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The steamship Anglo Saxon, which left Liverpool on the 16th, with 360 passengers and a crew of 84 men, was wrecked four miles East of Cape Race, at noon on Monday, during a dense fog, and while a heavy sea was running. The number of lives lost is not yet known. Before she commenced breaking up, 73 persons escaped by ropes and spars, and 24 were in one of the life-boats. Two other life-boats were launched and filled with passengers, and subsequently picked up by a steaming and taken to Picton; but a raft, containing seven persons, was missing. The deck broke up about an hour after the ship struck, and nothing but the mizzen-mast was left standing. Several persons were clinging to the rigging at the time, but no assistance could be rendered them. The commander of the Anglo Saxon is supposed to be among the lost. Only about 130 persons are known to have been saved. Five hundred rebel officers, confined at Fort Delaware, are to be sent immediately to City Point, for exchang