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 CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL expired on the 6th inst. at Philadelphia. His precise age we have not seen stated.

 JoHN MARSHALL is a name which will de- scend to posterity without single spot on its pure and perfect fame. Under his fostering care the Constitution and laws of,the United States have been settled and expounded, a great and consistent system of national juris- prudence has grown up, displaying wisdom and sagacty which will forever insure 1t rev. erence and durability. His judicial exist once commenced at nearly the same time with our Government. X wide field, full of questions of Constitutional law, of the powers of Congress and ths State judiciary, was spread out before him, and one by one those questions came up, and were clearly and con clusively settled. The powers of Congress and of the different Courts were defined and fixed by his unerring interpretation of the Constitution-and the Reports of the Su- preme Court of the United States have gone on increasing in importance. All the great questions which have come under the cogni- zance of that Court, have been settled with sagacity and deep searching power of truth ful argument, which forbds the idea that they will ever be revived again. There has been no man in this nation, except Washing ton, who has had so much influence upon its destinies as Marshall--and his fame will be second only to that of the Father of his Coun- try. As judge, he was inferior to no one who ever existed. Neither Bacon. Coke, Hale or Mansfield were his superiors, and in modern years no judge in England has equal led him. Compared with his decisions, those of Kenyon, Peterborough and Eldon shrink into insignifcance.

 Who will be chosen to fill his place9-- Who is there, possessing his ability and in- tegrity--his stern and searching discrimina- tion--his simplicity and freedom from gauds and ornaments, from weakness and eecentri- city! There are but few men in this Union on whom the mantle of Marshall ought to rest.