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entitled " An act to amend the law relating to the 

 coast fisheries," viz. : " No person shall, between the 

 hours of twelve o'clock on Saturday night and twelve 

 o'clock on Sunday night, haul or take any herring, 

 oaptin, or squid with nets, seines, hunts, or any such 

 contrivance for the purpose of such hauling or taking." 

 3 That they were taking fish in direct violation 

 of the continuance of the same act, title 27, chapter 

 102 section 1, of the Consolidated Statutes ot .New- 

 foundland, viz. : " Or at any time use a seine, or 

 other contrivance for the catching or taking of her- 

 rings, except by way of shooting and forthwith haul- 

 ing"the same." 



DUPANLOUP, FELIX A. P. 



4. That contrary to the terms of the treaty of 

 Washington, in which it is expressly provided that 

 they do not interfere with the rights of private prop- 

 erty or with British fishermen in the peaceable use 

 of any part of said coasts in their occupancy for the 

 same purpose (see article 18 of the above-named 

 treaty), they were fishing illegally and interfering 

 with the rights of British fishermen, and their peace- 

 able use of that part of the coast then occupied by 

 them, and of which they are actually in possession, 

 their seines and boats, their huts, their gardens, 

 and land granted by the Government being situated 

 thereon. 



MONTREAL, FROM MOUNT ROYAL. 



The facts stated under the first, second, and 

 third items seem to be the ground upon which 

 the conclusion under the fourth is based. Sec- 

 retary Evarts, on the part of the American 

 Government, objected to the conclusion, hold- 

 ing the ground that American fishermen were 

 not subject to the regulations of the local le- 

 gislature of Newfoundland. The force of this 

 objection was not admitted by the British Gov- 

 ernment, and the matter remains unsettled. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway, although the 

 means for constructing the whole line are not 

 ready, is being laid down piecemeal in sections 

 which can be utilized intermediately. The Pem- 

 bina branch had been constructed on Novem- 

 ber 1, 1878, as far as Niverville, 22 miles south 

 of Winnipeg. The present Government is ex- 

 pected to complete the road from Thunder Bay 

 to Winnipeg, by supplying the missing connec- 

 tion between Rat Portage and English River. 

 This will take three or four years. The line 

 has not yet been surveyed. The road will be 

 pushed west of the Red River as far as Sas- 

 katchewan River, and then will probably be 

 extended slowly westward according to the 

 rapidity with which the country is occupied 

 by settlers. The portions now completed, or 

 nearly so, are from Fort William, at Thunder 



Bay, to English River, a distance of 113 miles; 

 from Rat Portage to Selkirk, 173 miles; and 

 the Pembina branch, from Selkirk southward 

 to Emerson, 85 miles, 



DUPANLOUP, FELIX ANTOIKE PHILIBERT, 

 one of the most learned bishops of the Catho- 

 lic Church, born in Savoy, January 3, 1802, 

 died October 11, 1878. He came to Paris in 

 1810, and was ordained priest in 1825. He 

 was appointed vicar-general of Archbishop 

 Quelen of Paris in 1838, and was afterward 

 sent by Archbishop Affre to Rome, where he 

 was created a Roman prelate, apostolical pro- 

 thonotary, and Doctor of Theology. Upon his 

 return to France in 1841, he was appointed a 

 professor in the Sorbonne, and in 1849 was 

 nominated Bishop of Orleans. Mgr. Dupanloup 

 chiefly distinguished himself by the leading part 

 he took in the educational affairs of France. 

 During the reign of Louis Philippe he was one 

 of the heads of the Catholic movement in be- 

 half of the freedom of superior instruction. He 

 was the chief representative of the Catholic 

 interests in the General Council of Public In- 

 struction, and raised the ecclesiastical schools 

 in his own episcopal city to a high degree of 

 prosperity. While the most zealous champion 

 of Catholic principles in regard to education, 



