At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year the fund had been able to endow the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5, stationed at Maryport, in Cumberland, and presented by it to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in 1886, and also to pay for the slipway which had been erected at that station for the use of the Life-boat. It was decided to issue an earnest appeal to the Civil Service for funds to present a sixth Life- boat to the Institution, which at the pre- sent time is greatly in need of pecuniary aid for the building of new boats possessing the latest improvements.