The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.

STEWARD, the local Hou. Secretary of the In- stitution. On the morning of the 1st Decem- ber last about seven o'clock, the beachmen, during a strong wind from N. by E., with squalls, saw what appeared to be a dismasted vessel at the back of the Scroby Sands with signals of distress in the rigging. They at once proceeded off in the large life-boat, the Birmingham, and found the upper part of a barque which, it appears, had struck on the Hasborough Sands about half-past ten o'clock the previous night. This portion had broken away, and drifted to the spot where it was seen from the shove, and by the time the life- boat reached it, it had floated down the coast as far as Yarmouth. It consisted of the bul- warks (which on the lee side were under water), deck, and a few planks below, and was little more than a raft, but it had on it the whole of the crew, numbering 14 men, •of a wrecked barque of 447 tons, named the Helsingoe, of Elsinore. The poor fellows had been nine hours adrift on it in a terrible sea and the weather very cold.

The difficulty of getting them off, in the midst of the heavy sea, was great, and the life-boat was a good deal damaged, for, on account of the ship's broken mainmast, spars, &c., the boat could not approach the wreck to leeward, and had to be taken to windward, and to get at the crew she had to drive alongside, and time after time she grated with great violence against the wreck, from which the ship's bolts were projecting.

Some of the life-boatmen said the boat would be dashed to pieces; but others re- plied, " We must save the poor fellows!" And ultimately, after gallantly exerting themselves for nearly an hour, the crew of the life-boat had the great satisfac- tion of saving the whole of them. None but daring and experienced men could have accomplished this rescue. The boat was subsequently towed into Yarmouth harbour by a. steamer, each side of the pier-head being lined with spectators. The rescued men were then landed and taken to the Sailors' Home. They were respectable and well-behaved men. The mate had his shoulder injured, and was taken to the Hospital, where he was afterwards seen very cheerful and happy. The master, when offered a little rum by one of the beachmen, declined it, saying, "There was too much poison in it for him." The hull of the ship, which had been left behind, afterwards floated off the sand, and finally came ashore southward of Gorleston Pier.

The crew of the life-boat received a double reward from the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in consideration of their gallant services on the occasion..