ARBROATH, N.B.—At about 8.30 A.M.

on the 15th April, a brigantine was seen approaching the shore from the eastward.

As she was showing a signal of distress the Peoples Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched and proceeded to her aid. She proved to ,be the Expedii, of Porsgrund, Norway, laden with small coal. The Master reported that she had four feet of water in her hold, had lost her main rigging, and was quite unmanageable.

The crew, who had been constantly at the pumps four days without food, were quite exhausted, and refused further duty.

The men, numbering six in all, were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed. The vessel afterwards drove ashore about a mile and a half westward of the harbour..