On the 27th February, at 1.15 P.M., the Albert Edward Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steamer Blonde, of Whitehaven, bound from Goole for London with a cargo of coal and oil, and carrying a crew of ten men, which had stranded on the Gunfleet Sands, during a N.E. wind and a moderate sea. The Life-boat men, with the help of the crews of two smacks, lightened the vessel by throwing some of the cargo overboard, and when the tide rose, the ship was towed off by the steamtug Harwich, which took her to London, the Life-boat returning to her station,which she reached at 2 P.M., after an absence of twenty-four hours..