SOUTHEND AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.

Signal guns having been fired by the lightships on the evening of the 10th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert put off from Southend and the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched from Clacton at about seven o'clock. They found the schooner Venus, of Teignmouth, bound from London for the Tyne in ballast, stranded on the Maplin Sands, and remained by her until 6 o'clock on the following morning..