LONDON. TO AND FROM SOUTH AMERICA. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company despatch a vessel from Southampton to Lisbon, St. Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro, thence to Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, on the 9th of every month. TO AND FROM THE EAST INDIES, CHINA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, &c. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamships leave Southampton every Saturday for India, alternate Saturdays for China and Japan, and the fourth Saturday of every month for Australia and New Zealand, calling at the principal Mediterranean ports. TO AND FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &c. The steamers of the Union Steamship Company leave Southampton on the 10th and 25th of every month for Madeira, Cape Town, and Algoa Bay. London: 23, Leadenhall Street, E.C. The African Steamship Company's Vessels run from Liverpool for Madeira and the West Coast of Africa, on the 14th and 24th of every month. London Office: 14, Leadenhall Street, E.C. TO VARIOUS PORTS. The Russian Steam Navigation Company despatch steamers every month from London to Constantinople and Odessa. Agents: George Russell & Co., 151, Fenchurch Street, E.C. Steamers also sail direct from London to Antwerp, Boulogne, Sweden, Norway, Italy, &c., &c. 0: THE PRINCIPAL RAILWAY ROUTES TO AND FROM LONDON: Express mail service between London and Paris daily, via Dover and Calais, by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway : Fares-Single tickets, London to Paris: 1st class, £2 17s. 3d.; 2nd class, £2 5s. Od. Return tickets, available for one month: 1st class £4 88.; 2nd class, £3 15s. LONDON. London and Paris, via Folkestone and Boulogne. Daily from Charing Cross Station to Folkestone Harbour, thence by tidal boat to Boulogne, and by rail from Boulogne to Paris. Fares-Single tickets: 1st class, £2 16s; 2nd class, £2. 2s. Return tickets, available for a month: 1st class, £4 158.; 2nd class, £3 15s. London and Paris, via Newhaven and Dieppe, from Victoria Station. Fares-Single tickets: 1st class, £1 11s.; 2nd class, £1 3s. Return tickets can also be obtained, available for one month: 1st class, £2 128.; 2nd class, £1 17s. 6d. London to Manchester, by London and North-Western Railway, from Euston Square Terminus. Fares-Single tickets: 1st class, 32s. 6d.; 2nd class, 24s. Return tickets: 1st class, 54s.; 2nd class, 40s. London to Liverpool, by the same line and from the same terminus, Fares-1st class, 35s.; 2nd class, 26s. Return tickets (available for three days): 1st class, 58s. 6d.; 2nd class, 43s. 6d. London to Glasgow, via Great Northern Railway, through Peterborough, Grantham, Newark, Doncaster, York, Darlington, and Newcastle, from King's Cross Station. Single fares : 1st class, 703.; 2nd class, 51s. Or by London and North-Western Railway from Euston Square, through Rugby, Birmingham, Stafford, and Carlisle. Single fares 1st class, 70s.; 2nd class, 51s. London to Dublin, viâ London and North-Western Railway, from the Euston Square Terminus, by special mail trains (express) daily, morning and evening to Holyhead, thence to Kingstown by steamer. Single fares: 1st class, 61s.; 2nd class, 44s. 6d. For all European and Eastern Tours, Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son, of 98, Fleet Street, London, will send, on application, free, full particulars of the best routes, and scale of charges, which they undertake at fixed rates; parties are also personally conducted, thereby preventing any loss in exchanges of money arising through the difference of the various currencies. For further particulars see page 71. Cook's European & Eastern Tours. THROUGH COUPONS available from England to all the prin cipal places of interest in HOLLAND BELGIUM THE RHINE DISTRICTS GERMANY AUSTRIA BAVARIA FRANCE SWITZERLAND ITALY TURKEY GREECE EGYPT CAMP TRAVELLING IN PALESTINE, SYRIA, &c., &c. SINGLE JOURNEY COUPONS OR CIRCULAR TOURS, Combining any or all of the above Countries, allowing One or more individuals to travel at any time by any Train, Steamer, Diligence, &c., Of the route, allowing breaks of journey at all places of interest. First-Class Coupons available by all Express Trains; Second-Class by all Trains that have Second-Class Carriages attached. PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED PARTIES AT FIXED FARES, Including all ordinary Hotel Expenses, are constantly leaving London under the personal management of THOS. COOK & SON or Assistants. Examples of Fares for personally-conducted parties. From LONDON to ITALY, AUSTRIA, EGYPT, the NILE to First Cataract, 28 days in Palestine, returning via CYPRUS, RHODES, SMYRNA, EPHESUS, CONSTANTINOPLE, ATHENS, ITALY, &c., &c. Time occupied, about 110 days. First Class throughout, including all ordinary Hotel Expenses, 800 DOLLARS IN GOLD. From LONDON via BELGIUM and the RHINE to ITALY, including VENICE, FLORENCE, ROME, NAPLES, POMPEII; returning via LEGHORN, PISA, GENOA, TURIN, MILAN, COмo, over the Splugen or any other pass to SWITZERLAND, PARIS, and LONDON. Time occupied, about 35 days. First Class throughout, and all ordinary Hotel Expenses, 210 DOLLARS IN GOLD. From LONDON via HOLLAND, BELGIUM, and the RHINE, to SWITZERLAND; returning via PARIS. Time occupied, about 22 days. 105 DOLLARS IN GOLD. COOK'S HOTEL Provide Bed, Lights and Attendance, Plain Breakfast, or Tea, and Dinner at Table d'Hôte, at first-class Hotels in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, &c., &c., at 7s. 6d. per day. In the East, i.e. Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, &c., 13s. per day. Americans contemplating a Tour to Europe should write beforehand to MESSRS. COOK, giving an outline of the Tour they wish to take, in reply to which a quotation will be given, showing the total expense out and home. The great advantages derived from MESSRS. COOK'S system are the prevention of loss from exchanges of money through the difference of currencies in a European Tour; the prevention of imposition, overcharges at Hotels, &c., &c., and the fact that many of the Fares are at reductions varying from 10 to 45 per cent. from the ordinary Fares. THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist Offices, LONDON, 98, Fleet Street. All Communications to be addressed to the Chief Office, 98, Fleet St., London. |