BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.—At 5.30 on the morning of 21st August it was reported that a vessel was drifting shorewards before a stiff gale from the W. The coxswain of the Robert William Life-boat lost no time in assembling his crew and taking the boat two miles along the shore opposite to where the vessel struck.

The Life-boat was then launched and proceeded to her aid. On the way she passed a capsized boat, and it was feared that some of the crew had endeavoured to reach the shore in her and had been lost; but such, happily, proved not to have been the case, as it was afterwards found that the boat had capsized as soon as she had been lowered into the water.

The shipwrecked men were very eager to be taken off the vessel, and they were soon brought safely ashore in the Life-boat. The vessel proved to be the barque Arethusa, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Quebec, with a cargo of coal. She carried crew of ten men.

This service was witnessed by about ten thousand people, and the Life-boat was received with cheer after cheer on landing with the rescued men..