About noon of the 14th of November, during a terrible gale from the N.E., signals of distress were hoisted on board vessels at anchor in Fishguard Koads. The No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perratt, was at once launched; but before she could reach the anchorage the schooner Elinor and Mary, of Milford, had patted her cables and driven among the breakers of the Goodwick Sands, the sea immedi- ately sweeping the vessel fore and aft.

The crew, 3 in number, were rescued with j difficulty by the Life-boat. Scarcely had this crew been landed when the Life-boat was required to perform a similar service for the crew of the Laura, a smack be- longing to Carnarvon; and at 1 o'clock the schooner Independence parted her cables and drove on to the sands, the vessel in- stantly filling and the crew taking refuge in the rigging. These men were, one by one, taken from the rigging, and all safely landed by the Life-boat, which had then, for the fourth time, to make her way off and remove the crew of the Princess Zoyal, of Cardigan, also stranded and the crew lashed in the rigging to avoid being swept off by the seas which broke over their vessel.

Sixteen lives were thus saved by the Sir Edward Perrott, and the Institution marked its sense of the services rendered by add- ing a bar to the medal of the coxswain, JAMES WHITE, Chief Boatman of Coast- guard, and a Vote of Thanks on vellum, and letter of thanks, to Mr. J. G. ANNAL, Chief Officer of Coastguard, and the Kev.

J. WILLIAMS, respectively, for their valu- able aid and co-operation. An additional money reward was also voted to the crew..