From Mr. J. Crerrayt, General Passenger Agent of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, Agent of the International Palace Hotels Company, and Special Agent for the Trans-Siberian Railway, we learn that by May next a semi-weekly service each way will be opened between Paris and Peking, whereby passengers will be taken in the luxurious carriages of the International Company the whole way for the sum of fifty-two pounds sterling, food and everything included. At first, there will be two breaks in the journey, one at L..: e Baikal, where the passengers have to cross by steamer until the line round the south of the lake is completed, which it will be later on in the year; the other at Yingkou (Newchwang), where the difference of gauge between the Russian line and the Imperial Chinese Railway, and the unbridgable river Liao necessitate a change of carriages. It is possible that the change of carriages at Lake Baikal may be obviated by their being taken across on the steamer; but in any case the whole distance from Paris to Peking will be done in the International Company's carriages, a number of which have been secured by Mr. Kinder for the Imperial Chinese Railway. For the convenience of pas~
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