HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 15th February, during an E.N.E. wind, a high sea, and heavy rain, the ketch Lizzie, of and from Yarmouth for Sunderland •with a cargo of flour and iron, in making for Hartlepool for shelter, struck on the Beacon Rocks. She soon afterwards drifted into deep water, but her rudder having become jammed, she was rendered unmanageable, and drove on to Middleton Beach. A tug and two cobles at once proceeded to her assistance; one of the cobles took the tug's hcaving-line to the vessel, and by that means the vessel's tow-line was passed to the tug. The coble also put four men on board. About half-an-hour afterwards the tow-rope broke. The same coble again passed the tug's heaving-line to the vessel, and this time the tug's tow-line was made fast.

As the storm and tide were making, the Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat Cyclist was launched at 6 P.M., went to the vessel and remained by her until nearly 9 o'clock, when the second tow-rope broke, and the vessel drifting to leeward, filled, and sunk.

The Life-boat, with mush difficulty, went alongside the wreck and took from the rigging the crew, consisting of four men, and the four coble-men..