New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-05-25

ro,eign correspondence VI ihe -'e"-i o'A i'oui'e'
VENICE, BY FEsRARA AND BOLOGNA, TO FLORENCE.
yry,cE is the most fascinating of cities TO a
,,,s;ng stranger, but must be the most gloomy
= permanent resident. Even the traveller,
,bouch he does not cease TO acknowledge her
charms, finds them at last rather monotonous, and
rets tired Of dining on Always partridge" He
feels too the dcsolaton of the once proud Re-
public saddcning all his thoughts, and he is at
lsst glad 10 leave the mermaid city uhough with
many lingering look behind and return to the
main land, where he can see horses and trees.
But to leave Venice and reach Florence you
must obtain permission Of the Austrian Police
to quit the city, of the Papal Consul to pass
through corner of the dominionso of his Holiness,
and of the Tuscan Consul to enter his master
territory though this last is less imperative than
the rest, for the excellent Grand Duke has no
fear Of conspirators. Each of these of course
takes fee, but the Tuscan after putting his big
seal on the passport said to me, " There is little
fee Of two zWanzigers for the clerk" to whom
be pointed | accordingly paid the clerk and
went out, but as turned to close the door saw
the clerk handing the money TO his master, who
BY this ludicrous evasion, contrived to pocket
the cash, and at the same time save his dignity
The Papal Consul had no such delicacy, but
made the blunder OF inserting on his register the
name of the Secretary Of State who had signed
the passport, instead of that of its bearer. His
error is not surprising however, since our Gov.
eminent issues passports written in English
precisely the only tongue for which passports are
never needed-nstead of in French, the univer.
sal language.
Though Venice is under Austrian authority,
yet is free port and therefore your luggage is
examined on leaving it, and after being searched
it's corded and sealed, lest you should smuggc
something into it before you reach the mainland.
They act universally on tbe presumption that all
the world arc rascals-forgetting that some are
not Austrans.
The Diligence which here is a gondola,
leaves at eight in the morning and. after taking
last fond look at the Piqsza San Marco, we
seated ourselves in the little cabin, and were
rowed to Mesfra across the Lagoon, leaving be-
hind us, perhaps forever, the Ocean City. On
leaving the boat, we met with curious instance
OF the Venetian confusion of the language Of
land and water carriage. for the man who had
steered the gondola, asked COR Qualche cos,,"
as Position of the Omnibus ~
AT Mestrd VIC found real diligence waiting
with real live horses, which we walked around
and looked at as curiously as if they had been
Giraffes, such novelties were they to our eyes
naturalIzed in Venice. By three in the morning
they brought US to Padva, opposite The grca,
Cafe Pedrocchi, which was brilliantly lighted, as
if it were yet only evening, for, as waiter said
proudly This Cafe never closes day or night"
AT midday we crossed the Pc into the Papal
States The river was passed by wretched
ferry beat, but the bank on the other side was SO
steep that the heavy diligence could not be drag
gcd up ii by the horses, till fifty men added their
strength If such ferry as the Popc's existed
in America it would be at once indicted. His
officers however kindly passed the luggage with
merely nominal examination in consideration
Of Qualche cosa," and We soon entered FER.
RARA, with its moss covered walls, and its wide
and grass grown streets, whose symmetry was
not for solitude.
TAsSo is the glory and the shame Of this
city, or rather of its former sovereign, the Duke
Alfonso d'Este. The prison OF the great poet is
The most interesting object in Fcrrara. 1t is
cell under the hospital of Santa Anna, with
solid stone walls and low vauted roof and in it,
according TO an inscription over the door, TasSo
was imprisoned for seven years and two months.
1t is lighted by grated window, before which
wac formerly garden, and from another window,
now built up, he could look upon the palace and
see Leonora, according 10 the guide, who spoke
as II he had been contemporary of these scenes
Of the sixteenth century. Upon the walls are
the names of four modern poets, Byron, Victor
Hugo, Lamartne and Delavigne, inscribed by
their own hands, and the English one is said to
have remained three hours in the prison with
table and candle writing his Lament of Tasso."
The door is half cut away by the seekers OF
relics, and the bcds,ead is long since used up,
but modern antquarians contend in spite Of all
'nis cumulative testimony, that this was never
'heprison of Tasso, In these cases blind belief
is the most truly philosophical but those who
prefer arriving at the most probable truth will
ind the latest and fullest Investigations into the
history of the great author OF the I" Jerusalem
Delivered " IN u work lately published by one OF
our own counirymen, the Hon. X. II. Wilde, who
Is one oil the few statesmen among us, who have
had the good sense and the GOOD taste IN nrelero
tho pursuits and the honors OF elegant literature
70 the temporary notonety OF politics and party.
f7TGrd IS aiIiaent IN great poets, for it is the
city and ounai-piace of ARiosro. Unlike most
poets and prophets, nc is not without honor IN
bis own country, for in the mids, of the CITY
large square is named after him, ard In its centre
is lofty marble column, entwined with scup.
turcd vine, and surmounted by statue of the
poet, with an inscription al the base, 1.-The