yourself in search of old Priuli's palace? And for realities, go to St. Mark's of an evening; see its fine square in all its marble beauty; the domes and minarets of its old church, the barbaric gloom of the doge's palace; its proud, towering campanile look upon the famous Corinthian horses; and think of their emigration; on the winged lion of the Piræus;-walk in the illumination of its long line of caffés ;-observe the variety of costume, the thin veil covering the pale Venetian beauty; the Turks with their beards, and caftans, and long pipes, and chess-playing; the Greeks with their skull-caps and richly laced jackets:look at this and believe it real, and ever after put faith in the Thousand and One Tales.

“Venice is in every thing delightful. It is the most picturesque city in Europe, and full of character and variety. In its palaces and public buildings, you may read sermons in stones. The history of Venice is written upon her front, from the rude, massy, frowning architecture of barbarism and power, to modern elegance and imbecility."

But with all this, Venice, as already intimated, is an unintelligible place ;-strange and perplexing in everything to the stranger, who can scarcely accommodate himself to scenes and circumstances so different to all he has ever seen and experienced before. It has been hastily said, that "it is not merely that there are canals and gondolas; but

that it is all canal and all gondola. It can be likened to nothing but a large fleet, wind-bound ; you order your boat and row round, and all that are at leisure do the same."-How can a being who all his long life has been used to riding and walking, settle down in a short time, to so altered a mode of life?

The Venetians are a lively and ingenious people, extravagantly fond of amusements, and much addicted to humour. The fair sex are given to great levity of manner, and no woman thinks it comme il faut to be seen much in the society of her husband, or to be thought living without a cavalière servente. Lord Byron says, "the general state of morals here is much the same as in the Doge's time; a woman is virtuous who limits herself to her husband and one lover; those who have more are considered a little wild or diffuse."—" Love, in this part of the world is no sinecure, changing or going upon renewed leases. The carnival of Venice is the season when every body makes up their intrigues for the ensuing year, and cuts for partners for the next deal."

The carnival, however, is no longer what it was. Out of doors, it is confined to a few miserable masked figures, the characters being supported only by the lower orders. In society, it is somewhat better, and balls and soirees are kept up with great spirit.

The hotels to be noticed at Venice are, the 'Grande Brittagne,' the Lioni Bianci,' and d'Europe.' Of these, the first-mentioned is the most reasonable. At the last-named there is a table d'hote.

Messrs. Holmes and Co., the English bankers, whose house is always open for the reception and entertainment of respectable travellers, will furnish the earliest and most ample information relative to the sailing of steam-boats in the Adriatic, the Levant, or the Red Sea, and will also cash bankers' bills or circular notes, whether they be addressed to their firm or not. Too much cannot be said of the obliging civility of the gentlemen of this firm.

To reach England, the traveller should proceed from Venice to

Padua, the birth-place of Livy, and which is still a considerable town, with 50,000 inhabitants and a university. The Abbey of Justina and its church will be found beautiful specimens of architecture, while the piazza running along in front, is one of the largest and noblest in Europe. As Mr. Eustace justly remarks, Padua is still a great, and, in many respects, a beautiful city. Its circumference is near seven miles, and notwithstanding the general nar

rowness of its streets, many of its buildings, both public and private, are truly magnificent.

Not far from here; i. e. at Arqua, is the tomb of Petrarch, which may be seen on the way to

Verona, which is beautifully situated, partly on a hill which forms the last swell of the Alps, and partly on the borders of an immense plain, extending from those mountains to the Apennines. Some fine palaces and religious structures decorate the city; but the Roman Amphitheatre, erected by Flaminius, will be the great object of interest. The circumference, forming the ornamental part, has long since been destroyed, but the rest is in a fine state of preservation. There are forty-five rows of steps, or ranges of seats, carried all round, and formed of fine blocks of marble; upon which 22,000 persons may be seated.

At Milan, various objects deserve attention. The cathedral is a superb Gothic structure, its exterior being ornamented with 4,500 marble statues. The Arch of Peace is of the same costly material. The Scala, though somewhat smaller than that of St. Carlos, at Naples, is considered to be the finest in the world. We may also particularize the Arena, and the inimitable cartoon of the last supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Church of the Dominicans.

Public conveyances go daily to Sesta Caleade, in time for a steam-boat, which proceeds to the two

fairy Palaces of Barromeo, on the Lago Maggiore, where, in a garden, on the largest laurel known, Napoleon cut the word "VICTORY." In this same garden is found a rose without a thorn!

The Geneva diligence passes through Baveno, which is situated on the lake, to the Simplon, the most gigantic operation of modern times.

If at a proper season of the year, the traveller should stop at Martigny, and ascend the Great St. Bernard, over which Napoleon conducted the French army; partake of accommodation at the Convent for the night; and next day proceed over the mountain on mules to Chamouni, or the Mer de Glace, and from thence to Geneva and Paris.

FINIS.

HOWLETT AND SON, PRINTERS, 10, FRITH STREET, sono.