28 MARCH 1829, Page 2

The College of Cardinals are now shut up in conclave

in a dark room, in the capital of the Christian world, deliberating on the election of a sly:ritual sovereign for the Romish Church. Between forty and fifty of the Cardinals are assembled ; but upon which of their order the choice was likely to rest, has not transpired. Car- dinal Pacca had twenty-two votes on the first scrutiny ; but two- thirds of the Cardinals must concur in conferring the tiara.