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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-05 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY.

Mr. JERVIS brought up the report of the committee upon
the case of Mr. Wynn. The committee had come to a reso-
lution to the effect, that the Steward of the Lordship of Den-
high was an office of profit under the Crown, and that the
right hon. gentleman had been appointed by her Majesty;
but that Mr. W. Wynn had not accepted the said office since
his election. The election is, therefore, valid. Mr. Jervis
moved that the evidence be printed, and said, he should then
call the attention of the house to the laxity which prevailed
to this appointment, particularly in the warrant of appoint-
ment being antedated.
The house having resolved itself into a committee on Irish
railways, Lord NIORPETH stated the particular provisions
which he proposed to introduce into the measure which he
should submit to them. They did not propose in the first
instance, that the Government should undertake more than
one of the great lines recommended by the Railway Commis-
sioners, though he himself should have rather liked to grasp
more, because the efficacy of the measure would have been
thereby increased. The line which they proposed to execute
is that from Dublin to Cork, which branches to Limerick and
Clonmel, which would comprehend an extent of line 213 miles
in length ; and this, by the calculations of the Commissioners,
would involve an expense of £2,556,000. The grounds of
preference were, the large area of country which would be
benefited, the communication with greater districts and
towns than could be obtained in any other line which it would
open, namely, with the' large and important counties of
Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Clare, and Waterford.
The line would connect Dublin and all the manufacturing
districts of Lancashire and its neighbourhood, and indeed,
the metropolis of England itself with Cork, the port most in
use in the south of Ireland, and more resorted to than any
other in the traffic between Ireland and America. The noble
lord having dwelt on the advantages of which such a measure
would be productive, proceeded to describe the main provi-
sions of the bill. The calculation of the Commissioners was,
that there would be a profit of about four per cent.; but to
guard the public money against the Ipossiblity of risk, they
proposed to enact, that in the event of the revenue proving
inadequate to the maintenance and working of the lines, and
payment of the interest at the aforesaid rate, the deficiency
shall be made good by assessment on the counties through
which the line passes ; one-third on the baronies intersected
by or adjoining the lines ; the remainder on the country at
large, including those baronies.
Sir R PEEL strongly resisted the plan.
An extended debate arose on the subject, Lord J. RUSSELL
strongly urged that a bill on the subject might be allowed to
be brought in.
The house eventually divided. The resolution was carried
—ayes, 144 ; noes, 100 ;—majority in its favor, 44.
The report was ordered to be read on Monday.
Lord MORPETH moved the second reading of the Munici-
pal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, which called forth much dis-
cussion and some divisions.
The remaining business was deferred to different days.

