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lion or modification of the laws and regu.
aton in force as may be likely to promote
these objects. The commissioner so ap-
pointed Is authorized to call before him
such officers Of the crown as may be able
to give informal ton touching the said OBJ.
jects, and 10 appoint such assistant CON-
missioners as he may find necessary for the
execution OF the trust, and also secretary.
The Governor in chief has also appoint
ed the Hon. Charles Butler to be chef
commissioner, and William Kennedy and
Adam Thorn, Esqrs. assistant commission
crs of inquiry into municipal institutions.
A session of The Court of Kings Bench
was to commence at Montreal on Monday
of last week. Three men were to be bro't
to trial charged with the murder of Weir,
and four for the murder of Chartrand
NORTH EASTERN BoUNDARY.-It is un.
derstood, on what we consider good author
ity, that az arrangement has been made
between the United States and the Cover
nor General Of Canada, with the consent
of the Governor of New Brunswick, that.
if the Executive Of the State Of Maine shall
proceed to run the north eastern boundary
pursuant to the law of that State author
ling the survey, he will not be opposed by
force by the British authorities but The
matter will be left for adjustment between
the two governments who have the only
Legitimate right to settle question. PlaHs
burgh RepuJ.
The above paragraph is copied into the
Montreal papers without comment. Itmay
be Mr.. Forsaths mission to Canada had
sonnet hing to do with it,
Bunker Hill 10 be destroyed. The Bos
ton Journal says,-"The grading of Bun
ker Hill, or, more properly, Breeds Hill
has commenced. We visited it yesterday
and found the pckaxe and spade busly
employed. We learn that it is the inten
ton Of The propre,ors Of the lots to reduce
the hill about eight feet. and Of course, the
old redoubt will be destroyed, and all the
surface removed, excepting few hundred
square feet around the monument W.
learn that much feeling exists in reetion t
this proceeding; and we hope it is no
even yet too late to stop the desecral in!
work and save the battle ground. Sto
the destroyers if possible. Save the desc
Grafton Of that holy ground. There is no
place on earth, not ThermopaIe, nor th
Captolne Hill of Rome, so worthy of i'm
mortal honor, or whence have spung result
of such momentous Importance to the hu
man race"
From the National Gazette.
The General Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church convened for publ
worship at ST. Peters Church this morn
ing, and was opened by sermon by RICH
Rev. Bishop Mead of Virginia. 1t is sta
ted that The sttiugs for business will b
) held at ST. Andrews Church. 1t is no,
fiflv.,hree years since the first regularl
organized convention assembled. conslstin
OF lay and clerical delegates from seve
states only, which were New York, Ne'
Jersey, Pennsylvania Delaware, Maryland
Virginia, and South Carolina. No Blsho
attended, although Bishop Seabury Of Cor
necticut had been ordained by the non iu
; ing committee Of Scotch Bishops. ID
, White and Provost were Tot ordained ii
: the year after. These gentlemen wer
Q not, therefore, as has been generally SUI
e posed, the first bishops in the United State
{ "There was hing" says Bishop Whit
| in his history of the Church, agalns, tt
H.. validity Of Dr.. Seabury's eriscopacy. alth
I it was thought proper in his and BshC
. Seabury's ordination, to apply first to Eng
5 land."
r There are now. we believe sixteen bisl
, ops in the United States. nearly all, if M
I the whole of whom are in attendance
. These are as follows: Bishop Grsw oil
o Of the Eastern DIocess, presiding Bishop
e Moore. of Virginia; Meade, Assistant BIS
S op OF Virginia Bowen. OF South Caroln
= Chase, of Illinois; Brownel OF Conneclicu
: Ondcrdonk, Of Pennsylvania Onderdon
e of New York MIlvane, of Ohio Ho
5, klns, Of Vermont Smith, OF Kentucky
{ Doane, of New Jersey; Ives. of Nor
Carolina ; Otey, Of Tennessee Kempe
missionary Bishop OF Missouri and Indian
and M'Coskry of Michigan.
II Bishop White presided at the previo
y, conventions for half a century; and at /
,, ,, hand every prelate, but the last name
received ordination.
|, THE SILK TRADE.
EXHIBIT OF THE VALUE OF SILKS IMPORT
u AND EXPORTED, FROM 1921 TO 1887
q INCLUSIVE.
y Year. Imported EXpOrte
&c 1891 S4487,924 SlO57,2
IS 1899 6,84O923 1879
81 1888 6,7l8,444 1874
n 1924 1904, 588 1876 8
20 1895 l0,299,743 2.59o3
=. 1926 $4,000 3367O
Of 1927 67l20I5 1879
in 1928 1886 $40 1870 a
: 1929 7l92,698 $3.50
1920 QQO O1Q ne q