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

E(yIPT.

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 cireum-
stances to same 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
readers.
Through II 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 4om 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 passible 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 hare 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
r‘"tiers. One of his first tasks was that of drilling a
number t:',c the Pasha's memlooks, who were to form
future Egyptian army. The new
of course, highly unpopular
was, on oho occasion, while put-
the nucleti7syosi4.."l::
rnlatoon firing,
Christian
among the Turks, and
ting the men through the exercise of
Soliman Pasha heard the whistling of several ulleta
about his ears. He coolly gave the word to stop',
and then sharply reproved the men for being such
disgracefully bad shots. " Altons, Messieurs, re-
commencons,' 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
men.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Alhambra came in yesterday with some 170 French
troops, who went on to Suez in the evening to em-
bark by the Nubia for China. During the interval
of their stay
.at Alexandria they amused them-
selves wandering about the streets of the town,
a thing which is rather unusual. A story is told
about it, that the commanding officer called the
men and declared to them, with a fierce aspect and
tone of voice, that he would put aux fern any one
among them who might presume to leave the ship.
Hardly, however, had he left them when the culottes
rouges, one after the other, bean to heramble over
the ship's side, until in a short time not a single
man was left on board.
j You will be in possession of more direct and

fuller particulars on the state of affairs in Syria than
I can furnish you hence. I may, however, mention
a report that has reached Alexandria, to .the effect
that Fuad Pasha was about to summon the chiefs of
the Druses to surrender themselves, under pain of
being declared rebels to the Sultan's Government.
The Druses ale plot expected to comply, in which
case an expedition will be sent to pursue them
among the mountains, aided by a column of 2,000
French troops.

The intelligence respecting the health of the
French soldiers is unfortunately very unfavourable.
Aithough they had not gone upon any service, 600
men, or about one-tenth of the force, were already
in the hospital. There is only too much reason to
fear that in the shape of sickness alone, the French
will have a most formidable enemy to encounter.

The presence of this small force in Syria was pro-
ducing an effect which will need to be vigilantly
watched by the Commissioners. The Christians,
and it is said the Mahomedans likewise, generally
feel convinced that the French army has been landed
in the country in redemption of a promise which
they believe was made on behalf of the French Go-
vernment when the dissensions with the Druses
first broke out. It is hardly neeessary to point out
the mischievous results which such a belief is cal-
culated to bring about, and it will especially behove
the French officials, both in word and deed, to dis-
avow the proceedings of which some of their
countrymen are so generally believed to have been
guilty. It will be necessary for them to prove,
both to Christians and Mohammedans, but especi-
ally to the former, that while abhorring the enor-
mities committed by the Druses, they none the less
condemn the unchristian spirit of violence and ag-
gression which there is too much reason to fear
was one of the main causes that brought about the
late events which have covered the country with
ruin and blood.

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Madame Clara Novello possesses as good a right
:o take a formal adieu of the English public as

either Madame Grisi or Madame Jenny Lind.
Though not our Grisi—her dramatic powers hav-
ing never been on a par with her vocal talent—

she is undoubtedly in some respects our Jenny Lind.

In sacred music, above all, she has shone with a
lustre scarcely less bright than that of the gifted

Scandinavian. Here, indeed, Madame Novello
has scarcely known a superior. She has
helped, in company with Mr. Sims Reeves, to
maintain the pre-eminence of her nation in the
highest department of the musical art. When
Mendelssohn was invited by the Philharmonic
directors to recommend the two most accomplished
singers in Germany, with a view to their engage-
ment for the concerts of our great " classical"
society, he named two Englishwomen (then at
Lepsic) as the very best he knew. One of these was
Madame (then Miss Clara) Novello. The compli-
ment was not ill-placed, for it may be safely affirmed
that, with the one exception we have named, Ger-
many never gave birth to an exponent of sacred
music at all comparable to this lady—and that
one, by the way, being a Swede, can
hardly be cited as a case in point. The physical
endowments of Madame Novello are such that,
even without her admirable musical capacity and
thorough experience, she could not have failed to
earn distinction among contemporary vocalists;
but with those qualities to set off the endowments
of nature, she kas been able to reach the highest
attainable position. This is not the time, however,
to review the history of her career, or to discuss at
length and in detail the peculiarities of her talent.

