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fully informed on all points before asking for an 

 audience of the Emperor, which I shall do to-day or 

 to-morrow. I send your Highness the model of an 

 apparatus for letting the captains of ships know when 

 the lighthouse at Port Said is lighted. This light- 

 house will be very useful for vessels plying between 

 the coasts of Egypt and Syria." 



To the same. 



''PARIS, May 16, 1860. 



" I have the honour to inform your Highness that 

 I shall leave Marseilles on the 18th to lay before you 

 the resolutions passed at the general meeting of 

 May 15th, and to point out to you the satisfactory 

 results which this meeting will have upon the realisa- 

 tion of our enterprise." 



To His Excellency Kcenig Bey, Secretary to the 

 Viceroy. 



" ALEXANDRIA, June 27, 1860. 



" I send you a letter from Constantinople, which 

 please read to the Viceroy, whom I shall not see to- 

 day. The best answer we can make to our adver- 

 saries is the arrangement we have concluded with 

 Eagheb Pasha, which, far from being a cause of 

 financial embarrassment, will strengthen the Vice- 

 roy's credit. 



"This letter, dated June 10th, is as follows: 

 " ' The mot cPordre of the English Embassy, in 



