PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat Charlotte was launched at 8.15 P.M.

on the 30th January in a heavy sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E.

and the weather bitterly cold, a large vessel having stranded on the Curracluge rocks, inside the Manacles. In the unavoidable absence of the two coxswains the Life-boat was taken charge of by the bowman, who acted as coxswain, the coxswain's son acting as second coxswain.

The stranded vessel proved to be the ship Andola, of Liverpool, bound from Tacoma for Hull with a cargo of wheat. Her crew of twenty-eight men were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Porthoustock, amid the cheers of a crowd of people who in spite of the darkness of the night and the inclemencyof the weather had awaited the return of the Boat. The ship afterwards broke up and became a total wreck, the shore being strewn with wreckage. The Life-boat was admirably managed and was at one time in considerable danger, for while passing through a very narrow passage with rocks on either side she shipped two very heavy seas; her crew, however, were smart, and before the next sea came on the rocks had been passed. The shipwrecked crew, some of whom were injured —two being hurt by an explosion in the magazine—-were taking to their boats when the Life-boat arrived, and in all probability some of them would have been drowned, the boats being half full of water and surrounded by sunken rocks..