The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-02-20 00:00:00

CONUNDRUM.

Why oughtn't a Boot and Shoemaker to be trusted
Because he's a Slippery Customer.—Pun/t,

DEATH OF FtfAD PASHA.

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The Journal Oflfcial of last Saturday announces that Fund
Pasha, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the rurkish
Government, died at Nice on the evening of Thursday last,
of the complaint from which he has been suffering for so
many months The following sketch of the career of this
statesman is from "lien of the Time
. . .

Mehmed, Pasha, a listinguished Ottoman
statesman, was born in Constantinople in 1814. His
father was allali or judge, much given to poetry,
and his mother was the celebrated Lila Khatoun, one
of the few Ottoman poetesses whose works have been
printed. In 1828, Fumrs father having fallen into
disgrace with the court, his proi arty was confiscated,
and he Was exiled. mad did not SC43ollll,ally him, but
devoted himself to the study of medicine in the schools
of Galatea. In 1834 he was serving in the Turkish
navy, anti afterwards enter-d the interpreter,' office
of the Government, an establishment partaking both of
the nature of a school for politicians and a dupartment
of the public services.
I His Mat in Iliplomatic life was at the critical
period of the death of Mainland 11., when the sue.
comes of Mehemet All threatened to dismember the
Ottoman empire. Anxious to conciliate the European
Powers, the Turkish Government sent missives to
each court, and to the one which proceeded to England,
Food was attached in the capacity of secretary. In
1843 he was nominated orcoinl interpreter to the Porte,
and was shortly afterwards sent on a spe,ial mission
to Spain, to congratulate Isabella 11. on her accession
to the throne, being at the same time intrusted with a
mission to the court of Donna Maria of Portugal, and
returned home dee, trated with the orders of the Tower
and the Sword, and of Isabella the Catholic. To this
was added, in 1844, the Cross of the Legion of Honour,
sent by ths Duke of Montpensier in acknowledgment
of services rendered by him as Grand Interpreter
during the Duke's visit to Constantinople.
About this time Fuad published his poem, "The
Alhambra," which embodies his recollections of Spain,
and gained for him great popularity with his country-
men. During the disturbance in the Principalities,
which followed the revolution of 1848, Fuad was Otto-
man Commissioner at Bucharest, and after the Hun-
garian war he was sent on a mission to St. Petersburg,
at the conclusion of which he was made Home Secre-
tary under the viziership of All Pasha. The publica-
tion of a pamphlet by him in 1853, entitled " The
Truth upon the Question of the Holy Places," so
excited the indignation of Prince Illenschikoff, that,
t 3 avoid insult, he was compelled to tender his 'wig.
nation to the Sultan. He was commissioner at the
headquarters of Omar Pasha in the Crimean war;
nominated, in 1855, to the Tanzimat, with the rank of
Mushir and title of Pasha, and in 1856 Minister for
Foreign Affairs. He Was named Turkish Commis-
sioner in the unfortunate Druse rebellion of 1860,
, Grand Vizier of the Empire in 1861 ; retiring in Janu-
ary, 1861, and became Minister of War, February 12
in the same year, and Foreign Minister, February 11,
1867. Fulvi Pasha, who, owing probably to his varied
and continuous contact with European nations, be-
longs to the liberal school, is a member of the Acad6mi6
Imp6rials des Sciences et BelleirLettres, has received
the order of the Iffedjidie, and several foreign orders,
and is the author of a Turkish grammar.