The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

EGYPT.

A letter from Alexandria, dated Sept. 18, says—
The course of events in Egypt has latterly run ex-
ceedingly smooth, and the only interruption we
have had to the quiet tenour of each day was caused
last week by the sudden receipt of the news of Il
Hami Pasha's death at Constantinople. The body
arrived next day by a Turkish frigate and was sent
up to Cairo, where it has been interred in the family
vault of his father, the late Viceroy of Egypt.
Poor Il Hami's name had latterly acquired an
unfortunate notoriety, derived from certain ciroum•
stances to some of which I have already adverted
in your columns, and from others which have pro-
duced squabbles and quarrels, accusations and re-
criminations, and excited much local discussion and
diversity of opinion, but the details of which would
be of little profit or interest to the generality of your

Through Il Hami Pasha's death the line of the
late Viceroy Abbas Pasha has come to a close, the
children born of Il Hami's marriage with the
Sultan's daughter being of the female sex, and
consequently debarred from transmitting the right
of succession to the Viceroyalty. Said Pasha
has been appointed by the Sultan administrator of
the estates of the young prince. What course
he may pursue is as yet little more than matter
of conjecture ; but he has declared his intention
of renouncing the share of the property which
by Turkish law would fall to him as head of
the family, and it is very generally believed that if
circumstances render it possible he will endeavour
to wind up the affairs of the late prince by paying
off his debts, in compensation of which the lands he
held will be allowed to revert to the " Crown," and
that in the event of the estate being found altoge-
ther insolvent provision will be made for Il Hami
Pasha's children out of the public revenues.
It is sad to think of this young man's career, and
to remember the high aspirations and ambitious
views which his father entertained for him ; but it
is far less upon him that a severe judgment can be
passed than upon the Turkish system, mischievous
in this as in almost all other things. When at the
age of hardly 17 he found himself suddenly emanci-
pated from the rigorous authority of his father,
without a single person, either friend or stranger,
to exercise the slightest control over his actions, it
is hardly matter of surprise that the influence of
the life he had up to that time led among the
women and slaves of the harem should manifest
itself. Under such circumstances the result is quite
inevitable, and it might have been foreseen that his
opportunities, however magnificent, his health, and
finally his life itself, would soon be dissipated and
thrown away.
During this year death has removed many names
that still continue to link the Egypt of the present
day with the times that witnessed the brilliant ca-
reer of Mohamed Ali Pasha. Last month his eldest
daughter, Nazleh Hanem, was consigned to the
grave. She was born when her father still occupied
a humble position in an insignificant Turkish town,
and she could perhaps remember the day when he
left it, an obscure adventurer, for the land which he
was destined to transmit as an inheritance to his
descendants, after having well nigh grasped within
his hand the crown of the empire. Nazleh Hanem
was the widow of,the sanguinary Defterdar, whose
name even to this day excites feelings of horror,
not entirely unmingled with terror, in the minds
of the Egyptian people. The poison which put an
end to his life is said to have been administered
by his wife in obedience to the commands of
her father. She is said to have been a woman
of strong judgment, greatly resembling her brother
Ibrahim Pasha ; but terrible stories attach them-
selves to her memory, which sound more like fictions
from an Oriental tale-book than events of modern,
albeit of Turkish life. From the scandal they
created, her proceedings on more than one occasion
well nigh overcame the strong feelings of regard
and confidence which Mohamed Ali otherwise enter-
tained for her.
Another death that has occurred within the year
is that of Soliman Pasha, who introduced the Euro-
pean system of organization into the Egyptian
army, an example which was shortly after followed
by Sultan Mahmoud. Soliman Pasha, or rather
Colonel Selves, his real name, came to Egypt at
the time of the first Restoration. An anecdote is
told of him which may be new to many of your
readers. One of his first tasks was that of drilling a
number of the Pasha's memlooks, who were to form
the nucleus of the future Egyptian army. The new
Christian system was, of course, highly unpopular
among the Turks, and on one occasion, while put-
ting the men through the exercise of platoon firing,
Soliman Pasha heard the whistling of several bullets
about his ears. He coolly gave the word to stop,
and then sharply reproved the men for being such
disgracefully bad shots. "Aliens, Messieurs, re-
commeneons," he finally added ; but after this there
were no more bullets. The gallant Frenchman's
pluck had asserted its power over the minds of his
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