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DROGHKDA.—On the 10th January the No. 2 Life-boat, John Suiter Charley, of this station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Sisters, of Sunderland, which vessel being driven in on the lee-shore of Bettystown strand came in contact with the ground and foundered at her anchors, it blowing hard from the eastward at the time. The Life-boat reached the wreck about 9 P.M., and there was great difficulty in lying close alongside. But after lying by her for many hours, at 3 A.M., on the llth, she succeeded in rescuing all hands, consisting of 11 persons..