The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

MOW THE 11/LIT POPE WILL 112 ELECTED.

The II estaidstatar Ginseita (Cardinal Manning'• Paper,
gives the following acc ,unt of the customary mode of
procedure on the Holy See becoming vacant. The chief
rule during the rumba belongs to the Cardinal Corner.
linge He repairs to the chamber where the dead Pontiff
lies : he snikes him on the forehead thrice with a slender
hammer, and calls him Vireo tinsels by his original names
(as, for instance, " Giovanni Masts( t"). Receiving no
reply, he takes off the "ring of the fisherman" and breaks
it. Nine days are allowed for assembling the Conclave,
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top to afford • little light. A dozen Conclaves might
le told in the Bp scions Palace where the Pope resides,
and cells for the Cardinals can easily be constructed in
the long galleries. They will he made of ordinary Sr
planks, and covered on the outside with violet-coloured
serge if the inhabitant was created Cardinal by the Pope
lust deceased, and green if by some previous Pontiff. The
Cardinals may not visit each other by night, and
emissaries ere placed as sentinels to prevent this
, Irregularity. However, De Bromism says they often manage
, to do It. On the first day of the Conclave their Zaaineuces
' hear seems and sing the Vent Creator before proceeding of
business. Many a last word is maid before the bell rings
and the master of the ceremonies pronounces an " Extra
°tones," and Cos last door is shut and wailed up. No-
body is then permitted to leave the Conclave But by
this lime the evening has arrived, and the Cardinals retire
to rest. At eight o'clock the next mornings bell is rung
at the door of each mill and at nine, clad in cassock, band,
ratchet, cape, and aroacia, with their scarlet berretta, they
proceed to the chapel, hear mass, and communicate.
Many minute r-renionies are observed which may here b•
passed over. then they rernrn to their cells to breakfast,
and afterwards proceed to the first scrutiny. The mid-
day meal follows. The dinners of their Eminences are
brought to the "rote" or turn-table opening, at which
they are to be passed Into the Conclave with much care
and In a sulemn manatee Each Cardinsi hart a
" Dapifer," or feart-carrier, who discharges that function
for his imprisoned roaster. During the Introduction of
the viands, great care is taken that no communications
respecting the bushes,. of the Conclave shall take place
between thee immured and the outside world. Mr.
Adolphus Trollop., who is no friend to the Catholic
Church, says in reference to Conclaves--" Given the
necessity of having • Pope, it would probably be import-
tge to devise • better means of getting one than that
which the Church has gradually perfected." There have
been but five Conclaves held thin century : the first, which
elected Chiaranionti, Pope Pius VII, in 1780 : the *wend,
tu which we owe Della Gouge lon. XII, in 1829 ; the
third which chou &reek Pius VIII, in 1820 Use
fourth, convened in IML whom choice fell on Cspellan.
Guogory XVI : and the fifth which elected Mental of
Binigaglia as Pius 11, in 1818. Two of these Pontiffs have
reigned an unusually long time, Pius VL having been on
the Neal throne nearly twenty•three years and a half,
and the late occupant of the See of Rotas, being the only
Pope in all the 1M successors of St. Peter who ham over-
, posed • quarter of a century. It has been staled In tome
of the papers that the law which required an Italian me
Pope has now been set aside, but this report mold only
have been orixinated by some ignorant person. No each
taw or rule ever existed. In the early history of the
Ch urch many Popes were Orient Is, ens has been ea
Englishman, several Germans. Now that the temporal
novereigoty of the Holy ties no longer exist; and there
seems little probability at present of its being restored,
there cannot be the 'Behind objection to a non-Italian
Cardinal being elected in the next Conclave, sad indeed
there are reasons which make it appear that it will be 110. There are pumas who look fru ward with some anxiety
and more with curiosity, to the next Conclave. They
are on the look-out for some change In the policy of the
Holy See, whether as elects the Governmenta of Italy
and Germany, or in its relation to modern thought, But
such individuals may be reminded that similar expects-
nous on the demise of other Pontiffs have generally been
diaappot nted. There are grand outlines of Patrol policy
which can never change, and the variations which are possible may be reduced within very narrow haunt Ms, individual Is soon coerced in the official character, and
few, if any. Cardinale could be found who would wish it
to be otherwise

A basket of new potatoes, the first for the season,
Wes brought from the Sally Isivs on Monday, sad sent
by rail from Nosauce to Manchester.
At the tkarford Aasiass, WWI.= Smith, a war.
twentraeven years or spa was charged with the maw
iusightar of his stepdaughter, • child only three years at
age. TM prisoner had punosd a matemaue course al
treatment of the child, and on one occasion he kicked
It about the house with his heavy cloga. He was found
gulitY, mid molosned to twenty year,' pesta servitada

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