The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-16

DANUBE ROUTE TO lNDA.-The fol-
lowing interesting passage is taken from an
article in o recent No. of Tie Friend Of
India:
"Leaving Charing Cross on the morning
Of the Derby Day wednesday,, May %, the
writer reached Vienna on Friday forenoon,
with intervals of rest for two hours at Ca
lais, four hours at Brussels, and two hours
ut Cologne. That Is, the distance of 600
miles was accomplished in two days-a dis
tance rather greater than that between Cal
cutta and Bombay, which now occupies the
mail four and Il half days. After q stay OF
two and half days at Vienna, the travel
Ter left by railway for Pesth and Buda,
spent Monday there, and reached Ba5lasch,
the most easterly point Of the Austrian
system of railways, on Tuesday morning.
There he Joined the Danube steamer,
reached Rustchuk on Wednesday morn
ing, spent Wednesday On the railway,
rolling through Roumelia to Varna, and
was conveyed during the night oy the
Austrian Lloyd's steamer down11c Black
Sea and Bosporus (no one should spell that
word with an "h" any more than Ok
thord) to Constantinople; which was reached
on Thursday morning. If there be no de-
lays at Vienna and: Pesth, or elsewhere,
the through journey from London to Con-
stantinople, over the whole breaAth OF
Europe, which is twice the breath of North
ern India, is comfortably accomplished IN
exactly five days. As the steamer leaves
Varna for Constantinopie only on Wednce-
days and Saturdays, the movements OF. the
traveller must be arranged accordingly. Ii
a wise man he viii take a . mixed :! ticket,
which by the. BaYarian and Fassau route
cost, 81 4 to Vienna, and u; BIZ thence to
Consta artinople. This ticket entities to. first
class accommodation the whole Way, ex-
cept between: Cologne and Baslasch, where
the second. class railway carriages are supe-
rior to those OF the English tirst-cla6s. lie
is entitled to sixty pounds OF. luggage free,
and will, of course, send his luggage as
freight by the. southampton steamer. For
Els. II the journey may thus" be made IN
i've days, en-, prince, from London 70
ConstantinopIe. Let I'll be added for every
days delay on the way. and for, every
day spent in ,Constantinaple, and the maxi
mum expenditure will be known. The AUS
trian Lloyd's steamer leaves Constantinople
for Alexandria every thursday. one week
the route is direct bv SMYRNA: the ott."- - -
is indirect; along the coast OF the Levant.
The Egyptian steamers ply Weekly also, and
the Messageries once a month. The Aus
trian charge is Eli. BY taking one of the
direct steamers the traveller will see Smyrna
and the Sporadic isles, and will be landed
in Egypt three days before the departure
of the Suez steamer-a time which he may
profitably occupy on the canal If he has
previously exhausted Cairo and the Pyra-
mids. The present writer spent two and
half days in Vienna, one in Pesth-Budai
and eight in ConStantinople, and, reached
Suez after an expenditure OF. lao in money
and three weeks in time; that ls, he sa"
much Of Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, Iur,
key, the great, Byzautium, the isles oI
Greece and Smyrna, for 'une-half' more Ii
time and money than he must have thrown
away on the everlasting Marseilles route
Another week and he might have visited
Syria, Athens, and Corluth, taking the
Greek steamer down the Gulf OF Lepantc
TO Brindisi."