PADSTOW.—Shortly, after midnight on the 16th October, the Life-boat was launched, a messenger on horseback having arrived from Trevose Head, and reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress to the eastward of Gullan. A terrific gale was blowing from the N.N.W.

with a high breaking sea. The vessel proved to be the barque Alliance, of Eisoer, Norway, timber laden from Halifax, N. S., for Glasgow. In making for the harbour she had been driven to leeward by the heavy seas, having lost some of her sails, and stranded on the Doom bar sands. Seven of her crew were rescued by the Life-boat, four others unfortunately having been drowned before the Boat reached the ship..