The old arms of Trinity Church have an historic interest of very great importance. A glance at them will reveal the fact that they are military arms and not those of the church. They have escaped fire once or twice, and in the early years of their existence witnessed many a heated controversy, and experienced marvellous escapes from destruction. The first we hear of them was in Boston where they adorned the walls of the Council Chamber of the Old Town House. On March 17th, 1776, they sailed out of Boston Harbour and were carried to Halifax, where they had a temporary abiding place in the old chapel there. They were afterwards placed, in 1791, in Trinity Church, where they have remained ever since, until Captain Hazen rescued them from the flames on Wednesday afternoon. A story is current that a hundred years ago, these arms were snatched from Trinity Church, New York, when that edifice was in flames, but this lacks confirmation, and the best authorities are unanimous in holding that their peculiar build unfitted them for church use, and that they were certainly intended to adorn the walls of council chambers. That they were with the British army, whether on its march or at its station, is settled beyond dispute. This ends the story of old Trinity, the most historic edifice in the city--the first church--the quaintest structure--the last link which bound the old and the new together. The school-house fronting on Charlotte Street was burned at the same time as the church. CHAPTER V. The Old Curiosity Shop in Germain Street--A Quaint Old Place--"Rubbish Shot Here"--Notman's Studio--The Mother of Methodism--Destruction of the Germain Street Methodist Church--Burning of the Academy of Music--The Old Grammar School--Presbyterians among the Loyalists--The "Auld Kirk" --Saint Andrew's--The grants of Land--Legislation--The building of the Kirk--Ministers--The "Victoria" in Flames --Fascination of the Fire--The "Victoria" in Ruins--What might have saved it.