St. Patrick's Causeway, but which, in spite of the men's endeavours, they are not able to get near, through the violence of the storm? So the boat returns to Criccieth, and in the morning, when the gale has somewhat abated, the brave crew set forth again, and this time reach the ship, and bring to shore the seventeen souls who remain on board of her: eight others had landed in one of their own boats, and one had been drowned in the attempt. Now, it is a native vessel ashore, on the Southgate Sand in the Tees, and a month after, in a summer gale a French brig, on the Holme Sand, near Lowestoft; in both instances the crews are saved by the intrepid life-boat's men. At the latter place, on an awful night in November, "a north wind blowing great guns," as sailors say, and a tremendous sea running, blue lights are seen-the signals of distress. The life-boat is launched, and proceeds under sail to the spot indicated, where a schooner is at anchor in a sinking state; but, with the aid of the life-boat's crew, she is taken into Lowestoft Harbour. Previously to this, in the month of August, a Spanish barque got on shore on the Black-Water bank, Wexford. The Cahore life-boat, twelve miles distant, after an hour's unavailing exertion, with a view to her assistance, was obliged to give it up-wind and tide being both against her. An hour later, the barque was perceived to have got off the bank, and to be drifting away to the northward. Again, the life-boat is launched, and this time succeeded in reaching her, when it was found that the captain and crew had landed in their own boat, with the exception of one man, left inadvertently on board. There were ten feet of water in the hold, three pumps disabled, and the fourth partially choked. In a little time the vessel would have filled. Conceive the feelings of the solitary sailor on board, before the lifeboat hove in sight; conceive, too, the gratification of her crew in saving him; but, besides this,

though simply fishers and coastguardmen, they lost no time in making sail on the barqueworked away at the single pump, and then finding it would be impossible to keep her afloat, ran her on shore at Arklow, where her leaks were temporarily stopped, and she was ultimately conveyed to Kingstown Harbour. A handsome salvage was in this case awarded to the lifeboat's crew, in addition to the reward for saving the life of the sailor. Nor are these nearly all the instances which I might quote from this panoramic register of life-boat services in a single year. By this time many more shipwrecks, and many more acts of heroism, on the part of life-boat's crews, remain to be added to it, for the reader must endeavour to realize that such incidents are amongst each week's "passing events" somewhere or other on our coast. Surely, no more is requisite to plead the claims of this noble association to public support. Its expenses naturally increase as it extends its usefulness. Every new establishment is a new outlay, and to maintain it in working condition, a continuous charge. With many generous benefactors, it claims, as a national institution, wider recognition, and more general help. From the accounts of rewards paid by the institution to the brave men who have the merit of virtually carrying out its philanthropical intentions, it appears that a single pound covers the cost of a life. Many of my readers will think that sum well spent, in helping to rescue a fellow creature from the perils of shipwreck.

C. A. W.

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