and dine between six and seven o'clock. The usual dinner-hour among the Portuguese is three, after that comes the siesta; and such arrangements are not consistent with dinner-givings. The siesta over, the ladies prepare to pay or receive visits. Many families have one day or more in the week appointed for an at home,' which is known in their circle, and where any one of the circle may present him or herself, and be sure of a gracious welcome; and this visit answers the end, too, of our stupid morning calls. This plan of life of the Portuguese, of course, does not agree with English hours. In our houses the dinner is not yet placed upon the table; and, probably, before that meal and the after-dinner sitting are over, the soirée is broken up. The few English gentlemen whose good sense and right feeling induce them to give in to Portuguese hours and habits, and to accept in their own way of their hospitalities, say that there is no backwardness whatever on the part of the Portuguese to associate with the Engfish. The language, no doubt, is a great obstacle to friendly intercourse. Few Portuguese ladies speak English; and the Portuguese, though an easy language to learn to read, is a very difficult one to learn to speak. English ladies will not even take the pains to learn to read it, making a comfortable cloak of a high-minded reason in

which to conceal from themselves the true oneindolence. It is great waste of time to learn to read a language which has but one book worth reading, Camoens.'-A great mistake, by-the-bye."

A great mistake indeed-and so is a visit of compliment in most latitudes. Here is one neatly sketched :

square. Think how utterly impossible for an English woman, with but a few words of broken Portuguese on her tongue, to attempt to use them, knowing they must be overheard by every one present, and knowing, too, that the Portuguese have a natural genius for quizzing. For myself, all I could say was Yes' or 'No; all I could do was to look like a half-wit; and all I could think of was, When may we escape from this pinfold of ceremonious misery? .... The gentleman again offers you his arm down stairs, and does not leave you till you are seated in your carriage, or on your steed, ass, or mule."--Vol. i., P. 236.

We hope the gentle authoress had no reason to fear, as we see she does, that this Hogarth bit may be taken amiss, as “a lecture," by her countrywomen who dwell on the Duero. Be that as it may, certain it is that a purchase of fifty butts, for the best of bills on the Poultry, is but a poor salve to the wound which the womankind of a worthy British merchant, who need not necessarily be patronesses of Almacks, often inflict in a five minutes' visit on the ladies of a Portuguese fidalgo, punctilious and full of pedigree, although a vine-grower and vender. Throughout the Peninsula manners make the man, and woman: there, where occupations and intellectual resources fail, the personal prevails over the social, and paramount importance is attached to compliments and ceremonials, to gettings-up and sittings-down: there, where all these forms and phrases are defined and known as if the nation was composed of lords-in-waiting, the most trifling omission is attributed, not to ignorance, but to rudeness, to an intention to slight, which is never forgiven. You may as well afterwards expect to enjoy a little quiet society in a coalition cabinet. The Portuguese, like fretful porcupines and Spaniards, are ever on the lookout for offence, especially where none is meant: our old and affectionate allies see in our off-hand manner an air of affectionate contempt, and revolt at the supercilious condescension of our patronage: they have all the sensitive pride has often no covering, in summer at least; chairs poor gentlemen fallen from palmy place, which bristles and tables are ranged stiffly round the room; one at the suspicion of depreup table, perhaps, in the centre, and few ornaments ciation; in their private capacity they proanywhere. To this formidable little square the tect themselves by a nice exaction of comvisitors are led, and placed in the seat of honor-pliments and congees; and in their public, the sofa. The ladies are seldom in the room, but soon come down from their private apartment; and even the lady of the house would on no account sit by you on the sofa: she takes the chair nearest to you, and the other members of the family occupy the other chairs; and if more are needed, they are placed opposite the sofa, closing in the

comes.

