RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blinding snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet above the deck, about a quarter of a mile westward of the Life-boat house.

The crew of the Life-boat, Mary Isabella, were in the house and immediately manned the boat, which was taken down to the surf; two hundred willing hands bent on to the haul-off warp, but they could not move it, and ultimately it parted a great distance seaward. An attempt was then made to take the boat along the quay to a slip in the harbour, but the enormous drifts of snow rendered this utterly impossible and from the same cause another slipway to windward could not be used.

Another trawler subsequently arrived and stated that she had been quite close to the wreck and that there was not a soul on board. At 3'30 in the morning, however, at low water, the Coastguards heard shouts and fired three rockets over the vessel, but without any result. A way was then cut through) the snow-drifts between the boathouse and the quay, and at eight o'clock, there being then a sufficient depth of water, it was decided to launch the Life-boat from the quay into the harbour, the boat being simply dropped into the water. She was thereby considerably damaged; but there was no other available means of getting her afloat. After about an hour's delay, it being necessary to put a patch of lead on a hole, a foot square, which had been made in the bow of the boat, she was hauled out of the harbour, and in a short time arrived at the wreck. Seeing the boat coming towards them two men emerged from the topsail at the crosstrees, crawled down the rigging and were hauled into the Life-boat, which had to beveered right on top of the lee portion of the wreck, a very dangerous manoeuvre, which however was very skilfully performed.

The poor fellows were in a terribly exhausted and benumbed condition, but a doctor was awaiting them when they reached the shore, and they received prompt and successful treatment.

It was ascertained that their vessel, the schooner Margaret and Elizabeth, of Liverpool, bound from Point of Ayr for Ramsey, with coal, went ashore at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon in a fearful blizzard which raged from noon until 8 P.M., and hardly less furiously from then until 11 o'clock on the following morning. The finely powdered snow was like a dense blinding suffocating mist, for hours rendering the nearest objects invisible, and the gale made the cold more intense, and had the men not been protected by the sail it would scarcely have been possible for them to have survived their sixteen hours' exposure. Such a snow storm had not been experienced in the island within the memory of any inhabitant, the drifts of snow in some places being twenty feet high. On making an examination to ascertain the cause of the haul-off warp failing to work it was found that the vessel was lying across it, and had thus prevented the earlier rescue of her crew..