Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-13

 ry of God, and to the great good of the Arab Moslem world, even as is denoted by his name Ahmad el-Uraby that is, praise God l. the descendant of the true Arab.
 Ismail's Odd Life In Rome.
 The splendor He Keeps up and His Calls on the Pope-Bowtng and Greeting that Follow Ills Arrival In Public Places Famous Dinners He Gives-Belief that
 the Italian King Secretly Wishes He
 were back in Egypt.
 Letter from Peruga to the Manchester Examiner Among the villas which have sprung up in Rome since 1870 in the new quarter of the Macao there is scarcely any more imposing or attractive than the one generally known as Villa Telfener. It was built originally for Slgnor Aghemo, the private secretary and even connection of King Victor Emman uel, for that gentleman had married a relation of Countess Mirafiore, with whom the King It IS well known, had contracted q morgana- tic union. This very handsome villa became the property of Count Telfener, the railway contractor who Is now engaged in construct ing the direct line from New York to Mexico It then passed into the hands of the Oriental retired from business, who is at the present moment one of the most prominent figures in the society of Naples and Rome On his ar rival at Naples from Alexandria there was assigned to him the royal villa, La Favorita, and in that villa he established his family consisting of n1d tenln1e, whom he never men, tions save in terms of the highest respect and affection, and a large bevy of ladies, such as the custom of the East entities a person of his rank and wealth to be possessed of. When he further established himself in Rome, his proceedings here attracted no little attention
 tie IS, In truth, very remarkable man. Per haps Manchester would like to know some details about him. His house has done good deal of business with Manchester He kS not ho oil again do bus1ness with Manchester. He takes great interest in the welfare of Man chester. He can tell you, as exactly as was told in your impression of last Friday, the number of bales of cotton shipped from Alex andria to Liverpool for the manufacturing usages of Manchester.
 But at present 1 am chiefly concerned with his social position in Rome. There he knows everybody worth knowing, and evidently made 1t hls first business to do so from the moment of his arrival. Nor is there any great difficulty fer person of fair standing In society to know him. This courteous Ori- ental receives visits in the morning. You go to the Villa Telfener. are shown into spaci- ous room on the ground floor to the right of the entrance, where you will find two or three secretaries busily writing. On present ing your card or your letter of introduction, one of the secretaries disappears, returns in a couple of minutes, and by him you are conducted through a small ante-room into @ large drawing room, at the end of which you will find seated the Oriental retired from business. He rises, receives you most courte- ously offers you at once cigar or cigarette, whichever you prefer, insists whatever re- monstrance you may make, on himself hold ing the light for you, when you are lighting your cigar, and will then proceed to chat on all possible subjects with equal courtesy and ease. He is little decidedly stout gentle man, has no Oriental swarthiness gravity in his manner, for he is as fair as an Anglo Saxon, and in his features, which tell of some 60 years of age, you are most struck by his half closed eyes and by the slight squint which they possess. He speaks excellent, indeed perfect, French, is full of bon neots and epigrams, and overfowing with anec- dote that he might almost figure as the hero of Capt. Marryatt's story, 'The Pasha of Many Tales" Perhaps he will invite you to stay to luncheon, at which all the secretaries are present. Later in the day the large gates of the Villa Telfener thrown open, and our Oriental friend may be seen setting out for his afternoon drive to the Pincio or the Villa Borghese in his dark caleche or broug- ham, with the rcd wheels, the dark blue liveries, and the two fine gray horses. At the Pincio or the Villa Borghese there is a universal lowing and greeting whenever he comes, above all between the ladies and him. self, for he Is prodlglous favorite with the fair sex. Once month, perhaps. when he sets forth for his drive it is not in the broug-
  nifcent state carriage with four gray horses and coachman and footman wear, not the usual dark blue, but gorgeous light blue and gold state liveries The state carriage takes the direction of the Quirinal Palace, where the sentines present arms before he enters and after he has finished his visit to King Humbert. Sometimes the state carriage goes in another direction. AS a rule distinguish ed personnges in Rome who visit the King of Italy at the Quirinal do not visit the Pope at the Vatican, and vice versa but Orien- tul friend is equally at home on the right and the left side of the Tiber, and when he drives up to the gates of the Vatican all the Swiss guards are called out, and this believer in Mohammed is treated with all the form of old Papal etiquette by the successor of St. Peter.
 After these drives and visits he returns to the Villa relfener, and no evening during his stay in Rome Is allowed to pass over without dinner party of some eight or ten guests, at least one half con,isting of ladies these guests, chosen with singular tact from the most influential political or social circles without any distinction of party, in the Itali- an capital. And if the saying ascribed to Lord Palmerston be true, that t0 prdie b0SG l de G0 diplomatic c'eSt la cuisine, Oriental friend's dinners are the highest triumphs of diplomatic art. Until his arrival in Rome, the Belgian Embassy was considered to stand first in this respect; but the sauces and en- trGn1ct& of even Mir. M. Van Loo must hide their diminished heads before the unrivaled courses of q Villa relfener dinner. The host is neologan in his interpretation of the maXims of the Koran respecting wine There are wet Mohammedans as we'll as wet Quak- CTS, and as the libations of Johannisberg fol- low the Madeira, and the Chateau La Rose or Chambartin follow the Johannisberg, and You've Cliquot, with all her creamy attrao- tions follows the claret or Burgundy, the guests cannot help thinking that unless they are moderate i'll their draughts they may themselves exhibit the spectacle of 'wet Europeans" After dinner the host does the honors of his saloon with untiring gayety and urbanlty. He passes from one fair guest to another, keeping all Tn good humor with his jokes and stories, that the impression which they carry away Is even more that of good will toward their host than of admira- ton for the splendor of the banquet. Rarely indeed, if ever, have they partaken of ban quet where the table groaned beneath such quantities of massive silver and gold plate. Our Oriental friend can well afford to have such services of plate If 1t be true that he re- tired, it would be much more correct to say was elected, from the firm with an income of | from t15O, GOO to E200,000 year. The mo- l ble rule of the Amanack des Gourmandes which Macaulay loved to quote declares that when q man gives you good dinner you are bound to speak well of him for at least three 1 months. 1 am afraid this rule is not always | observed by the guests of this Oriental. | They have been known to whisper of late | that their host, who has far more gold and silver than what glitters on bis table, has | been employing some of it to make matters far from pleasant in Egypt, and that some of the said gold and silver has even found its way into the pocket of Arabi Bey. For long before have written far, most of your Manchester readers, feel convinced, will have guessed that the Oriental retired from business who lives in such splendor in Rome i is no other than the ex-Khediye Ismail who As.