moreover has trees, and these are the only trees that are to be met with in this city. In this garden are two _Cafés_. The variety of costume is another very agreeable spectacle at Venice. Here you meet with Albanians, Greeks, Turks, Moors, Sclavonians and Armenians, all in their respective national costumes. The first Armenian I met with here was sitting on a stone bench on the _Piazza di San Marco_, and this brought forcibly to my recollection the Armenian in Schiller's _Ghost-seer_. These _Cafés_ and _Casinos_ on the _Piazza_ are open day and night. Ices and coffee superiorly made and other refreshments of all kinds at very low prices are to be had. Some of these _casinos_ are devoted to gaming. The first families in Venice repair to the _Piazza_ in the evening after the Opera, female as well as male. They promenade up and down the _Piazza_ or sit down and converse in the _Cafés_ and _Casinos_ till a late hour. Few go to bed in Venice in the summer time before six In the morning, so that sleep seems for ever banished from the _Piazza_. Music and singing goes forward in these _casinos_, and the ear is often charmed with the sound of those delightful Venetian airs, whose simple melody ravishes the soul. The Venetian dialect is very pleasing, and scarcely yields in harmony to the Tuscan. It contains a great many Sclavonic words. It is the only dialect of Italy that is at all pleasing to my ear, for I do not at all relish the nasal twang and truncated terminations of the Piedmontese and Lombard dialects, nor the semi-barbarous jargon of the Genoese and the Neapolitan and, least of all, the execrable cacophony of the Bolognese. I visited of course the Arsenal and the Doge's Palace. The apartments in the latter are very spacious and ornamented in the Gothic taste of grandeur. The chamber of the Council is peculiarly magnificent. There is a good deal of tapestry and some fine paintings and statues: among the former I particularly noticed an allegorical picture, representing the triumph of Venice over the league of Cambray. Venice is represented by the winged Lion, and the powers of the Coalition are pourtrayed by various other beasts. Among the latter is a beautiful group in marble representing Ganymede and the Eagle. The terror depicted in the countenance of the beautiful boy, and the passion that seems to agitate the Eagle, are surprizingly well pourtrayed. The principal theatre at Venice, the _Teatro Fenice_, is not open; but I have visited the other theatres, and among other things witnessed the representation of a new opera, call'd _Il Lupo d'Ostende_. The piece itself was rather interesting; but the music was feeble and did not seem to give general satisfaction. The singing is in general very good at Venice, but in scenery, dresses and decorations the theatres here are far inferior to those of Milan and Naples.