SELSEY.—The barque Tranmere, of Liverpool, bound from Hull to Cardiff in ballast, brought up off Selsey Bill, during a gale of wind from the 8. and in a very heavy sea, at about noon on the 2nd September.

A fisherman's galley went out to her, but could not get alongside owing to the heavy sea. At 5 P.M. a signal of distress was shown from the barque, and the Life-boat Four Sisters was thereupon launched, and on reaching her she was found to be striking heavily, and the crew were anxious to be taken ashore, fearing that as she was already leaking and had lost part of her keel she would go to pieces. The men, thirteen in number, were accordingly taken into the Life-boat, and landed at Wallend, the very strong wind preventing the boat returning to her station until the following morning..