Early on the morning of the 13th January, the barque Victorine, of Ostend, struck on the rocks off.

Souter Point, near Whitburn. There was a heavy wind blowing S. by E., and a very high sea on. The Thomas Wilson life-boat was quickly launched, and was soon under the lee of the vessel. One foreigner jumped on board, but the remainder, anxious to save their clothes, kept the life-boat waiting, until a heavy sea striking her, the rope broke, and she was thrown violently upon the rocks; fortunately, however, no lives were lost. The remainder of the shipwrecked crew were subsequently taken off by a Shields life-boat. Capt. HEARD, K.N., re- ported that it was only the great strength of the boat that saved her from inevitable destruction..