HARTLEPOOL.—Shortly before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, while a gale from the S.S.E. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the brigantine John, Wesley, of Seaham, bound from Seaham to London with a cargo of coal, struck the ground on the Beacon Bocks and carried her sternpost away.

She then drifted on to Middleton Beach, and burned flare-up lights. The Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat John Clay Barlow at once proceeded to her and took off all the crew, five in number. The vessel was full of water, and had sunk by the time the Life-boat reached her. The master of the vessel had previously lowered his jollyboat, but it was immediately swamped..