PORTMADOC.—At 3 P.M. on the 14th October, during stormy weather, the schooner Breton, of Fowey, was observed to be showing a signal of distress. The Life-boat John Ashbury was immediately manned, and by the time she was afloat the vessel had been beached at Criccieth.

The Life-boat went alongside, and brought her crew of five men ashore. The schooner had parted from her cable in St. Tudwall's Koads, and had lost her bowsprit and jibboom..