ARKLOW.—The Coxswain of the Out Pensioner Life-boat, of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at Arklow, makes the following report of the circumstances attending the wreck of the barque Broughton, of Swansea, on the Irish coast, and the rescue of her crew by that Lifeboat: —"24th April, 1878, at 5 P.M., it was reported by Arklow Coastguards that a vessel was on the Arklow Bank. The Life-boat was launched, and taken through a very heavy sea over the bar, the wind being E.N.E., and the tide being ebb. She then proceeded to Mizen Head, where she was anchored about midnight. At about 1.30 A.M. got sail on the boat and proceeded to the Arklow Bank, where, at daybreak, the vessel was seen about two miles to leeward. The Life-boat went outside the Bank to the barque, and anchored under her port quarter, when a sea filled the boat. The vessel's crew then veered out a cork fender, but the line broke; a second fender was then veered out, to which a hawser was attached, but the Life-boat filled a second time, when she attempted to get close to the vessel, and shipped a sea fore and aft, washing the coxswain overboard. He was not missed for a time, but happily, though with some difficulty, he was eventually rescued. The boat was afterwards again overwhelmed by the heavy seas, and the crew, believing it to be impossible for them to reach the vessel then, from the state of the sea and the long exposure they had undergone, it wasconsidered best to return ashore and get a fresh crew. The boat reached Arklow at about 9.30 A.M., when a fresh crew immediately manned her, and proceeded under a double-reefed foresail to Arklow Sank on the first of the flood tide, the wind still blowing very hard from the E.N.E. The boat was again filled twice in attempting to cross the bank. Her head was then turned to the shore, five tacks were made, and eventually she was got through the Mizen Swash, then ran before the wind to the barque, and let go her anchor under the vessel's quarter. The boat was filled twice, her crew being drenched, but they succeeded in getting a grapnel astern and a line from the ship, and in this manner were enabled to take on board the vessel's crew, consisting of 15 men, and safely landed them at Arklow at 6.15 P.M.— RICHARD WADDEN, Coxswain of the Lifeboat.".