CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.

The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was about to be launched, when & brigantine was observed to go onthe south end of the Sand. It -was then agreed to launch the No. 2 Life-boat Godsend also, the No. 1 to go to the steamer, and the No. 2 boat to the brigantine. The No. 1 boat, however, was compelled by the shallowness of the water to pass close to the brigantine, and finding that the sea was breaking clean over her, the Lifeboatmen fearing she would break up, could not risk passing her, so letting go their anchor, veered down, and -witia gtesvt difficulty took off the crew consisting of six men. This vessel was the Dare, of Sunderland, bound from that port to Caen, with a cargo of coal. The Life-boat then proceeded to the steamer; Tout as she was not in the break of the sea, she declined assistance. The boat then, set sail, beat back to the brigantine, and found the No. 2 Life-boat riding by her.

At flood tide, the vessel knocked off the Sand; some of the Life-boatmen and her own crew then, boarded her, and a steamtug coming up, the vessel and Life-boat were towed into harbour. The men when taken out of the vessel were in a most exhausted condition, and had not some rum -which was in the Life-boat been given to them, IB all probability some of them would have died in the boat..