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is the part selected by the Commission for the Medi- 

 terranean entrance of the canal. There is nothing 

 unusual in jetties of from one to two miles long, and 

 at the points which they will occupy there is every 

 facility for vessels anchoring and making sail. 



" i I am about to bring out a pamphlet which will 

 give the text of the Commissioners' report, as well as 

 a reply to the Edinburgh Review, which has published 

 some very erroneous information as to the practica- 

 bility of the enterprise. The errors into which the 

 Review has fallen are excusable, because at the time 

 when it treated the question, it had not before it the 

 result of the investigations made by this Commission. 



" < In a country where there are no bounds to the 

 freedom of public discussion, good causes always 

 triumph in the end. 



"'The English publication referred to above is 

 about to appear, and before leaving London I ar- 

 ranged for the formation of a local committee com- 

 posed of a member of the East India Company, a 

 member of the Bank of England, two financial nota- 

 bilities in the city, Mr. Powles, Secretary- General of 

 the Docks Company, and two English engineers on the 

 International Commission. But this committee is not 

 to act until the Sultan's ratification has been obtained. 



" ' We must now await the meeting of the Commis- 

 sion of Engineers and the movement of opinion in the 

 city before launching the affair upon a fresh phase : the 

 soil being well prepared, we need only arm ourselves 



