FRASERBURGH.—On the 15th August about two hundred of the fishing-boats put to sea, but as weather was threatening the remaining six hundred boats did not venture out. Towards night the wind increased until it attained the force of a gale, and great excitement prevailed at the harbour, on the piers of which thousands of spectators were assembled, in consequence of the risk incurred by the boats- returning to port. This excitement reached its climax at about eleven o'clock, when flare-up lights were seen in the bay. The Life-boat Anna Maria Lee was launched, proceeded in the direction in which the flares were seen and found they were shown by the lugger Dayspring, which had lost her rudder.

The Life-boat attached to the boat a long cable with which she is specially provided for such purposes, and the other end being taken by the Life-boat to the breakwater, a crowd of willing helpers soon hauled at the rope and pulled the fishing-boat alongside the pier, her crew of six men being thus enabled to land in safety. Happily no loss of life befel the fishermen who were out in these boats, but serious damage was done to their gear..