APPLEDORE, DEVON.—About 7 P.M. on the 4th April the Life-boat Hope was launched from this station during a strong breeze at W.N.W., and proceeded to the assistance of the schooners Express, Annie Brooks, and Mary Ann, which were wrecked on the north tail of Bideford Bar. When, as on this occasion, there IB a ground swell on, the seas on the sands of Bideford Bay are tremendous, and the tide generally running across the set of the waves, the utmost caution is neces- sary from the moment the Life-boat is launched until her return, while the ac- ' tual process of boarding a wreck is peril- | ous in the extreme; and this holds good j in weather very far short of gales of wind, and when ships outside the Jine of breakers are making fine weather of it..