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SIR ROBERT PEEL, 1827 to His Death. Based on hitherto

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SIR GEORGE POMEROY COLLEY; Services in Kaffraria, 1854-59;

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With a PORTRAIT, a VIEW of AVONDALE, and a FACSIMILE

LETTER.
2 vols. large post 8vo. 21s.
THE LIFE OF

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(1846-1891). By R. BARRY O'BRIEN, Author of Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland' de

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PRESS OPINIONS,
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APPEAL.

HE Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Public for Funds to enable

them to maintain their 295 Life-Boats now on the Coast and their Crews in the most perfect state of efficiency. This can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income. The Annual Subscriptions, Donations and Dividends are quite inadequate for the purpose. The Committee are confident that in their endeavour to provide the brave Lifeboatmen, who nobly hazard their lives in order that they may save others, with the best possible means for carrying on their great work, they will meet with the entire approval of the people of this the greatest maritime country in the world, and that their appeal will not be made in vain, so that the scope and efficiency of our great life-saving service, of which the Nation has always been so proud, may not have to be curtailed.

The Institution granted rewards for the saving of 537 lives by the LifeBoats in 1897, and of 125 lives by fishing and other boats during the same period, the total number of lives, for the saving of which the Institution granted rewards, in 1897 being 662. Total of lives saved, for which Rewards have been granted, from the Establishment of the Institution in 1824 to 31st December 1897, 40.477.

It should be specially noted that the Life-Boat Crows, excepting when remunerated by the owners of vessels for property salvage service, are paid by the Institution for their efforts, whether successful or not, in saving life.

Annual Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully received by the Secretary, Charles Dibdin, Esq., at the Institution, 14 John Street, Adelphi, London, W.J.: by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Coutts and Co.. 59, Strand; by all the other Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by all the Life-Boat Branches.

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