YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coastguard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and proceeded under sail to the vessel. A gale from the W.S.W. was blowing and there was a heavy sea. The steamer proved to be the Sapphire of Dundee. She had left Queenstown in the morning, bound for Manchester, and having lost her propeller when off Youghal, hoisted signals of distress. At the master's request the Life-boat remained by her until the arrival of two steam-tugs which came fromQueenstown about an hour after the Lifeboat reached her, intelligence of the •casualty having been conveyed by an American liner which had passed. The tugs took the vessel in tow and the Lifeboat set sail for home, but the wind changed to the W. blowing a whole gale, and as the heavy seas broke into the boat she was unable, there being a strong current against her, to return to Youghal, and therefore made for Ardmore, about four miles E., where she was beached for the night. On the following day she was taken back to her station..