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SCARBOBOTTGH.—The schooner London, of Hastings, bound from Hartlepool to Eye with coal, was seen making for the harbour, with only her fore staysail set, and with a signal of distress flying, at 9 A.M. on the 12th December, during a heavy gale from the N. The Lady Leigh Life-boat put off to her assistance, placed three men on board, and wore the vessel, which was fast drifting into broken water, with her head to sea. It was intended to take her to Filey Bay, and to run her ashore on the soft sand there; but she would not stay, and having lost all her anchors, it became necessary to abandon her. The crew of five men were then landed in the Life-boat, and the vessel drove ashore about a mile south of Filey..