Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-31
THE KHEDIvE's EXILE.

AS"e0et,s DepGTtWre from EOypt tCtth His
Harcns.
A correspondent writes from Alexandria
to the London Standard:
No sooner was the abdication, or rather the
deposition Of the late khedive accomplished
than orders were given for the royal yacht
to be prepared with all speed to convey him
and his family beyond the shores Of Egypt.
No particular residence was indicated, and
having beautiful and spacious palace at
Constantinople, his highness naturally
wished to occupy his own property in Tur-
key; but hostile counsels prevailed, and the
sultan refused to sanction this arrangement.
The khedive's mother has place at
Rhodes, and it was Thought they might
all go there. Smyrna, too, was spoken of !:
but at the last moment Naples was fixed on.
in which neighborhood the late king Of Italy
made over some property to the khedive in
part payment of q large sum of money adj
vanced some years since. On every account
1t was desirable that the late khedive should
leave the country at an early moment, and
no one can complain of his departure being
unduly delayed. The deposition was officially
made known at 3 P. N. on Thursday, the
26th, and in exactly four days-namaly. at 3
p. M. on Monday, the 3Oth-the ex. monarch
was an exile. Since Friday all hands have
benn hard at work on the Mahrogsa.
perhaps the finest yacht in
the world. Having taken in q stock
of Goals, store and provisions, the Yacht
was ready to receive the first detachment Of
the khedivial harem at 4. M. this, Monday.
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special train, and were sent off in steam
launches and barges. Most of the ladies'
wore suitable travelling European costumes,
with light or elegant wells, or apologies for
"yashmahs = but the servants of different
grades wore the tarha and khatara of the
ordinary make. The styles of beauty were
as varied as the toilets. Some of the ladies
had hair and compilations as fair as those of
Englishwomen. Others were of the
Spanish type, with black hair and
eyes Except among the servants,
none seemed over twenty-five years
OF age; but there pervaded them all a listless
and vacant look, as if beings with no occu-
patton or aim in life. All the morning there
was an incessant hurrying to and fro Of boats
with baggage and household goods. until at 2
P. NJ. another special train arrived with the
second and larger portion of the harem. In
this | counted nine barges or boats between
the shore aud the yacht, each containing,
from six to eight women. Perhaps some Of
these did not go on in the ship, were
friends who afterward returned to Cairo;
and many were merely "helps'' in whom
beauty was conspicuous by its absence. Then
came lsmail Pasha's three lawful wives. The
fourth, the mother of Prince Tewfik, the
present viceroy, remains at Cairo, near hel
son. The scenes at Cairo railway station
between those members of the harem who
were going and those who were staying be.
hind are said to have been heartrending
and it was with much difficulty the train
could be started. Although their life is one
OF seclusion and confinement, they are &C
customed to every comfort; and doubt if al
Cairo any of the harem had the least idea Of
their future residence; all they knew wae
they they were leaving their friends and sur.
roundings to be landed in some strange
country across the sea.