WINCHELSEA.—On the 22nd December, at about 6.45 P.M., signals of distress were reported to have been shown about two miles west of the Life-boat station. The Storm Sprite Life-boat proceeded, and with some difficulty succeeded in rescuing the crew, consisting of 4 persons, from the rigging of the schooner Vier Broders, of Groningen. The vessel had stranded at low water during a S.W. wind and heavy sea, and she soon afterwards broke up..