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| was moderately active at former prices "uea'
was but little sought after but the onerings were
| limited and previous prices were maintained. Corn
was less active and irregular. prime lots being nrm,
while inferior were heavy. Oats were In fair re-
| quest and firm Pork was slow OF sale and 121sc.
per bbl lower while other kinds OF provisions were
moderately dealt in at steady prices Naval stores
| were dun and heavy Petroleum-Crude in bulk,
was quiet, but &c. higher, closing at l6&c, while
| refined active and 1c higher. closing at S2hc
| Freghts, though quiet, were steady.
Prominent Arrivals 4, the City.
senator J. W. Patterson. OF New Hampshire, G.
Watson, OF White Pine, New. +. W. Kellogg, Of Mo-
bile, Ala; Richard ortnipgton. OF Montreal. and
R. A Keys, of Utah, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Ex-Governor w. Dennison and II. y. Lord OF Gin
clnnati, are at the st. Nicholas Hotel
Colonel French OF Massachusetts,; Captain Denny
Of the British Army; Ross Campbell and Robert
Moore, of Baltimore; Rev. DR.. Mcmillan, or Nova
Scotia, and General Adams. OF Canada. are at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Captain Charles d. Ashcroft OF the United States
Army; Commander Meade, Of the United States
Navy. and Captain G. L. Norton, OF steamship
Unitd States, are at the Astor House.
Colonel J. w. Won Astlne, OF New Orleans Colonel
o. G. Mcdonald, OF Bnghamton, and G. 4. Bene-
dick, Of Saratoga Springs. are at the st. Charles
Hotel.
A. N. Schlesinger, of Paris, and A. r. Kelley OF
London, are at the st. Julien Hotel
Governor Bowie and General J. s. Berry, OF Mary
land and W. J. Green, Of New Orleans, are at the
New York Hotel
John NJ Douglass, Of Chicago James Fraser. OF
Liverpool, England; Mr.. d'Aulan Of washington,
and r. W. Corbin, Of Paris are at the Brevoort
House.
S. S. Morrill, and T. G. Smith, Of Boston, and Pro
fess0r w. Watson, Of Cambridge, are at the West
minister Hotel.
Cyrus W. Field. lady and daughter arrived In this
city yesterday, In the steamship Weser, from Bre-
men
Prominent Departures.
| General James McQuade left for Utica; ex-Mayor
| vsux for Philadelphia; Robert Green for England;
Frederick Schmidt and family for New Jersey; H. B.
Williams, J. NJ Shepherd and Robert Campbell for
| West Point.
| Judge Michael Connolly, General @. G. Andrews,
]. s. Howard, United States Consul at Leghorn;
| General Gntain, Consul to Brussels; Professor w
| Watson, Rev. J. Mccall, Charles Allen Perkins
United States Consul TO Barcelona Spain; H. Bruins
comb. Consul to Manchester sailed yesterday In the
Inman steamer City OF Paris ior Liverpool.
| The Approaching Council or the Vatican.
AS the time for the assembling of the Ecu
menical Council approaches interest in the
| same becomes at once deeper and more gene
| raj. 1t is now subject which commands
| attention in all lands where Christianity has
found home. The religious anniversaries
which have been held during the course of the
last month in this country and all over Europe
have placed the Ecumenical Council of De-
| cember, 1869, in the front rank of the great
religious topics of the day. We now begin to
know what will be the character of the Coun-
| Gil and although we must admit, in spite of
the information volunteered by those who
profess to know, that we are in almost total
ignorance of its main objects, we have no
longer any doubt as to its relations with non
Catholic Christendom.
The time has come when little speculation
on the Council generally cannot be considered
as either inopportune or impertinent. It is
now all but two years since the Council was
officially announced. Many months have
elapsed since the invitations were issued, and
it is well known that in issuing his invitations
the Holy Father was not neglectful of any
section of Christendom. The Churches have |
had time to deliberate. Some of them have
given answer. Some of them have not.
From the answers which have been given we |
have no difficulty in arriving at a
satisfactory conclusion as to what will
be the character of the constituent
elements Of the approaching Council
The hierarchy of the Eastern Church have
politely but firmly refused to have anything to
do with it. The Bishop Of Constantinople,
who rejoices in the titles of Ecumenical
Patriarch and Thirteenth Apostle, who is, in
| fact the Pope of the East, actually refused to
receive the document on which the invitation
was written. In round numbers the Eastern
| Church represents some one hundred million
| souls. Some Of the bishops of the Eastern
rite, who claim the right to act for themselves,
| may make an appearance in Rome in Decem-
Der, but it is fair to conclude that Eastern
| Christendom, which includes the churches of
Russia of Greece, as well as those of Turkey,
| will not be represented at the Council of the
Vatican. Like its last eight predecessors this
will therefore be purely Western Council. But
how far will it represent the Westp The
| Protestant Churches were, as we have said,
| formally invited to come back to Mother
Church and take part in the Council. The in
| vitation has in some quarters been totally
disregarded. In other quarters it has been
formally and seriously considered. In Great
Britain, in Germany and in the United States
replies have been agreed to by some denomi-
nations; in some cases the reply has been
made public, in others not but, so far as we
know, the reply in every instance has been
unfavorable. On the 3lst Of May, as our
readers have already been informed, a grand
Protestant CGpgfess was held at Worms, in
Germany, attended, it is said, BY twenty
thousand people; and it was unanimously