BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th April a vessel was observed stranded on Burnham Flats, but she suddenly disappeared. At 7 o'clock the Life-boat Lily Bird was launched in a heavy sea and a strong N.

wind, proceeded under canvas to the place where the vessel had been seen and at about 11.30 sighted her lying on her beam ends with the seas breaking over her. When about a quarter of a mile from the wreck the Life-boat men saw one man lashed to the mainmast head, and on getting alongside he was with some difficulty rescued. He was the master and also the owner of the vessel, which was the brig Felix, of and from Stettin, bound for Wisbech with a cargo of oak timber, and he was the sole survivor of the ship's company, his crew of seven men having all met a watery grave; some of them, being benumbed by cold and wet, had fallen from the rigging into the sea and others had been washed orthrown overboard when the vessel suddenly heeled over..