King
could receive the intelligence. Fortunately for them, the news had
reached the governor of Granada, a general officer in whose religious
zeal they had not had sufficient confidence to induce them to apply to
him for aid in the emergency. That officer, on hearing the state of
things, sent for a body of troops stationed at a neighbouring village,
to whose commander he gave orders to place a guard, for the protection
at the same time of the churchmen from violent treatment, and of the
Moors from every sort of molestation. This adventure of the Archbishop
drew upon him the temporary displeasure of the Court.

[Illustration: PORTAL OF SAN TELMO, SEVILLE.]

The public buildings of Seville are on as grand a scale as those of some
of the principal capitals of Europe. The college of San Telmo, fronting
the Christina-gardens, is composed of two large quadrangles, behind a
facade of five or six hundred feet in length, the centre of which is
ornamented by a portal of very elaborate execution in the _plateresco_
style. The architect, Matias de Figueroa, has literally crammed the
three stories with carved columns, inscriptions, balconies, statues
single and grouped, arches, medallions, wreaths, friezes. Without
subjecting it to criticism on the score of purity, to which it makes no
pretension, it certainly is rich in its general effect, and one of the
best specimens of its style. This college was founded for the
instruction of marine cadets, and for that reason named after S. Telmo,
who is adopted by the mariners for their patron and advocate, as Santa
Barbara is by the land artillery. He was a Dominican friar, and is
recorded to have exercised miraculous influence on the elements, and
thereby to have preserved the lives of a boatful of sailors, when on the
point of destruction. The gardens in front of this building are situated
between the river and the town walls. They are laid out in flower beds
and walks. In the centre is a raised platform of granite, forming a
long square of about an acre or more in extent, surrounded with a seat
of white marble. It is entered at each end by an ascent of two or three
steps. This is called the Salon, and on Sundays and Feast-days is the
resort of the society of Seville. In the winter the hour of the
promenade is from one to three o'clock; in the summer, the hours which
intervene between sunset and supper. During winter as well as summer,
the scent of the flowers of the surrounding gardens f