The Tower has settled, but it has done so in one block. No better proof could be given of the excellent workmanship and capital condition of the tower, than the fact that its subsidence has caused no fracture whatever, in the fabric of the tower itself. The settlement is due to an exceptional cause, the decay of the planking on which its foundation are laid, but every old tower in the country has undergone similar movement from analogous causes. These movements may not be so obvious to the unprofessional eye because, having generally occurred within a century or so of the erection of the towers, the cracks which they caused have long since been made good. Subsidences of this kind come to an end after a certain time, the foundations take a solid bearing and no further movement from this cause can then arise. The great tower of St. Nicholas church in Hamburg, upon the erection of which my father has been engaged for twenty years, though it is not yet completed, and though it stands upon one of the finest masses of concrete ever put in, has already subsided more than six inches. Our Hampstead tower has gone down something less than three inches. I need scarcely say that it is not proposed to pull down the tower of St. Nicholas on account of its six inches subsidence. Why then should our Hampstead church be condemned. The Tower is of excellent proportion and outline. It is a very interesting and characteristic example of its date, and forms with the adjacent buildings in Church Row an almost unique group of 18th century architecture, of the greatest interest not only to the architect and the artist, but also to every person of taste and discrimination. No reason exists for its removal which would not condemn to destruction half the old churches in the country. To pull it down would be an act of needless vandalism. It is associated with the earliest recollections of those who, like myself, have known Hampstead from their childhood, and it is the one public building of any antiquity which our township possesses. To do away with it is to destroy a piece of good work which, if left to itself, will endure for centuries, and to incur the perfectly needless and heavy expense of erecting a new tower.