DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR AGENTS.

The following is a correct list of our diplomatic and consular agents resident in Europe, with the amount of compensation attached to each office. It would always be well to leave a card on your representatives, especially in out-of-the-way places, where the duties of the office are not arduous and where the visitors are few. You will generally find them obliging and courteous.

E. H. Stoughton......

.Envoy Extr. and Min. Plen..St. Petersburg...$17,500.

Col. Wickham Hoffman....Secretary of Legation.........St. Petersburg...

1,800.

J. R. Lowell...

A. Adee.....

....Carlsruhe........Fees.

.Dresden..

Fees.

Leipsic......

Fees.

.Chemnitz.

.Fees.

Hamburg.

$2,000.

.Brunswick....... Fees.

A. M. Hancock.

A. N. Duffé

F. H. Schenck....
Henry L. Hall...

Envoy Extr. and Min. Plen.. Madrid.... .$12,000. ...Secretary of Legation.........Madrid.

1,800.

Valencia.......... Fees.

SKELETON TOURS.

The time occupied and the approximate cost.

Of course the cost of traveling depends on the style of living; but without wines it should not average over $6 per day, devoting sufficient time to see each place properly.

FIRST TOUR.

Suppose you have only three months' time and $700. You pay in going from New York to Liverpool by some steamers $260, and by cheaper lines, both ways, $150. This would leave you $550 by going on one line, and $440 by going on the other, or nearly $8 per day to spend for the balance of the time if you should go by the cheap line. The best disposition of your time would be this: Ten days to Paris. From Paris to Vienna, Austria, by the way of Cologne, Dusseldorf, Minden, Brunswick, Hanover, Berlin, Dresden, and Prague. From Vienna to Paris by the way of Trieste, Venice, Padua, Verona, Milan, Genoa, and Marseilles, occupying thirty days, which, with the ten days in Paris, and ten or eleven crossing the Atlantic, would make fifty days, leaving thirty days to visit England, Ireland, and

Scotland; or, since the railroad has been finished from Munich to Vienna, instead of returning by the way of Trieste and Venice, take the road from Vienna to Strasbourg, via Linz, Salsburg, Munich, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, Carlsruhe, and Baden-Baden. Both trips should be made, if possible. From Munich an excursion should be made to Innspruck, the capital of the Tyrol. ed. An additional ten days would take you through Belgium and Holland, viz. : two days to Brussels, one to the field of Waterloo, two in Antwerp, one in Rotterdam, one at the Hague, and two at Amsterdam, connecting with the previous route near Dusseldorf. This is sufficient time.

The railroad is now finish

SECOND TOUR.

Suppose you have four months to spend. Take the same route as described in the first, and, starting at Milan, via Parma, Modena, and Bologna, taking two days, three days at Florence, eight at Rome, five at Naples, and three at Palermo -in all, with the time occupied on the steamer, thirty days. This route will cost about $200 extra.

THIRD TOUR.

If you have five months to spend, instead of returning direct to Paris by the way of Marseilles, you may spend thirty days very profitably by returning via Turin, over Mount Cenis, Geneva, Chamouni, Lake Geneva, Lausanne, Vevay, Villeneuve, Martigny, Leukerbad, the Gemmi Pass, Interlachen, Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, Schaffhausen, Lake Constance, Bregenz, Innspruck, Munich, Stuttgart, Bruchsal, back to Baden-Baden; thence to Heidelberg, Frankfort, Mayence, Wiesbaden, Ems, Coblentz, Bonn, and Cologne to Paris.

This tour of five months should cost about $1200.

FOURTH TOUR.

Travelers who intend spending one year abroad, and wish to make the ascent of the Nile, "do" Syria and the Holy Land, Constantinople and Greece, will require a letter of credit for about $2500.

We will suppose they sail from America on the first day of May, land at Liverpool on the tenth, remain in Great Britain up to the first of July-this is the best season in that country, and is the only one you can spend there without interfering with a more important portion of your trip, as there is only one season to ascend the Nile, and we do not wish to retrace any portion of the route-two weeks in Paris, six weeks in Switzerland, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, the Tyrol, the cities on the VOL. I.-B