SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—While a moderate gale was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea and rain squalls, on the 14th May, the coxswain of the Life-boat Jamet Stevent No. 9, was informed that the light-vessel was firing signal guns for a three-masted schooner aground on the Nore Sand. The water was then low, but fearing that as the tide rose the sea would become heavier, he summoned the crew; the Life-boat was launched at 7 A.M., and on reaching the vessel, at 8 o'clock, found she was theSidney Smith, of Portmadoc, bound from London for Falmouth with cement and ballast and haying on board the master, his sister and a crew of five men. The master having engaged the services of the Life-boat men, they succeeded in getting the vessel off the sand and took her to Gravesend, arriving there at about 1 P.M.

Having moored her to a buoy the boat returned to her station, which was reached at 4.30..