LYTHAM.—On the night of the 9th December, signals of distress having been Been, the Life-boat, Charles Biggs, was launched at 10 o'clock, and proceeded under sails and oars some distance to windward; she was then taken under oars across the banks, upon which a fearfully heavy sea was breaking, and when near the distressed vessel, which was ashore close to Southport, the anchor waslet go, and the Life-boat veered alongside.

The seas there were breaking mountains high, right over the ship, which was on tier beam-ends, and had only her mizenmast standing, her crew being lashed to the rigging. The Life-boat was repeatedly filled by the heavy seas; nevertheless, she was happily successful in saving the shipwrecked men, twelve in number. The vessel was the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, with a general cargo.

[Vide the February number of THE LIFE-BOAT JOUHNAL for full details of the sad disasters to the Sonthport and St.

Anne's Life-boats on the occasion of this shipwreck.].