KINGSDOWNE.—The coxswain of the Life-boat, while on the beach, on the morning of the 9th April, saw a schooner run on the South Sand Head of the Goodwin Sands. He at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, and at 6.15 the boat was on her way to the vessel, which was the Excel, of Bideford, laden with slate from Portmadoc for West Hartlepool. The Lifeboat men laid out the bower anchor with 75 fathoms of cable, and when the tide flowed she was hove off the sand and was taken to Ramsgate, where she arrived at 3.30 in the afternoon.