On the night of the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind from S. to S.S.E., the barque Julia, of Liverpool, struck on the Brig Hill Bank, in Dundalk Bay. At daylight her signals of distress were seen from the shore, and the Dundalk life-boat was quickly launched, and succeeded in rescuing 9 of the crew, one man having been washed overboard and drowned daring the night. The nine poor fellows were in a most exhausted state, and had to be dragged into the life-boat, one of the crew of which was half drowned while assisting the men into the boat. More than one of them exclaimed, " God bless the life-boat!".