, 1876-08-06
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
The Home and Servants of a Turk.
ish Grand-Seigneur.
Unseemly Promotions In the Royal
Family OF Great Britain.
Badness and Expensiveness Of London
Hotels-Female Models in Paris.
A TURKISH PASHA,

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Albert Wolff writes to to the Courier det
Etats U,,is: To understand the Turks it is nee
essarY to see them at home. The one who has
astonishcd me most is certainly bis Hishness
| Mustapha Fazy1 Pasha, brother Of the Viccroy
OF Egypt He is known to Parisians. They
have seen his Highness either upon the Italiens,
or at Baden, or at Hombourg. With Us, ne was
| q man of the world, who amused himself; at
homo, Mustapha Fazyl Pasha is Grand Sclgneur
indeed. His house Is much the most notable In
Constantinople. When say bis house, 1t is q
figure Of speech, for there is not upon the two
| banks of the Bosphorus palace vast enough to
accommodate the suite Of this Prince without
throne, this Minister without portfolio.
At Candiln, on the Asatic side, Mustapha
| Pasha has palace OF forty windows front,
where his Highncss lodges and feeds two hun
dred persons, men, women, and eunuchs.
Three or four kilometres distant, on the
heights OF Tchamlidja; in another palace, be has
two hundred persons additional, making four
hundred, without taking into account the
Egyptian residence, where the old domest}cs or
inyalided slaves end their days in pleasant
retreat.
In Ill, Mustapha Fazyl Pasha supports five
| hundred persons every day, and over and above
these five hundred, three hundred enrich them
selves in his service. To cite but one example,
i WILL Tell you OulJ u u tcl Ld4u NCAA 1EA" LII
four years be has won more than 1oo, 900 francs
at the races in Egypt; his stables are terror to
the sportsmen OF the country
And do you know who this famous turtle re-
ally is! He is merely the SECOND chief OF the
eunuchs Of the harem OF Candi1lt.
Nothing, moreover, is more curious than the
interior Of the residence OF Mustapha.
Within the vcstibule you will find at MI hours
OF the day twenty or thirty servants, and each
day you will perceive figures not seen the day
before. In a1f there are fully a hundred attached
specially to the service Of the Prince, without
counting Jean bis French valet-de-chambre, a
fine fellow, who plays the highest stakes at
Hombourg, as we'll as his master.
What can all these servants do about Prince
who of all men on earth is the simplest person
knows Go to; they earn their money well.
Three or four attend to carry chibouk; and
there are half dozen to bring glass Of water;
one finds the silver plate, another the glass, a
third the carafe, fourth the little silver spoon,
the fifth groans under the burden Of the sugar
basin, while the stronger carries all with bent
arm.
thus occupied would relieve one another many
times in the course of q day. When one of them
has borne pipe, he retites into his family, and
is served in turn by slaves; for all the Wallets
erality OF the Prince. Tie married men have
their harems, which they support with the
Prince's money. They have their horses, which
subsist on forage from the masters stables. All
these men live like lords, and it Is always the
Prince who regales them: There is among them
a sort of freemasonry; instead OF prejulcing
one another, like European men servants, they
sustain one another. When one OF them has
need of money, the others make it evident.
For week the same one presses the Prince TN
til his Highncss exclaims:
s'Hold! Hold! my good fellow. You are, in |
decd, sufficiently Jealous"
Then the servant assumes melancholy air |
and speaks of his wife ard children, and Of the |
r. fn1rnpSE
does not pay; and the Prince, who is quite GER |
tainly the best man know, smiles and pays the |
debts Of his domestic Tomorrow it is the turn
of another, and so on with the suite throughout |
the year. In the lot there are men who receive |
five or SIX Thousand francs for carrying glass !
Of water, in the course OF six months; but how
dismiss them! If they are not old servants,
they are children born in the house; the father |
has served the father; the son clngs to the son;
the master does not regard them as domestics;
he has seen them grow up. They are compan-
ions rather than lackeys, and one has some re-
spect for them.
Il the Prince, in moment Of i'll temper,
should turn them out of doors, all these people |
would die Of hunger! Their master knows |
this, and, as he is an excellent man, he protects
them all, feeds them, educates them, buys them
reoiees in the happiness Of paternity, it still
the Prince who cducates the children.
One cannot form an idea Of a1l this world
moving about this great nbblcman Of the Orient.
Pasha feeds each day.
1ou see wandering in the passages old scrv-
ants waited upon by young ones, and young
ones By little negroes. In the great waiting
salon you will find, at al! hours Of the day, q
his household, his yalets-dechambre, his stables,
and his grooms, and it is always the Prince who
supports them. 4 hundred and twenty horses
which do nothing, forty gondoers who do but
little, and two hundred servants who do as
much!
This household amuscs the Prince, who, for
bis personal service, would be contcntcd, If
need were. with single valet-de-chambre.
Most OF these domestics have been reared in
The house; the Prince has seen them grow up;
ne himself has grown up amid his scryitors, and
4 You counsel him to dismiss them he increases
thcir wages leave you to judge whether
ike master can be adorvd elsewhere in all the
Sorldf During my sojourn at Constantinople,
he French tailor at Pcra went one fine morning
q Candiili to receive 100, 900 francs, the amount
y single bill 5000 francs for the Prince and
'''ooo francs for the young men Of his suite.
4 GREAT 1qNRSE MESTi ENTERTAIN
At the grand entertainment given to the
Prince OF Wales at the Guildhall Of the City of
london, losses Of jewels were plentiful Among
'ther things, the Duchess OF Manchester lost
me earring OF the value Of e1.20O, and has not
cen or heard anything OF it since. Another :
ady had the pleasure Of seeing her diamond
omb, valued at e5, ,400 trodden into dust be-
BILE to get sufficiently near to rescue it, a I ,
urious discovery was made in sweeping the
!all after the dance Some months ago Lady
dudley, the most beautiful Peeress at present
wing, was robbed Of jewels to the amount of | I
2o,VV, Which had been carelessly left in case at
honr, FIJI