NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIBE.—Signals of distress having been seen from a vessel stranded on the North Sands during a moderate S.W. wind and a choppy sea, on the 27th January, the crew of the Lifeboat 'Alexander Charles and William Aird were summoned, and promptly responded; willing hands soon had the boat launched into the river, and at midnight she was on her way to the sands. Oa reaching them, the steam trawler Gannet, of Granton, was found stranded on the North bank of the river Ytham. With some difficulty her crew, consisting of eight men, were taken into the Life-boat, and safely landed at 2 AM..