BURNHAM, SOMERSET.—Soon after 7 P.M.

on the 7th August, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw that the schooner Brune, of Bridgwater, had stranded near Highbridge Pill, and that the crew had been compelled to take to the rigging. The wind was blowing a hurricane from W.N.W. at the time. The Life-boat Cheltenham was immediately launched, proceeded as quickly as possible to the sunken vessel, and took seven men from the rigging, two of them being in a most exhausted state. The men were safely landed at Highbridge at 9.30 P.M..