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Equity

ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—The schooner Equity, of Boston, bound from Newcastle to London, with firebricks and soda, signalled for assistance at 1 P.M. on the 14th October, during a heavy gale and rough sea, and a beach yawl thereupon went to her aid. At 4 o'clock another signal was made, and the Life-boat George Hounsfield proceeded to her, and rej mained Toy her during the night. At daylight on the following morning the Life-boat accompanied the schooner to Harwich. The vessel had a crew of seven men..