DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque Ecclefechan, bound from Calcutta for Dundee with a cargo of jute, was stranded on the Chapel rocks, at Skateraw Point, between Dunbar and Cookbnmspath. The Dunbar and Thomtonloch Life-saving Brigades proceeded to the rescue, but the vessel was too far distant from the shore to admit of communication being obtained by means of their apparatus, all the rockets fired falling short. The Dunbar Life-boat Sarah Pickard was therefore launched at9.45 and in two trips rescued twenty-four of the crew. The captain and three of the crew declined to leave the ship in spite of repeated warnings from the Assistant-Coxswain, who was in command of the Boat in the absence of the Coxswain, but they were afterwards taken off by a steam-tug, the vessel becoming a total wreck. On the first trip fourteen men were taken into the Life-boat and were landed at Skateraw harbour. On the second occasion ten men were rescued and landed at Dunbar, the arrival of the Life-boat being greeted by loud cheers from a large number of people who had assembled to witness the proceedings..