NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Pope has at length decided to add twelve members to the Conclave, which now contains only forty-two, many of whom revery old. The annottncement was made in Consistory on Decem- ber 22, and immediate information despatched by Queen's Mes- sengers, as we should say, to the Cardinals concerned. We have commented elsewhere on the strangeness of the Pope's choice as regards nationalities, and may remark here that he has selected four diplomatists, Monsignors Chigi, Falcinelli, Franchi, and Oreglia ; two representatives of great Orders, Father Tarquini, the Jesuit antiquarian, who has written on Etruscan antiquities, and Father Martinelli, an Augustinian of no particular mark ; and six great prelates, Monsignors Cardoso, Archbishop of Lisbon ; Guibert, Archbishop of Paris ; Reguier, Archbishop of Cambrai ; Barrio, Archbishop of Valencia ; Tarmoezy, Archbishop of Salzburg ; and Simon, Primate of Hungary. It is added in Rome that the greatest intellectual addition to the Conclave is Mgr. Franchi, who has advised the moderate policy which the Papacy has hitherto maintained in Spain.
