No. 2, Broadstairs, Caister Nos. 1 and 2, Saltburn, Scarborough, Brancaster, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool, Seaton Carew, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Porthdinllaen, Montrose No. 1, Filey, Deal, Walmer, Kings- downe, and Whitelink Bay Life-boats, in assem- bling their crews or putting off to the aid of vessels which did not eventually need their aid.

The Ramsgate and Redcar Life-boats had also been taken out, but their services had not been ultimately required.

Voted the Silver Medal of the institution to Mr. THOMAS ROBERTS, coxswain of the Holyhead Life-boat and the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, to the crew of the Life- boat, with increased pecuniary rewards, in recog- nition of their gallant services in putting off twice, first in the Holyhead Life-boat, and afterwards in the Life-boat at Rhosneigir, and rescuing twenty men from the barque Norman Court, of Greenock, which was wrecked in Cymeran Bay, during a terrific gale of wind, on the 30th March.

Also the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, and a binocular glass, to Mr. W. S. ELLIOTT, Honorary Secretary of the Holyhead Branch, in acknowledgment of his valuable co-operation on the above-named occasion.

The thanks of the Institution were also pre- sented to W. E. EYRE, Esq., to Mr. ARTHUR RIDDIFORD, Chief Officer of H.M. Coastguard at Holyhead. and to the London and North- Western Railway Company, through Mr. GUEST, their agent at Holyhead, for valuable assistance rendered by them on the occasion in question.

Also the Silver Medal to Mr. HENRY HOOD, coxswain of the Seaton Carew Life-boat, and to John HENRY FRANKLIN and MATTHEW FRANK- LIN, of that Life-boat crew, in recognition of their gallant services in going out in the Life-boat, and afterwards proceeding across the rocks, at very great risk, and saving the crew of five men of the brigantine Atlas, of Drammen, which was totally wrecked on the Longscar Rocks, during- a N.E. wind and a very heavy sea, on the 11th March.

Also the thanks of the Institution to Mr. ALFRED THORNEY, Mr. GEORGE MARR, and Mr. CAMBRIDGE, for wading into the sea and assist- ing to extricate the Filey Life-boat from a very dangerous position, on the occasion of the yawl William Clowes, of Filey. being in distress in Filey Bay, during a fearful gale of wind from the N.E. and a very heavy sea on the 6th March.

Voted also a binocular glass, bearing a suit- able inscription, to Mr. W. H. BELL, late cox- wain of the Howth Life-boat, in acknowledg- ment of his long and valuable services in assisting to save life from shipwreck.

Also 61. to the crew of a Winterton yawl, for bringing ashore the crew of ten men of the Norwegian schooner Orienten, who had taken refuge on the Wold Lightship, during a fresh wind from the W.N.W., on the 24th March.

Also 51. 10s. to eleven men, for putting off in a boat and rescuing the crews, numbering in all thirty-five men, of five fishing-boats, which were in danger in Ackeigill Bay. during a gale and a heavy sea, on the 12th February.

Also 21. to four fishermen, for saving, by means of life-belts and lines, three of the crew of the schooner Savant, of Beaumaris, which was wrecked at Crail during a strong N.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the 7tli February.

Also 1Z. 5s. to five men, for putting off in a boat and rescuing three soldiers who had been surrounded by the tide on North Wharf, Fleet- wood on the 4th March.

Also 11. to four men belonging to North Sunderland, for saving the crew of six men and the master, his wife and child from the boat of the schooner Parkinson, of Barrow, which had been wrecked on the Knavestone Rock, Fame Islands, during a fresh N.W. breeze and a mode- rate sea, on the 23rd February.