The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

insects, and of which the wireworm is the ci,
doubt this, open a mole and peep into his
Again, do not fear that moles injure your crops, either in
a field or in a garden ; it is a low and vulgar error to sup-
Pose that they root up young corn,—they never go any-
where until' the wireworms have first destroyed the plants,
and then --,

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faults. If you do not like to see their hills, knock them
about with a hoe, as I did ; in is a healthful amusement,
and they will do your bouiq good. Do not despise any

Lourhood ;
and nothing t. good.-
WHAT AUSTRIA lIAS DONE FOR HER ITALIAN PRO-
VINCES.—Burke, in one of his prophetic anticipations
pronounced that the first ruin of Europe would be in it
finance, and that every kingdom was, even in his d'
wading into a boundless ocean of debt. Austri'
course, had felt its share ; and after the desperate
1805 and 1809, nothing is more wonderful in the histo
of finance, or more honourable to the rn•—•
who for forty years presided (s--- •
should bn""

is new anc

c.t.aifficu ptcy. But her libera to
her Italian provinces neveruanKru failed. Some of the details,
Which have already reached the public, give an extraor-
dinary conception of the almost prodigality with which
Austria has lavished her means upon the bridges, roads,
and general public communications of Lombardy. We
give those items in francs. Five millions spent in repair-
ing and constructing dikes in the Mantuan province.
Pour millions in completing the canal of the Naviglio.
A million and a half for roads in the mountains of the
Bergamesque. A million and a half for the great com-
mercial road of the Splugen. Two millions and a half
for the road over the Hitler Jock. Three millions for
continuing it along the shore of the lake Como. Three
millions and a quarter for completing the cathedral of
Milan. A million for improvements in the city. Half
a million for the fine bridge over the Ticino. Twenty-
four millions for cross-roads, between 1814 and 1831,
besides miscellaneous expenditure ;—the whole being not
less than sixty-six millions in the fifteen years preceding
1834, in the mere matter of keeping up the means of
intercourse in a country where, half a century ago, the
cross-roads were little more than goat tracks ; besides the
annual expense of about a million and a quarter on the
repair of the roads since. And this munificent liberality
Was expended in Lombardy alone. The expenditure in
Venice in the latter period of its possession has been
nearly equal. The first French conquest has --*
the name of constitution, and nothing else. _
republic was plundered to the last coin. On its seconc
seizure its treasury was again emptied by its French
emancipators ; and when it was restored to Austria in
its population presented a pauper list of fifty-four
iousand individuals. Its commerce was in a state of
Xl4; its palaces and public buildings were in a state of
ecay its charitable establishments were without funds ;
" a tew years more must have filled its canals with the
Wrecks of its houses. Within the next twenty years the
reparations cost the Austrian treasury not less than fifty-
three miY

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The famous

dition
!hteh liof francs ! Thus Venice rose from a
ns all our travellers, immediately aftereon the
Pnow
of 1815, pronounced to be irreparable ruin, and i!
olos.;ne of the first commercial cities in Italy. But the