At daybreak on the 4th April, during a strong gale from the E., with a chopping sea, a large steamer was observed, apparently at anchor, about eight miles N. of To wan Head. She was showing colours, but whether signals of distress or not could not be distinguished from the shore. The Pendock Neale Life-boat was, however, promptly despatched to the steamer, which proved to be the Celeste, of Hartlepool. The engines had been disabled by the breakage of the main shaft, and the Life-boat returned ashore, with a telegram to Cardiff asking for the assistance of a steam-tug..