, 1879-01-26

1he Province is now 1854 miles, not including
oao miles Of the Canadian Pacific Railway, at
present under construction.
-4' r. " Capreoi has presented petition to
INC LEGISLATURE. praying that Committee be
appointed to consider the Huron d Ontario
Ship Canal scheme.
including the recent acquisitions by the set
t!ement OF the boundary question, the total
square miles The extreme length is l,01O
miles, and the greatest width 100 miles, With q
coast-}inc OF Sid miles
Cookies Church Congregation held another
negotiate with the Rev. DR.. Robb with the OBJ
1ect Of Inducing him to remain. 1t was re-
ported that their mission had proved uusuccess-
lul' Committee Was therefore appointed to
procure substitute for DR.. Robb, who vii!
Leave Tor Galway. Ireland, il few weeks.
Special dispatch 10 7ae Tribune.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-Mr. John Livingston, car
riage-manutacturer, OF Ailsa Craig, who recently
committed forgerics On various parties living III
the vicinity Of Asa Craig, in all amounting to
$4,000, is in jail here and feigns to be insane.
He processes to have heard OF Aisa Craig, but
not to be acquainted there, and denies any
knowledge OF his former intimatcs. The theory
of insanity is supported by tho fact that his wife
and children are entirely destitute, und that be
has not secured penny in the world
Speeiat ni*potch 10 The Tribune.
HALIFAX, Jan; 25.-fhe Netctou,a'lander news
at St. Johns, says: s'Thc rumor that New
foundland intends to join the Confederation Of
Canada is without foundation. The subject
has not been agitatcd here for some years.
never since the quoudam Confederate party
adopted an express resolution not again to raise
tile question until the people OF this country,
who had vetoed it at the polls, should at the
polls reverse that decision. They pledged them
selves solc1nnly and publicly to this covenant,
and to it they have kept With a fidelity which
even their antagonists have respected, and have
never seriously iEpeached. Nothing whatever
has since occurred to change the position
affairs in relation to this subject in the slightest
degree. A general election took place two
months ago, and Confederation was not named,
was. probably not thought OF from first to
last. The pledge referred to is, with those who
gave it, as valid to-day as on the day it was au-
nounced. :.
There is great mortality in various parts Of
we're eight persons lying dead in the Town of
Yarmouth. There have been forty deaths from
oiphtheria this winter IN the small settlement
Of Middle SteWiacke, n. S.,-principally chill
drcn.
Special Dispatch TO The Tribune.
MONTREAL, Jan. 25.-The new Metropolitan
Of Cauada was consec1ated at Montreal ycster
day. The Rev. William Bennett Bond, IL. D.
{A1cGilD was born at Truro, Cornwall, Sept. 10,
1915, educated at London. and ordained at
H. was first travelling missionary stationed at
the Parish OF S.. Georges, Montreal, as
curate, where he remained till his elevation to
the Episcopacy. filling the offices Of Rector OF
Sullivan, well-Enown in Chicaso), Archdeaeon
Of Horhclaga und Dean Of Montreal. When
Bishop O1enden resigned the Bishopric
last October, to take chaplaincy. at
sh.r pleassnt European Wsts5n place
Canadian Episcopalian circles, the custom OF
English clergynlen taking colonial BIshoprics
simply to obtain i title having become some
what frequent OF late, and Dean Bonds election
was made a certainty He is hard and sys.
the communion in Presbyterian church, nnd
has been denounced by 3 Hieh-Church paper as
a furious and prosecuting hiGot Of narrow uu-
derstanding and scanty education," his church
is known familiarlyas ''St: Gorgeous from its
Gel. The ceremony Of CONSERVATION took place
at Il u. m. at st. Georges, the consecrating
Bishops being Bishop Medley, Of Fredericton,
n. B.; Bishop Lewis, Of Ontario; Bishop Will
Bishop Fuller, Of Niagara; and the Bishops Of
Special Dlsoaicn to The 1.4oune
TORONTO, Jan. 25.-Cold, clustering weather,
to-day, and the local railway lines arc once
more blockaded. All trains on the Midland
Railway have been cancelled. Trains on the
Nipissing Road are at standstill, and the Lon
Q01, huron Il Bruce halfway Is 6calcQ UP aS
tight as it was two weeks ago, aud stages are
again brought into rcquisition. The train on
the Northern Railway, which left the city at
noon Yesterday, has not yet reached Meaford.
having become imbcddtd in q snow-bank near
Thornbury, fifteen miles north OF Coltingwood.
The o'clock train was Cancelled this utter
noon.
4 freight train on the Grand Trunk ran of
the track at Brampton this afternoon, the engine
and part Of the train going over the iron bridge
which spans the main street. The road will not
be clear until tomorrow night. Meantime
passengers and baggage are transshipped at
Brampton.
Snre1al Dispotea ta The Tribune
QUEBEC, Jan. "a snow-slide occurred in
Champain street this afternoon ut the site II the
terribly fatal slide which four winters ago swept
ten houses and several people, including whole
family, out Of existence The avalanche rolled
down the iron. Of the cliff OF Cape Dia-
mond, bringing up against row OF
brick houses opposite the site of
those demolished in 1875, and filing the street
eighteen feet deep with snow, burying the
houses to the roof. Large bodies OF men we're
set to work, and fortunately the inmates were
dug out afrc.