RHYL, NORTH WALKS. — At about 2 A.M.

on the 18th November, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel in a dangerous position opposite Rhyl, tat making no signals of distress. At about 3 o'clock the vessel appeared to be aground, and the Coastguard then fired a signal, in reply to which the crew of the Jane Dalton Life-boat ^assembled, and the boat was taken on her transporting carriage to the mouth of the river. The vessel, however, ebbed dry, and her crew walked ashore, At about 5.80 the master obtained | assistance, discharged part of the cargo, and laid out an anchor with the intention of getting the vessel off with the flowing tide, but, the wind freshening, all the assistants, with the exception of four besides the crew, left her when the tide reached her, and two others afterwards landed in the vessel's boat. The remaining two assistants and the crew of two men would not venture in the boat, but took refuge in the rigging, from which they were rescued by the Life-boat. The stranded vessel was the smack William Henry, of Runcorn, 17 tons, from Llanddulas to Widnes, with limestone.