Star. — 1830-08-25 (London, England)

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.  We have been rather later in the month than usual in perusing the United Service Journal ; but find in it much important information.— We are confident this publication must be of great advantage to the two professions for which it is intended. It will make many a young man acquainted with a proper sense of duty, and think a little on Ilia profession, who probably would not think at aU, had they not received the impetus from its pages. The general reader will find curious information in several of the papers : " Service afloat during the war," he will perceive is not feather-bed service ; and the account of the Russian Revolution, which placed Nicholas on the throne of the Czars, continues to be interesting. We recommend, however, particularly to public attention, " A Proposal for Manning the Fleet without General Impressment," which is written by an Officer in the Navy, and we trust' will meet the consideration of Government. We have great hopes that his present Majesty will exert himself to abolish impressment, a dis. graceful and unnecessary anomaly in British policy ; and likewise, what is equally disgraceful, the use of the cat-enine-tails in the military and naval service. On this latter subject, or connected with it, we shall give an extract from the paper entitled "Service afloat during the iVar," which is highly creditable to this author and Journal. It occurs in-s note :  " At this period a very general notion prevailed among the younger officers of the profession, and which is doubtless still entertained by the inexperienced and unreflecting, that the salutary discipline so indispensable in the service, cannot be preserved but by a system of tenor and coercion. Whereas multiplied and fatal instances, many of which I have myself witnessed, might .be brought forward to illustrate the fact, that in those ships in which the cat and ropes' end were in constant requisition, and which shone most in paint sal in polish, were by no means the most brilliant in essentials. That, however, the crew might be made to fly aloft to reef top-sails by the second, or run the anchor up to the bows in a given time, in the hour of battle, or in cases of emergency, they did not always exhibit a corresponding seal and energy. Having served with men as conspicuous for their enlightened minds, their professional knowledge, moderation, and urbanity, as with others as remarkably characterized by the deficiency of these qualities, sew have had a fairer opportunity of essaying the two systems, and of coming to:sound conclusions or ;the subject. Among the rest it was my lot, at different periods of my professional career, to be placed with three officers proverbi.d, on the station to which they belonged, for their severity. This subsequently led to the dismissal front their ships of two of these individuals. One has since anticipated the natural term of his existence by suicide ; the other has never since been employed ; the system of the third very narrowly involved him in a catastrophe, that might have vied with certain other fatal effects of the ultra system of the • good old times.'  " In a ship commanded by one of these officers, it was customary to polish the shot round the comings of the hatchways, all the iron and copper work, the belaying pins, &c. and even the iron stanchions supporting the decks, with numerous other similar items. The anchor, or woe to those who laboured at the purchase, although an operation in a great measure depending on the state of the weather, and on local contingencies, was expected to be hove up in a given time ; this and an endless variety of similar exactions, with the frequency and severity of corporal punishments, created a dissatisfaction so general among the men that they took every opportunity of deserting. Nothing further may be necessary to illustrate the strength and prevalence to which this iu a very short time reached thon the fact, that in spite of guara- boats rowing round the ship, in addition to the sentries in harbour, and marines in the boats on duty, attempts at evasion still continued with a reckless determination that set all r isk at defiance, and placed life on the die. This at length broke out into open mutiny, and an attempt, which from the subsequent investigation of a court-martial, seems to have been long premeditated, was made to overpower the officers and get possession of the ship, but which at the moment of showing itself, was defeated by the promptitude of the former. For this affair, which was got over without much Celat, only the ringleader suffered death."  The office of King's Advocate-General of Ireland, vacant by the appointment of Mr. Leslie Foster to a seat on the Exchequer Bench, has been conferred upon Sir Henry Meredyth, Bart. L.L.D. Lord and Lady Teynham and the Dowager Lady Brabazon arc at present on a visit at Brabason Park, the st.st of Sir Wm. Brabazon, Ban.  Edward J. Cooper, Esq. M.P. for Sligo, has succeeded to the estates of his late father, Edward Synge Cooper, Esq. We regret extremely to hear that Mr. Ffrencia, M. P. for Roscommon, has been taken suddenly ill, and is in a very dangerous state.—Norning Register.