LYDD, DUNGENESS.—The crew of the Lifeboat R.A.O.B. were summoned on the 29th November, during a moderate N.

breeze and hazy weather, signals of distress having been reported. The men promptly assembled, and at 1 A.M., signals being then repeatedly made in the offing, the boat was launched, and found the schooner Minnie Elkin, of Carnarvon, bound from London for Ayr, with cement, and having a crew of six men on boaid, stranded two miles N. of Dungeness Lighthouse. The Life-boatmen laid out an anchor, and rendered other services,and the vessel was hauled off the sand and made for Dover Harbour..