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mometer has fallen twenty degrees below the freezing point. 

 Where there is so much bright sunshine and no smoke, an archi 

 tect may well be inspired with ambition, conscious that the effect 

 of every pillar and other ornament will be fully brought out with 

 their true lights and shades. The style of the exterior of Trinity 

 Church reminds us of some of our old Gothic churches in Lin 

 colnshire and Northamptonshire. The interior is in equally good 

 taste, the middle aisle sixty-five feet high, but the clustered 

 columns will not have so stately an appearance, nor display 

 their true proportions when the wooden pews have been intro 

 duced round their base. An attempt was made to dispense 

 with these ; but the measure could not be carried ; in fact, much 

 as we may admire the architectural beauty of such a cathedral, 

 one can not but feel that such edifices were planned by the 

 genius of other ages, and adapted to a different form of worship. 

 When the forty-five windows of painted glass are finished, and 

 the white-robed choristers are singing the Cathedral service, to 

 be performed here daily, and when the noble organ peals forth 

 its swelling notes to the arched roof, the whole service will 

 remind us of the days of Romanism, rather than seem suitable 

 to the wants of a Protestant congregation. It is not the form 

 of building best fitted for instructing a large audience. To make 

 the whole in keeping, we ought to throw down the pews, and let 

 processions of priests in their robes of crimson, embroidered with 

 gold, preceded by boys swinging censers, and followed by a crowd 

 of admiring devotees, sweep through the spacious nave. 



That the whole pomp and splendor of the ancient ceremonial 

 will gradually be restored, with no small portion of its kindred 

 dogmas, is a speculation in which some are said to be actually 

 indulging their thoughts, and is by no means so visionary an idea 

 as half a century ago it might have been thought. In the dio 

 cese of New York, the party which has adopted the views com 

 monly called Puseyite, appears to have gone greater lengths 

 than in any part of England. The newspapers published in 

 various parts of the Union bear testimony to a wide extension of 

 the like movement. We read, for example, a statement of a 

 bishop who has ordered the revolving reading-desk of a curate to 



