New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-12
REDsBuD PAsHA.

REDsHID PAsHA.
We perceive, in the correspondence from Con-
stantnople contained in the late European journals,
that hints are expressed that the presence OF All
Ps,ha at the Paris Congress- and the difficulties he
is likely 10 encounter there, will be made Use oil
b, Redsld Pasha, Lord Redcifs's protege, to over
throw the present Turkish Ministry, and bring
about his own sudden restoration to power. AS,
during the last twenty years, as now, at every COM
plicaton in the Orient, that vaunted Turkish pro-
cressiye and reformer has attracted the attention
of the Oecident, whether he was in place or in-
tricuipg 10 get in, true word regarding him may
BE- interesting.
Redshd Pasha is generally supposed to be the
energetic chief Of the Turkish Progress party, and
Europe, accordingly, was not so much astonished
at the rumor that Louis BOnapare ID an address TO
the OTTOMAN Embassador had called him great
nan, as at the Nonitcu having refused 10 record
that expression. However, it ought never to be
forgotten that-tLanks to the opportunities Afford
ed by the public press in this our nineteenth cen
tury-pse udC-grea men are thrown into circulation
with even greater facility than false dollars Red
shid having been presented anew to old paraguay
de- Killers during his short-liyed embassy at Con-
stantinople, the Marshal exclaimed with an oath:
" He looks like an old jew" To the licensed
manufacturers of public opinion, however, the
managers OF the great Journals OF London, Paris,
Brussels and Vienna, Redshid appears not in the
light of an old Jew, but of one of those Oriental
genii, whose touch converts everything into gold.
No wonder they should have celebrated him, ap-
piled to him their cheap galyanOPlastic gliding,
and made him a great man in their own fashion.
Redsbid Pasha was born in 1892. He is the son
OF poor efIend of the Mosque OF SOliman. From
1929 70 1888 be was reporter of the Divan. In
1893 he became attached to Kiamil Pasha on his
mission to Egypt. From 1884 TO loi5 he
occupied the post of Turkish ambassador, alter
nately at Paris aud London, and at intervals d.
rected the foreign ministry at home. From l545
to 1855 he held the Foreign Office, but retained
during seven years the Grand -Vizrat, and finally
contryed to marry his son to the Sultan's daughter
So far the Gotha Almanac is responsible, and we
may therefore put him down as "a great man"
But let us add some further details not given in
that useful publication.
From the very beginning Of his career Redshid
had the coed sense to perceive that for modern
Turkish statesman earnestly bent upon keeping his
place and enlarging his fortune, it was matter Of
prime necessitytO appear enamOured Western civ
izatiOn and passiOnatey attached to European inss
tuiOn; to affect the attitude Of professor OF prog
ress; to play the wholesale dealer in reform; but
at the same time to limit himself to the theatrical
exhibition and proclamation of general principles,
and to employ every means i'll his power TO main
tain the status quo in fact, while denouncing 1t IN
name. He had the sagacity to comprehend that to
be successful in this line, and 10 secure at once the
applause OF the West and the support of the East,
be ought to attach himself to the English embassy
at Constantnople and the Greeks OF the Fansr.
The Fanariote Stephan VOgOrides, Prince of SdnOs,
introduced and patrOnised him at the British emOas
sy, while another FanGriote, the Grand Logothek,
Aristarch now in exile, opened 10 him the doors Of
theRussian legation. At the SAME time the Fana-
riotes Kallhnasi, Mussurus, and Caradga, watched
his interests as ambassadors at Paris, London, and
the Hague. II was indeed a spark OF genius which
revealed to Redshid the secret that TO be cure Of
Russia be must assume-n0t the Muscoyite, but
the English livery; that TO perpetuate the old regime
he must uDite-not with the rough Turks of the
so-caed old school, but with the refined Greeks Of
the FaDar; and that to prevent reform he must
write il in golden letters over the front Of his Office.
During his sojOurn at Paris and London his
princey munifcence did not fell to convince Jour-
nasts and other influential persons of his extraor-
dinary gifts. To the vulgar of those capitals he
was represented as the wise man of the East, an
indetatigable scholar and thorough reformer.
However Lis airs of gravity and studiOus research
did not impose on the more select circles. Having
sclemnly asked Jules Janin for French master the
teulaetOniae aptly answered. "Prsne- plutOt aHe
mGitres@." 1t even oozed out that the wise man
passed the greater part of his days il playing back
Cannon. To prevent the discovery Of anOccupat'on
so little cOnsOnant TO his renOwn, he adopted, con-
trary to Turkish custom, the civilized antechamber
system, and had the visitors announced to him, so
as to be able to cause the backgammon to disappear
to compose his features, and to be discovered
pondering over book or musiDg on manuscript