The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

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attention had not been paid to the order in which
the comet's tail, represented by the sparkling
boats, followed the Imperial Galleggiante. Most
fortunate are the Venetians in the civil gover-
nor placed over them—the Count Bissengen-_la
man respected and beloved by all, and in the firm,
gallant old soldier, the military governor. In the
evening the Imperial party went to the Fenice.

The national—perhaps the imperial hymn would he
Gteedn,imanaddiVergy."
a more proper name—was sun;, and Albertini did
lblyeroorbdeesrt, iinllitilmiein"a
wThloiehcaitdypwaasid
handsomely to have his suspension-bridge Neville, splen-
didly illuminated, might have had the mortification,
if he was gazing
enlightening
Grand Canal, to see the whole snuffed out an hour
after it was lighted by one gust of wind. He might
have exclaimed, "Ye envious gods ! ye snuffed it
out !" And they snuffed out many others, making
a great saving of oil to the contractors. Before
we come to the more important points, it may be
remarked that everything was propitious, and that
everything passed off uncommonly well. As this
is the Emperor's entrance to his Italian dominions,
it is far more important for you to be informed of
the actual feeling, politically speaking, than of all
the glitter and gold of gingerbread his()
nnas. Ido
I do not believe there is one man in all
Venice who
is animated by any hatred to the Im •
penal family ;
indeed, it would be difficult to dislike one so young,
so courteous and kind as the Emperor, or one so
is
lovely as the Empress ;if there any hatred it is
to the system, not to the people. Of course the
Venetian papers are filled with poetry as flattering
as an epitaph ; and Correr, the P
odesta, made the
best of his subject when, in his address to his Ma-
jesty, he said—" Deign to accept the devoted
homage, by my mouth expressed, of the one hun-
dred and more thousand inhabitants of Venice."
Gently, gently, Signor p
odesta, you wear specta-
cles, and perhaps you do not see very clearly ; and
if, as you say, " the whole city rejoices and is
proud to possess the sacred person of your Impe-
rial Majesty," they might have expressed it them-
selves in cheers which --
would have been raised in
the public garden, been taken up and more loudly
swollen along the Schiavoni, burst into a thunder-
storm on the Piazza
and died in faint echoes over
and the Fondamenta Miserieor , the Giudeeca ' dia •
but where •is the historian who dares to pen such a
falsehood ? The respectful,
but
reception was fairly
but there was no ebullition of joy to make the
eyes wet or the heart beat ; oven at the opera
many boxes were vacant, and in the pit many
stalls without a tenant, nor was there any fear
of being squeezed into a mummy in the lobbies.
Still, when his Majesty appeared, there was every
demonstration of respect; now, indeed, even if it
were not sincere, and I believe it was sincere, a
very few paid voices would wake a great noise in
the Feuice ; besides which, iu carefully scanning
the company, the most passionate admirer would
discern the immense number of white uuforms, and
the many, many boxes in which stars and uniforms
prevailed. It is only fair to say, I heard neither is
public nor in private violent enthusiasm. The
Venetians will show no disrespect. They are a
quiet, orderly set of people ; and the narrowest
street may be threaded in the darkest night with-
out fear of being garroted or plundered. They have
evidently accepted what was a necessary conse-
quence after the battle of Novara , • and I am con-
fident, that their young Emperor might walk unin-
jured and as safely along the narrow, crowded
streets of Venice, and more so, than I •
f he were
hedged by all the troops of the garrison. But
there is no enthusiasm, and many __
_ balance the
1 honour of his visit in the opposite scale with an in-
I evitable rise in the articles of life.

A PERILOUS RIDE.---A journeyman hatter, residing
about half a mile from Plainfield, while going from that
place to his home, on Saturday night, being on the track
at the time an extra coal train was going up the Central
Railroad, was caught by the caw-catcher, and after seve-
ral unsuccessful attempts to notify the engineer of his
whereabouts, he arrived in Somerville. He kept his cou-
rage up with the idea that the train would stop at some
intermediate station, but it being only a coal train, he
was obliged to go all the way through. Hie. leg was
broken, and it is a wonder that he was not instantly
killed, —l:mem A iter (can

THE EMPEfIOR OF AUSTRIA'S VISIT4V;4':

