At 4.5 A.M. on the 1st March, a message was received stating that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands.

The crew of the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton were assembled and the boat launched. On reaching the Sands they found the s.s. Valhalla, of Christiania, aground.

The captain at once engaged the Life- boatmen to save the vessel, and they ran out an anchor and hawser by means of which the vessel was subsequently hauled clear of the Sands. When the vessel was out of danger the boat re- turned to her station. At the time of the accident the vessel was bound from the Tyne to Bayonne with a cargo of coal.

NEWLYN, CORNWALL.—The Life.