Completed my tour round the city, nothing left of the walls but a small section contiguous to and supporting the gardens of the royal palace. Streams of water conducted from the Dora skirt the city and must be of great convenience as the women in Italy carry on their washing operations in the open air. Contiguous to a running stream, hospitals and charitable institutions abound in Turin as well as Milan and a kind of penitentiary at a short distance where juvenile offenders are employed in agricultural labour. Silence and separation at night are the punishments.

The present King Carlo Alberto is a great encourager of modern amelioration. Also, of the arts and sciences. Went through the museums of natural history and mineralogy, also of Egyptian, Grecian and Roman antiquities promenaded among the arcades and after dinner went in company with Mr. Laidler to the Teatro Diurno or equestrian circus. The female performers - young and handsome but not very active -