JOURNAL

KEPT IN ITALY.

ROAD FROM PARIS TO TURIN.

TURIN.

May 17. 1844.

TURIN is a bright and cheerful city: it has been called formal; but no one would think it so while gazing down a long street studded with partycoloured shops and disclosing an Alp in the background. Here are two palaces, old and new: the former now holds out the attraction of a picturegallery, and contains perhaps a score of first-rate paintings. We were best pleased with a "Saul at Tarsus," by Ribera, though by no means the most costly picture here.

The modern palace has a spacious front in the