Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-22

CONDITION OF VENETIA.-A correspondent
OF the London Chronicle, writing from Verona
under date of May "a, says of the enforced iso-
lation of the Venetian provinces and the con-
ditlon Of affairs there =
The diEgences which used to run between
the homagna, the Duchies, and Venetia, are
all stopped short at the frontier, and you can
not book your place through from Tenara, 30.
logna, or MOdena, to any part of the Austrian
territory, but are obliged to trust to chance
c0nveyances, unless you travel in your own
carriage.
All Pledmontese papers are carefully ex-
Guided Indeed, most foreign papers share the
same fate. AT Florian's, the well-known re-
sort of foreigners, on the square of ST. Mark,
even Galignani has been suppressed since the
war, and the only English paper admitted is
the illustrated News. What little is known
of the state of things across the frontier comes
entirely by private letters or stray intelligence
On every side there are traces of preparation
for an approaching war. The broad, straight
military roads, which stretch through endless
vlstas OF pOplars across the flat, marshy plains
are commanded by redoubts at each little ele
walton. Every city is garrisoned and most
are fortified. There are barracks and stores
to be seen everywhere. AT Padua, the Church
OF San Giustino is blocked up with barrels OF
biscuits, which were stopped on their way
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franca The great theater at Verona is turned
into barrack. There are guns upon the steps
OF the island church of ST. George, at Venice
The Austrians, indeed wished to pull down
the church and erect a fort there but happily
Tor the sake OF art, this intention was ren.
pushed ON the remonstrance of the priests AT
Venice, and Verona and Mantua the runs of
the forts which command the towns are all
pointed towards the city; and under the arch
ed vestibule of the Doge's palace the guns are
turned upon the piazza, and By each gun there
is soldier on duty. Armed patrols pass up
and down the streets, and there are sentres
posted at every turn.
AT Venice there is a German theater and
during the last few weeks, an Italian operate
company performs every other day at one of
the minor theaters, the San Gallo. l was pres
ent there one evening, when the programme
was more than usually attractive but out of
the one hundred and fifty boxes, only about
twenty were occupied, and these by Austrian
officers. The pit was barely filled with sol.
| diers and strangers, and German was the Lam
| guage you heard amongst the audience. At
Verona, Padua, and Mantua, the theaters are
all closed except those Of the very poorest sort,
which give day performances, and are fire.
| quented chiefly by soldiery Of the Italian
| Tyrol The grand piazza of st. Mark, which
used to be the tavorite promenade of the We
netians is almost deserted on the nights when
the splendid Austrian band plays, and what
concourse there is is composed entirely of for
eigners and the cOmmonest rabbe. An Ital.
ian, even respectfully dressed, is a rarity there
The cafes too are but poorly filed. The Aus.
TRAN officers always 90 to different cafes from
the Italians and ii an Austrian enters a cafe
frequented by The natives the hdbitueS quietly
leave the building. You never see AuStrians
and Italians walking togcther-sedom even in
conversation with each other"