What would be said of the French administration, if people could not get from Versailles to St.Germain without passing through Paris?
This, however, has been for centuries the state of things near the Pope's capital.

If you want a still more striking instance, here it is.

Bologna, the second city in the Pontifical States, is in rapid and frequent communication with the whole world--except Rome.

It despatches seven mails a week to foreign countries--only five to Rome.
The letters from Paris arrive at Bologna some hours before those from Rome; the letters from Vienna are in advance of those from Rome by a day and a night.

The Papal kingdom is not very extensive, but it seems to me even too extensive, when I see distances trebled by the carelessness of the Government and the inadequacy of the public works.
As to railways, there are two, one from Rome to Frascati, and one from Rome to Civita Vecchia; but the Adriatic provinces, which are the most populous, the most energetic, and the most interesting in the country, will not hear the whistle of the locomotive and the rush of the train for a long time to come.