PETERHEAD.—On the 28th March considerable anxiety was felt as to the safety of several fishing boats which had not returned, a whole gale having sprung up from E.N.E. accompanied by a tremendous sea. At 11 A.M. the Life-boat George Pickard was launched and laid at the mouth of the harbour ready to render any help that might be required. At about 1 o'clock one boat arrived and got safely in. About an hour afterwards another boat was sighted in the offing and her progress was watched by a crowd of anxious spectators. She rounded the south head with the barest stretch of canvas, bat on entering the bay set a closereefed sail, and her decks were repeatedlywashed by the cross seas. The Life-boat pulled out to her assistance and got from her a tow line which was taken to the south quay, the fishing boat all the while drifting, apparently helpless, towards the rocks. At one time it was thought that all hope of saving the vessel must b9 abandoned and that the efforts must be confined to saving her crew by means of the rocket apparatus which was ready for any emergency; but about a couple of hundred of the fishermen took hold of the line and, watching their opportunity, made a rush up the quay and brought the boat safely into the harbour. She was the Eclipse, a boat of twenty tons burden, and carrying a crew of seven men. The Life-bDat men were kept on duty until 10 P.M., the coxswain remaining in attendance until 4 o'clock on the following morning, in case further help might be required..