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 ing from a distance to fixity the sensitive and shifting elements of a purely personal nature that enter into the actual conformation of every Conclave; but, at a moment like the present, it may prove both instructive and interesting to have an accurate statement of all the circumstances and incidents which, according to prescription, can come into play during a Papal interregnum.