Exploring Expedition.
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The return Of the exploring expedition to
our shores, after nearly four years of toll and
peril, is a subject Of proud congratulation TO
our country. This expedition was planned
during the administration of fGeneral jackson,
and sent to sea under that of MIR Van Buren,,
with such instructions as were calculated to
produce results eminenty important 10 science
and TO the mercantile interests of the United
States. From the character of the officers
engaged in carrying out these instructions, as
we'll as from what we know of the proceedings
of the squadron, we feel every confidence that
the public expectation, high as it has been
wrought ia relation to this voyage, will not be
disappointed.


The mere enumeration of,he ports, harbors,
islands, reefs, aud shoals, examined and sur
veyed b. the squadron, is sufficient to exhibi.
the extent and value ofthe services it has ren-
dered to commerce.; and its observations have
swept from the charts the many fictitious dan
gers which have retarded the progress of ves-
sells navigating those seas. Bya proper mix
ture of 6rmness and kindness, the people in
habiting the principal groups and islands in
the Pacific ocean have been conciliated, and,