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Cedarine, of Burmuda

At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at Bermuda had ex- pired. The Brighstone Grange life-boat at once proceeded to their aid, and conveyed safely to the shore, in eight trips, about 130 of that number, including 18 women and children; the remainder succeeded in landing safely, chiefly by means of a hawser which had been secured to the land..