ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the rocky coast southward of the station. The Life-boat Lady Haberfield was speedily launched, but after an hour's energetic struggle the force of the gale proved too much for the oarsmen, and the boat had to be steered for the shore again. The oars were then double-banked with fresh men, and the Lady Haberfield made her second attempt, and after a brilliant display of dogged perseverance and pluck, the crew forced the boat sufficiently far to windward to clear the rocks south of the town, when sail was made, and the disabled vessel, then three miles to leeward, dragging towards the rocks with all anchors down, was rapidly closed.

About seven o'clock the crew, consisting of 3 men, of the Sarah Mien were safely transferred to the Life-boat, which, under sail, then made for the harbour, but after beating about the entrance till 11 P.M.

in the vain effort to get sufficiently far to windward to make good an entrance, the coxswain bore up for the beach to leeward, and with the aid of the drogue beached in safety. The men were, of course, terribly exhausted after their six hours' gallant straggle, and had to lament the death of one of their number, JOHN JAMES, who, not long before the boat was beached, threw his arms over his head, and with a shriek expired. Probably over-effort and exhaustion had brought to a climax some inward disease. The boat's crew deserve the greatest credit for their continuous efforts, and so especially do 7 men who, when the boat returned to the beach the first time, rushing through the surf, materially helped to get the boat seaward again, .and then climbed on boaid and helped to double-bank the oars..