[3] We have thought it worth while to give the exact cost of the simplest dress--such a one as the poorest laborer is never without--of an Andalusian peasant: Cloak, 260 reals. Cloth jacket, 60 ” Cloth breeches, 60 ” Set of buttons (silver), 60 ” Idem for jacket, 36 ” Woollen sash, 50 ” Vest, 30 ” Linen shirt, 20 ” Linen drawers, 15 ” Calf-skin shoes, 22 ” Gaiters, 40 ” Stockings, 14 ” Handkerchief, 4 ” Hat, 3 ” ------- Total, 606 ” --without the making, which is done by the men of the household. What will be said to this by those who are all for utility, economy, and savings-banks, when the Andalusian rustic might, without inconvenience, go clad in a frieze sack, a pair of hempen sandals, and a rush hat?--_Authoress._ [4] _Pordioseros_, those who ask in God’s name--that is to say, beggars. For this and other delicate and tender epithets that the Spanish poor apply to the unfortunate, our stern language has no equivalents. [5] The actual organization of the family throughout the kingdom of Aragon, the Basque provinces, and the mountains of Santander. It is this that makes the mania for codification that at present exists in Spain so much to be dreaded.--_Spanish Ed._ [6] Big Lucas. [7] _Tomar la vereda_--Take another than the high or legalized way. Said of contrabandists. [8] An arroba is twenty-five pounds. [9] A monster they frighten children with. [10] Small guitars. [11] The doer of justice. ---------- EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION ACCORDING TO THE MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES. 63 FROM THE CORRESPONDANT. II. THE SACERDOTAL CLASS. Egyptian civilization had its source in the priesthood. There is reason to believe that at first they exercised sovereign authority. “After the reign of the demigods and the Manes,” says Manethon, “came the first dynasty, consisting of eight kings, who reigned for the space of two hundred and fifty-two years. Menes was the first of these kings. He carried war into foreign lands, and made himself renowned.” Menes, the chief of the military forces, effected a revolution which substituted a civil government for a theocracy. He was the first to assume the title of king, and he founded the hereditary monarchy of Egypt.