On tho morning of the 16th March, during a strong gale from the E.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, tho schooner Lucie Antoinette, of Nantes, went on the Good- win Sands. Tho Life-boat Bradford and steamer Vulcan proceeded out to her, and the boat was taken as near as possible to the wreck. She could not, however, get within fifty fathoms, on account of the shallowness of the water on the sands.

She then anchored there, and 4 of her brave crew jumped overboard and waded through the surf close to the vessel, when the crew of 6 men were hailed and asked to come to the Life-boat, but this they would not do. The Life-boat men would not, however, leave the poor fellows, and they, therefore, remained at the spot for about thrco or four hours, when 5 of tho men wcro prevailed on to leave, and, life-lines having been fastened to them, they were hauled through tho surf to tho Life-boat. The only one left was the master, and as ho could not be induced to come into tho boat, the men were compelled, for their own safety, to go back to the Life-boat without him, and as soon as their boat floated they returned to their station. As tho tide flowed, and tho sea made, the schooner turned over on her broadside, and the sea broke completely over her— and it was concluded that the master must have been drowned. Happily, how- ever, he had lashed himself to the rigging, and a Broadstairs lugger cruising near the sands, on the weather moderating, found him, and brought him ashoro in a very exhausted condition. It appeared that, although the hull of the vessel was completely under water, yet, having a cargo of iron, she had righted herself on the sands. The reason tho master gave for refusing to leave the vessel with tho rest' of the crew, was that, being part owner, he thought there might be a pos- sibility of saving her, and, therefore, would not desert her..