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(From the Herald.)
We have not attempted to conceal that we were under
great- obligations to the French Government for the
a-sistanee afforded to our agents in every respect ; but
it is utterly untrue to state that this express was ar-
ranged by.the French Government, and that the Herald's
work began only at Marseilles. The facts are simply
these:—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser-
vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's
project for conveying the India mail.viet Gcrtnany—
offered, no doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for
bringing the Times' dispatches, and with the hope of
receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon
proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the
Trieste route was the shortest, by running as rapid an
express as possible from Suez vid Marseilles. The only
difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from
Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty
we wrote to the French Government, stating our
intention, asking the favour that one of the usual
passenger steam-boats trading between Alexandria
and Marseilles might be placed at our disposal, and
offering to pay all expenses incurred in that service.
The French Government, having considered our propo-
sition, answered that they could not comply with our
request ; but to show their desire to afford every pos-
sible assistance in accomplishing an object of so much
importance to England as the expediting the conveyance
of the Indian mail, they had determined upon placing
at our disposal a French war-steamer, which could con-
vey our agent to Egypt, to arrange the express from
Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which vessel the
French Government could not possibly receive any pe-
cuniary remuneration, but they expected that a copy of
the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered to
the Government in Paris as soon as our courier arrived
there. For this extrem ly generous, phi we cannot help
calling it " patriotic" assistance, we shall always feel
ourselves under great obligations to the French Mi-
nistry. The vessel appointed to the service, called
the " Alexandre," accordingly was sent to Marseilles on
the day we suggested, for the purpose of conveying our
active and intelligent agent at Marseilles to Alexandria,
who undertook the entire management of the express
from Suez, and actually went to Cairo, and brought
down the dispatches himself to Alexandria. He is con-
sequently at this moment, unfortunately for him, in qua-
rantine at Marseilles ; but we have no doubt he consoles
himself for his present state of restraint, by the conside-
ration that, notwithstanding all the sneers of the Times,
the Herald has succeeded in an experiment of a magni-
tude never before undertaken by any journal. As for
the in.sulting observation of the Times towards M. Guizot,
all we can say is, that, if the Paris correspondent of that
respectable journal did actually apply to be allowed to
participate in the result of this experiment, we are quite
certain that M. Guizot could never have stated, as the
Times asserts, " that be was determined to exclude not
only the Times, but every other journal which had ventured
to applaud Mr. Waghorn, from any participation in the
result of this evperimont, ;" and for this simple reas.m--
via., that our express was arranged so hastily, that we
had no means of ascertaining whether we should be able
to procure even one spare copy of the Bombay Times for
the use of the French Government ; and our corre-
spondent in Paris actually stated as much to M. Guizot;
so that we really do not understand how his Excellency
could promise to give any information to the Times or
to any other journal, not knowing whether he would be
able to obtain any intelligence himself. It so happened
that we were able to procure an extra copy of the Born-
, bay Times, which was left in due course for the use of
the French Government ; but our agent at Suez had
great difficulty in obtaining it, and it certainly would
have been extremely unfair, after all our exertion and
expense, to have given that copy of the paper to the
Times. It is really with great reluctance that we feel
ourselves compelled to publish all these particulars; but
after the gross insult offered to the French Government,
and to M. Guizot in particular, we feel it a duty we owe
to ourselves to make known to the public the exact facts
of the case.

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