The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

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THE RAILROAD TO VENICE.—Since the fates have
decreed that the modern improvement and convenience
of a railroad is to introduce the sea-born goddess to all
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magnificent, surprising, or suitable to the city would have
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been projected than the fine range of arches which rise
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a straight line, throwing a chain of stone from one pro-
jection of land to the other. So splendid and so singular
ap-
pearing in character with the ancient reputation of Ve-
nice,l
aqueduct, for such it seems and indeed will answer the
purpose of such, will perhaps restore the ruined com-
merce of the Queen of the Lagunes, and she may once
more raise her diademed head amongst the cities, lofty
and commanding as of yore. Probably by the time these
reminiscenses have passed through the press, this won-
drous railroad will be completed, and Venice be made as
easy of access as any other town of the north of Italy. A
continuation is projected to Milan, and, if the consent of
the King of Sardinia can be gained, Turin will be joined
to that ; how rapid then will be the route from Paris to
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mountainsan ingenuityless perilous, Venice and Paris could shake hands in a
day. I could not help looking on the stupendous bridge
coul Lyons,d
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thefromroTaudrin across t o Vtheeniectee
eternal
of three miles, which was so rapidly advancing towards
completion, with admiration, from the covered boat in
which we were seated, as it bounded over the waves ; we
were the sole passengers to Venice, except a prer,„l, „.„_

tleman who appeared connected with the works, and who
was merely going to the city for letters. He had, he in-
formed us, never seen its wonders, as he only visited it
on business, and should remain as short a time as possi-
ble there, as he considered it a " triste sejeur!"—Miss
Costello's Italy.
NUTRIMENT IN SUGAR.—The nutritive I

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sugar are much underrat
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ielphia, maintains that sugar

er, of any subject in nature. Horses
and cattle were fed wholly on it at St. Domingo for some
months, when the exportationsof sugar and importation of
grain were prevented from want of ships. During the
crop time in the West Indies all appear fat and flourishing.
The cattle fed on the cane tops become sleek and in fine
condition. The negroes drink freely of the juice, and be-
come fat and healthy. Sir George Staunton observes, that
many of the slaves and idle persons in China bide them-

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selves among the canes, and live entirely on them for a
time. In that kingdom the emperor compels his body-
guard to eat a certain quantity of sugar every day, that
they may become fat and look portly. Sugar and rice
constitute the common food of the people, and every kind
of dom'estic animal is fed on sugar. Plagues, malignant
fevers, and disorders of the breast, are unknown in the
countries where sugar is abundantly eaten as food. The
celebrated Dr. Franklin used to drink syrup every night
before he went to bed to alleviate the agonies of the stone.
—Popular Errors Explained,
e I VENICE ON CANVAS, AND VENICE ON THE SEA.—It

is this all-pervading presence of light, and this suffusion
of rich colour glowing through the deepest shadows, which

make the very life and soul of Venice ; but not all who
have dwelt in Venice, and breathed her air and lived in
her life, have felt their influences ; it is the want of them
which renders so many of Canaletti's pictures false and
nsatisfactory—to me at -* Al' the t'tne 1 was at

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Venice I was in a rage at Canaletti. I could not come
upon a palace, or a church, or a corner of a canal, which
I had not seen in one or other of his pictures. At every
moment I was reminded of him. But bow has he painted
Venice? Just as we have the face of a beloved friend
reproduced by the daguerreotype, or by some bad con-
scientious painter—some fellow who gives us eyes, nose,
and mouth by measure of compass, and leaves out all
but shall I find it.?
and we canna endure it. Where in Canaletti are the
glowing evenirg Skies—the transparent gleaming waters—
thesentiment, all countenance; we cannot deny the identity,
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freshness and the glory—the dreamy, aerial, fantastic
splendour of this city of the sea? Look at one of his
bright green of the vine-shadiocweesdpeel'eriiatsai
johuneit:to—the
pictures—all is real, opaque, solid, stony, formal; even
his skies and water—and is that Venice ? " But," says
pictures."
Venice is like a dream—but this dream upon the canvas,
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the wondrous beauty of detail, the clear, delicate
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Venice
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it
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lines of
the flying perspective—so sharp and defined in the midst
of a flood of brightness—where are they ? Canaletti gives
us the forms without the colour or light. Turner, the
colour or lights without the forms. But if
you would
dm you friend,
call
take into your soul the very soul and inward lifeand
spi-
rit of Venice—breathe the same • •
air—go to Titian ; there
is more of Venice in his " Cornaro Family," or his
" Pesaro Medonna," than in all the Canalettis in the cor-
ridor of Windsor. Beautiful they are, I must needs sal
it ; but when I think of enchanting Venice, the moat
beautiful are to me like prose translations of poetry
petrefactions, materialities—" We start, for life
eis
things
want-
ing there." I know not how it is, but certainlyat
s Venice. It
that would elsewhere displease,-
delight as
church of St.
has been said, for instance, " Pat downb
it barbarous here.
Mark anywhere but in the Piazzi,
it
where east and west have met to blend together,
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