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Amyot hopes that Ryland will soon be able to send a remittance for Sir George Powhall, who is very downcast for want of it, being involved in lawsuits on his own and his sister's behalf. Amyot encloses New Year's greetings.

A brief note, acknowledging nine packets from Ryland. He has nothing to add on the subject of the Chancellor's letter to Lord Spencer.

Amyot acknowledges gratefully his receipt of arrears on his pension for six quarters. Amyot informs Ryland that Ryland's letter has reached Sir Robert Peel, who was, unhappily, out of office before he received it. Sir Robert's timely return to the House prevented a dreaded collision between the Lords and the Commons. The Lords are now expected to rest content with having considerably altered the Corporation Bill, and annihilated for one year the Irish Church Bill. As W.D. Ryland's interview with Lord Althorpe was very satisfactory, he will, Amyot hopes, soon be in an agreeable living with a reasonable income.

Amyot has learned of the arrival in England of Archdeacon Mountain, through an accidental meeting with Mountain's brother, Armine, recently returned from India. Amyot hopes to enclose a letter from W.D. Ryland, and will forward Mrs. Ryland's letter to him at once. Amyot has learned with pleasure that Ryland had so good an introduction to Lord Gosford. The letter is incomplete.

The collection consists of thirty-five letters, thirty-three of which are addressed to H.W. Ryland, member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, one to a Lieutenant-Colonel Ready, Amyot's deputy at Quebec at the time, and one to the Reverend William Ryland, curate of Sandridge, England, the son of H. W. Ryland. The letters concern chiefly private business matters and Amyot's relation to Lower Canada when he was its absentee secretary, the receipt of his pension when his secretaryship was commuted in 1828, and his activities with the British government on Ryland's behalf.