The ! Life-boat William Hopkinson of Brig- ' house, from this station, during a heavy gale off shore, proceeded to the ketch Perseverance, of Sunderland, on the 28th September, in answer to signals of dis- tress displayed by one of the two men who formed her crew. His companion had received so frightful an injury to the skull by the blow of a winch-handle that he died before the Life-boat regained the shore. Later in the day the same- boat again succeeded in boarding the Perse- verance, and ultimately carried her safely into Shields..