The daily papers have filled some additional scores of columns
with accounts of Milan mummery; which hsppily came to an end on the 14th, when there was a " eorso notturao " or nocturnal promenade, amilst a heavy rain. The original genius whom the Morning Chronick twat across the Alps to torwerd by express his record of the sights, and his brilliant reflections thereon, thus moralizes on one of the un- toward consequences of the shocking wedther- " The very rich bad their carriages, and it is not to be wondered at that on such an evening they were abroad ; but then there were the middle classes to he provided for, and here the drivers of the hired velde!es hid all the happiness of enjoying that delectable state in political economy in which the demand ex- ceeds the supply.' Chere were thousands who wanted to go in coaehes and fiacres; and I believe that there are not in all Milan more than about a hun- dred hired vehicles like those which are so common in London. Then as the evening became still more dark, and the rain still heavier, the fincre drivers rose in their (lemmas" so that those who at five o'clock would have been content with a Napoleon for an hour's riding, insisted at half-past six o'clock upon having five Napoleons. How a London jarecy would envy them ! They were ix:freely right in making the demand ; for in every instance they obtained the price they asked ; and by seven o'clock no such thin; as a hired vehicle could be procured. I observed that in this, which I certainly considered a most shameful attempt at extortion, a policeman, who appeared to be stationed as an inspector of can on a coach-stand, was present, and that he never in the slightest way, either by word or act, intimated that the drivers were not doing that which, according to the custom of the place, they had a pcifect right t o do."
The penny.a-line peroration- " The Milanese can at last console themselves whir this reflection, than when they did determine upon doing honour to the Emperor of Austria as their sove- reign, they devised for his entertainment amusements and exhibitions tv hid% have scarcely had in any ihstance a single precedent for their extreme magnifi- cence, their boundless fancy, and their unimpeachable good taste. Never aas sovereign, the most successful, the most gifted, orppthyecomuoslat dgeonetoo honoured as Ferdinand the First has been by his subjects iny ItItn. TI have done for him all that subjects the most ha affection for a sovereign who had already proved to them they were his I? people. This has been done by the inhabitants of the capital of L fnbar° It is with their fetes and their rejoicings that I have hitherto had anymilie,;',„' do ; and with the cessation of these public rejoicings ceases re duties s tar. respondent in Milan."
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