On the 14th January the schooner Henry Holman, of Plymouth, was observed in a dangerous position between the Clipera Rocks and Penrhyn Point, An- glesey, while the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from W.N.W. The Holyhead life-boat was at once despatched to her assistance, and after 4 of the life-boatmen had boarded the vessel, and had taken her to a place of safety, the life-boat was return- ing to the shore thus short-handed, when the gale increased to a hurricane, and broke the clamp of her mainmast, which caused the mast to hang over to leeward, and the boat to fall off the wind, when she suddenly upset, from the joint action of the wind and sea and the weight of the men on her lee- side getting in the mast and sail. The life- boat immediately self-righted, her coxswain going round inside her, and 6 of her crew immediately getting into her. The remain- • ing 4 were carried away by the sea, and 3 of them were picked up, at great risk, by the steam-tug Constitution, of Liverpool; but the fourth man unhappily perished from exhaustion. It was afterwards found that this poor man had been suffering from rupture; and that he ought not to have gone off in the life-boat. With, however, a devotion which is characteristic of our sea-coast population generally, he could not see his fellow-creatures in peril of their lives, without making an effort in the life-boat to save them. All honour to the memories of such men as WILLIAM HUGHES, who gal- lantly perish in so noble a cause.