The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-30
Correspondence Of the Necark Dauy Advert;sey.

So0s Souc W 1000.
The establishment of a new iournaI in th;. o;,,,
entitied me Raittcay. may be reckoned among
the slgns OF progress in Italy. The importance nf
introducing the modern means of social and com.
merclal intercourse is in fact, already apnrec;aIJ
On the LIST October the line of rails which ara -
connect us with the railways of France and IN. st
OF Europe will be completed to Turin, and in ali he
cember it will be opened to the foot of the alps at the
be able to travel from London, through the CONT.
nent, to Turin. Genoa, Florence, Naples, &C., by
steam, except the short interval between Lyons and
Mount Gents. That part OF the line is now under
contract, and the work will be pursued with all
practicable despatch.
When this track shall be completed it must be-
come the great highway of intercourse between
Europe and the East. We already have tele-
graphic communication with Paris and London,
so that events in those capitals are reported here
almost simultaneously with their first publica
ton, and American news may thus be promu.
gated here on the hour of its arrival at Liverpool
that is, ten days after date.
These Improvements, and the reasonable expec.
taton Of the Enlistment of lines of steamers TO-
New York and Rio, have given q new impulse to
the city, which is now undergoing some very i'm
portant physical changes. Old buildings are to be
superseded this season by new ones better adapted
to business some of the narrow streets are to be
widened, the wharves will be materially improved,
and plans have been adopted, through British en-
terpr'sc, to improve the harbor itself. Merchant.
and capitalists. who have hitherto adhered with
e'ou iio!e IMAM Dotcn tenaclty TO their old ways,
have 1T length attained better understanding of
their own interests. Genoa will therefore become
once more the second, if not the fret port of the
Mediterranean. War alone can interrupt this
course of progress
Italy, and especially Piedmont has lost one of its
most lliustrious men, by the death of Count Caesar
Ralbo, who died at his residence in Turin on the
4th instant, aged about seventy years He belong
ed to of the most ancient families of italy and
trace its line with undoubted accuracy to Julius
Cesar His historical and political writings have
placed him among the first of the Italian writer's
and ne did as much, perhaps, as any other person
to introduce the constitutional syetem of govern
ment of this country He has been member of
its Parliament from it's beginning.
Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland passed
through this city on Thursday the I'd instant for
Turin, accompanied by nephew, Mr.. c. H. Con
dit, of New Jersey. This eminent prelate is,
am grieved to learn, in infrm health, though he is
on the whole better than when he left home After
reposing fer few days at Turin, he proposes to
proceed eisurely to Milan, Venice, and Florence
He will scarcely venture far south as Rome
since he proposes to take the Liverpool steamer of
the 18th August for New York in order to reach
home by the lst of September 1t is to be regretted
that official engagements should constrain him TO
cut short tour which to promise just now
30 much needed amelioration OF his health.
Drs. Bache and Wood, of Philadelphia with
their families, among the American travellers
who have passed through within few days, en-
route Tor Moscow Yours, &c.