dal, chancel and vestry-room, with a square tower and spire -- the whole a very elegant design by Upjohn. The windows of the chancel contain memorials of the Rev. Daniel Bondet, Pierre Stouppe and Michael Houdin. Near the site of the present edifice stood the French school house, while a few rods to the eastward, close to the highway, is the site of the second French church of stone, under which repose the remains of the three French clergymen last mentioned. While a little west of the church, formerly stood the second wooden church, erected in 1724, the old French parsonage, or "parish house," which was rebuilt in 1761. The original bell presented by Sir Henry Ashurst, of London, to the French church Dieu St. Esprit, of New York," we are sorry to say, was loaned some years ago by the vestry, to the fire department of the village, and now hangs in their engine house. It bears the following inscription : --

" SAMUEL NEWTON MADE ME, 1706."

The noble donor of this bell, Sir Henry Ashurst, was the eldest son of Henry Ashurst, Esq., of London, eminent for great benevolence, humanity and piety, and a chief person in founding the corporation for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts temp, of Charles II., to whom he acted as treasurer, and died 1 680. Sir Henry was created a baronet by King James II, 21st July, 1688; he sat in Parliament in the reigns of Charles II and William III, for the burroughs of Truro, in Cornwall, and Wilton, in Wilts. He was the intimate friend of the Honorable Robert Boyle, to whom he was executor and trustee for founding the lecture which bore that gentleman's name. He acted as agent for Massachusetts until 1702, and died at Waterstock, 13th April, 17 10, and lies buried there.