CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the Bar.

She was watched during the night, and on the following morning the wind suddenly shifted to the N.W. during a very heavy snow-storm, the sea running exceedingly [high. The vessel was riding by two anchors, with all cable out, and the master, fearing that she would either go down or part her cables, hoisted signals of distress, in reply to which the Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare Life-boat put off at about 11.30 and brought ashore the crew of 4 men. There were a large number of people on the cliffs watching the performance of this service who were loud in their praises of the behaviour of both Boat and crew.