CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The schooner Swift, of and from Laurvig for Newcastle, timber-laden, went ashore on the rocks during squally weather, at about 11 o'clock on the night of the 21st of December.

Some fishermen went off to her in their boats, and the captain and crew and three of the fishermen stayed in her as she was dry at low-water. At highwater the following afternoon she showedsigns of breaking up, a heavy sea haying risen, and signals of distress were hoisted, in response to which the Old Potter Lifeboat was launched at 1.15, and brought ashore the vessel's crew of seven men and a boy, and the three fishermen..