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VENICE, Nov:
The Sacred Bronzes, as flowery writers call their
old worn-out bell-metal, made a discordance of
sounds--guns fired, bands played, and the multi- -
tude gaped at. the various bisonna. About two
o'clock the smoke of divers steamers notified the
approach of the Emperor. The guns on the differ-
ent forts on the Lido reverberated over the city ;
the long galleries of the Doge's Palace, which had
been prepared for spectators, became animated and
crowded ; the bisonne assembled at the Giardino
Publico ; the troops occupied the Piazza and Piaz-
zetta ;. red cloth was laid down for the. Imperial
feet ; and the great veteran of this or any other
day, Radetzsky, became an object of admiration.
But whilst expectation held her breath, the Impe-
rial steamer got hard and fast aground. The tide
was sill ebbing, and by a certain bad management,
as far as time was concerned, the royal squadron
came into the difficult navigation leading to Venice
nearly at low water. After a quarter of an hour,
the vessel, bearing the standard of Austria, was
seen again to move, and she rounded the last clump.
of piles which marks the deep water exactly at 3
o'clock, having accomplished the last turn not in
the most seamanlike manner ; for, although she
had run a hawser out to swing her round, she was
obliged to drop her anchor, and consequently to
weigh it again. At this particular point the scene
was most exciting. Two Austrian men-of-war,
dressed in colours, with the yards manned--the sea-
men waving their hats and cheering—the guns
firing—the distant sounds of the busy hum of men
—the toll of the Sacred Bronzes—the vast assena-
blae'e of boats—the thousands of flags from every
slip off Venice fluttering in the light breeze—the
clear view of the ducal palace, with the pillars which
bear St. Theodore on his crocodile—the spicy, fiery-
looking Winged Lion of St. Mark's—with all the
magnificent churches and campanile of this Ocean
Queen, made the scene most imposing and beauti-
ful. England was represented by her flag on
board the Caradoc ; which vessel having broken:._
her main shaft had come up near the Giiidinci
Publico to get repaired. She was, like other ves-
sels, dressed in colours, and contributed her share
in the show. The Imperial steamer, having got
abreast of file public gardens, the Emperor and
Empress embarked in the Galleggiante, which, how-
ever gorgeous, was more like a loaf of sugar, en-
larged and carefully scooped out (but we must re-
member our own Lord Mayor's gingerbread barge
and be discreet), followed by eight bisonne of the
municipality, not to mention the Peote and the
bisonne of the Church, and the nobility and the
different consulates, bearing the flags of their
respective countries, in the bows of their gondolas.
The sea seemed alive with splendour. The clear-
ness of the day, the brilliancy of the boats, and
the various uniforms made the Venetian waters
sparkle as in the old days when Dodges were floated
in the Bucentaur. A word or two about this bis-
&nine before we proceed. They are long boats
very awkward in appearance, dressed out in silks
and satins. These boats are covered over with
gay and fluttering awnings ; the bow has generally,
some fancy figure, holding a light, thin, airy dra-
pery, under which stands—in the Imperial pre-
scence, or reclines in less majestic company—the
owner of the bisonna. There was one that be-
longed to the Count Jacopo Treves, the crew of
which seemed, in contradiction to Theodore Hook's
sticking-plaster tights of the clergy, to have
adopted gold-beaters' skin cossacks ; and in the
sunshine they cracked and sparkled gaily. An-
other had all the rowers dressed like harlequins ;
and a third wore Highland costumes, after the
most approved Venetian taste ; but they all con-
tributed, by their gold and glitter, to enhance the
brilliancy of the scene. In nearing the Piazzetta,
where a temporary landing-place had been
erected, the crowd of the vulgar gondolas de-
tracted from the show, which was not conducted
with any kind of naval discipline, until at last the
gondoliers' shouts, as they raised what Byron called
their musical voices, not in " Tasso's echoes," but
in rather coarse poetry, to warn each other to keep
clear, seems to have been mistaken by the editor of
the Gazzeta U.giizale di Votiziec for enthusiastic

cheers. It is not the first time in another country
where the same has occurred, and been recorded as
such. The royal party, duly escorted to St. Marco,
returned thanks, no doubt with much sincerity, for
having escaped the dangers of the sea voyage—and
this, indeed, would only have been common grati-
tude, notwithstanding the calm— and then the Em-
peror having taken up his stand near the entrance
to his palace of the Piazza, the troops defiled before
him to the cheerful notes of an Hungarian polka ;
bows and salutations followed, and so far his Ma-
jesty was safe in his Italian dominions, and. the
glittering scene was over. Here, however, 1 must
remark upon the military part of the show. I have
never seen troops better dressed, more soldier-like
in their demeanour, more accurate in their ma-
nostivres than the Austrian soldiers on the Piazza.
:They retle.at _the.graatest credit ort the military go-
vernor, Gorzkowski, and of their respective officers.
The green sprig of leaf placed in each hat gave a
pleasant contrast to the white uniforms, which
looked as clean, as speck and span, as ifjust turned
out of the tailor's shop. The whole arrangements
were admirably made and conducted—all but the
naval department, for, as I said before, sufficient

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