ACKERGILL.—A violent storm arose on the morning of the llth January, the wind blowing from the S.S.E., and as it was feared that the storm would increase, the George and Isabella Life-boat put off to the aid of some herring fishing-boats which had anchored in the bay. In two trips the crews, numbering in all thirty men, of four boats, were safely brought ashore by the Life-boat, several other crews being landed by a steamer's boats..