The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-04-26
AN EGYPTIAN BISMARCK.
Nubar Pasha, the Premier, and His Work
for Egypt.
New York Herald.

for Egypt.
New York Herald.
Entering public life at an early ag
under the auspices of his kinsman
Boghos Bey, one of Mehemet ALI
most trusted counsellors, Nubar Pash,
has played leading part in the events
of the past quarter of a century. Tt
enumerate the transactions with which
he has been connected as foreign min.
lister under successive rulers, and event
ually as president of the council, would
be to recapitulate the history of Egypt
during the last four reigns. He it was
who brought to. a successful issue the
negotiations with the porte which OBJ
tanned for the khedival line the rights
of succession by primogeniture, of
coming money, contracting loans, con-
GLIDING treaties and raising an army !;
who defeated the claim of the Suez ca
nal company to be subject only to
French courts, and blandly intimated
to the imperious De Lesseps that all
sentences pronounced by local tribun-
ais against the company by default
would be executed by the police. and
who conducted the transactions which
led to the purchase by England of the
khedive's shares in the canal.
So far, however, the browning work
of his career has been his establish
ment of mixed tribunals, which has re-
ceived only the qualified approval of
Mr.. Gladstone and his colleagues. II
was in 1867 that the evils of the Judi
cial administration in Egypt were first
made the subject of official comment
in memorandum addressed by Nubar
to the khedive. In this document he
unfolded scheme of reform, which
was unfavorably viewed in France, but
commanded promises of cooperation
from the British government, and in
1860 he presided over commission
attended by delegates from Great
Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, Rus
STA and Italy, which accepted his re-
forms in principle, leaving himte work
out the details-a task which mainly
occupied twenty years of his busy life.
The objects of his efforts being at once
to limit the despotic powers of the khe-
dive in judicial affairs, and to deprive
the agents of foreign governments of
privileges which they had come to re-
gard as their prescriptive right, he had
to contend against two-fold opposi-
ton.
In the end he paid the penalty of
patriotism in his exclusion
rom public affairs by the Khedive Is
nail at the very time when the courts
le had instituted most needed his fos-
ering care. But even this misfortune
vas attended with advantage, since it
Enabled him to recruit in travel and
,hange of scene the broken energies
which were beginning to suffer from
application, and which were
gain to be sorely tried. Mr.. Gladstone
an scarcely dispute the obligations of
lis government TO the man who under
ook, in conjunction with his lifelong
ival, Cherif Pasha, to rebuild the fab
ic of administration which Arab had
Drn down, and who has chivalrously
orne the burden of premiership amid
second national crisis, the chief anx-
,ty of which has been caused by the ,
olicy against which he now protests.
At the Berlin conference Nubar would
ave been unanimously nominated
overnor of Bulgaria had he not caused
to be understood that all his sympa- :
lies were with Egypt, a preference {
OF altogether surprising in view of his i
lnded property there, but none the s
'ss creditable considering his educa- 9
on and social qualities. Speaking >
nd writing fluently the various Euro a
can languages, he might readily pass O
IF ba Enolivh | :
entlemen with whom by preference I
g associates, were it not for the /,
varthy complexion which proclaims L
lie oriental. But, though conciliatory
manner, Nubar Pasha is something
ore than courtier. He is, indeed,
IN and proud to fault, and posses q
s the fauculty of saying what he t,
cans in way which successive khe- t
YES have not always found agree ii
lie. q
1t is this infexibility which renders \
S present attitude the more significant, D
lille his associations with upper Egypt i
e such as to quicken his sympathies O.
It'll the noble prisoner at Khartoum y
nom the British government seems o,
sposed to abandon to his fate. NJ b
RS brother, Arakel Bey, died a vic ia
n to the climate of the Soudan during "
e reign of Said Pasha, who had APP u
tinted him governor of that region, D.
d the son and namesake of that is
omising stateman persisted with his in
lder in Arendrup's expedition into ia "a
'yssinia. The Egyptian premier is tr
ely, therefore, to appreciate the sar- th
mic irony of the advice now offered
, beleaguered Englishman-to vacate N
lartoum witout delay.