The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

IMPRESSIONS OF VENICE.

We landed at the Custom-house, where a very sever©
and very elaborate examination of carpet-bags and
baskets detained us for a very vexatiously long period,
and we were then turned adrift to our fate, being pro-
nounced
innocent of evil intention towards the sea
Cybele. We engaged another boat and rowed
briskly onwards towards Venice in good earnest, lx,"r
buildings rising up like fabrics in a dream, from the blue;
expanse, as we entered her watery streets, shot under the.-
arches of the Rialto, and stopped suddenly at the foot of
the flight of steps, giving entrance to the Leone Bianco.
To me there was nothing melancholy, nothing gloomy,
about the appearnce of the city ; all was brilliant, sur-
prising, bustling, and animated ' • along the quays boat-
men and market-people were busily employed ; on the
shores were crowding sails and flittiag boats—those
strange boats st:en only in that region ; the form of the
palaces was so exq,:lisite, with their ranges of pointed
arches and Moorish t 1 eery, some of them splendid and
fresh looking, all touched and glowing with the rays of ,
the mid-day sun, that I forgot all that I had heard of the
tristev e, the sadness, the gloolily ruin of the place, and
saw in it only a "glorious city in the sea." We aectired a
suite of rooms, all hanging over the Canal' Grta:de, and
for an hour, I had nothing to do but to stand gaz;ng, in
fixed and delighted admiration, on the picture of Venice
spread out before me. There was the reality of all my
day-dreams ; there, beneeh my balcony, rolled and
'sparkled the deep blue sea, aer,
ass its quivering bosom
darted innumerable gondolas, 6, 13:aek but comely," with
shining silver lute-shaped prows, any i rowers with gaily-
to they stand flowered jackets, urging them along,
usual method,
row-
ing in a manner directly opposite to this
but in the same way as on the Italian .lakes. There
rose, within a few yards of me, the theme Of song n
ad
romance, the noble arch of the Rialto ; there, jla.ring in
the clear water, lay reflected, and there glowed iar reality
ranges of palaces once covered by the frescoes of Tit.iad
and Tintoretto, their lace work parapets cut sharply out
against the intensely blue sky, and the deep rich shadow'
of their long arcades brought boldly out by the searching-
beams of a sun, so golden and so genial, that it seemed
as if no cloud could change its lustre. Numerous white
sails gleamed along the shores, and many boats lay
moored to the frequent and high pillars striped with
the gay colours of Austria. Barques which wore not
the gondola shape nor hue, but with bright coloured
awnings and painted sides, Shot across the canal, and
under the peopled, bridge ; and as far as I could see,
all was life and movement on the bread expanse of the
Canal' Grande. * * Having satisased myself with
home news, I hastened to set forth, and WAS soon in the
midst of the tole of Venice, with her write)' streets ap-
pearing every two or three minutes beneath X:-
he bridge
of steps, which are crossed on the way to Merceria, and
the Mazzo di San Marco. These cede of passagos are
filled with shops all pretty and gay, though rater
small and necessarily confided ; painted Indian mats',
glass beads, models of gondolas, and every description
of trifle, such as the Palais Royal at Paris can furnish,
are crowded in the windows and in cases outside. A
continued stream Or pedestrians poured along, making
the whole scene as gay as possible, and nothing appeared
that could for an instant impress me with the idea of '
Venice being dull.—Miss Costello's Tour to Venice.

