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enable the Town Council to proceed with their proposed Kailway 

 improvements, and shall be glad to render any assistance in my 

 power to promote the views of the Memorialists. I have the hononr 

 to be &c., Seaton." 



Having given above representative autographs of the two 

 Bishops Mountain, I ought to present one of Bishop Stewart, the 

 second Bishop of Quebec. I accordingly make an extract from a 

 letter written by him while yet a simple missionary. It v/as 

 addressed from London, in 1823, to Archdeacon Mountain at Quebec. 

 " I have drawn up a subscription paper," he says, '' in aid of building 

 Churches in Canada, and of defraying the expense of repairing the 

 Mohawk Church in the Bay of Quints. I went to the Archbishop 

 yesterday — to .\ddington — and he gave me £10. He told me that the 

 robbers of Lambeth Palace had carried off veiy little indeed. I do not 

 see that I can do anything in aid of procuring Bells for the Cathedral. 

 Mr. Davidson promised me, last week, to inquire at the Treasury if 

 there is any prospect of assistance in that quarter. * * You will 

 oblige me by requesting Mr. Malhiot (at your leisure) to examine and 

 air my linen and mattrasses left in my cot at his house, for I wish ta 

 preserve them from being spoilt." This Bishop Stewart was a son of 

 the Earl of Galloway. 



Sir Francis Head was the successor to Sii- John Colborne. I copy 

 a portion of a letter of his, written after his return to England, to a 

 friend in Canada : Lord Durham's Heport is referred to in it, and 

 he speaks of being engaged in the construction of a paper on a 

 subject of which he recently knew nothing : — " I have been much 

 occupied," he says, "for the last month in writing an article which 

 will appear in the Quarterly EevieAv on the first of January [1839], 

 on Railroads, or perhaps on the Power of Steam. I was but a tyro 

 in the steam department (as you may well recollect, for you know I 

 nearly blew you up one day in the middle of a long argument) when 

 I was at Toronto. In fact, I knew nothing at all about Railroads, 

 but I was so strongly pressed to write about it, and ignorance was 

 so strongly urged as being no objection whatever, that I at last 

 undertook it. If you should read it, you will see that I fired a shot 

 into Lord Durham, in return for the gun he fired on all preceding 

 governors at his departure from Quebec." I take this occasion to 

 produce an autograph of Lord Durham's, but unfortunately it was 

 written befoi-e his famous mission to Canada, and so has no allusion 



