The Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund was held on the 7th of January, and was presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES of the House of Lords. The report, which was read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN the Honorary Secretary, stated that during the past year there had been a satisfactory increase in the number of subscribers, of whom there are now 7,416, and that the fund had, during 1884, endowed the life- boat Civil Service No. 4, which is placed at Walmer. The three other Life-boats which have been presented by the Civil Service to the National Institution, and endowed, are stationed respectively at Tyneznouth, Port Patrick and Wexford, and have been the means of saving 156 lives and 3 vessels. The report closed with a strong appeal for £1200, to enable the Committee to defray the expense of the boat-houses and slipwaysi which the Fund's boats have entailed on the parent society..