The Nineteenth Volume of the Naval Chronicle contains various interesting documents relative to the present eventful crisis; and, by its biographical memoirs, has rendered the services of some of our naval officers more generally known.

If it should be objected, that we do not always select the most renowned and distinguished of our naval heroes, it may be replied, that such officers do not so much require the adventitious assistance of the biographer, as men of equal merit though not of equal celebrity. At the present awful crisis of civilized Europe, amidst the general wreck and degradation of the continent, whilst the storm is still raging, and the gloom of military tyranny is deepening on all sides, it is devoutly to be wished, that our endless factions and parties would think only of employing men of the most high and established professional merit. There is a dreadful stagnation in the service, a dead calm, hitherto unprecedented in the long and desperate contest in which we have been engaged. The country, and its natural bulwark, the British Navy, wants men who will dare to act and think, without that eternal wavering, and looking to others for an opinion, which paralyses all national exertions.