Mr. Egan to Mr. Blaine.

No. 201.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that to-day I received a note from the Provisional Government informing me that Señor Don Agustin Edwards had been appointed and had entered upon the duties of minister of industry and public works, and Don Manuel A. Matta of minister of foreign relations, public worship, and colonization.

I have, etc.,

Patrick Egan.