APPREHENSION OF IN CENDIA-

RIES IN ESSEX.
BRENT WOOD, THURSDAY EVENING.— For several
weeks past the spirit of incendiarism has prevailed to a
considerable extent in Essex, more especially within the
circle of a few miles of this (Brentwood), and on the
borders of Suffolk. Scarcely a night passes but a fire
of some description is discovered.
The pepetrators have been ascertained to be mere lads
in three or four cases which have been brought before
the magistrates. In this journal about a fortnight since,
appeared the particulars of an extensive fire on the pre-
mises of a farmer named Hill, residing at Wenningtoni
near Rainham, at which property amounting to between
1,-:00/: and 1,5001. was destroyed. This was the work
of au :ncendiary, but at the time no one was suspected.
Since thOu circunntances have transpired which fix con-
siderable su:Ticion on a lad in the employ of Mr. Hill,
eel a fire took place near
who was seen going towards the stack of corn imme-
to be the work of an diately before the fire, ,Last
in custody on the charge.
Bocking, which was prove.:
incen-
diary, and two lads are nod*
Another happened at Badfield, a third at Ockendon, and
a fourth, on Friday last, at Groat Warley.
With respect to the latter fire, the incendiaries, who
are quite lads, were apprehended, it may be said, almost
in the act, the fire having taken place tit three o'clock in
the afternoon. Yesterday they were taken before the
Rev. John Healy Lewis, chairman of ate bench of ma-
gistrates for the Brentwood division, when the following
evidence was given :
When placed at the bar the prisoners, whd were mi-
serable-looking half starved lads, gave their names as
William Mason, John Clegg, and William Smith, and
pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Mr. Arthur Shuttleworth, of Great Warley, saiC that
he is a farmer residing in the parish of Upminster. On
the 19th of September last he had five stacks in a Md.
leading from Warley to Upminster, two of them were
stacks of oats and one of beans, and saw them safe at one
o'clock in the afternoon. About two hours after he was
at work in one of his fields, with a boy named Wakeling,
about twonty-five roods from where the stacks stood,
when he saw. three lads, whom he believed to be the pri-
soners, sitting of a gate about three roods from the
stacks. Shortly atl`f!r three o'clock, having left off work,
they were passing the 5',4,-acks when they heard a crack-
ling noise, and the boy callej out that the stacks were on
fire. He ran directly towards ,`,hem, but in less than five
minutes they were all on fire. Ewa' were destroyed, with
the exception of half of one of the stticks of wheat.
William Wakeling corroborated his maister's testimony,
and, in addition, said he saw the boys ge: off the gate
and go towards the fields where the stacks wer:t standing.
Ephraim Hancock, of Brook-street, and Heni"v
of Brentwood, also deposed to seeing lads whom tL'ey be-
lieved to be the prisoners sitting on the gate near the
stacks, and afterwards seeing the latter in flames.
William Eldrid, constable of Warley deposed to ap-
prehending the prisoners, who were followed by a man
named Cressingham, from the gate leading to Mr. Shut-
tleworth's field. He searched them, and in the right-
hand pocket of Smith's trousers he; found a lucifer-bOx,
but no matches were in it. Upon one of the other ri
soners he found a knife.
Other evidence having been given, the prisoners were
committed to take their trials for arson at the next
Chelmsford Assizes.
It was ascertained from subsequent inquiries, that the
prisoners were not known in the neighbourhood, and
had slept the previous night to the commission of the
crime in the West Ham Union.

SALE OF THE FREEHOLD ESTATE OF ADDINGTON,
BUCKINGHADISHIRE.—Yesterday the Messrs. Szlith sold
by auction, at the Auction Mart, the valuable freohold
estate of Addington, Buckinghamshire, which was ii*Pe
of tithes and land-tax, and included the whole parish,.
with the mansion, the advowson, several grazing and
dairy farms, and the manor for game, the property being
formerly the family seat of the late General the Hon.
Vere Poulett. It is situated about five miles from Buck-
ingham, and comprises about 1,143 acres, realising from
the rents an income of about 2,6001. per annum. The
estate was offered in one lot, when, on being bought in.
containingmansi°n about 884 ages,
the grounds,
at 75,5601., it was put up in three lots. The first lo
a comprisedrk. andthe
several
farms, .
the park,
and producing 2,1361. per annum, which went f
60,500/. The second lot was a farm, &c., the number of
acres being about 216, at an annual rent of 4051, whit
fetched 12,300/. The third lot consisted 'of about
acres, yielding 821. per ar,num, which was disposed of
for 2,2001. The timber was to bo taken at a valuation.
MILDNESS OF THE WEATHER.—There is a secon
course of blossom on many wall-fruit trees, strawberries,
and other small fruit bushes in this neighbourhood.
Some of the winter flowering shrubs are also in flower
of which the lauristiuus is particularly rich.—Perthshi
Courier