On the 7th August, the Spanish barque Pritnera de Torrevieja, bound from Liverpool to the Havannah, with a valuable cargo, ran ashore on the Blackwater Bank. Information having been conveyed to the Cahore life- boat station, 12 miles distant, the life-boat there was launched with a view of pro- ceeding to her assistance. After an hour's exertion in rowing against wind and tide, she was compelled to return. An hour after the barque was observed to have got off the bank and to be drifting away to the northward. The life-boat was again launched, and succeeded in reaching her, when it was found that the captain and crew had landed in their own boat, with the exception of one man, left inadvertently on board. The vessel had ten feet of water in her hold, and was rapidly filling, whilst three of her pumps were disabled and the fourth one was partially choked with rice. The life- boat's crew, consisting of coast-guardmen and fishermen, at once made sail on her, and worked away at the solitary pump; but finding that it would be impossible to keep her afloat, they ultimately ran her on shore near Arklow, where her cargo was partially discharged, and at low-water her leaks were temporarily stopped, and she was ultimately conveyed to Kingstown Harbour. The life-boat was thus the means of saving a valuable ship and cargo, in addition to the life of the unfortunate man left on board, who would otherwise undoubtedly have perished. For the latter service they were as usual paid by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and for the former, a handsome salvage payment was awarded.