The Times, of Saturday morning, contains a corres•
Rondence between the Honourable Henry Fitzroy, M.P. Mr
.4oebuck, Mr. Edward Trelawney, and Lord Powerscourt,
and, an account of a duel between Lord Powerscourt and
Mr. Roebuck, at Coombe Wood, on Thursday evening. The
dispute originated in the following expressions in the report
of Mr. Roebuck's speech, at Bath, on the 15th of Feb. :
" I am told that Lord Powerscourt, about thirteen months
ago, (and I am glad that he is now in England to hear what I
shall have to say concerning him,) at some drunken exhibi-
tion, dared to use my name in a way that no gentleman
would have done. I took no notiee of it at the time, but I
did reserve to myself the right of applying a scourge to that
person's back, which should make him feel smartly, if he has
any sense of honour or shame."
Being asked by Lord Powerscourt to state whether his
words were correctly reported, Mr. Roebuck furnished a
fuller account of that part of his speech alluded to, but which
did not materially differ from the above extract. Mr. Henry
Fitzroy, on behalf of Lord Powerseourt, wrote to Mr. Roe-
buck, requesting that, as he did not " retract or explain" the
offensive expressions, he would name " a friend." Mr. Roe-
buck called upon Mr. Fitzroy to state distinctly what words
he wished to be explained, as it was not Mr. Roebuck's ob-
ject to make the charges in offensive language. Mr. Fitzroy
declined a correspondence on the subject. A third letter from
Roebuck referred Mr. Fitzroy to Mr. Trelawney, and con-
tained Mr. Roebuck's statement of what he conceived to be
the exact position of the parties : the responsibility lying, as
he conceived, on those who demanded a duel and would not
state the precise cause of offence.
This was the account of the duel :
" Putney-hill, Feb. 28, 1839.
On the evening of the 29th Lord Powerscourt M.P., and
djilr..:Roebuck met by appointment at Coombe Wood, seven
.sigpiles from town ; the former accompanied by the Honourable
Fitzroy, M.P., and the latter by E. Trelawney, On the
ground efforts were renewed to avert the necessity of proceed-
ing to extremities ; Lord Powerscourt's friend insisting on
Mr. Roebuck's retracting or apologizing for the words com-
plained of in the correspondence, and the oppostte party de-
clining to do so.
" The ground was then measured, and the principals placed
at twelve paces. On Mr. Roebuck's receiving his adver-
sary's fire, he discharged his pistol in the air, and, advancing
to Lord Powerscourt, said, Now, my lord, lam ready to
make any apology your lordship may suggest ; for, certainly,
in my speech at Bath, I did not mean to apply anything per-
sonally offensive.' All parties, being entirely satisfied by
. this frank procedure of Mr. Roebuck, returned to town.
" EDWARD TRELAWNEY.
trlinteo " HENRY FITZROY,"
11,`

ELECTIONEERING DUEL.

1
: By the late act of parliament, all executors, widows, or next
of kin, are liable to a penalty of 1:100, if they neglect to prove
, wills or take administrations within six months after the
death of the testator.
THE APPOINTMENT OF LORD EBRINGTON.—Lord
Ebrington is to be the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; and
. to render him tit for his O'Connell vassalage he has been
called to the House of Peers by writ of summons, under the
~, -title of Baron Fortescue ; but as his aged father, Earl For-
d fescue, cannot, in the course of nature, live many years
longer, the addition to the peerage is only temporary. The
Whigs, indeed, have created more than their share of peers.
It is now little better than eight years since they got posses-
? sion of place; and in that short period their creations
amounted to SEVENTY-ONE ; 1. e., Dukes 2, Marquisses 4,
Earls 14, Barons 51—total7l. These are the men who cried
out so continuously against the Tories, though the creations
•;• .•
Li of the latter were chiefly for eminent services rendered to
f. the country in a time of war ; whereas in the brief space of
eight years the abstinent Whigs have added one-fourth to a
lc peerage of eight centuries' growth. Ministers must have
been in a sore strait to appoint Lord Ebrington to so impor-
r tant an office ; the dullest man, of his opportunities, in the
three kingdoms. His qualifications are, that he will wear
the O'Connell chain without murmuring, and that he has
1, declared in his place in the Commons that he desires to play
-hi into the hands of the Papists by putting down the Protestant
Church Established in Ireland. What has come over the
;1, Duke of Sussex ? The situation was intended for him. Per-
'. baps the Dictator would not give his consent. Nothing is
=L more probable. We hitig shown in another part of our
taper how completely the luinistptry are at his beck.—Leeds
ntelligencen

EXTRACTS FROM THE NARRATIVE OF SIR
FRANCIS B. HEAD.

THE HISTORY OP MY APPOINTMENT TO THE GOVERN-

MENT OF UPPER CANADA, IN NOVEMBER, 1835.

(Concluded from the Liverpool Standard of Friday.)

