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achieved the same afternoon. When Lambruschini had become aware of his having no chance of coming out of the contest as the winning man, he thought of pushing forward Cardinal Franzoni, in the hope that his milder nature might counteract the rising opposition. But just because the Cardinal was a man of conscience, he was little fitted for the party character which he was expected to assume. He declined to be lured away from giving his adhesion to Mastai when he perceived the real drift of the manœuvre, and his example had much influence on others. Cardinal Franzoni refused to serve as the puppet of factious ambition, and in the afternoon ballot Mastai's name came out with the addition of one vote, numerically, indeed, a small, but in reality a very substantial addition, while Lambruschini once more had gone along his downward course to eight. Things therefore stood thus:—In Conclave there were fifty Cardinals, requiring thirty-four votes on the same head for a canonical election. Accordingly seven were wanting to make Cardinal Mastai a Pope when the supplemental ballot was entered upon in the afternoon of the 16th June 1846, and