PENZANCE. — On the 4th March a whole gale blew from the W., the sea was high, and the weather very squally, with heavy showers of hail. At 9.30 A.M. the barque Lady Gladys, of Tonsberg, bound from Darien, U.S., to Dublin, with pitch pine, was seen to be dragging her anchor in Mount's Bay, and as she was in a dangerous position, her movements were closely watched from the shore. When half an hour later it was noticed that her cable had parted and that she was drifting towards the G-rele Bocks, it was decided to take out the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche to her assistance, but before the Boat could reach her a second anchor had been lowered, and fortunately this one held. The Life-boat men found her waterlogged, and her crew of seventeen men.

were greatly exhausted: they remained by for about two hours, trusting that the weather would moderate, but as there seemed no indication of it doing so, the vessel's crew boarded the boat, and were taken ashore, arriving at 2.15. The Lifeboat was kept afloat in the harbour until .

5 o'clock, in readiness to hoist an anchor light on the vessel, which was considered necessary for the safety of other craft, but the gale abated sufficiently to allow a pilot boat to go out and do what was required..