CAISTER, NORFOLK.—While a strong breeze was blowing from N.W. by W., increasing to a gale and accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 18th January, the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching, observed the side-lights of a vessel on the Barber Sands. He at once summoned the crew, and at 4.40 A.M. the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched and proceeded to the sand, where two vessels were found stranded. One of them, the ketch Temperance Pledge, of Scarborough, in ballast, from Orford Haven for Hartlepool, was lying well up on the top of the sand and burning flares. The Life-boat answered her signals with a portfire, and spoke the other vessel (the lights of which were those first seen from the shore), which was aground on the outside of the sand. Those on board, however, declining assistance, the boat made for the ketch, and having anchored to windward, veered down to her, strikingthe ground and being swept by the heavy seas. Having got a rope to the vessel the boat was hauled nearer and succeeded in rescuing the crew of two men. The Life-boat was then hauled to windward, and waited until the water had risen sufficiently to enable her to sail over the sand to the other vessel, anchored by her and remained until she beat off the sand and resumed her voyage. The ketch floated at the same time and was towed into Yarmouth harbour by a steam-tug..