CADGWITH, CORNWALL,.—Minute guns having been heard at 9 P.M. on the 20th of March, the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat was very promptly launched, four minutes only being occupied in getting her afloat, and proceeded to the S.W., in which direction the signals had been heard.

She found the three-masted s.s. City of Venice, of Glasgow, bound from London for Glasgow with cement and rice, with fifty-four persons on board, stranded about half-a-mile N. of the Lizard Signal Station. At the master's request, the Life-boat remained by the vessel until she was got off at 9.30 P.M., the coxswain going on board to advise the captain, and then accompanying her to Falmouth; her forecompartment being full of water..