PALLING, NORFOLK.—At 2.30 A.M. on the llth March, during squally weather, a vessel was observed showing signals of distress. The No. 2 Life-boat British Workman was promptly launched, and proceeded to the "vessel, which proved to be the barque JIdene, of Bremen, bound from Newcastle to Alexandria with a cargo of tar, earthenware, bricks, and coal.

She was full of water, having been in contact with the North Cross Sand buoy, and was run ashore on Hempstead beach, about a mile and a half S. of Hasborough.

Her crew of 16 men were taken into the Life-boat and put ashore at Palling at 8 A.M.