Lord Durham's despetelies, announcing his imnmiliete return to England, were
brought by the Hunuurahle Captain Dillon. That gnimtienlaii, with Mr. Wakefield, sailed in the Garrick, which left New York on the :25th of October. The Garrick had a fair pessage till she neared the coast of Ireland, when a strong contrary wind set in. Mu'. Diller' mid Mr. Weketichl gut on beard a fishing-beast, and with some risk reached Dangarvan Day, and posted thence to Dublin. Lord Durham has directed that the salary and emoluments accruing to the Governor- General of Lower Canada, shall be appropriated to the expenses incurred in the repairs of the Government houses at Quebec and Alontreal.
'1'lle Second Regiment of Dragoon Guards (Colonel Cathcart) left Three Rivers on the 15th October, for Chambly, which is getting into a very bad state. It was intended that the regiment should winter there.
The Officers' Barrack at Chambly, an old wooden building, was de- stroyed by fire. Lieutenant Carey, of the Fifteenth Regiment, in the
attempt to save something which he valued very highly, perished in the flames. He had escaped from the building, but returned through a window, and was no doubt suffocated.
I [Our friends at La Colle and Odell Town are in a desperate fright ; but I must confess that I think them inclined to magnify the threat- ened danger. About L'Acadie the Loyalists are in a much worse plight : indeed, I should not be astonished to hear of some atrocity in that vicinity. Colonel Taylor, the Military Superintendent of the St.
John's district, has, however, his eye constantly on the proceedings that occur ; and as he has established the means of obtaining speedy and accurate information, it is hoped that he will be able to defeat the plans which are in progress.—Letter in the Morning Chronicle.
Five prisoners engaged in the frontier disturbances, and lodged in the citadel on Cape Diamond, attempted to escape ; and two of them, named Theller and Dodge, succeeded ; but the three others were re- taken. Theller and Dodge were supposed to be concealed in Quebec.
The celebrated Indian warrior Black Hawk died at his camp, on the River des Moines, on the 3d of October, aged seventy-three years.
Joseph Lancaster, the celebrated founder of the system of education which goes by his name, died at New York on the 24th ult., in the sixty-first year of his age. His death bad been occasioned by an accident.
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