FLEETWOOD.—On the 29th August, at about 5 A.M., it was reported that a vessel was in distress on Bernard's Wharf, a sandbank situated about 2i miles E.N.E.

of Fleetwood, and the Life-boat Edward Wasey was accordingly launched. On reaching the spot she found the schooner Elizabeth Ellen Fisher, of Fleetwood, bound from Ardrossan to Fleetwood with a cargo of pig-iron, had stranded on the sand. It was Loped that the rising tide would float her off again, and the Life-boat therefore remained by her for nearly an hour.

However, the schooner began to fill with water, and her crew, numbering 4 men, were then with some difficulty taken into the Life-boat and landed at Fleetwood.

The wind was very squally from the N.W., and the sea was running heavily..