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 merest matters of indispensable routine. Of this routine the pomp and glitter revolve, as we have said, chiefly on the Cardinal Camer- lengo, who forthwith receives from the Maestro di Camera the late Pope's piscatorial ring, which is broken at the first general meeting of Cardinals, held on the day immediately following the Pope's decease. His next duty, after consigning the corpse to the care of the Penitentiaries of the Vatican Basilica, is to take an inventory of all object. in the Apostolical Palace,—a very