AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided over by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of subscribers to the fund had been well sustained during the past year, and that the necessary sum for the building and equipping of a new Life-boat, to be named the Civil Service No. 6, and to be stationed at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, had recently been paid over to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. The Committee unanimously decided to issue an appeal to the Civil Service for the amount required to endow the new boat. It was further reported that the other five Lifeboats presented by the fund to the parent society had been instrumental in saving 203 lives and several vessels.