Lightships run considerable risk, for besides being exposed at all times to all the storms that rage on our shores, they are sometimes run into by ships in foggy weather. The _Gull_ lightship, above referred to, occupies a peculiar and interesting position. Being in the very centre of all the shipping which passes through the Downs, she has frequent narrow escapes, and has several times been damaged by collisions. The marvel is that, considering her position, she does not oftener "come to grief." She also signals for the Ramsgate lifeboat, by means of guns and rockets, when a ship is observed by her crew to have got upon the dreaded Goodwin Sands. We had the pleasure of spending a week on board of the _Gull_ lightship not long ago, and one night witnessed a very stirring scene of calling out the lifeboat. We shall conclude this subject by quoting the following letter, which we wrote at the time, giving a detailed account of it. RAMSGATE, MARCH 26, 1870. The eye-witness of a battle from an unusual point of view may, without presumption, believe that he has something interesting to tell. I therefore send you an account of what I saw in the _Gull_ lightship, off the Goodwin Sands, on the night of Thursday last, when the _Germania_, of Bremen, was wrecked on the South-Sand-Head. Having been an inhabitant of the _Gull_ lightship for a week, and cut off from communication with the shore for several days, I have been unable to write sooner. Our never-ending warfare with the storm is well known. Here is one specimen of the manner in which it is carried on.