They are obliged to apply to usurers and monopolists, and the governor of the bank is one.

Rome has an Exchange.

I discovered its existence by mere chance, in turning over a Roman almanack.

This public establishment opens _once a week_, a fact which gives some idea of the amount of business transacted there.
If trade and manufactures offer but small resources to the subjects of his Holiness, they fortunately find some compensation in agriculture.
The natural fertility of the soil, and the stubborn industry of those who cultivate it, will always suffice to keep the nation from starvation.

While it pays away a million sterling annually for foreign manufactures, the surplus of its agricultural produce brings back some L800,000.