§ COLONEL SYKESsaid, he rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether there is a new Convention for the construction of the Electric Tele- 354 graph through Persia, drawn out by Mr. Eastwick, Chargé d'Affairs at Teheran, on the 17th December 1862; and whether there would be any objection to lay a Copy of the same upon the table of the House?
§ MR. LAYARDsaid, there was a new Convention, but it had not yet been signed. When signed, there would be no objection to lay it on the table.