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Show The Palace of thb Dooes cf Venice. We visited the palace of the doges yesterday morning, and found it the most interesting historical structure we have yet visited. Here are the council chamber and the trial room of the council of ten, aud tho pus-uaces pus-uaces leading to the Bridge of SigGe, Irom the trial room, all so perfect and well-planned as to need no explanation. explana-tion. Tuere is also the aute chombcr of the three inquisitors of the republic repub-lic and the series of cells, or rather stone dungeons, where political prisoners wero confined and secretly killed. There are at least twenty of these dungeons. Borne ol them underground, narrow passages leading from one to the other, aud there ia also in these dark and dismal uolea the place where prisoners were executed, with a drain-pipe to carry off the blood to the canal. What human misery there must have been in these dungcouB ! The various rcoms are decorated very elegantly and the walls aud ceilings covered with paintings, by all the great Venetian Vene-tian artiata, most of them representing battles of the republic. Tbe library in this palace is famous all over the world, consisting of 220,000 volumes and 40,000 manuscripts. They fill several immense rooms, and some of them have marked on their back the date of publication as far back as tbe twelfth century. The interior of the palace is immense and the rooms are all large, with lofty ceilings and the mot elegant ornamentation. They are evidently just in the condition that they were left when the tirtt Nupoleou took Venice and broke up the in-qniaition, in-qniaition, dismantled the prisons and did many other good things for Venice, tbough he waa not generally in the habit ol doing well for those be conquered. Cor. Baltimore American. |