On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid, took the Buddonness life-boat in tow at the entrance to the river, and on arriv- ing near the schooner, which proved to be the Guilia, of Palermo, with a cargo of flax for Dundee, the life-boat took a hawser from the tug to the distressed vessel, by which means she was enabled to take her in tow and get her, with her crew, safely into port.