BROADSTAIRS.—A signal of distress was shown by the ketch Martin Luther, of Cowes, bound from Poole to London, with a cargo of pipeclay, in a gale from W.S.W., and a very heavy sea, on the 2ith March.

She had anchored off the North Foreland, but had been compelled to slip her anchors in order to avoid collision with another vessel. "With the assistance of a steam-tug she was taken into Ramsgate Harbour and safely berthed there.