New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-29

,;,ols We arc to start at 8. Half a dozen pas
,,,rs orc still missing. Tho ship is searched ior
them. waits for them when they cannot be iouliu,
and in fact the last comes half an hour late 10 nliu
fine SHIN still waiting. and to be received WIN as
much courtesy as if he had been the promptest Vi
men.
II banpans that the Gucnne is the first French ship
on which have made a voyage, and us hatuIai "
make comparisons. have sailed on English, Amerl-
can. German Dutch, aud even Spanish steamers ana
this French ship is most comfortable of all. Every
body knows that the English are well built and
sailed but they seem to me very far from being COM
Portable They are seldom organized with much
attention to the comfort of passengers, ana comfort
is a thing more agreeable to have on board ship, If
YOU can get it. than anywhere else in the world The
English captain thinks his business is done when he
brings his ship safe into port. 1t is nothing to him
that his passengers have been miserable all the way
when they might lust as well have been cOntented
and happy have met many men who have Travelled
by the ships of the Peninsular and Oriental Com
pany-a line far better known to Englishmen than
the Cunard, which Americans know so well, and 80
much to their cost. l never heard one passenger
speak well of the ship which had carried him safely
through. There was general complaint, as on the
Cunarders, of bad arrangement insufficient service
bad cooking, and neglect of the little things which
make or mar the voyage for you.
1t is very different here. The commandant is not
too great man to busy himself with the needs of
his passengers. There are plenty of well-traned
servants there is fresh water and clean linen to be
had in the stater0oms there are-disbeeve 1T as you
will if Won know the CunardeTs-napkins at table,
and there is an entire absence of the general gruii-
ness which so pervades the English ships as TO I'M
press on passenger that he is an intruder who may
think himself lucky to be allowed on board ut all.
| The food and cooking are very much what they are
! at first-cass Paris hOtel-by which do not mean
| the Grand Hotel probably the worst in Paris, and
! certainly the most frequented by Americans There
is coffee at any hour you like in the morning, table
dh6te breakfast at nine lunch when You like and on
| what You like, dinner at five, served in decent,
Christian way not piled in huge masses on the table.
| The wines are good, various, and served without
extra charge Coffee and lqueurs the same, tea after
ward and after that you may have punch If you are
still capable of anything more. No one man, pre-
sumo goes through the whole of this list but he may
choose. The evenings bring another contrast for in
stead of the scattering candles that served to make
| darkness visible on the Persia and China, in both
| Of which ships have for my sins been condemned
to cross the Atlantic, there French carccl lamps,
| brilliant, soft, and steady.
| And we have to crown all our comforts, had clear
warm days and smooth seas. This morning we
| passed through the narrow and intricate strait that
| divides Corsica and Sardinia dOnOt know whether
! the scenery is celebrated but it is superb Most
English travellers miss it, the Pennsular and Oriental
ships taking the route south of Sardinia. Land on
| three sides of us when we went on deck this morn
! ing land straight ahead with no visible opening
When the cliffs parted to let through, they closed
at once astern of the ship, and for quarter of an
| hour we were as completely landlocked as if on a
| Swiss lake, to which the landscape not unlike.
Once through the strait CapreTa lay our left and
the white walls of Garibaldis home gttered in the
! morning sun. His little island lies near enough to
Corsica to redeem it from the reprOach of having
| brought forth Napoleons. Steep slopes of granite
lift the great Italians home farabOve the granite
lies all about it, scanty tufts of low brush the only
green things one could Clearly, Garibaldi will
| not grow rich by farming Caprera. The glimpse we
had of his lonely home all too brief; rude cliffs
rushed in between, and closed in the view. We paid
| the hero what little tribute we could. Many hat
was lifted and salute silently given. As ehave all
sorts of people, some turned away in dislike as was
natural and in that way equally paid their tribute to
| the brave Republican whom Imperialists have good
| reason to Getest and dread. WIS