It is stated that up to Saturday nearly two hundred
model life-boats had been forwarded to the Surveyor's office in the Admiralty from all parts of the country, including Ireland, to compete for the two prizes offered by RearAdmiral the Duke of Northumberland for the best model of a life-boat and the best-built boat on the design of the model.
The steam-frigate Queen, which made such a splendid run from Aden with the last mail, having run out of coals, was obliged, we are told, to burn her launch, spars, lower deck, and many other articles of both the gunner's and boatswain's stores, to keep her steam up ! The nuisance of having such vessels employed as mail-packets, where expedition is the chief concern, is now becoming intolerable, and must by some means or other be put a stop to. The idea of the mail being thirteen days on its way in Aden, after having accomplished the distance from London to that port in twenty, is unbearable, and ought to be at once protested against in a body by the community in general and the Mercantile interest in particular.—Bornbay Times.
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