A Budget of Letters Or Things Which I Saw Abroad

uble enough this time, to lead us to look out pretty closely for the future, that our passport is signed by every body and for every place, and that a due certificate of our good health is always ready ; and you certainly need have no anxiety for our health, since you see it is the object of so much care to those high in authority. Now adieu to Genoa, and adieu to thee. On board Steamer Francois I. Saturday eve. My DEAREST FniEND I " Once more upon the sea." From some cause to us unknown, we are deterred from getting off immediately, so with my usual propensity to occupy each passing moment, I seize my pen to write to you, not knowing when I shall be able to finish my letter. We have had a busy day to-day, and I hasten to give you an account of the " things which I saw." We arrived in Leghorn quite early this morning, and, without spending any time in looking around there, took a carriage and started for Pisa, about fifteen miles distant. We were fortunate enough to procure a guide who spoke Eng- glish, one too who has been in America, and in our own city. No sooner had we started than we were surrounded by beggars, the lame, the halt, and the blind; each had his pitiful story to relate, but as our horses were pretty quick, we should soon have left them in the back-ground, had it not been that the lame threw away their crutches, trusting to their own good feet and legs, and the blind suddenly recovered their eyesight, and the decrepid and infirm became, as b...