You go to the portal, which is always open: if the owner be wealthy, you find two or more servants in attendance in the hall; if he is in moderate circumstances, you must make your way through the hall to the door at the foot of the stairs, there clap your hands or hammer at the door till it flies open, the latch being pulled from above by a string: clap again till the servant If you are to be admitted, and the master of the house or his son be within, he presently follows his servant, meets you on the stairs, gives you his arm, and conducts you to the sitting-room, at one side of which is placed, against the wall, a cane-backed, cane-seated, coverless, cushionless sofa. At either side, and at right angles with the sofa, four or five chairs are planted close together. A pretty esteira (straw mat) or a handsome woollen rug covers this square: the rest of the floor

of

they cloak present beggary by boasting of past wealth, building up a brighter future on the poor foundations of obsolete power. This respectable tenderness should not be needlessly trod upon; better far to sip port at peace in Great Britain, than go to Opor

darkness and light, cheering symbols for the spirit for that other world so bright with love and peace. departing from a world dark with sin and sorrow,

to to quarrel with its producers, who sel- hasten to place lights in the windows, and to dom spoil their tempers as they do their withdraw them as soon as the procession has wines by an ultra application of the saccha-passed by; and thus are produced the startling rine: there, again, those who are determined to dispense with masters of languages as well as ceremonies, will assuredly be left If it were for no higher motive than to give alone in their glory, and not sent to school, myself an opportunity to express private feelings as Lord Bacon says, but to Coventry. of respect and gratitude to an English chaplain Captain Holman, blind as a beetle, made abroad, for public services faithfully and diligentthe tour of Asia far more to his enlighten-ly performed in trying times, through a series of ment, than he who, ignorant of the idiom, years, I could not leave Oporto without naming journeys, tantamount dumb, into the Pen-heretics have been permitted to offer up our prayour own dear church, where for so long a time we insula, where all foreign tongues are Greek ers and join in the simple rites of our church, unand Hebrew. Conversation in the Castiles, disturbed by the jibes or the threats of those who when distilled though a laquais de place, bear rule in the land. There is nothing attractive rarely becomes confidential; while in Por- in the appearance of the building, as may be intugal the necessity of referring to declen-ferred from the conditions under which permission sions and dictionary limits eloquence to truisms, muzzles man, and ties even tongue female so sorry a prelude to the entente cordiale of social intimacy is the "I guess you don't understand us," that only the other day the illustrious Marquis Alexandre Dumas passed from the Pyrenees to the Straits for a mere monkey seeing the world, and this simply because he would discourse in what he imagined to be Spanish.

was obtained for its erection, viz. that it should not look like a church either within or without, and must not aspire to tower, belfry, or bell-none of which it possesses-but the situation partly makes up for these deficiencies; and Nature, with her never-failing bounty, has in the chapelyard supplied pillars of lime-trees, whose branches have learned to frame a dark some under the cool green shade of these aisles, before aisle and soothing it is to repose for a while you enter the little chapel, where you are too often oppressed by heat and glare."-Vol. i., p. 241.

From the sacred she passes to the profane and profound, we doubt not more to please others than herself; for, young in letters and mistrustful of their own ample powers, writers of this sect often hope to conciliate learned fastidiousness by shadow

The grand resources of the Lusitanian beauties, in which they excel and exceed moderation, are love, knitting, and religion; and inklings of such matters enliven this Journal as truffles do a Perigord pie. These ladies appear to be as industrious as Lucretia, although a trifle less exemplary; yet love's labor is not lost, and their consi-ing their light wings with grave plumes, borderate church makes due allowances for the rowed from birds of the indubitably true disturbing influences of the stars, which in Minerva breed. With these best intensouthern latitudes are notoriously the most tions, she here and there labors to lengthen to be blamed. While our author's sound what we labor to shorten, anxiously desirsense revolts at the corruptions of Roman- ing to get back again to her own fresh and ism, here in full bloom, her truly Catholic original outpourings; nor shall we inflict piety seizes every redeeming virtue, and her extracts from old folios about older she is ready to sympathize with Christianity personages, who well might be left in rest whenever she can recognise its spirit and at the bottom of the oblivious Limia. working. Her first volume concludes with Those, however, who are not of the diocese this tolerant juxtaposition of the rival of Braga, may be edified by knowing

creeds :

