The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-01

| Omaha having struck Chinese iapofes nave "eeu
sent for 70 San Francisco.
The meeting OF the Canadian Parliament mas oecn
| further postponed until september ~
Two wealthy Chinese merchants are being taken
to Chicago by the commercial party from that city
who recently visited San Francisco II they escape
| from Chicago they will come on TO New York.
Mr.. Mullett the experimenting architect al Wash
ington, has been examining bids for excava'ing for
! the foundation of the New York Post once, for ce
ment snd the removal and purchase OF stone fence
| aud coping
| Judge Cardoz0 rendered decision yesterday ia
the Bowling McCelland case declining to issue the
| mandamus applied for to compel Judge Downing 10
| allow McClelland to practice IN the Tomhs Police
| Court. He said no personal malice disclosed on
| the part OF Judge Downing ana it might he that
Mr.. McCleand should present himself at some future
day his license to practice in that court would prob
| ably be approved by Judge Downing
The Coroners investigation the bodies OF the
| victims of the fireworks explosion In Chatham
| street was concluded yesterday In their verdict
the Jury recommend that the authorities prevent the
use Of fireworks on such occasions IN future.
The stock market yesterday was dull and inactive,
| except for few OF tue lst. Cold was quiet and
| closed finally at 1861.
With but few exceptions the markets yesterday
| were characterized by extreme quietude. Cof-
/ fee was neglected, but firmly held. sugar
WAS steady, with fair demand. Cotton
| was more steady and In improved demand.
| On 'Change, flour was quiet, but withoat
| particular change in value. Wheat was dull ana
| lower. Corn was also dun ana lower while oats
were quiet, but rather frmef. PORK was In better
demand, but at lower prices. Beef and lard were
dull but unchanged. Naval stores were quiet, but
generally steady. Petroleum was steady for crude,
but dull and &C. lower for refined. Frelghts were
moderately active NJ steady rates. while whiskey
was dull and heavy.
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
Sir James Anderson. commander OF the steamship
Great Eastern arrived in this city yesterday from
Boston.
Governor II. H. Wells and Secretary L. r.. Highly, OF
Virginia; Colonel Charles Schlatter, Of Brunswick.
Ca; NJ. l.. Henlein OF Spain aud q. b. Livingston,
Ofthe United States Navy, are at the ST. Denis HOTEL
Colonel Seja, OF New Orleans, and Captain Keris,
OF the steamship Germana, at the New York
Hotel.
Baron Kubeck, of Austria; ). Ree Of Philadei-
pha; j. W. Ladd of San Francisco and Rustem
Bey, OF Constantinople, are at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Ex-Governor James f. English, of Connecticut;
Charles II. Sheriff.. Of Washington, and b. N.
Leatherman, OF Tennessee, are at the st. Nicholas
Hotel
Prominent Departures.
Judge n. Davis for Aurora; Governor C. c. Walker,
for Norfolk, Va; George McCartee. and Il. ID.
Webster, for Washington; General Burnside, Tor
Providence, aud General McCook, for Saratoga.
Sir John Darlington, Sir Samuel Canning. Mr. A.
C. Bell; Mr.. John Temple of the French cable
pedition; Judge Field of California; Mr. whitehead.
OF New York; Mr.. Beranger, Consul of France; Miss
Clara Thompson and niece, sister and daughter of
Miss Lydia Thompson, of Nibo's sailed IN the
steamer City OF Brooklyn, for Liverpool
Protestnntism-is 1t n Success Fniiurce
We have heard good deal of late about
| the Ecumenical Council. In these columns
! we have discussed its merits and dement's with
| not little funess and some freedom. We have
already told our readers in terms plain enough
! to be well understood that we have ceased
to hope great things from the Council. 1t
promises to be job, and bad job. In dis
cussing this Council from time to time we have
| had occasion to state our opinions about the
Eastern Church and also about the Protestant
! Churches of the great and growing West. We
are willing to allow the Greek Church to re-
/ main for the present undisturbed; but We
| think the time has come when 0ur Judgment
| should be more fully expressed in regard to the
present condition and future prospects OF the
Protestant world.
We adopt this for our text in the present
instance all the more heartily that the ques
ton has been put and seriously discussed in
various quarters, Is Professionalism failure?
We have no hesitation in answering the ques-
| ton at once.
| Judged from q certain standpoint we have
no choice but to say the failure has been
| signal and complete. IL is now more than
three hundred years since Martin Luther
nailed his ninety-ive Latin theses to the door
of the Schlosskirche at Wittenberg. and thus
initiated that struggle which shook Christen-
dom and permanently rent the great Church
of the West in two hostile divisions. No
such blow had ever been struck at that &C.
clesiastical system which dates from the
third century of the Christian era, and
which, by allying itself with the temporal
power, held Western Europe in bondage from
the days of Charlemagne. @Popery was shorn
of more than half its strength, and rival
ecclesiastical system, backed up by potentates
and Powers, was firmly established. IT is a
noteworthy fact, however, that as an eccle-
siastical system Professionalism revealed its
weakness in the very beginning of its history
IL had not at the outset-it never has had-any
cohesive principle. In the sixteenth century
Professionalism was, as it is in the nineteenth,
a rope of sand. Division, not unity, has been
its unfailing characteristic. If the example,
of earlier religious systems are to be regarded
as of any value in forming our estimate of ;
Church, it is not to he denied that Protestant
ism has always been wanting in on
important essential. 1t has been want
| a.. Z. ,,nitu On ono noint alone hau