PLYMOUTH.—Sockets were sent up from Batten Coastguard Station during a very heavy gale from S.W. to W.S.W. at 6 A.M.

on the 28th October. The Life-boat Clemency went out to render assistance to any vessel in distress, and found four vessels ashore. The crews of three of them had been taken off by the rocket apparatus, but the fourth, the schooner Fortuna, of Grimsby, was found sunk about a mile and a half from Batten, with her crew, consisting of three men, lashed in the rigging. The Life-boat succeeded in taking the men off the wreck, and brought i them safely ashore. The schooner was !bound from Wales to London with a Cargo of paving-stones..