SARDINIA.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 104, 19 October 1858, Page 4

SARDINIA.

Turin, June 16. When the budget is got through, I doubt whether thefe are many bills that will be held sufficiently urgent to induce deputies to remain in Turin. "We have just a fortnight of June left, and that time properly employed ought to suffice to get through what remains to be done. As to the bills that come after the budget, they will either be hurried through, if it be absolutely necessary to pass them, or will be left until next session. One cannot wonder at deputies being unwilling to remain much -longer in this sultry capital, where summer has begun—so far as the degree of heat goes— a month sooner than usual. It lias been as hot in the first half of June as it usually is in the corresponding period of July. On Sunday the thermometer was at 28° Keaumer (95° Fahr.) in the shade, and at 26° in the very coolest place that could be found—north aspect, without any reflection of the sun. At 7in the morning it has been as high as 26|- centigrade—hotter than it was on the corresponding clay and hour at any capital in Europe, Madrid not excepted. There is nothing for it but thorough draughts and dark rooms. Ido not think many people grumble, but all those ; who possibly can will naturally make their escape from thef. dusty" 'streets and stifling arcades of Turin. A sensible license of dress is permitted in Turin; and people walk about in straw hats of all colors and forms, in linen coats and light garments of all kinds, which in London, Paris, and even in that pretentious little bakehouse of a capital, Madrid, would be voted incorrect and almost shocking. The abundance of ice is "also a help to preserve humanity from melting, or at least to refresh it when under ,the process. There are great pans or ponds round Turin, which are filled with pure water, with the express view of its conversion into ice—a conversion winter obligingly accomplishes free of charge. To see the quantities which for months were day after day brought into town, one would imagine that the whole of Turin had an underground floor of icehouses. The price is exceedingly low; the vendors do not condescend to weigh'it, but give a huge block for two or three sous. Generally speaking, it is perfectly clean, and as transparent as crystal. It is cheap enough to be in common use among the poorer classes, and one sees fruit women gating their dinner by their stalls, with a great lump of ice in their drinking jugs. The evenings are, until 10 or 11 o'clock, nearly as w-arm as the days, and the demand for frozen drinks in" the cates as something prodigious. ,