izz RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



and Piedmont, it would be very detrimental to the 

 future of the latter state if it compromised itself by 

 running counter to English policy. 



" I know, too, through Italian friends, that the 

 same intimation was made direct to Count Cavour 

 through the British agent at Turin. 



" According to a letter from New York, I must not 

 now count upon any shares being taken in the United 

 States. It will probably be the same in Eussia, owing 

 to the financial embarrassment of that country. 



" With regard to Austria, the information sent by 

 Bruck and Eevoltella, continues to be favourable, 

 despite the death of our. good and trusty friend 

 Kegrelli. I propose to visit Vienna and Trieste on 

 my way to Egypt next month." 



M. de Regny to M. de Lesseps. 



" ALEXANDRIA, January 2, 1859. 



" I send you a brief account of an interview which 

 has just taken place between the English consul in 

 Egypt and the Viceroy. The importance of this in- 

 terview cannot be exaggerated, for just when an 

 effort is being made to get the world to believe that 

 he is unfavourably disposed towards the enterprise, he 

 replied with remarkable firmness to the English agent 

 that this was his work, and that he was resolved to 

 go on with it, as the Hatti-Sherif of 1841 unquestion- 

 ably gives him the right to do. "We shall see whether 

 the action of the consul is countenanced by his 



