A ship was seen with a signal of distress flying about half a mile to the eastward of this place on the 11th Jan., and the Life-boat at once proceeded off to her through a heavy ground sea, when she was found to be a Norwegian vessel of 134 tons register, bound from Newcastle to Smyrna with coals. She was in a disabled state, as she had been in collision with a barque. The Life-boat crew boarded her, and rendered all the assistance in their power, and she was ultimately taken to Cowes, one of the boat's crew remaining on board at the re- quest of the master, and the Life-boat itself proceeding with her as far as Black-