PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the afternoon of Sunday the 15th October, during a S.S.E.

wind and a heavy sea, a barque—which proved to be the Fortuna, of Arendal,Norway, bound from Aberdeen to that port in ballast—came in sight off Buchanness, and as she was showing a flag of distress the Life-boat People's Journal No. 1 was launched and proceeded to her assistance. There was some difficulty in getting alongside, as the vessel, which had lost her sails, was rolling very heavily; but eventually the whole of the crew, consisting of ten men, were taken on board the Life-boat and brought safely into Peterhead Harbour. During the night the barque's cables parted, and she drove ashore about five miles north of Peterhead and became a wreck..