la prepared to establish and maintain a Life-boat Station on any part of the coast of the United Kingdom where it can be shown, from previous disasters, that a Life-boat is required. It is requisite that there should be a sufficient number of men (fishermen, or others accustomed to the management of boats at sea) to man the Life-boat, and a Committee formed from the residents in the neighbourhood to superintend the Station and obtain such small Annual Subscriptions as may contribute towards a portion of the expense of the Life-boat Station.

THE AVERAGE COST OF A LIFE-BOAT STATION is £1,050 AND is MADE up AS FOLLOWS :— Life-boat and hei equipment, including Life-belts for the Crew and Transporting-carriage for the Life-boat £700 Boat-house 350 Total . . .£1,050 The average annual expense of maintaining a Life-boat Station is £70, and the benefactions and contributions of Donors of Life-boats are earnestly solicited in aid of that fund.

FORM OF BEQUEST OF MONEY, STOCK OR OTHER PERSONAL ESTATE.

1 give and bequeath to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION" for the Preservation of Life from Ship wreck, founded in 1824, London, the sum of £ , for the use of the said Institution; and I do hereby direct that the same be paid out of my chattels personal.

NOTICE .—The next number of the Life-boat Journal will be published on the 1st February, 1890.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY ContributionS.

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN 

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE Of WALES, K.G.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES 

ADMIRAL  H.R.H. THE DUKE or EDINBURGH, K.G.

Jlrtlibcni—His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G.

CHAIRMAN —Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., M.P., V.P. jpipBrj-Jjjairmatt—Colonel Frrz-Eor CLAITOS, VJ.

CHARLES DIBDIN, ESQ., F.R.G.S.

APPEAL.

THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT have to state that during the past year (1888) the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION expended £53,270 on various Life-boat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland. Doting the same period it granted rewards for saving 800 persons from various Shipwrecks on our Coasts. Every winter that comes and goes hag its black record of wrecks, and its terrible list of lost lives, the average loss of lives from Shipwreck annually, on the shores of the United Kingdom, being 650.

GENERAL SUMMARY or THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION Drama 1888.

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to £. t. d.

26 Vessels saved by them 626 Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c 174 Amount of Rewards granted during the Year 6,166 Honorary Rewards:—Silver Medals or Silver Clasps . . 15 ... ., Binocular Glasses 22 ... ..

Votes of Thanks on Vellum . . . 29 Total . . . . 66 800 £6,166 - - The Committee desire to acknowledge with gratitude the liberal support which they have received from the British Public during past years,—a support which has enabled them to establish their present great Life-having Fleet of 293 boats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain the Life-boats in a thoroughly efficient state, and their crews practised in the management of their boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent Annual Income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to continue to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a Work.

The number of Lives saved either by the life-boats of the Society, or by special exertions, for which it has granted rewards since its formation, is 34,500 : for which services 97 Gold Medals, 1017 Silver Medals and Silver Clasps, 171 Binocular Glasses, 15 Telescopes, and £106,000 have been given as Rewards.

Annual Subscription* and Donations are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the Secretary, CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq., at the Institution, 14 JOHN STREET, ADELPHI, London; by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Corirs and Co., 59 Strand; Messrs. HEBBIES, FABQTJHAB, and Co., 16 St. James's Street; Messrs. HOARE, 37 Fleet Street, London; and by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom.—Koceniber 1st, 1889..