The schooner Andromeda, of Riga, bound from London to Bo'ness, with a cargo of scrap iron, stranded in the vicinity of Thorntonloch, on the 6th January. The Life-boat, Sarah Kay and the rocket apparatus were quickly on the scene of the wreck. The Life-boat rescued three of the men, whilst the rocket apparatus | saved the other four. A fierce S.E. gale I was blowing, accompanied by torrents ! of rain, and the heavy sea on the reef I of rocks, on which the vessel stranded, caused her to bump so heavily that she went to pieces within a few hours..