But no female would suffer herself to be addressed _cook_, _washer-woman_, &c.; they all feel and act as if, having a natural claim to a higher rank, misfortune alone had degraded them. Poverty, unless it be extreme, does not disqualify a man of family for the society of his equals. Secular clergymen, though plebeians, are, generally, well received; but the same indulgence is not readily extended to monks and friars, whose unpolished manners betray too openly the meanness of their birth. Wholesale merchants, if they belong to the class of _Hidalgos_, are not avoided by the great gentry. In the law, _attorneys_ and _notaries_ are considered to be under the line of _Caballeros_, though their rank, as in England, depends a great deal on their wealth and personal respectability. Physicians are nearly in the same case. Having now made you acquainted with what is here called the _best sort_ of people, you will probably like to have a sketch of their daily life: take it, then, neither from the first, nor the last of the class. Breakfast, in Spain, is not a regular family meal. It generally consists of chocolate, and buttered toast, or muffins, called _molletes_. Irish salt-butter is very much in use; as the heat of the climate does not allow the luxuries of the dairy, except in the mountainous tracts of the north. Every one calls for chocolate whenever it suits him; and most people take it when they come from mass--a ceremony seldom omitted, even by such as cannot be reckoned among the highly religious. After breakfast, the gentlemen repair to their occupations; and the ladies, who seldom call upon one another, often enjoy the _amusement_ of music and a sermon at the church appointed on that day for the public adoration of the Consecrated Host, which, from morning till night, takes place throughout the year in this, and a few other large towns. This is called _el jubileo_--the jubilee; as, by a spiritual grant of the Pope, those who visit the appointed church, are entitled to the plenary indulgence which, in former times, rewarded the trouble and dangers of a journey to Rome, on the first year of every century--a poor substitute, indeed, for the _ludi sæculares_, which, in former times, drew people thither from all parts of the Roman empire. The bait, however, was so successful for a time, that _jubilees_ were celebrated every twenty-five years. But when the taste for papal indulgences began to be cloyed by excess, few would move a foot, and much less undertake a long journey, to spend their money for the benefit of the Pope and his Roman subjects. In these desperate circumstances, the Holy Father thought it better to send the _jubilee_, with its plenary indulgence, to the distant sheep of his flock, than to wait in vain for their coming to seek it at Rome. To this effort of pastoral generosity we owe the inestimable advantage of being able, every day, to perform a spiritual visit to St. Peter’s at Rome; which, to those who are indifferent about