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SENNEN COVE, LAND'S END.—The smack Spring, of Guernsey, bound from Swansea to Dinan, with coal, was observed to be showing a signal of distress, at 1.30 P.M., on the 8th January. The Life-boat Denzil and Maria Onslow at once went to her assistance and found that she had been run into by a schooner, carrying away her jibboom and part of her stem and causing her to leak very badly. The chief officer of Coast Guard, who had gone out in the Life-boat, and two of the Life-boa£ men got on board the smack and, having anchored her safely, brought her crew of three men ashore in the Life-boat..