"One ceremony of the church of Rome, when it takes place at night, may impress even a truehearted member of the Protestant church of Eng. land with religious awe, and this is the procession which bears through the streets the last sacrament to the dying Christian: a little tinkling bell warns you of its approach; voices are heard chanting a hymn; you go to your window; already the canopy, under which the priest walks, bearing the host, is passing your door through a blaze of light which precedes the holy elements far as the eye can see, while behind all is in black darkness. is the custom, on hearing this bell, for every one to

that

"since the year 36 to 1755 there have been 115 bishops, of whom 22 were canonized, namely, St. Peter de Rates, their first bishop; Basil, Ovid, Policarp, Fabius, Felix, Narcissus, Solomon, Leoncius, Paternus, Profoturus, Albert, Martin de Dume, Tobius, Peter Julian, Fructuosus, Quiricus, Leodecisius, Felix Secundus, Victor Martyr, Geraldus, and Godwin (O beato Don Godinho).”—Vol. i., p. 121.

It Having strung up, like a rope of Portugal onions, this batch of bishops, whose

breed, being the grand-daughter of Edward of maid of honor at the courts of Lisbon III., whose delicate chivalry rescued the and Madrid is understood to be attended fair fame of Lady Salisbury's garter. It with considerable difficulties. must, however, be added that the situation

From the Dublin University Magazine.

LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND.

PART III.

THE first explicit declaration in favor of sional government, it was resolved to endeathe Bourbons came from the Council Gene-vor to induce the Emperor to abdicate in ral of the Seine. This was followed by favor of his son. It is well known that addresses to the provisional government this step was taken. It was received by from all the constituted bodies, such as the Avocats, the Cour de Cassation, the Council of State, &c. In all these there were strong expressions hostile to Napoleon, and in some of them allusions, more or less direct, to the restoration of the ancient line of kings.

those who were then regarded as leading the public opinion differently. Talleyrand and his colleagues in the provisional government opposed it, favoring the restoration of the Bourbons, and Caulaincourt and the Marshals of the army advocated it with a regency under Maria Louisa. The Notwithstanding these manifestations fa- Marshals, commissioned by Napoleon to vorable to the project advocated by Talley- notify his abdication to the allies, arrived rand, the allied sovereigns had still a in Paris in the midst of the greatest disvague and undefined horror of the very quietude and apprehension, as well on the name of Napoleon, nor did they venture part of the population as on that of the to give that cordial co-operation to the allies themselves. People doubted the reparty of the Restoration which might have sult. The sudden re-appearance of Napobeen expected. Napoleon was still sur- leon was constantly feared by some and rounded by 30,000 proved troops, includ- hoped by others. Those who had taken ing the celebrated Imperial Guard. Be- the part of the provisional government wasides these, the corps commanded by Mar- vered. The salons of M. Talleyrand were mont and Mortier amounted to 20,000, comparatively deserted. The looks of the making a total of 50,000 fighting men, en- sovereigns and their generals were gloomy thusiastically devoted to their leader, and and serious, and little calculated to re-asthat leader incontestably the greatest cap- sure those who had hastily committed tain of the age. Who could tell the effect themselves to the Restoration. of a levy en masse, and the insurrection of The commissioners of the Emperor prethe Faubourgs? Besides, might not a sented themselves to Alexander. He adjunction be effected with Soult and Suchet dressed this act of abdication to the allies, in the south, and with the aid of Eugene without alluding either to the senate or Beauharnais in Italy, the re-appearance of the hero of Austerlitz, at the head of 180,000, was far from being impossible.

