Its reception was in the highest degree flattering, and the interest which they manifested, by the questions they asked and the exclamations they used, showed to me then that the invention had obtained their favorable regard.

The papers of Paris immediately announced the Telegraph in the most favorable terms, and it has literally been the topic of the day ever since.

The Baron Humboldt, the celebrated traveller, a member of the Institute and who saw its operation before that body, told Mr.Wheaton, our Minister to Prussia, that my Telegraph was the best of all the plans that had been devised.
"I received a call from the administrator-in-chief of all the telegraphs of France, Monsieur Alphonse Foy.

I explained it to him; he was highly delighted with it, and told me that the Government was about to try an experiment with the view of testing the practicability of the Electric Telegraph, and that he had been requested to see mine and report upon it; that he should report that '_mine was the best that had been submitted to him_'; and he added that I had better forthwith get an introduction to the Minister of the Interior, Mons.

the Count Montalivet.