, perhaps,
unequalled acts of daring on the part of an inhabitant, a working
man, of this borough, in rescuing persons from drowning. He has
succeeded, at the repeated risk of his own life, in saving no fewer
than twenty-nine persons from a watery grave.

The Court of the Royal Humane Society having, in respect of the
twenty-ninth case, and in reply to the enclosed petition, awarded
him their 'Thanks on Vellum,' a committee of his fellow townsmen
has been organised to ensure for him some more substantial award.

From your lordship's well-known appreciation of heroic benevolence,
the committee has ventured to lay his case before you, in the hope
that you would deem it worthy of your distinguished patronage.

I have the honour to be, on the part of the committee,

Your Lordship's
Most humble and obedient servant,
EDWARD HALLER,
_Hon. Sec. 'Ellerthorpe Testimonial.'_

[Sidenote: RECEIVES L20 FROM THE ROYAL BOUNTY.]

In reply, _His Lordship_ forwarded from the _Royal bounty_ the handsome
donation of L20. The following is the letter announcing this gift:--

13632 Treasury, Whitehall, S.W.,
61 17th _September_, 1861.

Sir,--I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners to Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you that, upon the recommendation of Viscount
Palmerston, the Paymaster General has been authorised to pay you
the sum of L20, as of Her Majesty's Royal bounty.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
GEO. W. HAMILTON.

Mr. John Ellerthorpe, Kingston-upon-Hull.

The Board of Trade was next appealed to as follows:

Hull, 8th _August_, 1861.

_To the Right Honourable Thomas Milner Gibson, President of the
Board of Trade, London._

Honourable Sir,--I beg most humbly to lay before your honourable
Board the case of John Ellerthorpe, foreman of the Humber Dock
gates at this place, who saved the life of John Eaby under most
trying circumstances, and at great risk of his own life.

On the 30th of July last the said John Eaby was seized with a fit
and fell into the dock basin, a depth of nearly twenty feet from
the top. John Ellerthorpe, hearing his cries for as