THIS Life-boat, a full description of which was given in No. 171 of our Journal last February, was sufficiently far ad- vanced to attend the highly successful " Life - boat Saturday " demonstration which took place in Glasgow on Saturday, the 16th June last, when she was publicly named, in the presence of at least 30,000 people, by Mrs. BELL, the wife of the LORD PBOVOST. It will be remembered that the cost of the boat has been raised for the Institution by the citizens of Glasgow in connection with the " Life- boat Saturday " demonstrations of 1893 and 1894.

The LORD PROVOST, in making the presentation of the boat on behalf of the subscribers, referred in terms of praise to the great work which had been accomplished in the past by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

He said that up to the close of last year it had granted rewards for saving 37,855 persons from shipwrecks on our coast, and when they looked round and considered that on their side of the River Clyde there were then within view about that number of people, they had brought home to their minds how great a work that was. Again, there was not only the saving of the lives of all those people from » watery grave, but they had also the many thousands interested in them to whom the Institution had brought joy and gladness.

The Parent Institution was represented by Colonel FuzRoY CLAYTON, the Deputy Chairman of the Institution, and by Mr.

KBPPBL H. FOOTE, late Lieutenant R.N., the Inspector of the Northern District.

The gift was acknowledged in grateful terms by Colonel FiizRoY CLAYTON, who said that the splendid efforts put forth by Mr. MACARA and other good friends of the Institution in the North were most highly appreciated by the Central Com- mittee. He hoped other ports would imitate the good example shown by the city of Glasgow, and that plenty of i funds would be forthcoming for the maintenance of the 311 Life-boats of the Institution, including rewards to the gallant men who worked the boits and compensation to widows and orphans in case of loss of life.

The Life-boat, on her return from Glasgow, was handed over to the builders, Messrs. R. and H. GREEN, of Blackwall Yard, for completion and bringing up in all points to the specification, prior to being finally taken over by the Institu- tion for duty. Harwich has been selected as the station at which the boat is to be placed.