There would be no end to this chapter were I to describe
the sitnplicity of mind, ill-naturedly called ignorance, with
which; I approached the city of Toronto,

With Mr. WlCenzie's heavy book of lamentations in my
portmanteau, and with my remedial instructions in my wri-
ting-case, I considered myself as a politicial physician, who,
whether regularly educated or not, was about to effect a sur-
prising cure ; for, as I never doubted for a moment either
the existence of the 553 pages of grievances, nor that I would
mercilessly destroy them root and branch, I felt perfectly
confident that I should very soon be able proudly to report
that the grievances of Upper Canada' were defunct—in fact,
that I had veni-ed, vidi-ed, and vici-ed them.
As, however, I was no more connected with human poli-
tics than the horses that were drawing me—as I had never
joined any political party, had never attended a political
discussion, and had never even voted at an election, or taken
any part in one—it was with no little surprise that, as I drove
into Toronto, I observed the walls placarded in large letters
which designated me as—
" SIR FRANCIS HEAD, A TRIED REFORMER."
_ _ _

I could soon see that the loyalists looked upon me in this
light, and, accordingly, on the very first appointment, that
of surveyor-general, which they themselves forced me to
make, they almost one and all joined in a very improper
petition to the King, which I am sure they have all since
deeply regretted.
Exposed as I knew I must be to the political storm, it
was to me a matter of the most perfect indifference from
which quarter of the compass it proceeded. " I have the
grievances of Upper Canada," I said to myself, " and I have
their remedies ;" and, whether the tories liked the medicine
or whether they did not, I cared not a single straw.

Among those who in Private audience presented themselves
to me was Mr. Bidwell, the speaker of the House of Assem-
bly. To this gentleman, who was the leader of the repub-
licans, I expressed the same language which I had addressed
to the leaders of the opposite party. I told him plainly that
I was an inexperienced man, but that I would deal honestly
towards the country ; and, being resolutely determined to
correct the grievances of the province, I at once took up the
hook which contained them, and invited Mr. Bidwell to
converse with me freely on the subject.
To my utter astonishment, he told me that there were
grievances not at all detailed in the book, which " the peo-
ple" had long endured, and were still enduring, with great
patience ; that there was no desire to rebel, but that a morbid
feeling of disatisfaction was daily increasing ; that increase it
would, and that, in fact, if it had been distinctly stated that
I was the bearer of new instructions, those with whom he
was associated had come to the determination never to meet

in provincial parliament again. " What do you mean, sir,"
said I, " that this book of grievances, which I have been
especially sent to correct, does it contain the complaints of
the 'province?" Mr. Bidwell repeated his former answer,
and, from that day to the hour of his leaving the country,
never could I get him to look at the book of grievances ; but
whenever I referred to it he invariably tried to decoy me to
some other will-o'-the-wisp complaint, which in like manner,
would have flown away before me had I attempted to ap-
proach it.
When Mr. M`Kenzie, bringing with him a letter of intro-
duction from Mr. Hume called upon me, I thought that of
course he would be too happy to discuss with me the con-
tents of his own book, but his mind seemed to nauseate its
subjects even more than Mr. Bidwell's. Afraid to look me
in the face, he sat with his feet not reaching the ground, and.
with his countenance averted from me, at an angle of about
70 degrees, while, with the eccentricity, the volubility, and
indeed the appearance of a madman, the tiny creature raved
in all directions about grievances here, and grievances there,
which the committee, he said, had not ventured to enumerate.
" Sir," I exclaimed, " let us cure what we have got here
first !" But pointing to the book before me, no, nothing that
I could say would induce this pedlar to face his own report ;
and I soon found that the book had the same effect upon all
the republican members, and that, like the repellant end of
a magnet, I had only to present it to the radicals to drive
them from the object which his Majesty's government ex-
pected would have possessed attraction.
Although I had arrived in total darkness, the light of truth
at once now bursting upon my mind, I perceived most clearly
that the republicans had overrreached themselves • or, in still
plainer terms, that they had killed the goose which had been
laying them golden eggs.

Having endeavoured to explain the position in which I
found myself, after my fortnight's experience in provincial
government, I will now lay before my readers a despatch
which was written within a week of my arrival at Toronto.
Government House, Feb. 5, 1836.
My Lord,—ln my despatch, No. 2, I informed your lord-
ship that I arrived at Toronto on the 23d uit. I had pre-
viously engaged apartments, for myself and three gentlemen
who accompanied me, at the principal hotel in this city, but
on my arrival a letter from Sir John Colborne was immedi-
ately delivered to me, by his aide-de-camp, informing me
that rooms were prepared for me at the government house.
Requiring rest and quietness, I at first declined the invita-
tion ; but, finding that party differences were running very
high, and being desirous to show that I had at least arrived
with unbiassed feelings, I thought it better to accept than
to decline the attention that was offered to me, and accord-
ingly went to government house on Saturday. _ .

