WHITBY.—On the 21st February, at about 5.30 P.M., while a gale was blowing from N.W.,with a rough sea, thick weather and snow, four fishing-cobles which had put into the bay on the previous evening were returning to the harbour. It was seen that they would encounter great danger in crossing the bar, and therefore the Life-boat Robert and Mary Ellis waslaunched and rowed to the bar to accompany the boats over. The first one succeeded in getting across in a comparatively smooth sea. On the second attempting to do so, she was caught by a tremendous sea, and for some few seconds it was feared she was doomed; but with the prompt assistance of the Life-boat men and men on the East Pier, she was eventually got into safety. One of the crew was washed overboard, but fortunately retained hold of the boat. The harbour master then hailed the Life-boat, and instructed the coxswain to warn the men in the other two boats not to attempt to enter the harbour, but to anchor their boats and come ashore in the Life-boat. This they did, but unfortunately the boats parted from their anchors in the night, drove on the rocks, and became total wrecks. The boat which the Life-boat men assisted to save was the R. W. Jackson, with a crew of three men. The other two boats were the Tranquil and Martha Dryden, the former having a crew of three men, and the other boat had two men on board..