EDINBURGH CATHEDRAL.

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THE BUILDING COMPLETED.

(Fiym A CORRESPONDENT.)

Probably no industry in the country has suSered more-from tho present upheaval than that of building, which for two years past has come practically to a standstill ; therefore the completion this month in Edinburgh of the great Cathedral Church of St. Mary for the Episcopal community deserves more than passing mention.

Scottish maiden ladies when they die seem generally to favour in their wills the.United Free Church, but in the middle of tho last century there were two notable exceptions in the persons of the Misses Barbara and Mary Walker, of Coates, who left the whole of their great estate in trust for the behoof-of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and inter alia to found a Cathedral for the Diocese of Edinburgh.

From competitive designs, that of Sir Gilbert Scott was accepted in 1871,* the contract including three lofty spires, the great central spire being 276ft in height, and the two lesser western spires 209ft, and a chapter house, the contract price for the whole being upwards of £125,000. Owing, howeVer, to various vicissitudes, the whole of this money was spent before the lesser...