On Monday- I was sworn in as Lieutenant-governor of this
province, and the following morning Sir John Colborne and
his family left Toronto for Montreal, accompanied, for a few
miles, by a vast concourse of people, who, I was happy to
see, vied with each other in testifying the sense they enter-
tained of his amiable character and high moral worth.
On Sir John Colborne's departure I endeavoured to make
myself acquainted with the outline of public feeling in the
province, by conversing calmly with the men of most ability
of all parties. I had several interviews with the chief justice
and the officers of the crown, two long conversations with
Mr. M'Kenzie, member for York, two interviews with Mr.
Bidwell, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and with
others.

As far as I was capable of judging, it appeared to me that,
in general terms, a good feeling pervaded a majority of the
people of this province, who, intently occupied in their
various locations, are naturally desirous to be tranquil, and
equally disposed to be loyal.
That party feeling, and struggle for office which haye
existed so strongly in the mother country, have produced
similar excitements in this province ; added to which, strong
republican principles have leaked into the country from the
United States. The various elements have long been con-
flicting together in the House of Assembly, which, I firmly
believe, misrepresents the general feeling and interests of
the inhabitants, who, as I have before said, ardently desire
peace, tranquillity, and a continuance of exemption from
taxation. But, from the peculiar state of this infant society,
all that is. good and estimable remains at the bottom, while
the surface is agitated by factious discussions.
In England this evil would soon be corrected by the ebul-
lition of a free press ; but the greatest difficulty which seems
to present itself is, that the press is here conducted by edi-
tors who, on all sides, not only misrepresent, but shamelessly
falsify, all public events. In Toronto this unprincipled mode
of warfare is so well understood that it produces but little
evil ; but the dissemination of falsehood throughout the re-
mote districts of the province, as well as in Lower Canada,
creates a moral contagion which it is almost impossible to
arrest.

As far as I have been able to judge, I should say that the
republican party are implacable ; that no concession whatever
would satisfy them, their self-interested object being to pos-
sess themselves of the government of this province, for the
sake of lucre and emolument.

Under these circumstances, I. considered that the great
danger I had to avoid was the slightest attempt to conciliate
any party, that the only course for me to adopt was to act
fearlessly, undisguisedly, and straightforwardly for the in-
terests of the country, to throw myself on the good sense
and good feeling of the people, and abide a result which, I
firmly believe, will eventually be triumphant.
Having resolved on this course, I verballsr explained it to
Mr. Bidwell, the speaker of the House of Assembly, a gentle-
man of unimpeachable moral character, but of strong repub-
lican principles ; to Mr. M`lienzie, one of the members for
York ; to the various heads of parties ; and to the members
of the executive government ; and on the 27th ult. I deli-
vered to the two houses of the legislature a speech.

The following are the paragraphs omitted in publication by
Lord Glenelg of Sir Francis Head's celebrated despach of the
19th December, 1837, describing the attack on the city of
Toronto. It will be remembered that the despatch excited
great astonishment at the time, because Sir Francis Head
avowed in it that he had made no preparation whatever to
resist the rebels, " and waited with folded arms until M'Ken-
zie collected hiA forces, and actually commenced the attack."
* " These are historical facts which it is impossible to
deny ; and the plain inference is, that the inhabitants of Up-
per Canada, as I have often publicly declared, detest demo-
cracy, and revere the noble monarchical institutions of the
British empire.
"My lord, what a serious lesson have the inhabitants of
Upper Canada offered to their mother country ! Our evi-
dence, humble as it is, will surely bring conviction to the
minds of those mis-named reformers who, ignorant of the
blessings they enjoy, desire to adulterate the purity of our
revered institutions. Situated as we are here, surely we are
better able to judge between monarchical and republican
government than the people in England, who are acquainted
only with the former. The faithful attachment which this
province has evinced to British justice, to British juries, and
to the British Sovereign, is the noblest instance of inde-
pendence I have ever witnessed, and it induces me to tell
your lordship plainly and unequivocally, that neither the
legislature nor the people of Upper Canada will any longer
submit to the base conciliations which have long disgraced
the Colonial office.

