vails is thirty two feet, that of the spire, one hundred and fifty feet. The hriclC6 used in building the church were made hy the parishioners, who also provided and prepared the timber required. The cost of this beautiful church was spontaneously defrayed by the parlshoners and only fourteen months elapseo from the laying of the corner stone to its completion. It was solemnly consecrated by the late most Rev. Archbishop Connolly of Halifax. The ceremony took place on the 19th of August I860 in the presence of a large number of Bishops and priests who had assembled to witness the conferring of the Episcopal dignity upon the zealous priest of Tignish , whose labours were thus so fittingly crowned. The interior of this church presents a striking contract to that of all others in the diocese. They are, as a rule, painted in bright colours, and are as light and modern looking as possible. The church of S. S. Simon and Jude on the contrary, is dark, and the style aimed at, is that of those veneroble piles, where, "Storied windows richly dight, "Cast a dim religious light". The colours chosen in decoration resemble those of old illuminations. The altar is: it is composed of dark marble and a convoosition called scagliora. The frontal shows three medallions in bas relief. The central one portrays the descent from the cross; that on the gospel side, the interior of the stable at , and that on the , the Sessurection. Over the tabernacle is a canopy of marble and wood, and underneath it the words: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus are illuminated in blue letters on a white ground. The colours of the altar are crimson ano1 royal blue, gold, and several shades of brown. The chancel window is a very beautiful one, composed of three pictures