THURSO, SCOTLAND. — Daring a very strong gale of wind from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea, on the 8th December, signals of distress were shown by vessels in the roadstead. The Life-boat, Charley Lloyd, put off to their assistance at 4 P.M. and brought ashore the crews, numbering three men, from the smock Henry Florence, of Wick; four men from the schooner Margaret Garton, of the Isle of Man; and four men from the schooner Lyra, of the Isle of Man..