WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It will be seen below that they are well entitled to it.

Lieutenant GEORGE S. BRITTAIN, R.N., received the Honorary Silver Medal from Lloyd's for going oft' in the life-boat and saving the lives of 8 out of 10 of the crew of the brig Middlesboro', wrecked near Whitby in a N.E. gale on the night of the 20th Dec., 1837, and "for other valuable services during a series of years." On the same occasion he received the Silver Medal of the Shipwreck Institution, having before saved 8 men from the brig Ivanhoe, under similar circumstances, on the 29th October, 1837.

He also was voted the Gold Medal of the Institution for saving 9 men, the crew of the brig Jupiter, wrecked near Whitby in a heavy gale at north on the 29th October, 1838.

This officer has likewise received the thanks on vellum of the Royal Humane Society, and the approbation of the Lords of the Admi- ralty ; and further exerted himself in saving 5 persons from the brig Mercury, on the 11th December, 1845, by means of CARTE'S rockets, when 6 men imfortunately perished in their vessel off Whitby. Lieut. BRITTAIN possesses various testimonials for rescuing his fellow-creatures from shipwreck and the general protection of property in stranded vessels, during a period of revenue service of 21 years, 5 of which, in command of the Mermaid cruizer on the north coast of Eng- land and Scotland, in which ho picked up on the 8th January, 1849, 7 persons in a boat who had left their sinking vessel, the Jane, of Newcastle, off the Fern Islands.

Lieutenant JOHN ROTHERY., R.N., was voted the Honorary Medal of Lloyd's, on the 20th June, 1838, for going off with a crew of the Coast Guard to the rescue of the schooner Agnes, of Guernsey, stranded on , Sidmouth beach on the 19th of May previous.

He also received the Silver Medal of the ' Shipwreck Institution, for the same gallant service.

Mr. HUGH J. SCLATER, Master, R.N., was voted the Honorary Medal of Lloyd's, on the 30th March, 1842, for services rendered while Second Master of H.M.S. Widgeon, in assisting in saving the crew, 7 in number, of the brig Minerva, which became a total wreck near Calais, on the 6th March of that year. Mr. SCLAYTER, also was promoted by the Admiralty for his gallant conduct on that occasion.

Lieut. W. VICARY, R.N., was voted the Silver Medal from Lloyd's on the 29th March, ! 1843, also the Gold Medal of the Shipwreck i Institution, for his gallant conduct in the rescue, by means of DENNETT'S rockets and ,' boats, of 11 out of 13 of the crew of the • brig George, of Sunderland, wrecked in a ; W.S.W. gale at Atherfield, in the Isle of Wight, on the 14th January, 1843. On this occasion Lieut. VICARY was Acting In- specting-Commander, and in the first boat of the two to reach the wreck, taking off & of the 10 men left on it; for which services he received the thanks of the Lords Com- missioners of the Admiralty. He also re- ceived the thanks of the Vice-Admiral of the Coast, the late Earl of YARBOROUGH, for extraordinary exertions at the wreck of the Clarendon, West Indiaman, lost in October, 1836, in a heavy gale at S.W. in Chale Bay, when only 2 lives out of the crew of 21 were saved. He also, in 1837, resetted 9 men from a dismasted and waterlogged Danish brig, off St. Lawrence, which he juryrigged and carried into Portsmouth.

Commander, now Captain, M'HARDY, R.N., assisted on this occasion. Also in March, 1847, he rescued, by rushing into the surf, 5 of the crew of the Russian sloop Perdoitus, wrecked off Black Gang in a heavy S.W.

gale, for which he received the thanks of the County Magistrates.

Lieut., now Commander JOHN BULLEY, R.N., was voted the Honorary Medal from Lloyd's on the 29th March, 1843, also the Gold Medal of the Shipwreck Institu- tion, for his gallantry at the wreck of the brig George at Atherfield, on the 14th January, 1843, as already mentioned. He had previously received the Silver Medal of the Institution for saving the crew of a ship in Feb. 1838; also on occasion of the wreck of the ship Castor, in Feb. 1841; and also an additional gold boat or clasp in Feb. 1848, for saving 15 men, the crew of the ship Llanrumney. All these vessels were wrecked near Atherfield, Isle of Wight.

Lieut. HENRY TROLLOPE, R. N., was voted the Honorary Medal from Lloyd's on the 26th March, 1845, " for his 'highly praiseworthy, humane, and persevering exer- tions in saving, at the imminent peril of his life, the crew of the bark Orion, of Scar- borough, wrecked about 150 miles north of Ichaboe, on the West Coast of Africa, on the 21st July, 1844." Lieut. TROLLOPE was at this time serving in H.M.S. Isis, and was detached from his ship in a small pilot cutter, liberally lent for this purpose by the Messrs. BURNETT, Liverpool mer- chants, in search of the wreck. He was absent 21 days, one-half the time waiting opposite the wreck for an opportunity of landing through the surf; but at last his patience was rewarded, and he succeeded in rescuing 16 men, the whole of the crew of the Orion.

Lieut. W. GOULD, R.K, was voted Lloyd's Medal on the 10th Sept., 1845, for his gallantry in saving by boat 5 of the crew of the ship Siam, wrecked in Compton Bay, Isle of Wight, in a S.W. gale on the 24th March, 1845 ; he also received the Silver Medal of the Shipwreck Institution, for the same. Also the thanks of the Admi- ralty for services rendered to H.M.S. Sphynx, stranded in the Brook Coast-Guard district.

In the course of seven years no less than five vessels were totally wrecked within the 51/2 miles of coast, from Stag Rock to Chilton, comprised within this district, viz., the Siam, already mentioned; the French brig Eugene in April, 1845; the French smack Edward on the 3rd December, 1847 ; the Norwegian brig Serlen, in October, 1851, when the crew were hauled up the cliffs at Freshwater Gate, after communication had been effected by DENNETT'S rockets; and the Swedish schooner Frhtihof, wrecked on the 9th December, 1851. In all these cases the people were, as usual, saved by the Coast Guard and fishermen.

The above, we believe, are, with Capt. DAVIES, R.N., all the naval officers now living who have received Lloyd's Honorary Medal; and we have to express our obliga- tions to Commander HOWES for being en- abled to record some of the distinguished services here mentioned, which do much honour to the profession.

Some thirty others, masters of vessels, pilots, coast-guard men, &c., have also since the year 1837, received either a silver or bronze Honorary Medal from Lloyd's, for gallant services in cases of shipwreck; and in a future number we trust to be able to give an account of some of these also.