iver Herjas into the Portuguese province of Beira,
was soon in Castello Branco." Olozaga was used to this sort of thing,
having already had to fly for his life in the time of Ferdinand. On that
occasion he drove out of Madrid in the disguise of a Calesero, in company
with his friend Garcia, the then intendant of police, who was also obliged
to fly from the vengeance of the Camarilla of the day. They reached
Corunna in safety, and embarked for England; the facile versatility with
which Olozaga had smoked, joked, and drunk his way, adapting himself to
the humours of all he met, and supporting admirably his assumed character,
having in no small degree contributed to save them from detection.

The account our author gives of Queen Isabel is any thing but a favourable
one; although we have much reason to fear that it is substantially
correct. Wilful and pettish, at times obstinate, deficient in intelligence
as well as temper, and above all, _dissimulada_, a dissembler. Ugly words
these; but if it be true that children inherit their parents' virtues and
vices, what better could be expected from the offspring of a Ferdinand and
a Christina? Indeed it will be fortunate for herself and her people, if,
at a later period of this child-queen's life, there are not a few more
failings to be added to the above list--already sufficiently long. At
present, artfulness and insincerity seem her chief faults--no trifling
ones, certainly; and to these may be added a want of heart, very unusual
in a girl of such tender age, and which is perhaps the worst symptom in
her character. It has been frequently and strongly exemplified in her
conduct to those nearest her person. Previously to the anti-Christina
revolution of 1840, the Marquesa de Santa Cruz was her governess, and to
her the young Queen appeared much attached. But when the Marchioness left
Spain in the suite of the Queen-mother, Isabel never made an enquiry after
her, receiving Madame Mina with just the same degree of apparent affection
that she had shown to her preceding governess. Whilst Espartero was
Regent, she professed unbounded attachment to him, insisted having the
portrait of her "_caro amigo_" hung in her room, and seemed proud of
showing it to all her visitors. The wheel went round; Narvaez was at
Madrid, and the Duke of Victoria a refugee on board the Malabar. The
Senora de Mina was dismissed, and her royal pupil took leave of her with
the same absence of feeling that she had