Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.

on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3 miles north of Berwick, the Life- boat Freemason was launched, and suc- ceeded in reaching the island, when it was found that the wreck was the sloop Lauton of Arbroath, from that place bound to Newcastle, which had struck at 2 A.M. in a snow squall. One of the crew had perished, and the remaining 2 men, after great exposure, were thus rescued by the Life-boat and brought ashore..