PENSION.—On the 31st December, while a strong S.W. gale was blowing, a brigantinewas observed with a signal of distress flying in her main rigging. The Life-boat Christopher Brown was launched, and, on boarding the vessel, found her to be the brigantine Florence, of Preston, bound from Liverpool to Dublin, with a cargo of iron rails. Her foremast had been carried away, her pumps were broken, and she had lost most of her sails, and was riding heavily. The master and crew of 3 men were thereupon taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Conway, the Life-boat being unable to regain her station against the heavy seas..