"التلغراف والسفر. سرد لعملية إنشاء وتطوير الاتصالات البرقية بين إنجلترا والهند، بموجب أوامر حكومة صاحبة الجلالة، مع ملاحظات عابرة عن الدول التي يمر بها خط التلغراف." [‎٢‎٦‎٥] (٧٨٢/٣٠٢)

v 'j report of slow progress. 2(i5
Colonel Stewart had been referred for disposal to the
Government of India. Meanwhile Major Champain was
holding temporary charge of the whole Indo-European
line, so far as the control or responsibility of the
British Government was concerned ; and his arrival at
Constantinople has been mentioned. After a stay of
three days in that city, during which the state of affairs
was then discussed with Colonel Goldsmid, Major
Champain continued his journey to London, reachino-
it by the Danube route on the 20th April, or within a
month after quitting Baghdad, inclusive of halts A
month later Colonel Goldsmid was on his way home in
obedience to a telegraphic summons from the Secretary
of State. He had been appointed, in general orders bv
the Government of India, to the chief direction of the
Government Indo-European telegraphs, and would be
required, if taking up the appointment, to proceed
a most immediately to Persia, to assist her Majesty's
Iimster in lehran in carrying out a more full and
particular convention than that then in force. The
o owing extracts of an official report 1 written bv this
oflicer a few days before leaving Constantinople will
explain how slowly the work had progressed in Turkey
a that partmu'ar time, for the more than three months
since the line had opened i
some dlT 1 -™! 1 ! Ilatleh ' l0r the neW Sl:,eciaI Ii " e t0 Nissa ' llas
y since been issued, and one of the clerks to be em-
P ^yec m the Turkish offices has arrived from England But I
r ir; rr:: that . t,,e mannei ' 111 which
inAsir f thro "S , ' 0 " t Turkish dominions, especially
Asia, „ far from satisfactory. Delays are frequent; despatch^
D-iled May u, I860, to the Under-Secretary of State for India.