Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-03-22

KEEPING WARM IN ITALY.-The editor of the
New York Express is, in Europe, and from q
letter from Florence we extract as follows:
. How do people keep warm in hot climates du-
ring the winter2 am seeing and solving this
riddle daily. Fire wood is dear-of coal there
is none except the imported, and hence. the
problem of keeping warm is a problem indeed.
The natives" keep with them in their shops
and places of business, little earthen pot with
handle to it, full of hot Goals, covered over
with ashes This they hold by their finger, or
keep between their legs and this is their meth.
cd of keeping warm. They sometimes have 8
large pot in the middle of the room for general
use, which they sometimes cover over, but
oftener do not. have rushed, therefore, to the
conclusion that the only wise winter residence
for man that means to keep warm is Canada,
or Maine, or New Brunswick-for in these
atitudes the houses are all made for summer
and there is not wood enough ir the country to
warm them for winter. In higher, northern
latitudes, everything is in preparation to keep
you warm in winter-but here, in Italy, it Is
sfreeze," '.freeze, 'freeze," all the tune.
The fact however, is that people never accus-
toned to artificial warmth do not need it as an
thracite roasted people of America do. The
Elorentine complains not while shiver and
shiver.-He suns himself whena little cold up.
on the Arno, or goes at night to the opera or
theatre, where the gas and hot breath of others
keep him warm. We die in our hot rooms, in
dried up parchment skins, with dyspepsia, etc,
but the Forentine fattens and fourishes in his
damp, cold open air-so that if we were hot at
home, we suffer for it, while he is compensated
for his cold aching fingers, in his better venti-
lation or health.
Never come to Italy, then, to keep warm
Egypt is the nearest place that the warm sun
can be found in heresbouts in January. The
skies of Italy are all poetry in the American eye
and Italy sober prose with the British or North
ern Frenchman, to whom the winter sun is a
myth or rarity. Remember me writing, Jan.
%, in two overcoats and thick big blanket,
before as good wood fire as can be got up in
Florence. Be not appalled,, however, by this
discomfort There is little or no frost here
The living, in New York eye, is very, very
cheap. | have about an eighth of big palace,
four big rooms and more, tor only about 80 q
day. (Rents are cheaper, however, now than u
sual, in consequence of "all the world" being in
Rome.) Provisions are cheap. Almost every
thing of the growth of the country is cheap (;
and $4,000 per year will, if judiciously expended
90 as far as $40, 900 in New York city, the way
we there spend money.
THE Roll OF TIE HOUSE OF LoRDs.-A roll of
the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the present
session of the Parliament of the United King
dom, has been published. His Royal Highness,
the Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the
Grown, of course, heads the list, followed by his
Majesty George v, King of Hanover, (who sits
in the House of Duke Of Cumberland and Tevi-
otdale,) his Royal Highness the Duke of Canter-
bury, the Lord Chancellor, Thomas, Archbishop
of York, John George, Archbishop of Armagh,
the Lord President of the Council, (the Marquis
of Salisbury the Lord Privy Seal, Carl OF
Hardwcke,) and Henry Granville, Duke of Nor
folk, who holds the Office hereditary in his fam.
ily) of earl Marshal of England" We have
given this list OF names in order to illustrate the
rule of precedence which obtains in high places,
and which is more fully explained by Captain
bod in his Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightags
The Duke of Somerset ranks Immediately after
his Grace of Norfolk, and the Duke OF Cleveland
tails the list of Dukes. The first Marquis on the
roll is the Marquis of the Exeter (Lord Steward
and the last the Marquis of Dalhousie, George
John; Earl Delaware heads the list of Ears, as
Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and Earl
Cowey is the last in the list. The first Viscount
is ROOert, Vlscount nereIoru, duu tne laSC,
Charles, Viscount Eyersley, better known as Mr..
Shaw LefeYre, the late Speaker of the House of
Commons. The Bishops, by custom and eti-
quette, follow the Viscounts, and precede the
Barons, or common Lords" The Bishop Of
London heads the list of mitred Prelates, at the
tail of which is the Bishop Of Cork Cloyne and
Ross. The first Baron or common "Lord" is
Lord de Ros, and the last is Thomas, Lord
Kingsdown, the penultimate Baron being Colin,
Lord Clyde, of Indian rity.-Ldpepoot
Times.