PRINCE OF WALES' VISIT.

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Gibraltar he landed at Cadiz, arriving at Seville on the 21st of April; and, after spending two days there, came on to Cordova, where they stayed at the same hotel we are at, the Swiss Hotel. Mr. Shaw was invited to meet him, and to dine with the royal party. In Spain it is considered the correct thing for royal dishes to be prepared with garlic, and on this occasion it was done to such an extent that it was almost impossible to eat anything. After dinner the Prince's secretary said to Mr. Shaw he should be much obliged if he would pay their hotel bill, as they had had to pay so much at Seville he had run short, but would remit from Madrid. As Mr. Shaw knew that the King of Spain's orders were that the Prince was not to pay anything while in Spain, but be his guest the whole time, he expressed his surprise; when the secretary explained that everything was royal in the reception they received at Seville, except the apartments they were shown to, which were quite unfit, so they decided they had better go to the principal hotel. The result was they had to pay £540, as it was intimated it was their place to pay since they had not accepted the apartments provided. Mr. Shaw knew this was so contrary to the intention at Madrid, that he wrote to enquire, when he found that no sooner had the Prince decided to visit Seville than one or more officials and others put their heads together to see how much they could make out of it. First, they obtained, as stated, £540 from the Prince; then they got £540 from the Government at Madrid; but the Corporation of Seville had expressed themselves as so highly flattered and gratified at the proposed visit that they had agreed to pay everything; they therefore obtained £540 from them; besides this, those in authority in the Province of Andalusia had considered the visit such a compliment to the Province, that they had decided it should pay everything, and no one else anything; they accordingly obtained another £540 from them; in all, £2,160, for the Prince's two days' stay. inquiry, or court martial, was instituted, which resulted in the discharge of an official at Seville.

ANOTHER ANECDOTE BY MR. SHAW.

As an illustration of the kind of justice the poor sometimes have to put up with in Spain Mr. Shaw stated that some years ago His Excellency, General Don Pedro S- -s, had a horse that had got inflammation of the lungs so badly that it was thought it could not possibly live through the night. The marshal talked over its state with his groom, and decided to accept £1 for it rather than be further troubled with it, feeling sure it would die. A poor man, who was a miller, agreed to buy it at this price, and paid for it and took it away, when the horse did not die that night as expected, but, by the miller's great care and attention, recovered, and was got into good condition. One day, a considerable time afterwards, just as he was coming out of his doorway upon it, he saw the groom go by, and foolishly, as it turned out, called to him and asked him whether he recognized the horse. "No," he said, "he did not." "Don't you," said the miller, "why this is the horse I bought of your master for £1, and now it is worth £50." The groom expressed his surprise and asked to be allowed to take it to shew the general. The miller said he might, if he would be sure to be back with it in twenty minutes. He promised he would, but when the general saw it, instead of letting him take it back, he said-"put it in the stable along with my other horses." The miller waited long, but in vain, for its return; at length he determined to go and see why it did not come back. General S. had foreseen this, and had given orders to be told when he came. As soon as he heard he had come he descended the stairs at the foot of which the miller stood, and with a mighty bluster, with a drawn sword in his hand, asked the poor miller, in the severest tone, what he wanted. He had come, he said, for his horse. "Come for your horse indeed. Do you think you are going to get my horse worth £50 for £1. You be" the general at the same time brandishing his drawn sword so that the poor miller, in terror, could do nothing but retire.

Cordoba at eleven a.m.,

hours travelled in the train it a junction called the nged trains and proceeded at right angles to the one "d scarcely a house to be nd the one Spaniard of is for the shameful way in vas an officer in the house1 was sent out by them 1, to investigate the con"s, and, if necessary, to nt of Hispaniola. He st, 1500, and deprived rty and money, and all : even going through the onduct. He then sent irons, to a fortress for ome, with instructions "val at Cadiz, into the te was one of Queen was one of the come schemes of Columbus, and impracticable, and oe." It was into his Bobadilla consigned merit such treatment.

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