"مذكرة تتعلق بالملاحة في نهري دجلة والفرات". [ظ‎‎٨‎٧] (٢٨٤/١٧٥)

Affairs, noidentally denied that Kamick I'asha, 1865—(eon<.)
the vali, was in favour of forming a French
company to navigate the rh 01 s. ^ , m ^ u * a
The company was informed that the lor..: T ? Kr ;"| t " m in
had scat instruotioas to Bagdad to allow the Navigation
Company,
" Satellite " to run. March 17.
Mr. Stuart's language in No. 123 was approved, To Stuart,
and he was told to express to the Forte the hope
of Her Majesty's Government that the arrange
ments then under consideration for the na\iga-
tion of the Tigris and Euphrates would result
in throwing open those rivers generally to the ♦
merchant-vessels of all nations.
Mr. Stuart reported that he had read to Aali Mr. Stuart,
Pasha the Foreign Office despatch No. 119, and Ap'riiu.
that the latter had replied that " the draft of
the new regulations for the navigation of the
rivers required some alteration belore he would
be able to communicate it."
Lord Lvons, Ambassador at Constantinople, Lord Lyons,
' _ , , No. 36,
transmitted despatches from the consul-general November 22.
at Bagdad giving reasons why he was opposed to
the withdrawal of the Cornet." He also gave
a history of Her Majesty's ship Satellite,
from which it appears that she was originally
brought to Turkish Arabia by Colonel Stewart
in company with the vessels engaged in laying
the cable, though he did not state in what year.
—The consul-general at Bagdad reported 1866.
on the 8th August that Namick Pasha had Sir Arnold
ordered three steamers from Europe for the usts
ostensible purpose of establishing steam com- (enclosure in
munication between Kalaa Jebir and Mujdam on Na SSO, 008 '
the Euphrates, and Bagdad and Mosul on the 8 '
Tigris, but really to drive the Euphrates and
Tigris Steam Navigation Company's boats off
the river.
Earlier in the year Lord Lyons successfully hord Lyons,
, . . No 142
protested against the action of Namick Pasha in April 24.
regard to the imposition, with retrospective
effect, of a 20 per cent, tax on wood fuel cut on
the banks of the Tigris for the company's
steamers, and, in regard to the detention of their
wood-boats. Sir A. Kemball remarked, in this
connection, that the pasha was bent on defeating
indirectly the Porte's sanction for the navigation
of the rivers.
i<S67.—The 4 Comet" was in such a bad state 1867.
that she could not be repaired, and the India India Office,
Office received from the political agent in April 9 ' 1867 *
Turkish Arabia an application for a new vessel.