Considering that the number of persons he has now saved amounts to twenty-eight, we take the liberty of bringing Ellerthorpe's further claims before your notice, believing that you will think with us that his further successful exertions in the cause of humanity, in saving so many persons from drowning, merit some additional mark of your approval. We are, Your honourable court's most obedient servants. In response to this appeal the society awarded to our 'Hero' an especial vote of thanks, of which more _anon_. The following appeal was made to Lord Palmerston: Yarmouth and Rotterdam Steam Packet Office, Kingston-upon-Hull, _30th August, 1861._ My Lord,--The enclosed documents relate to a series of, 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._