New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-04

In coins and puioh'
Tot., 1901, lso 1877 FORMS
Otis certain" says French author, that the
modest but Sustained action Of this company OF mer-
chants on the affairs of the Levant has been for years.
to say the least quite as efficient and much more hon.
orab.e than that of Austrian diplomacy"
The revival of commerce and the development OF
steam nave in the Adratic cannO fail to call into
life in more or less remote future, an Adrstic navy
extinct since the downfall of Venice. Napoleon, with
his peculiar of mind, thought to create this navy
without waiting for the reestablishment OF maritime
commerce-an experiment he made simultaneously at
Antwerp aud at VeIice. Having succeeded in raising
armies without people to back them, he did not
doubt his power to organize navies without marine
to rely upon. But apart from the inherent impossible
ties of such scheme Napoleon stumbled on difficult
ties of local character altogether unforeseen. Having
dispatched his abest engineers to Venice, completed
the Notifications Of that city, repaired the floating ma
Terrell restored the ancient activity OF the shp-oulld
ing Yards IL was all at once discovered that the tech
meal progress in maritime war and navigation had
struck with the impotence the harbor OF Venice
TO which the new roads of commerce had condemned
its commerce and shipping. 1t was sscertaned that,
however excellent for the accommodation OF the an
cent galeys the harbor Of Venice lacked the depth
required for modern ships Of the line, and that even
figates unable to enter the port without disem-
barking their guns save with concurrence of southern
winds and spring tides. Now, for modern naval portS
il i. vital condition that they admit ships to enter at
all times and that they be deep and cspscous enough
to hsrbor whole feet, both for attack and defense
Bopaparte found, too that he had committed another
mistake. BY the treaties Of Campo Formio and Lune-
ye he had cut off Venice from the eastern shores Of
the Adriatc, and thus deprived it of the crews for
manning its fleets. From the mouth Of the lsonzs
down to Ravenna he searched in vain for maritime
population the gondoers of Venice and the fishermen
of the Iagunes Ia nid and scanty race) being wholly
unable to supply any valuable maritime force Napo-
Icon saw now, what the Venetians had discovered al.
ready in the tenth century, that the rule of the Adr
attic can belong only 10 the poe.essor of its eastern
shores. Hs perceived that bis treaties Of Campo
For1no ard Luneyla were enormous miAaaes-snr'
rendering to Austria the maritime populations OF tho
Adrstic and reseving for himself the name OF an oo
soete harbor (nqagni m0mHis rmbraaJ 10 make
good his earlier blundes he appropriated lsuia ana
Dslnata by the subsequent treaties OF Presburg ana
Vienna.
Strabo long ago observed that while the Adriatic
coast of Italy is totally deficient in creeks and harbo
the yran coast on the opposite side sbounds IN eA
cellent ports and, during the civil wars Of Rome, we
see Pompey easy forming large fleets on the coasts OF
Epirus and nyria while Cesar, ON the ltaan shores'
was able only after unexampled efforts to collect
small force Of boats for the conveyance of his troop
divisions With It's deep missions, with the WHO rocA'
of II. islands, with the eandbanks strewed about every
where and with It's admirable harbors OF refugee 'hs
coast Of lstra and Dama6a is frst-rate nursery o,
good seamen-sailors with vigorous limos ana n'iop'u
hearts seasoned in the storms which almost dauy as
tate tie Adratic. The bora, which is the great u.s.
turber of that sea, always arises without the iea''
warning; it attacks seamen with all the vo'snoo
tornado and permits none but the hardest 70 Keep inc
deck Sometimes il RACES for weeks together anu inc
domain of its greatest fury is comprised eIac'y WHINE
the mouths of Cat,aro and the south point OF i'tna
TIE Dslmatar, however, accustomed 10 o.a'e HUN
childhood bardeps under its BREATH and despises the
vulgar gales of other seas. Thus, air, lana ana sea
combine TO breed the robust and sober mariner OF THIS
coast. i',,
Sisnopdi has remarked that sik-rnanuiacture Is a.
natural to the peasant Of Lombardy as the spinning Oh
silk il to the skworm. Thus, to take to the sea is as
Daiural to the Dalmstian as it y 10 Inc 1ea'io"i'
Piracy s as much the theme Of their popular songs a.
robbery by land ia the theme OF the oid ieuonc po
e,rv. The Dalma,an stiIl chsrishes the memory Of
the wild EXHIBITS of the Uskoks, who FOR century
and haf ken. in check tho regular forces Of Venice
ana Turkey and whose caIeoT ives ns' Stopped oe"ie
he treaty. .uded between Turkey ssd Austria 10