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Ida, of Glasgow

BRIGHTON.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th January, when it was blowing hard from S. by E., the barque Ida, of Glasgow, bound from Havre to Pensacola, drove ashore on the beach at this town. A communication was established with the rocket apparatus, but the crew being unable, from ignorance of its use, to avail themselves of this means of saving themselves, the Life-boat Robert Bailees was launched and proceeded to the stranded vessel through a heavy sea, and succeeded in removing 1 of her crew, 3 saving themselves by swimming, and the remainder, 10 in number, being taken off by the Town Life-boat..