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hich was to have been held, according to some of our London contemporaries, yesterday, will be held to-day, and Ministers are said to have referred the question to the law officers. John Bull will not like, while his dander is up, to refer a matter affecting the honor of his old and, we must add, noble flag, which he so justly venerates, to a quid nunc lawyer, which he imagines ought to be settled by Armstrong and Whitworth guns. But, after all, war is a very costly enjoyment; and though Lancashire may be very anxious to get more cotton, there is a price at which even that article might be purchased too dearly. Notwithstanding the inveterate propensities of Brother Jonathan to "bounce" and "swagger," and the instinctive impulse rational men feel to give such "bouncers" a cooling, we still expect to see this question settled by the "goose quill"--not by gunpowder. Opinion of the British Ship-owners. The London Shipping Gazette, of the 28th of November, (evening,) says the c