The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-13
The Ecunienical Cornell in a business
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to business in deciding to hold an Ecumenical
Council at Rome? A temporal as well as a
spiritual sovereign why should he not thus
secure for city which is at once the capital
of the States of the Church and of Christen-
dom the recognized advantages which other
European sovereigns have gladly secured for
their respective capitals by such ''world exhibit
the Third has in fact spared no pains to make
the capital of the French empire the seat of a
permanent ''world exhibition" which attracts
an unbroken succession of visitors from all
parts Of the earth. Each visitor contributes
to the wealth indispensable for maintaining
and increasing the splendors of the great
French metropolis.
Rome also, with its classical and artistic az
well as ecclesiastical associations, offers per-
manent ''world exhibition" And tho Ecu-
menical Council will multiply indefinitely tho
number of the faithful, of the heretical aud of
the heather who freely avail themselves of the
inequalities which the Eternal City extends to
all the children of men. 1t will be the occasion
of vast gathering, not only of ecclesastics
of every degree, but of lay visitors from every
country under heaven. The aggregate sum
which will then be brought to Rome will far
exceed any collection of s'Peter's pence" which
has hitherto been made The Papal Golfers
will be filed to overlooking by the gifts con-
tanned in the huge specie snuff boxes, richly
ornamented treasure chests and cathedral
Savings banks carried to the Holy
Father by Archbishop McCloskey and
other prelates of North and South Ameri-
ca, Of Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceanica and the
islands of the Pacific. Each Of these pastors
will doubtless be accompanied in his pilgrim
age to the Holy City by not a few Of his flock,
all bearing heavy golden fleece.
Curiosity will, moreover, attract thther many
Professionals, whose we'll filled purses will not
be disdained by decayed mobiles, who let fur
nished lodgings in their splendid ancestral
palaces, and with sham reluctance sell at the
highest possible figure, as works of ''old mas
tiers, the inexhaustible rubbish of their gale
ries and garrets; or by polyglottal cicerones,
extortionate porters, and dealers in the WOOL
leather, glue, glass bottles liquors, pomade.
artificial flowers, photographs, copies of pic
lures and statues, mosaics, and all sorts of
articles of bijouterie and virtu-or, as Mrs.
Malaprop might say, 'bigotry and virtue
which chiefly constitute the various but not
extensive manufactures of Rome. That other
nations are not Indifferent to the fine opportu-
nifty afforded by the Ecumenical Council for
displaying and recommending to the world
their own manufactures is shown by the enter
prise which we have already noted on the
part Of the Protestant King of Prussia in
presenting to the Pope a splendid new carpet
for the Vatican. By this first rate advertise
ment of the products of the Prussan loom the
royal drummer" has got the start Of all COM
petitors, English, Belgian and French, and oil
the Kidderminsters, Wiitons, Brussels, Tur-
keys, three-plies and iugrains which may now
be forwarded to Pho Mono can win only
second, third and fourth medals and honorable
mentions not the first grand prize.
The Pope has himself advertised special
exhibition Of works OF ecclesiastical art And
we are NOt buTpIlSeu tuIt III Il5 Wi5dOW tU0
Holy Father accepts the position which the
HERALD, with all due reverence, indicated
some time ago as being peculiarly his own
the position of custodian of the immense
museum which Rome itself is for all mankind
We need not enumerate its well known attrac-
tions; but take it all in all, with its gates, obc-
lisks, triumpbal arches, columns, tombs, baths
and catacombs; the ruins of its ancient temples
and theatres; its piazzas aud fountains; the
Tarpeian Rock, the Via Appia, the Via Sacra
and the Corso; the Coliseum, the Forum and
the Captol its palaces, galleries, libraries
and bridges the Vatican; its one hundred
and eighty-six converts; its three hundred
and sixty-four churches, and ST. Peters
blooming high over ALL" there is not another
such a museum of antiquity and art in the
world, and no Barnum can ever aspire to rival
the Pope as Snowman. Aside from other
considerations, the grand exhibition which
will be given at Rome on the occasion of the
Ecumenical Council is interesting from busi-
ness point of view 1t will pay.
SPAIN-TuE GARRoTE. --Prm now talks big