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Spanish South America^ and even to extend to 

 the lower orders, which is not so much the case 

 at Buenos Ayres. I should imagine that the 

 South American standard of good breeding is 

 beyond that of Mexico, where the ladies are said 

 to be eternally smoking in public^ a practice not 

 so often sanctioned elsewhere. The lower class 

 in Chile is characterized by a great love of diver- 

 sion, great superstition, and a peculiar pro- 

 pensity to quarrelling ; a tendency which is not 

 a little increased by the constant habit of meet- 

 ing to drink at the Pulperias. 



Schools, on the Lancasterian system, are 

 established in the principal towns of Chile, but 

 education is exceedingly limited. The govern- 

 ment once proclaimed the freedom of the press, 

 but as soon as the acts of the republic were 

 criticised, these proselytes of liberty laid hold of 

 the printer, and banished him to the island of 



