On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as quickly as possible, manned and launched; the Rev. OWEN LLOYD WILLIAMS, Honorary Secretary to the Institution, proceeding in her, and at the end of an hour landed with the wrecked men, 2 in number, who formed the whole crew. The vessel was the Isabel, of Liverpool, 51 tons, laden with coals.

PAKEFIELD.—On the 7th October, at 11 a.m., the barque Zemira, of Leghorn, with 12 Italians and an English pilot on board, ran aground on the Newcome Sands, near Lowestoft, the wind blowing a hard gale from the S.W. at the time; the Pake- field boatmen, as soon as possible, launched the life-boat; but the greater part of their number being absent in Lowestoft Harbour, they could not be on the spot immediately; she^was, however, afloat in about forty minutes, but the vessel had then broken up and disappeared. The life-boat's crew, nevertheless, determined to search the spot where she had been, with the chance of picking up any of her crew who might have been able to hold on by pieces of the wreck.

On crossing the shoal, in a very heavy sea, the whole boat and crew were once com- pletely immersed; but, nothing daunted, they prosecuted their search, and happily suc- ceeded in picking up 8 of the crew floating about on pieces of the wreck at various dis- tances from the spot, the last man picked up being 2 miles distant from where the main part of the vessel remained. The captain, 3 of the crew, and the English pilot, unfortunately perished. This service was considered to be altogether of so gallant and praiseworthy a character that the Board of Trade awarded medals to the coxswain and crew; and a considerable collection (60L) was raised by visitors at Lowestoft in testi- mony of their admiration of it, and given to the crew, who also received the highest scale of payment allowed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, viz., 21. to each man—10s. each being the ordinary sum for day service in its life-boats.