The Times publishes a gratifying account of the improvement of
Venetia since her liberation. Her trade has increased from £6,480,000 to £9,160,000, her tonnage from 263,775 tons to 334,764, while associations are being formed to organize direct communication with foreign countries which has hitherto been mainly conducted via Trieste. A line of steamers has been opened to Alexandria, and a Technical College of Commerce is about to be opened to teach language;, banking, book-keeping, exchange,
and commercial law. The work of primary education is being pressed on, 10,000 children having entered the schools in 1867, or about one in every two, and co-operative stores are springing up on every hand. These stores ought to suit the Italians everywhere, for they are born economists, do not care about time, and would at any time walk a mile to save the actual expenditure of a penny.