the legislative body, or to any of the constituted authorities. The anxiety of Talleyrand, who stood so deeply and irretrievTo parry such a project, emissaries were ably committed, during this interview, can sent to tamper with the Imperial generals, easily be conceived. He intercepted the and the proclamations of the provisional Marshals in the ante-room before they government were scattered among the sol- communicated with the Czar, and showed diers. In this state of things the Marshals them how many persons would be comproheld a conference at Fontainbleau, and mised if they succeeded in their mission. some being influenced by the sincere opi-"You will ruin," said he, "all those who nion of the impossibility of effectual resist- have entered this salon. Remember that ance, and others shaken in their fidelity by Louis XVIII. is a principle, and everything the emissaries of Talleyrand and the provi- else is only an intrigue." He produced,

not always landing, yet catching glimpses of Spain from the deck with a telescope, and even so distinguishing the emphatic feature, for there be some who perceive more between Hungerford Stairs and Blackwall than others who circumnavigate the globe. That is the reason why we have bestowed a score of our pages on this unpretending Journal. It is small in bulk and in manner slight-but we recognise the eye and the feeling of genius wherever Nature is to be depicted; and the fresh, lively, unaffected gracefulness of thought and language is a great relief from the fantastical wrought-up Annualism so prevalent among our lady travellers.

ous foreigners may think, are not things, | Turning her back on these romantic scenes, and the best Benthamite "constitucion" where her soul is left, again she flies on the may be a cheat, and the neatest paragraphed wings of steam from Malaga to Barcelona, charte a lie-springes to catch woodcocks. Can it be wondered that the masses, sick with crimes committed under the prostituted name of liberty, fly from petty tyrants to the rightful throne; and indifferent to the changes of the political pantomime, sigh to be permitted to occupy themselves with their private affairs and individual interests, at peace under the shadow of a great rock in a weary land? They have our best wishes: not so the "liberal canon" described in these pages, who having beheld specious theories carried into practice, stalls suppressed, sacred vessels melted, tithes commissioned, convents converted into hulks and dens of thieves, now pronounces the blow to be serious, discouraging, and huma reforma barbara! Nay, good friend, your play must be played out, even if such an anomaly as a "liberal canon" be, in the jargon of the day, " absorbed and appropriated."

As a postscript, and to explain the magpie which figures on the titlepage, we may spare a few lines more for a remarkable dining-room at Cintra, in which more than four-and-twenty blackbirds are set before the king :

Of course the charming Journalist excurses to Cintra-" a place to dream over rather than describe :" and, of course, when there she thinks of Southey, Canning, and sweet Cumbria. Then she visits Mafra, and Beckford's fairy palace, now a desolate ruin :-" the French soldiers having unroofed the house, and industriously destroyed everything that could be destroyed, out of malice to the English." She returns to Lisbon in "the omnibus"-but even its march-of-intellect rattle fails to disenchant the poetry of her emotions; she had, she says, quitted Cintra for ever, "with a heart full of deep thankfulness for having been permitted to see a spot which must be one of the loveliest spots on earth; and if not the very loveliest one, certainly unique in its character of beauty and its strangeness." Leaving Portugal, she lands at Cadiz, resumes her poetical enthusiasm, steams up to Seville, peeps at the cathedral, delights in Murillo, detests bull-fights, and then burries to Gibraltar, Malaga, and Granada. We despair doing justice to her Arabian Nights' day visions in the Alhambra, where, as elsewhere, she leans on her "guide, philosopher, and friend, Ford," referring to "the Handbook" in terms which must touch the tender heart of that preaux chevalier, who, in his recent spicy Gather-be thus typified."-Vol. ii., p. 49. ings, is, we see, disposed for one lady's smile to laugh not only at the beard of the

