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PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 13th August, during a fresh wind from the S.E., the British Workman Lifeboat, on this Station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Zurich, of North Shields, which had stranded o u Hasborongh Sands. The Life-boat remained alongside until the vessel began to break up, when the crew of 15 men, and the master's wife, were taken into the boat and landed at Falling. The barque was on a voyage from North Shields to Spezzia, with a cargo of coal and coke..