At daybreak on the 29th January, the French lugger La Maria Franyois, Le Pere Samson, was observed in a perilous position in St. Austell's Bay, with a flag of distress flying, the wind blowing a gale from S. by W. The Fowey life-boat was quickly launched, and the crew having boarded the lugger, assisted some fishermen in slipping the cable, and after- wards got her safely into Par Harbour..