Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, for kindly giving a free pass to the Brighton life-boat from London to her station.

Read letter from the Rev. A. M'Causland, honorary secretary of the Groomsport branch, giving a favourable account of the recent trial of the new life-boat of the Institution on that station. The power of the life-boat in going head to wind had surprised many of those who witnessed the trial, and had elicited from all their admiration.

Reported that life-boat and carriage drawings, accompanied by a letter signed by his Grace the President, had been forwarded to the following foreign Ministers in this country : Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Netherlands, Piedmont, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Norway and the United States of America.

Voted £2 to John Daly for his prompt and laudable services in rescuing, by means of his horse, four persons whose boat had been driven out to sea during a heavy gale of wind off Doon Head, Bally Cray, Mayo, on 18th May last.

The thanks of the Institution were voted to Dr. Halpin, and £11 to the crew of eleven men of the Wicklow lifeboat for putting off on the 4th June, with the view of rendering assistance to a vessel on Jack's Hole Bank near that place. The master of the ship refused the services of the life-boat, and threatened violence to her crew. He was stated to have been drunk, and was walking the deck with a pistol in his hand..