SCARBOROUGH.—On the 18th February, the fishing smack Esmerdlda, of Grimsby, was, owing to there being no wind and a very strong sea, driven helplessly towards the shore a little to the N. of Cay ton Bay.

Her signal of distress, made by burning a flambeau, was seen at Scarborough, and the Life-boat Lady Leigh at once went to her aid. It was found that she was in extreme peril, for she had cast anchor and the cable having parted she was already amongst the broken water, the seas breaking right over her. The Life-boatmen ran out a kedge and a hundred fathoms of warp from the vessel by which she was brought up. She was afterwards towed out of danger by the Life-boat and brought into harbour in safety at midnight. She bad a crew of 5 men. Had the Life-boat been a quarter of an hour later, the smack must have been wrecked and her crew would doubtless have perished, the breakers being very heavy and the place abounding with sunken rocks a long way from the shore..