The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-04
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trast between two cras in English history,
four hundred years nparL: If, after tlrco:
hundred and fifty years, lIENRY VII could
como forth from tho tomb in his beautiful
chapel in Westminster Abbey, and revisit tho
nntion whose reslfulncss'' ho 30 Hcdulously
desired, how mnny things that he thought es-
sential and enduring lie would miss! In tho
streets of his capital now containing more pco.
pie than in the old days ho could hnYe counted
IN his whole realm, mol n cowled monk, not n
friar, white, blnck, or grny, is to bo seen. In
tho diSsolving view Of national life, tho dissent
ing preacher has emerged in their placc In
the churches he would hear no invocations to
"MARY )" he would find no one at tho shrincs
of The saints. For the long train Of pilgrims
wendIng their way 10 those gainful Offices, he
would find patients, with their fee in hand,
| erowding the antcrooms of tho legitimate ply
sician. or repairing 10 the snare of tho ompirlc.
Qunckcry, like king in tho East, lives forever.
For tho saints themselves, if lie inquired of any
busy rasscr-by, lie might be innoccnlly aud
| courtcously advised TO look into the city Dircc-
| tory. On conspicuous heights or in shady re-
treats, where once they Ind been nestled, he
| would look for monaserics in Yain-thcrc arc
| cotton mills now In their stead. Baronial
| families, whose prosperity he wisely snpped,
he would learn had long ago become extinct
ellis light gray eyes" would fall upon no pen
| sant with his legs wrapped in wisps of straw
| no citizen clad in leather. With wondering
surprise he might contemplate sovereign
nearly without veto, and o church without a
Pope. But there are novelties TINT he would
encounter, things tho very names of which ho
had never heard. Ho would see the descend
ants Of his liegcs cnting potatoes, drinking ten,
sweelcning coffee with sugar, getting tipsy on
gin or other distilled liquors; no would have
TO be told what distilling means, md smoking
tobacco. Not o wood FIRE would he find in any
house; the people warm themselves over that
dirty black stone which IEsEAs SYLv1us says
was dug up about the parts of Northun,ber-
land. Tho railway companies would run lin
from London to Edinburg, Through by dny
| light" or carry him over wonderful yiaducts
and bridges made ofiron tubes, or through tun-
nels in tho hills. lie could float in balloons
above the clouds Of the mir, or sink in bells TO
tho bottom of the sea. " Ills wonderful beauty
/ So'pASNiStb
and smiling, especially in his communications !;
his thin hair; his body lenn, but albeit mighty
and strong Herewith his parsonage and stat-
urc somewhat higher thnn the mean sorl of
men be-" could NIL inslnntnneously and spon-
taneonsly depict themselves for his use upon
photographic visiting card, clc,, ctc."
| EcUMEEICAL COUNCILS haye been described
by Catholic writer's ns "ihe Parliament or
States General of the Church, assembled by tho
authority and under the presidency of tho
sovereign" for TO the sovereign PonliF alonc
belongs essentially tho right of convokipg
General Councils. This does not, however, ex-
cludc tho moderate and Legitimate influence of
temporal rulers. The number Of prclatos pre-
sent at an ecumenical conncil varies q great
deal. There werc ono hundred and eighty
bishops al Conslantinoplc in 3Sl, one thousand
at Romo in l139, aud ninety-ii only in tho
sau,e in 1912, including The cardinals. The
five apostles, PETER, JAMES, JOHN, PAUL and
BARNADAs, with the priests and faithful, con-
stituted the first council known as the Council
Of Jerusalem. II was called for tho purpose of
and aboliahinig tna instinrri66s "BgeSveanseyis
and Gentiles. Tho Council of Trent opcncd
its deliberations December l3, 1916, and was
convened by tho Sovereign Pontif, PAUL ILL.,,
for the purpose Of refuting the doctrines of
The reformation. In tho first session thcro
| were, besides the cardinals, but four arch
| bishops, twenty-five bishops, five or six heads
Of ordors, with groat number OF doctors, both
secular md regular. II lasted eighteen years.
during the successive reigns of four popcs
Three patriarchs, twenty -ono archbishops, one
hundred and sixty y-eight bishops, and seven
| gencraia of orders, wcre present at tho last
session Of this council
Advices from Frankfort on the Maine re-
port that the city is rapidly recovering from
the morbid financial prostration conse-
sequent on annexation to Prussia Nenrly
every kind Of security is steadily advancing
and great accumulation of capital still exists.
which will absorb rapidly the new stock. most
lfrailwny debentures, lntely creaiod. Tho
transactions on the Bourse are very numer-
ous American bonds have been neglected
II is remarked that arrivals from New York
continue, even when the Frankfort prices
leave margin for remittances TO tho other
side' land as this cannot be explained in q
commercial Way, it is supposed thut these
sales are based on o manipulation Of The f.
nance secretary in connection with the conrer-
sion Of the seven-thirty bonds into gold inter
eaLbearing stock" Tho Frankfort bank, like
the banks Of England and France, is incum-
bored with plethora Of money. The German
corn markets are fat, and prices recedinp,
partly owing TO fine weathar, and partly to
large sales for future date effected on IIunpa-
rian account Many Of the magnntes, il np-
pears, have sold their crops beforehand 10 de-
fray their coronation expense, and the parties ]
BY whom the advances were made desire to se-
cure their profits by selling al once.
The sEAsoH Of College Commencement, has
come, and with commencements comes the Gus.
tomary comforting Of degrees Accordingly,
from oil the multitudinous universities In tho
country shoals Of now Doctors of Laws, Medi-
cine and Sacred Theology, and Bachelors and
Masters Of Arts, will be held up for honor; the
Law, Scientific, Divinity and Medical Schools
contribute their Bachelorships Of Laws, Philo.
sophy, Divinity and Doctorates Of Medicine;
and those wondrous Heats Of learning yolept
Commercial Colleges" bring up the rear with
their diplomas dono on cheap paper in maeui-