The choice of the Conclave has fallen on MAURO CAPELL
AEI, and he will ascend the Papal throne under the title of GREGORY the Sixteenth. CAPELLARI is an Italian, as all the Popes elected for many years past, very properly, have been ; he is said to be a man of amiable manners, and an elegant scholar, skilled particu- larly in Oriental literature. He is now in his sixty-fifth year; an early age, considering the number of subordinate steps that must be previously climbed, for any man to attain the triple crown, who does not owe his elevation to political interest. The election of a head of the Catholic Church is, in our liberal [sceptical ?] days, an event that excites little emotion beyond the walls of the Eternal City. The new Sovereign of the Ecclesiastical States has, how- ever, ample room for the legitimate exercise of his power, within the circle of his own dominions—the worst-regulated of the many ill-regulated sovereignties of fair Italy.
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