To Mr.Statham and his family in a special manner are we indebted for the most indefatigable and constant attentions.

Were we relatives they could not have been more assiduous in doing everything to make our stay in London agreeable.

To Mr.Brett also I am under great obligations.

He has manifested (as have, indeed, all the gentlemen connected with the Telegraph here) the utmost liberality and the most ample concession to the excellence of my telegraphic system.

I have been assured now from the _highest sources_ that my system is not only the most practical for general use, but that it is fast becoming the _world's telegraph_." His brother Sidney was at this time also in Europe with his wife and some other members of his family, and the brothers occasionally met in their wanderings to and fro.