APPENDIX III. 



TERENCE M. HUGHES, whose poetical work The Ocean Flower 

 has been so largely quoted from in the preceding pages, was born of 

 gentle parents in the then stirring town of Newry, in Ireland, about 

 1814. His father, Philip Hughes, a leading merchant there, was in 

 intimate relation with several fine old aristocratic Catholic families. 

 Intended, parentally, for the Roman Catholic priesthood in his native 

 country, the young Terence was early sent to Maynooth College. 

 There his exceptionally high literary talents secured him the attention 

 due to a first-rate student who might reflect credit on his teachers ; but 

 the innate tendency of his soul assured him meanwhile, and with more 

 and more distinctness as the years rolled on, that he was born for 

 greater freedom than the rules of that Church allowed. 



Breaking away, therefore, from Maynooth soon after 1834, he entered 

 the wide world of London as a friendless youth, but vigorously deter- 

 mined to trust to his own literary abilities for carving out his own way 

 to liberty and light. At first as a reporter to, next as writer in, and 

 subsequently a special correspondent of, the Times newspaper, he both 

 supported himself, and indulged his almost hereditary desires to visit 

 Spain and Portugal. In the former country all men's intolerance in 

 matters of religion, and the unspeakable pride of a people who " are 

 historians of nothing but themselves," were repellent to his refined and 

 sympathetic nature ; but in the latter, though so much smaller a, country, 

 he met with far more that he could thoroughly admire. Indeed, before 

 long, he was happy in marrying a daughter of the land, and entered with 

 her so truly con amore into its historic glories, its literary excellences, 

 and all its present better aspirations, that he seemed likely to become a 

 permanent resident, and a more than native enthusiastic worker there ; 



