At the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 18th inst., and presided over by Mr. Chae. G. Turner, C.B., Comptroller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the contributors to the Fond now numbered upwards of 17,000, and that it was subscribed to practically by the members of every Office and Department under the Crown. The Committee had been able during the year 1898 to pay to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION the large sum of 2,048Z. 14s. lid. to recoup the Institution every expense entailed during the year in connection with the maintenance of the seven Civil Service Life-boats and stations, and towards defraying the cost of the slipway recently erected at Margate for the Life-Boat "Civil Service No. 1." The Civil Service Life-boats have saved 257 lives.