Sir Francis Head has arrived in London. The Standard declares
that he only escaped the " Lynching" Yankees by "an especial inter- ference of Providence." This is made out in detail as follows- " For wise reasons. Sir Francis having resolved to get home by the quickest route, with that chivalry always characteristic of him determined to get to Nov York from the Upper Province. He ordered a steam.boat for the purpose of „aching. Kingston, at a period when in usual seasons the navigation is closed by ice ; he succeeded ; and when at Kingston, the militia cordon was ordered to he on the alert, and stop all travellets boot Canada to the United States. He then, with Colonel Jones, his Aide.de-camp, engaged a boat, and contrived to get across the lake, about seven miles ; the ice in some plaees being too thin to hear a man, and in others too thick to break through with the boat. They however accomplished it, and reached Watertown like two Canadian travellers. Not being recognized. they engaged a carriage ; but before they got off were idestified, and a1 genteel mob' hail gathered. They started, and made the best of their way ; but the state of the roads compelled them to give up wheels and take to horreback. They got along as fast as their animals could cat, y them ; and had made between thirty and forty miles of distance, when they webe overtaken by two gentlemen, who cot lllll ended them to stop, exhibiting a war. rant. They, however, were safe out of the jurisdiction wherein it was granted, sod got to Utica: here they got into a car on the railway. It most providen- tiallv happened, that at Albany a steamer was starting for New York, into which they passed, and thus got out of reach of the gentlemen of the border- the Pee citizens-Miss Martineau's 'patterns of a people,' &c. Not finding a better reason for panting a warrant, it was granted on the oath of a smuggling scomidrel, who in an attempt to introduce a parcel of cheese without payment of duty, had hail it genet! ; and it was for the ' robbery' of this man's cheese that the warrant was granted."
A New York paper denies the story that Lady Head was insulted at Albany; the people only stared at her as she sat in the coach, during • the change of horses, instead of going into the inn. It is not the habit of the Atnericans to be uncivil to women of any country, under any circumstances,-unless, indeed, they happen to have black skins.
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