" My lord, it has long been notorious to every British sub-
ject in the Canadas, that your lordship's under-secretary,
the author of our colonial despatches, is a rank republican.
His sentiments, his conduct, and his political character, are
here alike detested, and I enclose to your lordship Mr.
M`Kenzie's last newspaper, which, traitorous as it is, con-
tains nothing more conducive to treason than the extracts
which, as its text, A exultingly quotes from the published
opinions of her Majesty's under-secretary of state for the
colonies ! • _

" These sentiments have already been very clearly ex-
pressed by me to your lordship, especially in my despatch
dated 10th September, 1837 ; and I am perfectly confident
that the triumph which this noble province has gained, will
never be complete until the government shall remove from
office a man who, by discouraging the loyal and encouraging
the disaffected, has; at last succeeded in involving the Canadas
in civil war. It now only remains for me to inform your
lordship that Mr. M`Kenzie, who is escaped to Buffalo, in
the United States, has, by falsehood and misrepresentations,
almost succeeded in exciting a large body of labourers, out
of work, to invade upper Canada, for the purpose of plun-
dering the banks, and of gaining possession of the crown
lands (which your lordship is aware I have been desired to
surrender to the provincial legislature). This (new feature
in reform') is (one which) at this moment (is) causing
throughout the province considerable excitement, and I must
say that, for the sake of humanity, I earnestly trust and hope
the attempt will not be made.
" I entertain the utmost reliance that the government of
the United States will nobly prevent any such invasion. I
am persuaded that all Americans of intelligence and property
will feel that the character of their country requires them to
discountenance a lawless and unprincipled aggression (which
would bring upon them the execration of the civilised world;
for where would they stand in the estimation of mankind, if
they were to be seen ungratefully repaying the high-minded
and successful exertions which Great Britain lately made to
save them from war, by steeping her colonies in blood and
misery ?)
" Should, however, any of the inhabitants of Buffalo, or
other frontier towns, regardless of these sentiments, (pre-
sume,) for the sake of plunder, to invade the free and inde-
pendent people of Upper Canada, I feel confident that every
man in the province, Indians and black population included,
will assemble together in one band to exterminate the inva-
ders or to perish in the attempt.—l have, &c
" The Lord Glenelg," &c. " F. B. HEAD.
* For want of this moral, or explanation, my policy in quelling
the mutiny has been severely condemned.

We are glad to learn that a Conservative Association IQ s
been formed at Batley, ,and that the Earl of Wilton, who is
the largest landowner in the township, has consented to be-
come the patron thereof,—Leeds Intelligencer.
It was stated the other day at the Court-house, that Messrs.
Taylor, Wordsworth and Co., machine makers of Holbeck,
near Leeds, employ 125 persons, of whop only 65 are appren-
tices !—Leedsintelligeneer,

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred

BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW, BY COMMUTATION.
Howard Elphinstone, M.A., Merton College.
MASTERS OF ARTS.
'George Charles Pearson, Christ Church.
John Woolley, Scholar of University College.
Rev. Philip Lewis, University College.
Rev. Samuel Dendy, Trinity College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS. •

Thomas Lymi FellOWe-, "Christ Church
Edward Wright, Christ Church.

