Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-06-26

BuRLrNGToN.-The Editor Of the Montreal
Transcript has been down this way, and
writing note Of his travels back to that
journal AS we presume our readers share
in the human weakness Of liking TO know
what other people say Of them-whether
complimentary or otherwisc-wc quote from
his letter.
Although Burlington has population OF
not much over 5000 souls, they are the
bi ggest-hearted and hardest-pushlng men
and women we ever came across. They are
building and buying and extending in evorv
direction, They have already four lar-'
~, Ti"u los starteu anu IN .Se
They have as many ch' .uI blast
ana wei att'' -.urches; well built,
nav -..ued and as to schools, they
got ono college with over 200 students
and another in a fair way Of being erected
while there are several seminaries, both
male and female, well patronized and deser-
vedly So We heard Bishop Hopkins was
in town, and went to the Episcopal Church
on Sunday morning to hear him. This edi-
fee, though outside it has no special archi-
tectural pretensions, is in the interior a per
feet gem, 1t is the only orthodox Episcopal
Church we have been in since we left Eng
land. The stained glass windows, and es-
pecially that of the Chancel, have a beauti-
tul effect and the whole arrangements of
the building bespeak high degree Of taste
in church architecture. The Bishop was
the only officiating clergyman, and took full
duty twice, for we were SO delighted with
him in the morning. that we went again in
the afternoon lie is an able preacher
sincere, impressive, and eloquent and his
discourses were most appropriate to the
present season of the Church year. We
were little disappointed in the music.
Admiring the interior of the fabric itself,
we thought all the adiuncts to Divine Wor
ship would be in keeping. But, alas it
was not so. The chanting was horrible
the lsalm and hymn tunes apparently Sc
lected to give the choir a chance Of trying
who could g hake' or 'quaver to the most
perfection. We have often regretted the
want of simplicity and taste in the music Of
our own Cathedral choir. When we say
the singing here was fifty times worse, those
who think with us, will understand how
bad it must have been.
We have-we confess it with shame
pitched into the upper ten Of Montreal for
their unbecoming, and, as we consider them,
unleminine hats we have denounced the
swelling skirts which but too many of them
have lately adopted But, thank heaven,
after all, they are decent compared with the
Burlington ladies and crlnoine. Why, the
rotundity OF their persons is positively shock
ing, and the pictures in PURch-which we
used to think an overdrawn caricature-of
gentleman walking round and round one
of them, is not a bit exaggerated. We dare
say the dress is cool and comfortable enough
in summer, and but for the difficulty Of dis
tinguishing married ladies from single
which, to bachelor strangers, must be an
lnsurnOuntunlc Uuv-ne might, IN tlmv, Eut
accustomed to it, At all events, though
their failing in respect to hoops and crino-
line is remarkable, we will say-though
our experience has been but bref-that
there are few who excel in hospitality and
politeness, the Burlington ladies and, like
charity, this will, We hope, cover multi
tude OF sins.