ST. ANDREW'S.—The sloop May Ann, of and for St. Andrew's, from Shields, with a cargo of coal, arrived off the harbour on the afternoon of the 16th January, and waited for the tide to rise sufficiently high to enable her to enter.

A light wind was blowing from the S.S.E., but a heavy sea was breaking into the harbour mouth, rendering it dangerous, if not impossible, for the pilot-boat to venture out. The assistance of the Lifeboat Ladies' Own was asked for to put the pilot on board the vessel, and to take off some men to assist to work her into harbour, as it was known that her crew consisted only of two men and a boy.

Permission to take the Life-boat was readily accorded, the pilot and four other men were taken to the sloop, and she was safely berthed in the harbour..