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more ! Lord Mauden and Mr. Fitzgerald stood for a moment over the 

 bodies of their victims. They both laid with their faces to the floor, 

 quite dead. The former took up the handkerchief which the boy still 

 held in the grasp of death. He turned deadly pale. Upon one of its 

 corners was a well-known and still beloved name : but he checked his 

 emotions, and stooped to replace it in the hand whence he took it. Good 

 God ! that hand, so soft, and white, and delicately small. His heart 

 beat violently he turned the face of the boy it was, HIS WIFE ! 



THE PORTUGUESE STRUGGLE. 



Falho em tudo as verdades. 

 A quern, e em tudo as devois. 



SA E MIRAND. 



THE eyes of all Europe are at present fixed upon Portugal. They 

 view the question, not so much as one of legitimacy, but as intimately 

 connected with that fearful struggle that is at present uplifting the 

 political substratum of our continent; they consider it as bearing 

 directly on the march of human freedom and happiness, and with intense 

 and breathless anxiety they await its decision. We confess we are not 

 among the number of those who regard it in this point of view. What- 

 ever may be the result of the contest, its influence on the great question 

 that at present agitates Europe will be an absolute nullity. We found 

 our opinions upon an intimate knowledge of the Portuguese character, 

 unbiassed by the spirit of party. 



When the ex-Emperor Don Pedro sailed from San Miguel, the champ 

 d'asyle of Portuguese legitimacy, with a line of operation extending 

 from the Azores to the coast of Portugal, subject to the risks of a mari- 

 time expedition, and to a descent upon a country in which he possessed 

 not a single "point d'appui" all the military chances were certainly 

 in favour of his brother ; but it was on the moral and political combina- 

 tions attached to the nature of enterprises like his, on the apparently 

 well founded supposition of the existence of a numerous party in his 

 favour, that his hopes of success depended. If, therefore, his plans of 

 campaign were based on this principle, we must confess that its execu- 

 tion has been throughout (( en contre sens." His first operation should 

 have been to have landed on a point of the coast nearest to that where 

 the elements of disaffection to the existing government existed in their 

 greatest force. This point was Lisbon, and certainly not Oporto, where 

 ever since the affair of 1828 the elements of disaffection have been either 

 exhausted or parylized. Facts perfectly bear us out in our assertion : 

 scarcely a man has joined the ranks of the constitutional army ; nor, in 

 fact, was it to be expected that the inhabitants of Oporto and its en- 

 virons would again commit themselves, when they saw the ex-Emperor 

 accompanied by a force whose numerical superiority exceeded by very 

 little that which so shamefully abandoned their city in 1828, and while 