"John I.," we are told, "had risen early to hunt at some distance from Cintra. In passing through this chamber he chanced to meet one of the same time saluting her on the cheek. The the maids of honor, and presented a rose to her, at gallantry was not unwitnessed, for the queen was entering the room by a side door. In the confusion of detection, the king could only say, Por bem, por bem; meaning that he had meant no harm, only taken an innocent liberty. The queen made no remark, but her revenge showed that she was not implacably offended. On the king's return, after a few days, he found the roof of his dining-room painted all over with magpies, each bird holding a rose-branch in its claws, and a label in its beak, on which label were painted the words Por bem, por bem. The king was pleased to be rebuked so playfully, and adopted the Por bem for his motto. This was our guide's version of the tale, and much the prettiest of the three traditions that are current. A second tells us that the king himself caused the ceiling of the room to be painted in that manner, in attestation of the innocence of the proceeding in which he had been detected, and that he now applied, in the sense of our Honi soit qui mal y pense, the motto Por bem,' which he had previously adopted as a declaration of his disposition to do good to his people. The third interpretation is, that the adventure was whispered from mouth to mouth among the ladies, to the scandal and great disturbance of the poor maid of honor, and that the king, to punish the palace gossips, caused their malicious garrulity to

At all events it is historically certain that

editor of the Oporto Review, but ours. this gracious queen was of good English

breed, being the grand-daughter of Edward of maid of honor at the courts of Lisbon III., whose delicate chivalry rescued the and Madrid is understood to be attended fair fame of Lady Salisbury's garter. It with considerable difficulties. must, however, be added that the situation

From the Dublin University Magazine.

LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND.

PART III.

THE first explicit declaration in favor of the Bourbons came from the Council General of the Seine. This was followed by addresses to the provisional government from all the constituted bodies, such as the Avocats, the Cour de Cassation, the Council of State, &c. In all these there were strong expressions hostile to Napoleon, and in some of them allusions, more or less direct, to the restoration of the ancient line of kings.

sional government, it was resolved to endeavor to induce the Emperor to abdicate in favor of his son. It is well known that this step was taken. It was received by those who were then regarded as leading the public opinion differently. Talleyrand and his colleagues in the provisional government opposed it, favoring the restoration of the Bourbons, and Caulaincourt and the Marshals of the army advocated it with a regency under Maria Louisa. The Notwithstanding these manifestations fa- Marshals, commissioned by Napoleon to vorable to the project advocated by Talley- notify his abdication to the allies, arrived rand, the allied sovereigns had still a in Paris in the midst of the greatest disvague and undefined horror of the very quietude and apprehension, as well on the name of Napoleon, nor did they venture part of the population as on that of the to give that cordial co-operation to the allies themselves. People doubted the reparty of the Restoration which might have sult. The sudden re-appearance of Napobeen expected. Napoleon was still sur- leon was constantly feared by some and rounded by 30,000 proved troops, includ- hoped by others. Those who had taken ing the celebrated Imperial Guard. Be- the part of the provisional government wasides these, the corps commanded by Mar-vered. The salons of M. Talleyrand were mont and Mortier amounted to 20,000, comparatively deserted. The looks of the making a total of 50,000 fighting men, en- sovereigns and their generals were gloomy thusiastically devoted to their leader, and and serious, and little calculated to re-asthat leader incontestably the greatest cap- sure those who had hastily committed tain of the age. Who could tell the effect themselves to the Restoration. of a levy en masse, and the insurrection of the Faubourgs? Besides, might not a junction be effected with Soult and Suchet in the south, and with the aid of Eugene Beauharnais in Italy, the re-appearance of the hero of Austerlitz, at the head of 180,000, was far from being impossible.

The commissioners of the Emperor presented themselves to Alexander. He addressed this act of abdication to the allies, without alluding either to the senate or the legislative body, or to any of the constituted authorities. The anxiety of Talleyrand, who stood so deeply and irretrievTo parry such a project, emissaries were ably committed, during this interview, can sent to tamper with the Imperial generals, easily be conceived. He intercepted the and the proclamations of the provisional Marshals in the ante-room before they government were scattered among the sol- communicated with the Czar, and showed diers. In this state of things the Marshals them how many persons would be comproheld a conference at Fontainbleau, and mised if they succeeded in their mission. some being influenced by the sincere opi-" You will ruin," said he, "all those who nion of the impossibility of effectual resistance, and others shaken in their fidelity by the emissaries of Talleyrand and the provi

have entered this salon. Remember that Louis XVIII. is a principle, and everything else is only an intrigue." He produced,