SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 2nd March the Coxswain received a telegram from Shoebury that a bargehad foundered. As a whole southerly gale was blowing, and a rough sea running, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 proceeded to her assistance. The barge Mary Ann, of London, was found close to the West Shoebury buoy in a sinking condition, but the Coxswain seeing another barge—the Edith, of Rochester—sunk at the Middle Buoy with the crew in the rigging, he went to her first and rescued the two men ; he then returned to the Mary Ann and, as she was making water rapidly, took her crew of two men into the Life-boat and landed all four about 1 A.M. He had just carried this out when a further message, stating that another barge was in distress, was received. The Lifeboat once more immediately put to sea, but after a fruitless search for some hours, she returned again to her moorings..