She has bid farewell to the Crystal Palace, it is
true ; but we have reason to believe that, after
a tour in the provinces, which commences
to-day in association with Herr Molique (the

composer of " Abraham"), Madame Anna
Molique, the clever pianist (his daughter),
and the London Glee and Madrigal Union (director,
Mr. Land)—it is intended to hold a grand concert
in the metropolis, at which her last notes in public
may be heard by her countless London admirers.
This is as at should be. Meanwhile it is enough to
state that the performances of "The Creation" and
" The Messiah" at Sydenham, under the guidance of
Mr. Benedict—with a band and chorus 2,000 strong
and some of the most eminent of our sob singers!!
(Messrs. Wilbye Cooper and Weiss in "The Crea-
tion;" Mine. Sainton-Dolby, Messrs. Wilbye Cooper
and Santley in " The Messiah"), were attended by
multitudes almost as large as flocked to the memor-
able exhibitions at the " Handel Festivals" of 1857
and 1859 ; that in both oratorios Madame Novello
took the whole of the soprano music ; and that
she never on any previous occasion we can recall
sang more divinely. It was a melancholy reflec-
tion that those purely devotional airs, from which
the simplicity of Haydn shines out with undis-
turbed serenity, would no more be heard from the
same lips ; that " With verdure clad," "On mighty
pens," and the not less beautiful, because ter-
restial, music of Eve (Part III.) including the
flowing and melodious " Graceful consort," would
henceforth be separated from a voice so sympathetic
and a style so faultless that, accustomed for
many years as we have been to their association
with Haydn's oratorio, it is hard to think of one
except in union with the other. Still more deeply
felt and universal must have been the regret that
those solemn, profound, and touching strains which
place " The Messiah" apart from all other orato-
rios—"
Come unto Him," " How beautiful are the
feet," and, last and most transcendant, " I know
that my Redeemer liveth"—would never again be
uttered by one hitherto unsurpassed—nay, perhaps,
unrivalled, if not in their poetical conception, at least
in their vocal delivery; that those songs of aspira-
tion and comfort would in future cease to find their
way to the hearts of the crowd through the me-
dium of a voice which breathes religion in every
accent, which cannot, if it would, inspire a theatri-
cal emotion, and which now, at the very time that
it is about to be hushed to our ears, has lost none of
its incomparable sonority, none of its silvery bright-
ness, none of its clear and penetrating tone.
There could have been but one conviction in the
minds of the vast crowd assembled on Saturday
afternoon in and about the great central transept
of the Crystal Palace, one firmly rooted and logi-
cally derived conviction—viz., that there was no
evident reason why Madame Novello should take
her leave at all. With voice and resources wholly
unimpaired, with a style made perfect by practice
and experience—added to a vigorous earnestness
which counts among her recent acquirements, and
warrants the belief that her retirement from the
profession that she has so long adorned is as much
a matter of regret to Madame Novelle, as to her
English patrons—why, it might be asked, should
she abruptly quit the scene of her many legi-
timate successes ? That, however, is her own
business ; it is for her to choose, and
for the public to hope that her mantle may
desceDd on the shoulders of a worthy successor.
After the final " Amen," loud, general, and pro-
tracted chewing, further enhanced by waving of
hats and handkerchiefs, accompanied Madame No-
vello's gradual retreat from the orchestra. The
heartiness of the leave-taking on the part of the
public was almost worth the sacrifice of taking
leave on that of the songstress, of whose undimi-
nished popularity it was a signal recognition.

WIND AND WEATILER REPORT.

SATURDAY
Inverness, W. ; fine
Aberdeen, N.E. ; rain
Dundee, E.; fine
Edinburgh, N.B. ; fine
N:Twick, N.E. ; cloudy
Newca,;9e-on-Tine;showery
Hartlepool, ;C:Wi• ; very wet
York, N. ; fine
Hull, N.B. ; fine
Derby, N.E. ; fine
Peterborough, N. ; rain
Harwich, N. ; fine
London, N. ; dull
Brighton, N.E. ; rain
Nis
Barwick, N.E. ; much rain
Newcastle-on-Tyne, N.W. ;
much rain
Derby, S.E. ; fine
Peterborough, N.W. ; fine
Birmingham, S.W. ; fine
Southampton, N.W. ; dull
Weymouth,N.,light; gloomy
Plymouth, N.W. ; fine,
Bristol, N.B. ; fine

SEPT. 29.
Southampton, N.N.E. ;

cloudy
Weymouth, N.N.E. ; cloudy
Plymouth, N. ; fine
Falmouth, N.W. ; fine
Bristol, E. ; fine
Cardiff, N.B. ; cloudy
Milford Haven, E. ; fine
:vohlyitehtleaadv,eEn:N; s.Etro.n;gfibnree eta
and cloudy
Liverpool, N. ; fine
Glasgow, N.W, ; fine

HT.
Cardiff, N.E. ; fine
Milford Haven, N.B. ; fine
Holyhead, N.E. ; Isght breeze
and clear
Liverpool, N.W. ; fine
Glasgow, N.W. ; fine
Jersey, N.N.E. ; fine
Hereford, N.E. ; cloudy
Salisbury; fine but dull

iWe are requested to state that the report of the
contemplated resignation of tho Bishop of Natal is incor
rect. Dr. Coleneo has no such intention.