Went last evening to a concert given by members of the Casino in the saloon of the grand Theatre Fenice. A reunion of the most fashionable society, of Venice - a full attendance of ladies - in full toilette - and appeared to good advantage, for the Venetian fair are yet as Titian painted them three centuries ago - stout, well made & full bosomed. The music was by the artists of the theatre San Benedetto - and over at 12 o clock, met the sip-norina at the door of our palace - fa freddo, non ze vero signor. Simos says I let pass very good opportunities, but I don't see he makes much better progress with his Greek fair ones.

This day passed in visiting the Arsenal & dock yards of Venice. As this ancient republic was once the first naval power in the world, so were in proportion its ship building establishments, and consist of shops & forges, rope walk of doric columns - foundries - large buildings for construction & hauling out & repairing gallies & ships of war without number and occupying a space three miles in circumference.

The model room is very interesting as there are vessels of every sort in miniature, of the most remote times to the modern steamer - the Bucentaur or barge of ceremony a most gorgeous affair in which the doge accompanied by the senators performed the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic - the model, rich in sculpture and gilding cost 80,000 francs. In the armory, are curious antique arms and instruments of torture - found in the Ducal palace at the revolution - and a curious screen of the Doge. Applied to madame the Doguress as a guard to her chastity, how such an iron instrument could be applied for that rurrose would be best known by married men - neither Mr. Simos nor myself could at all understand the matter.

The entrance to the arsenal is classic and in good taste - there is the Athenian colossal lion brought from the Piraeus by Morosini - venerable for its antiquity. The arsenal of Venice, once the scene of activity and enterprise with its thousands of workmen, is now scarcely occupied by a few Keepers and workmen in all perhaps not exceeding 300. The rope walk along formerly employed seven hundred -