304 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



" I can assure your Highness that all the good you 

 have done is appreciated in Europe, and that you must 

 not judge public opinion by the grotesque observations 

 of a few discontented and untruthful persons, who 

 have attempted to form in Egypt a committee for 

 calumniating and denouncing the Government. The 

 truth is making itself more and more apparent every 

 day. Some flatterers might tell your Highness that 

 you need not condescend to justify yourself; but it 

 is always wise to give full publicity to facts, for else 

 the good-for-nothing people, who are as a rule very 

 active, would have things too much their own way 

 with honest people, who are not inclined to put them- 

 selves out of the way and do not suspect evil. I 

 have arranged so that the press of all countries shall 

 be kept well informed, and the relations which have 

 been established towards this end are entirely dis- 

 interested." 



SUMMARY OF THE BESOLUTIONS AGREED TO BY THE 

 INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION Six SITTINGS 



HELD ON THE 2 3RD, 24TH, AND 25l'H JUNE. 



Transmitted to various Correspondents in all countries, 

 pending the drawing up and publication of the report 

 entrusted to a Special Commission. 



" PARIS, June 25, 1856. 

 " 1st. The Commission has rejected the system of 



indirect routes through Egypt, and has adopted the 



