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CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.

The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to her help. She proved to be the ketch Morcel, of Treguier. The crew declined to leave her, but asked that some help might be given to them. Two Life-boatmen were therefore put on board and with their assistance, sails were set and the vessel brought to a safe anchorage..