CHAPTER XXXV.
JANUARY 8, 1855--AUGUST 14, 1856 Payment of dividends delayed .-- Concern for welfare of his country .-- Indignation at corrupt proposal from California .-- Kendall hampered by the Vails .-- Proposition by capitalists to purchase patent rights .-- Cyrus W.
Field .-- Newfoundland Electric Telegraph Company .-- Suggestion of Atlantic Cable .-- Hopes thereby to eliminate war .-- Trip to Newfoundland .-- Temporary failure .-- F.O.J.

Smith continues to give trouble .-- Financial conditions improve .-- Morse and his wife sail for Europe .-- Feted in London .-- Experiments with Dr.Whitehouse .-- Mr.Brett .-- Dr.O'Shaughnessy and the telegraph in India .-- Mr.Cooke .-- Charles R.Leslie .-- Paris .-- Hamburg .-- Copenhagen .-- Presentation to king .-- Thorwaldsen Museum .-- Oersted's daughter .-- St.Petersburg .-- Presentation to Czar at Peterhoff.