George John-Stime, Oriel College.
In a Convocation yesterday, the Rev. G. Fuller Thomas,
M.A., of Worcester College, the Rev. E. A. Dayman, M.A.,
Fellow of Exeter College, and the Rev. Henry George Lid-
dell, M.A., Student of Christ Church, were appointed as
Examiners for the Hertford Scholarship for the promotion
of Latin Literature. The examination will commence on the

15th instant. Candidates to call on the Rev. G. Thomas,
Worcester College, on Wednesday, the 13th instant, between
twelve and two o'clock. All Undergraduate Members of
the University who have not exceeded two years from their
matriculation may become candidates.
The Professor of Political Economy will commence a
Course of Lectures on Colonization on Tuesday, the sth
instant, at two o'clock, in the Clarendon.
The Rev. John Ashworth Ashworth, 8.A., of Christ
Church, has been elected a Fellow of Brasenose College.
Mr. Drummond Rawnsley, of Brasenose College, has
been appointed an Exhibitioner on Mr. Hulme's Foundation.
The Rev. George Dempster Miller, M.A., of Wadham
College, has been presented, by the Earl of Cardigan, to the
Perpetual Curacy of Morley, in the West Riding of York-
shire.

The Hon. and Rev. William Henry Spencer, M.A., of
Christ Church, son of Lord Churchill, has been presented,
by the Dean and Canons of Windsor, to the Vicarage of
Urchfont with Stirt, Wiltshire,
The Rev. William Arundell Bouverie, 8.D., late Fellow
of Merton College, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of
Salisbury, has been presented, by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, to the Rectory of Denton, Norfolk, vacant by the death
of the Rev. William Chester, M.A., late Fellow of Merton
College. To this Living the Archbishop collates a Fellow,
or one who has been a Fellow, of the above Society.
The Rev. Wm. Falconer, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College,
and son of the Rev. Dr. Falconer, of Bath, whose death was
announced in our last, has been presented to the Rectory of
Bushey, Herts, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. the
Rector of Exeter; patrons, the Rector and Fellows of that
Society.
The Rev. George Henry Eland, 8.A., of Magdalen Hall,
has been appointed to the Vicarage of St. Paul's, Bedminster,
near Bristol, vacant by the death of the Rev: W. L. Glover ;
patron, the Vicar of Bedminster,

On Tuesday last Was married, at St. George's, Hanover-
square, London, the Rev. Abraham Farley Wynter, 8.A., of
St. John's College, to Laura Marie Anne, youngest daughter
of the Rev. Valentine Ellis, Rector of Walton, Bucks, and
Barnardistow, Suffolk.
Our readers cannot have forgotten that Mr. Laing, M.A.
of Trinity College, for many years one of the police magis-
trates of Hatton Garden, and as honourable and efficient a
magistrate as any on the bench, was removed from his situa-
tion by Lord John Russell, because a Dr. Payne (as he called
himself) brought an action against Mr. Laing, for an assault
and false imprisonment. W thought at the time that Dr.
Payne's was a very lame story, but knowing that Mr. Laing
was a conservative, we could easily understand the cause of
Lord John Russell's spite against him—however, Mr. Laing
was dismissed, and there the matter seemed to have ended.
Well, last week Dr. Payne was brought to Union Hall,
charged with STEALING seven silver and two German silver
spoons, from an inn on Snow-hill! If the reports in the
newspapers be correct, the Doctor did not deny that he had
taken the spoons, but be that is it may, he was fully com-
mitted. We put it to every honourable man, whether after
this exposure it would be more than an act of common
decency in Lord John Russell to reinstate Mr. Laing in the
office he was deprived of on the testimony of such a person ?
What Lord John Russell will do we will wait to see—but he
shall be reminded of the debt he owes to Mr. Laing again
and again, if he fails to perform, what we would fain hope he
must be desirous to do, namely, justice to an injured public
functionary.
SHERBORNE.—The young gentlemen of our King's School,
in the house of the head master, who often make a collection
among themselves at the commencement of the half year, in
behalf of some charity, have now, most appropriately, as
alumni of a foundation which we owe to the Prince of the
Reformation, Edward VI., collected the sum of £8 4.5. as
their contribution towards the proposed memorial at Oxford
to the martyrs of the Reformation.—Dorset Chronicle.