New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-11

overshadow The land with their shovel hats, so
tina, Corn has no fair chance Of sunshine The
Churches Of this City alone must have cost Ten
Millions Of Dollars-:or you cannot walk hun
died steps wIihou; passing one, and the wealth
layished in their constructions and adornment
exceeds I'll. be,iei-whlle an the common school
houses n Genoa would not bring fifty thousand.
The Test minds OF the country are now ponder
incthe urgent necessity Of speedily establishing
q system Of efficient Popular Education.
b., the Nation Is deeply IN debt, and laoorins
under heavy burdens Is Industry IS inefficient,
its Commerce meager. Its Revenues slender
while the imminent peril of Austrian invasion
compels the keeping mp OF an Army OF Fifty
Thousand effective men ready 10 take the feld AZ
a moments warning But for the notorious ana
active hostility of three-fourths of Continental
Europe 10 the Liberal policy Of It's rulers, Sar-
DINA might dispense with three-tourths OF this
force and save It's heavy cost tor Education and
Internal Improvement. As things are, women
mus, toll IN the fields while Physical and Mental
Improvement must wait IN order that the Nation
NAV sustain in virtual idlenesS Fifty Thousand
Soldiers and Sixty Thousand Priests.
Yet great are the blessings of Freedom, even
under the creates, disadvantages. Turn Is now
increasing IN Industry and Population with ra-
pditv unknown to It's former history. Looking
only at The new buildings Just erected or now IN
progress, you might mistake II for an American
city Unless checked by future wars. Turn Will
double is population between 1850 and 1850.
,atl. sole
impulse. vet even here the march OF improve
mcnt is visible. Three years more OF peace will
witness the substitution for its long period OF
stagnatlon and decay eff an activity surpassed by
;ha, of no city IN Europe.
Turin Is eigby located and well built, most
Of the houses being large tall, and the walls of
decided strength and thickness but Genoa Is
even superior IN most respects II not IN all. |
never saw 50 many churches SO admirably con-
structed and gorgeously laborlously ofna-
monted as the half dozen visited yesterday and
this morning. Ny guide says there are sixty
churches IN Genoa "a city about the size OF BoS-
ton. though with fewer houses and much
smaller area than Brooklyn) and that they are
nearly all built and adorned with similar II not
eollol disregard of cost \ modest, graceful
monument to Christopher Columbus, the Cen
oese dscoverer of America, was one OF the hrst
structures that met my eve on entering the city,
and an eating house In the square OF the CHEF
theater is STYLED Cafe Restaurant / lmmor-
tel Chr. Colombo or something very near that.
never before saw so many admirable specimens
of costly and graceful architecture as have ar
rested nv attention in wandering through the
streets of Genoa. At least half the houses were
constructed for the private residences OF merchant
princes in the palmy days of Genoa the SUI
perb. and their wealth would seem to have been
practically boundless The Hotel de Londres,'
in which write, was originally convent, and
no house in New-York can vie with 1t in the
massiyeness of It's walls, the hight of its ceilings,
&c Ny bedroom, appropriately furnished
would shame almost any American parlor OF
drawine-room. All around me testlnes oi the
.uoa,,,,s, tho, h.- Lvvm. VINO shall say that It Is
nor soon to return The narrow streets very
few OF them pasSable 10y carriages) and uneven
ground-p plot are the chief draw backs on this mag
niiicence bat the city rises so regularly and
gracefully from the harbor as to seem like glo.
rious amphitheater and the inequality so wearI-
some to the legs, is beauty and a pleasure to
the eye 1t gives, besides opportunity for the
finest Architectural trumphs. The Cangnanl
Church is approached by massive bridge thrown
across a rayine from which you look down on
the tops OF se,en-story houses, and walked this
morning in public garden which looks down
into private one some sixty feet below 1t. The
perpendicular stone wall which separates these
gardens is at least five feet thick at the top, and
must have cost an immense sum but IN fact the
whole city has been three times completely
walled in, and the latest and most extensive Of
these walls is still in good condition, and was
successfully defended by Massena IN the siege of
1900, until Famine compelled him to surrender.
May that stand recorded TO the end of human
no Ia - $40 pf Genoa q