The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

T!IZ ACSTRIANS IN VINITIA.

A letter from Venice of the 4th nays :
I have now bees here a fortnight, and shall mover forget
that time as lung as I live, so tall and nioootonous has it
Lees. Have you ever taken a walk to Vinosepes on a week•
.lay' If you have, of collie you ear moan but soldiers. It
is Ins: the some here : as, tvith the exceptive' of a few petty
tradespeople a.ad aurtneas, nothing bat uniform* eau be seen
111 the streets of VellleC. Where are the pales and wealthy
earrena i They all keep within doors, eat Austria would
Vet y much like to know what they say and do. lam a.
igt,,rant as she '. as that point, as all house* of any import-
ance have here-ire so many citadels, isto which there is ao ad.
mettanne iv.ti,,,at Saud letters of introductioe. sad 1
brought noun south toe. .111 1 Nam leaned is, theret,re,
limited to what I have *sea with my own eyes, or picked
01. in ronversatice with cicerard sad smatters. As soon
a. these people are metals that they are speaking to a
foreigner, especially a Frenchman, they throw off all re-
straint, I assure you, and make no secret of their feelings
awl hopes. They tine! liberty so near as to Le already is
thew poses. ion, sad arc convinced that the hour of deli-
veta..ro has pinta. I b:. :o several times given mortal
offence by venturing to insinuate that there would not
perhaps be ary gnat cheap in Voiotia before neat sprit=.
At Venice the state of war is not putted ea the
wall.: it is is the very ale you breaths. No
liver:al res:ript has forbidden the inhabitant.
to frv•inent the theatre of La F•mice, tut far two
years past nobody goes to it, There low been uo curfew
pr,trlainiesh aml yet after nightfall Ciere is mit a living
thing to the streets hut patrols. Th.. A ostnsus do not lilt.
thi. state of ttiugs any more than Co. Venetians do ; they
ere no kvager arronint eves ; they are uueary, gloomy, i
sileut, and 6,11 -ttempt to :lever polite. ill the coffee.
beams is the city haie lima tacitly abandoned to Qom.
with the single es-Art.6on of the Florian. where (strainers
aid Vesetist.s Ilmekt iiiith-r pretest of business. The
&p row to hsve &CV, yt..,1 this arnin,;euieut, for tliusgh
7 rent to thi• 11.isiso c,cry night. I never saw a
ten;form, or heard ~ w..r.1 of t;137110,11 there. fh,e
ftw
se ::able fs:t, is, thst, with Lie exception .1 •
invalid., not a Angle youn,your,;man* heat aiiibtern
eatydive, is to lir area a Voce*: they have all led
to nevi,' th • e••nseni.:,,n. I have been told Wet dill(' are
4030 of 11/ern with Ga.;naldis imam least as many is Victrr
11/rels11111.10.• aliyoy. %lad iii Ai tint :mprwsl on families,
then en the e -nmenes, a tine of from !,400f.. to 4,400 f..
far each absent none-rip& VAn niesseire awed many letter
Musk. tow se Ant, bet it bag sow become illusory, slam,
a. neither families we communal pews. eavthiag, they
enema pay. The very eviees 0/ die evil has put an mid to
it. The same may la said of tame : Lbw* was pant rel.,-
taz whew the government demanded on- half as ore-fourth
eif everybody. seen me ; tat there is he. sow the demised is
ses ial to the whole. or even doable or triple the amorist.
inept. have simply mated to pay, that is all . ,