ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.

The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great personal risk, and afterwards landed at New York. For the humane and generous treatment displayed by Captain HODGES, of the E. Z., to British seamen in distress, the Board of Trade have been pleased to direct that a telescope, bearing a suitable inscription, should be presented to him, on the part of Her Majesty's Govern- ment.

By a despatch addressed to the Secretary of the Board of Trade by Her Majesty's Consul at New York, it appears that on the 6th January last, t&e wreck of the British barque Thetis, of London, BOYLE, master, from Honduras, was seen by Mr. SAMUEL A. WEBSTER, master of the Hamilton, of Salem, in lat. 31° 12' N., long. 62° 30' W., waterlogged; some of the crew were on a small part of the poop-deck, and others in the fore-top. In consequence of the bois- terous state of the weather, ho assistance could then be rendered, and the Hamilton reefed her topsails and lay-to for the night.

At daylight the Thetis had disappeared, but that day and the following Captain WEBSTER wore-ship several times, and kept in the neighbourhood of the wreck, with which he again fell in on the 8th, but, from the gale still continuing, could not render any assist- ance. On the morning of the 9th, the wreck had again disappeared, and she was not discovered until 8 p.m., when, although quite dark, the Hamilton hoisted out her largest boat, but which was so injured that it was obliged to return. After again lying-to for the night, and repairing the boat, on the morning of the 10th January the Hamilt m stood towards the wreck, and succeeded in making a line fast to the mtzen- mast, by which means the survivors, 16 in number (3 having been drowned and 4 died from starvation), were transferred to the vessel, and provisions, clothing, &c., so far as means would permit, were supplied to them. The following day the gale had so increased that the wreck must have then been completely destroyed. On the 6th February the crew of the Thetis were landed at New York, and were received by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul.

In consequence of the representation of the above facts, the Lords of the Com- mittee of Privy Council for Trade have been pleased to direct that a gold chronometer be presented to Captain WEBSTER for his energetic and unceasing efforts to save the shipwrecked crew from peril so imminent, and for his humane and generous treatment; to the owners of the Hamilton, the sum of 179 dollars for subsistence of the same; to the two mates, the sum of 51. each; and to the crew, the sum of 21. each, io considera- tion of the reduced allowance in then- pro- visions.