NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—The Life-boat placed on this station twenty years since by the Institution has recently been replaced by a new self-righting ' boat, 37 ft. long, 9 ft. 3 in. wide, and rowing twelve oars, double banked; she is pro- vided with two sliding keek and two water- ballast tanks. Like the boat she super- seded, she is named the Michael Henry, the cost of both boats having been raised by Jewish scholars in memory of a Well- known Jewish gentleman who devoted his untiring activity and great mental endowments to the promotion of the interests and happiness of Jewish chil- dren, the two Life-boat funds, raised for a common object, thus constituting -a link between two generations, the continuity of the movement having been secured by the presence on the committee formed in 1897 of many who, as Jewish scholars, took part in the original movement of 1873. In raising the more recent fund the opportunity was seized, as it was the Diamond Jubilee Year of her Majesty the Queen, to afford the Jewish boys and girls amongst her loyal subjects an opportunity of presenting the new Life-boat as a token of their homage and gratitude. In a few months the sum of £714 16s. Id. was collected, with the cordial aid of many willing helpers, this satisfactory result being mainly due to the devoted labours of the Honorary Secretaries, Messrs. J. LEON and H. M. HARRIS, to the large collection of Mr. ALFRED HENRY, and to the success of a garden fete organised by Miss FLORENCE LEON in the grounds of " The Holm," Avenue Road, kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. and Mrs. HERBERT BENTWICH.

On the afternoon of Sunday, the 28th November, 1897, a public meeting was held at the West Hampstead Town Hall for the purpose of handing over to Mr.

CHARLES DIBDIN, the Secretary of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the net proceeds of the fund. The Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, President of the Fund, who occupied the chair on that occasion, read the following letter which the Committee addressed to the Queen, and Her Majesty's reply:— To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

MADAM,—I have the honour to inform you that the Jewish scholars of the United King- dom, anxious to evidence their love and loyalty, instituted a Jewish Scholars' Life-boat Fund as a thank-offering for the attainment by your Majesty of the sixtieth year of your beneficent reign. The sum of £700 has been collected, mainly from Jewish children, and the Fund has been enabled to replace the Michael Henry Life-boat at Newhaven.

Trusting that it will afford your Majesty some gratification to be informed that among your subjects none are too young to appreciate your worth, and none more loyal than those who are proud to call themselves English Jews, I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty's most humble servant, JOSEPH LEON (Hon. Sec. Jewish Scholars' Life-boat Fund).EEPLY.

PRIVY PURSE OFFICE, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 16th November, 1897.

The Private Secretary presents his compli- ments to Mr. Joseph Leon, and in acknow- ledging the receipt of his letter of the 14th, is commanded to express the gratification with which the Queen has learnt of the re- establishment of a Life-boat at Newhaven by the recent Jubilee Victorian Exhibition at Earl's Court, by which means it had been made known to all the world how Jewish children had done honour to the Queen. He also pointed out that the crew could not fail to feel pride and confidence in their fine sew boat.

The inauguration of the new Life-boat means of a fund instituted by the Jewish scholars of the United Kingdom in commemo- ration of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.

Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, who was cordially greeted by the meeting, expressed the grateful thanks of his Committee to the contributors, and mentioned that the boat had been shown as the latest and most perfect type of a self-righting Life-boat at at its station took place on the 9th March last.

A deputation from the Jewish Scholars' Life-boat Fund Committee, on arriving at Newhaven Harbour Station, was met by members of the Local Committee, who escorted them to the Life-boat House.

A procession, headed by the band of the 1st Sussex Royal Engineer Volunteers,by kind permission of the commanding officer Captain GATES, and comprising the Urban District Council, the Coast- guard, the officers and crews of the steamers in port, the fire brigades, the several friendly societies of the town, and the Life-boat crews, etc., proceeded through the town, and on arriving at the Life-boat House, the boat was formally presented by the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and its representative, Mr. KEPPEL H. FOOTE, District Inspector of Life-boats, after- wards transferred it to the charge of the Newhaven Local Committee, whose Chair- man, Mr. W. H. MASSEY, accepted it on their behalf. The inaugural religions ceremony was performed by the REV. H. GOLLANCZ, M.A., and the boat was named by Mrs. HERBERT BENTWICH. Th.e crew of the Life-boat were entertained at supper in the evening by Mr. F. S. SHENSTONE, a member of the Local Committee.

BRIGHTON, NEAR LIVERPOOL. — Full particulars of the new steam life- boat Queen placed on this station will be found in No. 187 of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1898, pages 1-6.

CADGTWITH, CORNWALL ; PLYMOUTH ; SALTBURN - BY - THE - SEA, YORKSHIRE ; CAMPBELTOWN AND IRVTNE, SCOTLAND.— The Life-boats on these stations have recently been replaced by new self- righting boats of the latest type. The first-named boat was provided from a legacy received by the Institution from the late Mr. JAMES MOON, of Birmingham, for a Life-boat to be named the Minnie Moon. The Plymouth boat is named the Eliza Avins ; its cost was defrayed from a legacy bequeathed to the Institution by the late Mr. John Avins, of Moseley, supplemented by a further contribution from the testator's widow, after whom this boat is named. The new Life-boat for Saltburn is named the Mary Batger, in accordance with the wishes of the late Mrs. MARY SCALES, of Armley, Leeds, whose bequest to the Institution was uti- lised on behalf of this Life-boat Station.

The cost of the Campbeltown new boat was met from a portion of a legacy bequeathed to the Institution by the late Mr. JAMES STEVENS, of Birmingham, and the boat is named the James Stevens No. 2. The legacy bequeathed to the Institution by the late Mr. GEORGE PIKE NICHOLLS, of Southgate, Middlesex, to enable it to place a Life-boat on the coast to be named the Jane Anne in memory of his late mother, was appropriated to the provision of the new boat for Irvine.