against trees. Saturday, October 5. Major Billings and Mr. Walpole accompanied me on my return. We overtook most of our party who had left New London last evening, about fifteen miles from that place, and proceeded to Charlotte Town , twenty-five miles farther. This journal, which is of special interest, establishes the exact date of the consecration of the first St . Thomas's Church, and relates the circumstances surrounding the rite. It hints that the choice of ' St . Thomas' for the dedication may have been influenced by Mr. Walpole 's own Christian name,— Mr. Billing 's as well,— a common custom at the time. It tells of the first Confirmation to be held in the parish, and states that Mr. Walpole prepared the candidates. It tells that the Bishop was accompanied by the Reverend Charles Elliot of Pictou, and also by the Reverend George Townshend of Amherst, an Islander by birth. It alludes to the Bishop's attempt to soothe his host's ruffled feelings, and to the hospitality dispensed at Billingsgate. Further precise information concerning Mr. Walpole 's labours at New London is missing, but he made entries in the register up to June 8, 1834. From a letter which he wrote to the S.P.G . in 1840 it is disclosed that he left the Mission because the people could not raise £100 annually to support him, and that the Bishop was not able to pay a supplementary sum which had been promised. He wrote bitterly: I had to find my way back to this country from British with my family as I best could without receiving any acknowledgment or Testimonial of the hard and important services which I had to perform in and without the district of New London . As Thomas Walpole died only five months after penning these lines it may be inferred that ill health had an effect on the tone of his words. He was only forty-one at the time of his death. Mr. Wiggins resumed services at New London at regular intervals. In the Royal Gazette , June 2, 1835, it is reported that he had recently delivered an excellent discourse in St . Thomas's Church on the Vice of Intemperance. James Pidgeon was then called to the chair and the New London Temperance Society was formed with the following officers:— William Cousins , President; William Cundall and John Bowes , Vice-Presidents; James Pidgeon , Secretary Treasurer ; Charles Bernard , Thomas Pooley , John Ghent and James Donald , Committee. The Society "lacked zeal", as a later report phrased it, and soon ceased to exist. Mr. Wiggins had to face a misfortune at St. Eleanors later in the year when his church, built and completed with great effort, was destroyed by fire. Tenders were called for framing and clapboarding a new building in April, 1836. This is the church which still stands. On a hurried visit to the Island in August, 1836, Bishop Inglis called at St. Eleanors and New London , but no record remains of a service held by him at the latter place. The business which brought him was the threatened alienation of the glebe lands by 12