WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the 23rd January at 3.45 A.M. the Frances Harris Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and made for the place where the signals had been last seen, about four miles E. of the Life-boat Station, but nothing could be seen of any wreck. She then anchored for a time, until a vessel was descried to leeward, when the anchor was at once got up, and the Boat proceeded to her. On arriving at the spot it was found that she had sunk, and that the crew of 7 men were clinging to the rigging.

With great risk and) difficulty, a very heavy sea running at the time, a line was passed to the poor fellows, and they were taken into the Life-boat. About an hour before the Life-boat arrived, the master of the vessel was unfortunately drowned, the deck-house, in which he had taken shelter, having been washed away. The vessel proved to be the brig Silksworth, of Sunderland, bound from Fecamp to Blyth in ballast..