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Lizzie

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th February a messenger from Perran Zabuloe arrived at Newquay with intelligence that a vessel was at anchor, in a very, dangerous position, near Hoblyn's Cove, east of Perran Beach. The Pendock Neale Lifeboat was speedily launched, and, after encountering some very heavy seas off the five intervening headlands which project from this ironbound coast, she reached the vessel, which proved to be the ketch Lizzie, of Bridgwater, bound from Waterford to Palmouth with a cargo of oats. The Life-boat took off the crew df four men, and landed them safely at Newquay. A few hours afterwards the vessel drove ashore and became a total wreck.

The coxswain of the Life-boat, EDWIN CLEMENS, was suffering much from the effects of a broken- rib, caused by an,, accident during the frost, but he nevertheless occupied his usual position in the Boat..