ARANMORE ISLAND, COUNTY DONEGAL.

—On the application of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment on Aran- more Island on the north-west coast of Ireland. The coast in this direction is mostly iron-bound and unsuitable for Life-boat work ; but here there are occa- sional small inlets or coves with patches of sand where a Life-boat can be made available, and as lives have been lost from shipwrecks on the island on account of there being no suitable boat to put off to save the perishing seamen, the Committee decided to place a Life-boat there. The neighbourhood being very poor but little pecuniary help could be secured for the undertaking; bat the site for the boathouse and slipway wag kindly granted by the landed proprietor, Lieutenant F, Charley, a local committee was organised, and a good coxswain and crew readily came for- ward, and expressed their readiness to man the Life-boat. The expense of the boat and equipment was defrayed from a legacy bequeathed to the Institution by the late RICHARD VANDELEUR, Esq.., of Dublin, and the boat is named the Vandeleur, ' In November last the boat arrived safely at its station. It was taken by railway to Liverpool, thence it was granted a free passage to Londonderry on board one of the steamers belonging to the Belfast Steamship Company (Limited), and from that port it was, by permission of the Admiral-Superintendent of Naval Reserves, towed to its station by one of Her Majesty's coastguard cruisers. The Vandeleur, which is 37 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rows 12 oars, double-banked, is reported to have behaved admirably while in tow of the steamer, during which time strong westerly winds and heavy sea were encountered.