HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 10th October a heavy gale from the N.N.E. was experienced. The coxswain of the Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat, the John Clay Barlow, was at the pilots' watch house at about seven o'clock, when it was reported that a vessel was approaching the bay from, the N., and he at once went round the cliff to see if he could make out what she was. Before he reached the breakwater he heard a heavy crash, which he took to be the vessel running into the staging for the new work there and bringing it down. He then ran along the breakwater, but before reaching the end he heard men crying for help, and after proceeding a little further he came upon seven or eight men who had jumped from a steamer which had struck the pier and rebounded again. The men asked for the services of a life-boat, stating that part of the crew were left on board the steamer, which by that time was entangled amongst the staging, and had brought most of it down. The coxswain immediately ran back, gathered his crew, launched the Life-boat, and proceeded to the vessel, and oa reaching her found that she had cleared the staging, and was riding at anchor (her anchor having been accidentally pulled from the bows -while foul of the staging) ia comparatively smooth water inside the breakwater. At the master's request, nine of the Life-boat men were put oa board the steamer, some more men coming off to her from the shore ia pilot boats, and with the assistance of four steam togs she was taken into the harbour, but shortly afterwards sunk, her bows baring been stove in when she struck the pier. She was the s.s.

Fairway, of London, schooner rigged, from Uddevalla, Sweden, in ballast..