On the 24th of September, at 11 P.M., the brig Hartley, of Southampton, went on shore on the south end of the Goodwin sands, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W. at the time. At 1-40 A. si. alarm guns and rockets were observed on board the North and South Sandhead and the Gull light-vessels, when the Ramsgate Har- bour steamer Sampson, with the life-boat in tow, immediately proceeded to the sands.

On speaking the Gull light-vessel, the po- sition of the wreck was ascertained, and after running down to her, the life-boat cast off from the steamer, and going through a very heavy sea, endeavoured to get talong- side the brig, but missed her in the first attempt. Her crew then made sail on her, and got to windward again, then bearing up again they succeeded in boarding the wreck, over which the sea was making a clean breach at the time. The life-boat was now repeatedly filled with water as the seas broke over the vessel, but immediately freed her- self of it again. She succeeded in taking off the crew, eight in number, and putting them on board the steamer. As the tide was rising, and the brig was timber-laden, there was a probability of her floating off at high-water; accordingly the steamer and life-boat re- mained by her, and at 7 A. M., she having previously drifted off the sand, she was taken in tow by the steamer, and conveyed in safety to Ramsgate.