The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

A TURKISH "PRINCE" IN PARIS.

In October last a foreigner of oriental appear-
ance arrived at Marseilles by the packet from
Alexandria. He went to the Grand Hotel, where

he gave his name as Prince Kalimaki, and asked
for the best suite of apartments in the house. The
name of Kalimaki being well known to the land-
lord as that of one of the beet familiee in Turkey,
the stranger, although he had no retinue, and had
but scant luggage, was installed as the most distin-
guished guest of the Grand Hotel in the handsome
set of rooms which shortly before had been occupied
by the Emperor of Russia. The next morning the
Demos' left his ice's at the Thritisliconstilate, and
the vice-consill, in the abeenee of ' the consul-
genertil, returned the Visit in person. ' The
prince stated at the hotel that his father. had
an hnmenae estate in Turkey, in the midst of which
wawa navigable lake, entirely his private property,
on the bosom of which large steamboats were con-
tinually plying. His object iu coming to Prance
wet .to buy horses tot' his father's friend, Ali Plieha,
an 4 he asked many %tuitions as to the best means
of procuring fine horses. He was introduced to
M.- Carbonuet, the largest horse-dealer in the
smith of France, and who has stables at Marseilles,
'Avignon, and Lyeas. The prince, whose taste in
honwflesh was extremely difficult to please, found
nose of the horses in Marseilles good enough for
hint, and M. Oarbonnel wrote to his stud groom at
Lyn ea, desiring him to send the best horses he had
bylail to Avignon', whither Prince Kalimaki would
go* look at them.
• Elie prince went there accordingly, and after a
most severe inspection, *elected several animals at
high prices. On his return to Marseilles he wrote
a telegraphic despatch addressed to Ali Pula%
Constantinople, stating the number and price of
the horses he had bought, and desiring the Pacha
to remit funds immediately to pay for them. This
despatch was taken to the telegraph office by one
of the clerks of the hotel. On the strength of it
the 'manager of the hotel. anxious to secure the
c m of the Kalimaki family, not only
co 'hued withpiit misgivings to serve the
pri with the beet of everything, but lent him
4, /., for which he had occasion while the remit-
ta was coming, Carbonnel, the horse-dealer,
a placed his .curse at the disposition of the
1
p • , and the petnce was pleased to take sa much
as 50W. out of it for petty cash. The prince,
w luggage, %e.has been already said, was not
hehvy, made large additions to it before he had
been many days in Marseilles. His ta* in Ikea
, w4s altogether princely i a taikvx emoted his orders
tottlie extent of 1,50 W.; be bought on credit half
&dozen new hats. and a dozen pair of boots. The
peinee expressed .the utmost admiration for the
city of Marseilles. and for the French nation,
end . made a diei,losure of an 'incident con-
nee* with, his journey to Avignon which excited
thertmost curiosity in the hotel, and indeed
tli
ghout the town. He announced his intention
.to ivy a French lady and settle in Frahm On
his way to Avignon he had been greatly struck
with the beauty of a young person who, accompa-
nied by two nuns, rode iu the same railway car-
riage with him, and got out at au intermediate
station. As soon as he bad settled the purchase of
the horses with M. Carbonnel he resolved to find
out the young lady. A Turk who acted as his
secretary suggested that the cure of the nearest
village to the station at which the fair one alighted
would probably know something of the nuns who
were with her, and in this way a clue to her
name and residence might be found. The
idea was perfectly successful. The cure,
on being applied to, recognised at once the
young person describe I. He said she was the
sister of a mayor of a neighbouring parish, that she
had come on the day the prince saw her to play the
organ in his church. She was an exemplary girl,
of good family, and very nice fortune, and he for
his part thought her quite worthy to be a princess.
The family was communicated with through the
excellent cure. The offer of the prince was accepted
by the lady's brother ou her behalf, and an appoint-
ment was made at Marseilles to sign the marriage
contract. The prince, intoxicated with the happi-
ness that awaited him, at ouce made his intended
bride some presents, and volunteered to sign
two hills of 100,000 f. as an instalment of
the settlement he intended to make upon
her. Marriages, however, in France are not
hastily made. The law requires a great many
formalities, and the production of a great many
papers ; and it is, moreover, the habit of French-
men to look pretty closely into the title of the
property which the parties allege they possess. In
this case the first thing the lady's brother did
on arriving at Marseilles was to call at the Turkish
consulate, show the two bills awl ask bluntly
whether the signature was good. The answer was
that nothing whatever was known at the consulate
about the prince, that his visit had been returned
without inquiry, and that was all ; but that as to
the validity of the bills' the parties taking them
must decide entirely on their own judgment. They
del decide at once that the match way not an eli-
gible cue, and left Marseilles precipitately, having
first returned the presents. This mishap put an end
to the princely career of the guest of the Grand
Hotel. Confidence was suddenly withdrawn from
him; bills poured in all at once, and be was con-
strained to confess that he had no resources in the
world. When he appeared the other day at the bar
of the Correctional Police on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretences, it was proved that he
Was a Levantine named Tepee, a subject of
the Bey of Tunis, and that he had lately come
out of prison at Cairo. The false prince was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 24.—The Queen Las been
pleased to approve of Don Saotiago fur. t as consul at
Auckland, New Z,alend, for the Republic of Chile.—
THE CHILIAN QUV4TION.—The following acknow-
IPdgment has been receive.) of a memorial of the Edinburgh
Chamber of Commerce in behalf of energetic diplomatic
action on behalf of the Chilians in the quarrel picked with
them by Spain :—" Foreign Office. January 2:1, 1866.
Sir,—l em directed by the Earl of Clarend .0 to aelcoow.
ledge the receipt of the memorial of the Edinburgh
Chamber of Commerce, inclosed in your letter of the lath
lost., calling attention to the differences between Spain
and Chili, and requesting that her Mejeaty'e government
will use their best endeavours for the restoration of peace.
And I am to state to you in reply that her Majesty's go-
vernment hope that these differences will be arranged
through the good offices of Euelend sad France.—l am,
sir, your obedient t, E. HAMMOND. D. fif 'Laren,
Esq , President of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce."
LnicoLN's-INN, JAN. 26.—The undermentioned
gentlemen were thi• day called to the degree of bar-
rister-atlaw by the Honourable S.sciety of Lincoln's-inn,
viz.:—Herbert Newman Moz`ey, Eeq (certified° of honour
first clear), and M.A. Cambridge • Thomas Raney, jun.,
Esq., 8.A., Oxford • Samuel Dickintiors, Esq., 8.A., Cam-
bridge ; Thomas Frederick Kirby, Eel., M.A.. Cambridge;
j Jackson Hunt, Esq., RA., Cambridge; Bram Martin
Davies, Earl., 11. A., Oxford ; Charles Browning, Eaq. ;
Lancelot Shadwell. Esq. ; Edward Brodie Cooper, Esq.,
j HA., London. ; Edmund Salwey Ford, Esq., M.
Or-
/ ford ; David Francis Aherne, Esq. ; Charles Walter Cam-
pion, Elq., 8.A., Oxford ; Benjamin His b. Esq.
London ; Edward William Brabrook, E 44.• Henry 'Francis
I Purcell EN. 8.A., Dublin; and John Miens Allen, Fag.,
8.A., (abridge.