NORTH DEAL.—On the morning of the 27th March rockets and guns were fired by the Gull Lightship and large flares were burnt by a vessel in the direction of the Brake sand. The Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 5 o'clock, a whole gale blowing from N.N.W. at the time, with a heavy sea, and proceeded to the schooner Janet, of Carnarvon, laden with cement from Rochester for Londonderry, which had been in collision with the ketch Tempter,of Hull. The latter vessel had sunk, and her crew of three men, who had jumped on board the schooner, were taken into the Life-boat and were safely landed.

Two of the Life-boatmen remained on board the vessel and assisted to take her to Ramsgate, with the help of a steamtug which afterwards arrived, having been summoned from Ramsgate by n telegram despatched by the Life-boat on her return to Deal.