The New York herald., 1868-08-30


on the platform, but not inside the car slim case
was made out the complainant having no witnesses;
| but the prisoner was committed to answer. Y TRt
The stock market was dull yesterday. Govern
ment securities were strong. Gold closed at 144zs.
The markets were generally quiet yesterday. Cot
ton was In t0leraby active request and steady,
closing at 3OSc.ror middling upland Coffee was in
moderate demand from the trade at full prices,
while other kinds of groceries were dull and un-
changed. On Change hour was but little sought
after. but steady at former prices. Wheat
was dull and nominally lower. Corn was
| quiet but steady, while oats were, In ac-
| tive demand and 1c.. higher. Pork was dun
and heavy Beef was dull and unchanged while
lard was firm withTa fair deman,I Freights were
| quiet but firm Whiskey was dull and nominal al
| roc. Q Tic for bonded. Petroleum-Crude in bulk
was in active demand and higher closing at i4,lc
while refined was in brisk request and firm, closing
at 3lc 81 &c. Naval StoresLSprits turpentie was
tOerably yactve and firm at 449c, 45c., but fosin
was dull and heavy. .t5o8 Tesa. m65soa aitu aooi
The Pope, tho .Papacy aud the, Erur,eni-
| cal Council. sllas o8 go ~ hn
| One fact in the future of Europe has a
definite date. We know not when the game
for supremacy between Prussia and France
may come to fighting, but we suspect from the
persistency with which each Power declares its
desire for peace that the war may not be re-
mote. No man can even imagine what strange
shapes the new suffrage law may give to
British politics before year goes by. All, in
deed, in the general situation Of Europe is un-
certain and shadowy, but it is clear that the
Papacy is either to cast the slough of impotent
peyersity and stand before the world a.
Power renewing its youth by assuming with
regard to civilization and intellectual activity
the same relative position it held in the dawn
of its history or that otherwise it is to cast
itself out from possible service and usefulness
in the world by denying God as seen in all
those manifestations of universal law that bene- 4
fit.man and recognizing him only as presented
by priestcraft. 0l0lte ae rilsw<s
Past Councils cannot be looked upon for
information in regard to the 3 COM
ing one on many points. They were
doctrinal and viewed politics as secondary,
while this will be necessarily political.
At Nice the Church came forth to pronounce
with voice of authority against the tampering
metaphysics of Arius. At Trent the bishops
inspected the great structure to find If the
explosions of free thought in Germany had
shaken the walls At Rome the Church must
come forth as one presenting plea for exist
ence; for if 1t comes in any mood but this its
effort will be fruitless. Ii it merely prays to
the gods to intermt the plaques of spreading
intelligence and increasing knowledge; If, as
it has so much done lately it impiously suppli-.
Gates divine power to change its plans for
human development and so modify them that
Rome, while remaining benighted. shall not lose
her influence in the world, who but will wish
that such supplication shall be unheard, and
who but knows that it can have only the one
effect of giving to men a new reason to rejoice
in the fall of the Great City? There are some
indications from italy that the Council viii
prove solemn mockery, that one of its serious
topics will be a consultation on that grand
panacea for ecclesiastical evil, the utterance of
new dogma. This new dogma IL to round
the temple of mariolatry; and as the evil of
the age seems to be that it has not enough
faith, the Council will remedy that evil by
giving men something new to believe in
giving crippled faith fresh burden to bear.
But we believe the Council will be under the
influence of mind too perceptiye to permit
that nonsense to have an important place in
its labors. This Council is Louis Napoleon's s.
instrument. Such relation as Constan-
tine held to the Council Of Nice and
Charles V. to that of Trent, the pres
ent Emperor Of France will hold to
the Council of Rome, in so far as he in
spires ii with view to keeping in an effective
state the great machinery of moral influence
over populations not highly enlightened But
he holds also another relation to the
! Pope. The Napoleons claim the rSle
of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was not
only the champion of the Church, he
was the very personality of the temporal
power In all the recent turmos of Euro
pean history Napoleon III. has sustained the
! Pope. not merely because Charlemagne
| did. perhaps, but for he same reasons
that moved that great exemplar; be-
cause in the Pope and the Pspacy he
sustains power capable OF profoundly in
fcncing, If not the higher intellect, at least the
common thought of the world. Through such
machinery he can, when the time is ripe,
rally Catholic Europe round single name,
and by a wise use of opportunity IN identity
ing his dynasty with the defence of Rome he
may establish fair balance against some OBJ
noxiors ideas prevalent in France and
throughout Europe. There are more men in
France believing in the Pope than caring for
the republic, and it is almost as important to
hold Roma 40 par;s DO srY8Jq Yfrfhff1Jf FNi
It is quite possible that we may have a new
Pope next year The fact that no Pope has
ever passed st. Peters years in the Holy