GREENORE, Co. LOUTH. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat station at Greenore, Carlingford Lough, in consequence of the urgent representation of several important authorities and local residents, who considered that the establishment of a Life- boat station here was a necessity, as an additional safeguard for life-saving purposes for that part of the coast, the adjacent Life-boats being Newcastle in Dundrum Bay on the north, and Giles' Quay (Dundalk) on the south, and there being considerable steamboat and other traffic in and out of the Lough. The Lite-boat provided is 37 feet long, 9 feet wide, and rows 12 oars double- banted ; she is fitted with three water- ballast tanks and two sliding or drop keels, and she also possesses the latest improvements, with all the other characteristics of the boats of the Institution in the way of self-righting, self-ejecting water, &c. A commodious house has been erected for the Life-boat on the north side of the coastguard station and adjacent thereto, the land having been readily granted for that purpose by Mrs. PURCELL. The cost of the boat and her equipment has been defrayed from a contribution received by the Institution from the General Post Office, being the amount given by Post Office servants in all parts of the United Kingdom to defray the cost of placing and assisting to maintain a Life-boat on the coast to be named the Sir Arthur Blackwood, as a memorial to the late popular Secretary of the General Post Office, Sir ARTHUR BLACKWOOD, K.C.B.

PORT of LIVERPOOL.—As indicated in the last number of The Life-boat, the Institution has taken over from the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board the management and control of the Life-boat stations, appertaining to the Port of Liverpool, established for the better protection of the crews and passengers on the numerous vessels which are continually entering and leaving the Mersey.

In addition therefore to the New Brighton Lift-boat Station, which was founded in 1863, and has ever since been maintained by the Institution, the four Life-boats respectively stationed at Point of Ayr, Helbre Island, Hoylake and Formby are now under its care. The opportunity has been taken to thoroughly overhaul and reconstitute these stations on the lines adopted by the Institution on other parts of the coast, so as to try to make them as efficient as possible. A new Life-boat house has been constructed on a fresh site at the Point of Ayr, and a new Life- boat and a transporting carriage are to be provided for the station. The cost has been defrayed from a fund contributed from the town of Wolverhampton, H. G. POWELL, Esq., of Tottenhall, having some time since offered the sum of 700Z. to provide a Life-boat, with transporting carriage and equipment of stores, provided the inhabitants of Wolverhampton would contribute the necessary (average) cost of a boat-house, viz., 350Z. The money was soon forthcoming, bat some unavoidable delay took place before a vacancy on the coast within easy reach of Wolverhampton presented itself. The Life-boat will be named the H. G. Powell, after the donor,and an ornamental inscription plate has been placed on the boat- house as a record of the generous gift.

This is the third Life-boat which has been given to the Institution from the town of Wolverhampton, the other two boats having been respectively placed at the Mumbles, near Swansea. The Helbre Island Life-boat has been extensively altered and improved; it is how named the Coard William Squarey, after a gentleman of that name who bequeathed a handsome legacy to the Institution.

New Lift-boats will also be provided for the Hoylake and Formby stations.

RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT. — On the invitation of the Local Committee which has managed this Life-boat station since its formation many years since, it has been taken into connection with the Institution, and has since been over- hauled and completely renovated. The cost of this Life-boat was originally raised by public subscription to commemorate the services of the late Captain HANS BUSK as a founder of the Volunteer movement, and the boat accordingly bears his name. She was built by Mr. JOHN WHITE, of East Cowes, and is of the "Lamb and White" type. She is 28£ feet long, 6 feet wide, and rows six oars, being also fitted with a standing lug sail, jib, and small triangular mizen.

She is kept on a carriage in a boat-house most conveniently situated on Hyde Pier, and a slipway is provided down which she can be launched at any state of the tide. The boat has from time to time rendered good service to vessels and boats in distress daring stormy weather.

SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET.— The Life-Boat at the "South Outlet" Station at Sunderland has been replaced by a new self-righting boat of the latest lines and type, supplied by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. She is fitted with two drop keels and three water- ballast tanks; is 38 feet long and 8 feet wide; and, in addition to her masts and sails, is fitted to row 12 oars, double- banked. Her cost has been defrayed from a legacy bequeathed to the Institution by the late Mrs. HODGES, of Shepherd's Bush, London, and she is named the Richard and Nellie Hodges. An excellent slipway has been constructed at a large expense for the use of this boat, so that she can be readily launched at all states of the tide, and the station is now thoroughly efficient in all respects.

LYDD, DUNGENESS.—The smaller Life- boat on this station (No. 1) has recently been replaced, at the request of the crew, by a new self-righting boat of a fresh type, which has been specially built by the Institution from the designs of its Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, Mr. FELIX RUBIE. This boat is a very light one, only weighing 1 ton 17 cwt. without gear. She is 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rows 10 oars double-banked. Her harbour trial in London was in every way satisfactory, and since she has been on her station she has been out on service in a strong wind and rough sea, and was reported to have behaved " very well indeed." Like her predecessor this boat is named the R.A.O.B., in acknowledgment of the gift to the Institution of a fully-equipped Life-boat, together with some funds towards her maintenance, from members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.