On the 14th De- cember, during a gale from the S.W., a vessel was seen in distress off Looe Island.

The life-boat Oxfordshire stationed there j was quickly launched through a heavy surf | to her assistance, and succeeded in bringing | her and her crew of 6 men safely into har- : bour. The vessel was the schooner Mail, of j Alloa, from Rouen to Glasgow, with a cargo of grain. She had left Plymouth the previous day, and on making the Lizard,' encountered a tremendous gale and shipped several heavy seas, which shifted the cargo. The master, who was a stranger to the coast, then tried to run to the land, and would have beached his ship, if possible, had he not fortunately rounded Looe Island, and come in where he did. The prompt assistance of the life-boat, it was stated, had saved the vessel from almost certain destruction, and probably the lives of the crew also..