New York papers, to the 29th of January, furnish some
addi- tional particulars of the proceedings of the malecontents on the Canadian frontier ; but they are even more vague than usual. It is said—for nothing can be stated as certain—that Dr. DUN- COMBE, at the head of 2,000 followers, had taken Fort Malden, and Amherstburg, and was marching towards Toronto, with a very scanty supply of arms and ammunition: all which is very improbable. According to another rumour, a body of insurgents, under a General SUTHERLAND, had taken the island of Bois Banc ; from which they subsequently retired, being disappointed in a sup- ply of arms, stolen from Detroit, and put on board of a schooner, which got ashore and was captured with its crew and contents by the Canadians. Another account states that the insurgents still kept possession of Bois Banc, which they were fortifying. Sir FRANCIS HEAD had announeed to the Legislature of Upper Canada his own resignation and the appointment of Sir GEORGE ARTHUR. The cause of his resignation, he said was a difference with the Government at home on one or two points of Colonial policy.
Mr. WELLS, the owner of the Caroline, had published a statement positively denying that she had been hired or pur- chased by the people on Navy Island. She plied under American colours between Schlosser and Navy Island, and had no connexion with the rebels.
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