The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-01

, EXTRAORDINARY Story ABOUT THE DAUPHIY OF
FRANCE, Louis NNlI.-Dd lie die IN the Temple or
notE-There are stranger things than fiction even
IN modern times but people will hardly be prepar-
ed TOR the startling announcement which was assert
ed at coroner's inquiry held Yesterday, before Mr..
Wakely, Coroner for West Middesex, that the
Dauphin of France, the unfortunate son of Louis
ANl., did not, as history states die "on the 9tn of
june 1873, In the prison of the Temple after mis-
eraDe confinement OF three years." but that he ey-
pired in London street cab but few DAYS since.
and that the deceased upon whom the inquest was
being held was no other than that Dauphin, Louis
Nv of France. Such was tie marvellous story
made public yesterday at an inauest held at the
Lord Wellington, University street upon a person
who, under the name of Augustus Menes. has for
some years past resided with his family at IS Uni
versity street, Tottenham road where he fol
lowed the avocation of a professor of music IL an
peared that the deceased, who was in his seventy
fifth year, was suddenly taken i'll when near his
own residence, and as medical assistance could not
be Immediately procured he was conveyed without
delay in a cab to the University College Hospital
close by, but he was dead before arriving at that
institution the of the death being as the post
mortem examination distinctly proved, disease of
the heart. The jury returned verdict according
ly, and so far the judicial part of the proceedings
terminated; but upon lnquiring further into the
peculiar statements that had been made by the de-
ceaseds family, and the rumors that have got about
in the neighbOrhOod, causing no little excitement
it seems that the deceaseds conversation for the
last thirty years, WHen he nrSt made his family
quainted with the strange story, has been to the
effect that he was the Dauphin who was supposed
to have died in the Temple, and while the deceased
bore strong likeness in the face to the Bourbon
family of France his family further assert that
he had certain marks on his person which the hap
less infant King had. He had always himself desir-
ed to keep the matter secret from the world but his
family have now expressed their determination to
publish the whole facts connected with his marvel
ious history.-London Herald, Nay II.
THE CosT OF FoREIGN TRAvEL.-We extract from
a volume tdst published, entitled "trom Wall
Street to Cashmere by Mr.. John B. Ireland, the
information to the expense of foreign
travel 1t will settle dispute in many mind in
regard to question so nice yet so important:
"Traveling in england, with moderate speed, in
frst.class railcarrages, coaching, occasionally
posting, when in out-of-the places, always put
ting up at the best hotels in London, with rooms at
Longs and with meals there, or at the clubs costs
about nine or ten dollars per day. This is an ave-
efage expense for gentleman to travel on and live
comfortably, with reasonable quantity of good
wine for dinner.
"On the continent the same can be done. includ-
ing the living in Paris any other CAPITAL, for Sc
per gay, at the hotel or good lodgings and dining
at the pest restaurants. In Syria or ON the Nile
IL travelling alone, the expense would be about 81
per oay, OF e with one friend, about Sc so, and
two or three, from 81 to SIS. Usually every one
travels there with one or two friends; aIways did
except the last time, when went tn poi,na'
Then beyond Suez, the steamer charges are on on
average Is or S25 per day, including wines. beers
&C., and the expense of the route known bv the
distance, as these vessels never AVERAGE over iao
miles day. In fair weather, under the most ad-
vantageous circumstances, they reach nine to nine
and half miles an hour, and have had an expert
ence Of eleven different steamers and mostly their
best"