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military ransom to the army Of the first
French Republic. During all these centuries
she has seemed to he buoyed up by the pro-
phetic hope Of her destiny, which she is now
enjoying in her beauty and her commercial
prosperity. The Austrian sovcrcigns. for
about 900 years, Especially Leopold l.,
Charles VI. Maria Theresa, and Joseph 1T.,)
have looked to her Ms the great commercial
and maritime port of the Empire and have al
ways seconded the bright hopes Of her people.
Leopold |. made special visit to Trieste 900
years ago, which is COMMUNICATED bya noble
column surmonntcd by his statue in bronze
in fr mt of the Exchange and IL monumental |
column of Charles VI is in the great Square. |
She has been free port about l40 years, and |
she permits the free exercise of religious
worship This freedom has attracted to her |
cntcrprsirg merchants of all countries,
whose rvalrios and successes have given to
her her solid prosperity, and all her chnrac-
teristi: attractions, with now about 100 900
pconle--a little less.
al Traders Of every naton-Turks and Jews,
Greeks, Romans Yankcc.doodles and IIindoos" "
have been permitted to meet on the level OF
the highest commercial equality; and on the
DAYS and at the hours Of public worship, the
Lutheran and the CAl,nist, the Greek, the
jew and the Roman Catholic, as in our own
country, GEEK their own several places Of
worship, and in their own way worship the
God Of their fathers, saying to Him, in spirit
and in truth. " there is none to modest or to
make afraid" The Catholics ore about nine
ty per cent. of the population. The Luther
an Church, with its inscriptions and monu-
ments, was purchased by the Lutherans OF
the Catholics On the opposite side of the
street to the Catholic Church, Santa Maria
Maggiorc, is the Calvinist Church purchased
of the Jcsuits There is, also, 4 beautiful
little English Episcopal Church, two Greek
Churches, and three Jewish Synagogucs.
Enlightened Commerce is great preacher Of
christian liberation, if not of union or unity.
This religious freedom was commenced by
Maria Theresa, and established and perfected
by Joseph II.
In the Exchange in the streets and along
the wharves, you sec tho various picturesque
costumes OF the Turk and tn. Egyptian,
the American and the Syrian, as well as
the Greek The ship Socrates saw thers,
and for the convenience Of business as well
as society, the better classes speak fucntly
three to six languages, the Italian, the Ger
man, the French. the Greek, the English
and the Sclavic, and their dress uniting the
best characteristics Of the various costumes,
is almost romantic in its richness, its cxqui-
site taste, its graceful bearing and its spot
less and dazzling neatness.
noticed here what do not remem Der to
have ever seen in city before. l had seen
oxen used more variously than with MS In
crossing the Apprentices IL yoke OF oxen was
| added for an extra pair Of leaders to take
our diligence up the mountain sleeps, which
was little odd. In Italy had often seen
an OK harncssed sometimes with u horse,
and sometimes with donkey, but here in
, Trieste oxen appear to be the usual beasts
Of burthen for the drly service Of the streets,
and what struck me as useful economy for
the drayman Of small means was the prac-
tce Of working single OK, as We work
sin l. horse in the cart or dray service Of
our cities. A single OK hardly costs quar-
ter the price OF good horse, will draw quite
as large a load--is even more reliable and
trUstworthy,-i, maintained at less expense,
is more hardy and patient, and when his
life ceases to be useful his death brings back
in the prizes of beef all his original cost.
| Here they have the R)nln mouse color, and
arc often crossed with the buffalo. You see
them lying down at their drlys and chewing
the cud all about the public wharves. The
single OK is harnesscd between the shafts Of
his dray, and in solitary usefulness moves
solemnly through the streets and along the
wharvos dragging his four wheeled drAy, the
wheels not more than IS inches in diameter,
and his wagon body, often vast wicker
basket of unpeeled willow twigs, light and
strong and capacious. S. too, a pair Of oxen
is worked in a long, low, narrow wagon. l
saw also, many men harncssed to smaller
drays with basket bodies and wheels not
more than Is inches highland one or two
men on each side of tho polo or tongue, tug
ging away with ropes or other tackle over
the shoulder 1t struck us as strange, per-
hNps slavlsh, but after all, it was only
little change of form in substance the same
ms our portcrs with their handcarts, 50 nu-
merous in all our own cities, tuggng at
their voluntary loads.
Yours, Z. c.