New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-06
Foreign Letter.
SPECTATOR.
Correspondence of tb. grtsr.nt.

Correspondents of tbt Grfsrent.
FLokEscH December "a, 1853
The beautiful climate of Italy is one of the greatest
bumbugs of this humbugging age How it acquired
such celebrity it is difficult to conceive have heard
solution offered however perhaps it is the true one
viz that Englishmsn at the bottom of the whole mat
ter that they nnd the climate of Italy much mdsr and
every way more beautiful than the continual mist drz
za ofLondon that jumping conclusions they always
do, they have imagined it the very finest climate the
world at least all the books of travels published In Lon
don for the last few centuries have pronounced it
Now there never greater mistake in the world To
say that the weather in Italy ia barely endurabe about
far the truth be stretched with any degree Of
safety. believe that much rain falls in Italy in win
ter as In California the Isthmus, 1t is nothing but
rain rain from morning till night and rain frem night
till morning. No consumptve person should
ally. know that many do come, and also know that
ninetenths Of them come to die person ia not
fdent about his lungs and must needs travel let him 90
to st. Augustine and winsr-certainy the finest and
most equable climate in the worldand perhaps they will
md that Ponce de Leon not far out of the way
in seeking the Fountain Of Youth among the ever
gades of Florida Turin Of all the italian cities is If
may be allowed the expression the least Itagnxsd The
language spoken there is barbarous patos and to
person returning from Tuscany the place has cold and
extraordinary aspect without any magnfcence to offset
the prim Phadsphiaks regularity of Its streets 1t
49, perhaps the poorest IN recoeotiong OF the
any city in Italy Its history, whether the En-
pre during the middle ages is almost blank Yet it is
daily increasing in population, which numbers
thing like hundred aud twenty thousand This capital
Of the King of Sardinia to have grown in proper
tion with his States and do not believe it to be it
formerly supposed the smallest in Europe. Sardinia
itself odd assemblage of different people and
tres kind of political chequer work which, in its dimin-
utve proportions presents dsparitea OF soil and
not marked than in the largest empires unitss
the fertile plains Of Piedmont the frozen submits of the
Alps the arid mountains and forests of Sardinia proper
and 1t has blended into nation the INDECENT and
faithful saYoyard the rich and decetu Genoese in
trapd native Of Piedmont and the half African Sandman
Turin has been repeatedly destroyed the rayagsa
sustained from Francis l. in 1885, who demolished
the extensive suburbs and reduced the limits Of its ancient
walls The city is therefore absolutely denuded of any
vestiges of antiquity whether classical or medieval
Francis L. the Father of Letters also destroyed by his
rayages the amphitheatre and several other Roman
mains The houses nearly all of brick intended fol
stuceo-and not stuccoed-ars built large scale and
generally ornamented the windows and doors
Through the perspective Of the Streets the chain OF Alps
which surrounds the city Il continually in sight, and