New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
Milan i'm 1852.
There is an air of desolation in this fine city

There is an air of desOlaton in this fine city
which presses On the heart Ike nightmare. True the
shops ale gay and well lighted handsome Carriages
move up and down the streetsgroups OF officers swag
ger about in their elegant uniiOTl5 but still an npap
able tthlne-a heavy atmosphere, az 1t were-"th
all th- gltness and in the il glare OF this hot Gun
shine weighs you down, There priests and soldiers
tnplouts and loungers and bourgeois enough in the
main stIects but where are the pe1pet ScO"ilAg am
ragged, and illcondoned IN mind and body they are
10 be stretched out in the heat on the cphedrh
pavement, or propping themselves up against crazy
houses IN the dark courts and alleys Il II not strange
thst ell the re- pecnbe pie have shayen chins, and
that OIL the cuinmonay seem 20 delight in the greateS
length q beard they can cultivate Inquire inlo the
caue Of tir, and you will learn that the peopo
boards because they disohected Yes, in Austria
where men are muZzed with the leaden hand OF her
armed force hats and boards, aud coats and colors
speak and III made the cmbems of principles. The
other day imperial ordinance was issued 10 the effect
that no scryt nj Of the should any hr on liz
chin Lut thst he might cultivate mousiaches, uir AMI
whiskers a. be listed IL darkiy hinted that this
dnence was aimed at the young King Of Sardinia, who's
celebrated for enormous peaked beard butthat too
funny TO be credited IIowbeh, all the Austrians aud
the friends of Austria shave their cns inconnen y,
while beGrca became suddeAly popular among all the
Italians
La Seals j. shut because the teans would not listen
10 music in company with the Autriins aud the Cano
bAna nearly dcsertcc-thc partgrre presenting an
army OF two white coats for every bGek one. Tler1
IRE Austrian cafes and Italian caies distinct from
each tLer in the nationality Oi their guests II they
p8csd IN diierent continents Eater the Cat
Mszza facing the cathedral AMI yen every man in
the wclknown livery OF the Emperor, End with tho
thodox beard asplendid military band Is playing in the
Place ouiside The respectable people pass OLA fcw
poor h'Is and some boy. remain, and seem 10 listen
with eoIt Of erocou- pleasure they would conceal y
they cCuld IT, delicious stra.ns, and then when tho
music al the close Il eGuis.te A0JcocN yOu
hear efovl rom The mob, aud his. two through
the silence snd then in tear and trembling they crnge
Up TO each ether, and mctionless. II Is painful
zee, their frightened blacrty ia getting out o thc
way OF cincers ana men on the ioOtpath-.
sill. under martial law, with upward Of 1000
men within it, WALL there ID but little, however, Of
rue OppCsition TO meet the eve Tie Austrian does
his spItn quietly enough but u- step no the street.
toward mldngh;--in a few second YOU will hear
measured tIsmP snd-thore 90 the patroi-;xo men IN
front, and a cOrpOres guard behind Their march l.
just Let in the night, when again the sornd
heard and the uied agures in greatcoat and shake,
advance rom the oppose ,tTett stay i've minute,
end you will see that seepless eye Il required 10
watch the crpe Of this iron hand. IhH meets the eye
but there L., in addition the invisible poce-the spe'
and detective. One English psper creeps Ia
herc-ihc penegyrkt of the deed Of December 2 az
Taas you have few wTetcked Austrian pages hiied
with detal- or the Emperos progress, md the Ohcai
GQ-dts OF Venice the leader Of Hnch - generally
lively resaf VI the works OF the permanent courtnsr
tai and Of the sentences passed On the dbafectei-
They have by The by, just invented an excellent new
crime IL Is called "OpposItOn 10 the Emperor, and
l. very Convenient may be made 70 suit every case
in eyely Glaze One old man Of seventy has Just been
sentenced 20 some month"; imprisonment with hard r.
Dor for Correspondent OF The Times.