New-York tribune., 1884-01-27
NUBAR PACHA.
THE NEW EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER.

Nubar Pasha two winters ago was the idol of tbs
Gambettst party, and regarded by them as secret
and serious clog on English influence in Egypt lie
was a witness of Nine. Camille Barrfre. wife of the
new French Minister, at Cairo at her wedding.
Gambetta and Sir Charles Dixie served in like ca
pacty to NJ Barfre, and at the dejcuner which fol-
lowed the nuptial ceremony the Armenian adviser
of the Khediye was toasted by the great French
orator. He is now treatedby the RpEbiique fTd'edse
rs a traitor to the family of Mehemet ALL shame
less time-server, corrupt politician, and curse
TO the land of his adoption The Paris calls him
Lord Nubar, aud expects to him, before he
dies filling stall i'm ST. Georges Chapel, Windsor.
as a Knight of the Garter Nubar is a keen. shrewd
man, and being Levantine. Is not Cato or
Quintus Curtus. He is intelligent enough TO pre-
fer an honest to dishonest course when his ends
can be well attained and easily by the former
as by the latter. Three years ago had mas ~ in
terviews with him. NJ. Barthflemy St. IIilaire was
Foreign Minister and the Petit Bourbon was rep
resented in Egypt by Baron Ring and NJ. de Big
nieres. Nubar, in speaking of the action OF these
two Frenchmen. whom he knew 10 be instructed by
Gambetta, said to me "It font momeni c de bea
crosses btises Ii is hard TO translate the phrase as
he meant it to be understood. belts, is stupid.
silly blunder Nubar 50 qualified the big b6tises"
in accentuating the phrase TO leave room for the
inference that he apprehcndcd they would give rise
TO "a colossal disaster. | asked him why he ex-
pressed this opinion only in private. He replied
that if he aired it he would make himself enemies
and evil. The evil wOnld have to cure
itself as best it might. NJ Barthelemy st. Ilaire
had lectured Baron Ring; but as the
Cabinet to which that Minister belonged depended
for existence on the favor of the Gambettists its
agents abroad would continue TO receive their or
ders from the Petit Bourbon where there was hardly
bo oil ffa
Nubar had been. when young private secretary
of Mehemet Ali. He therefore knew what costly
efforts had been made to annex the Khartoum dis
trict to Egypt, and what drain its retention was
upon the excbequer at Cairo. Discomfort was
rife among the black population. They
had been remorselessy trodden upon by
Mehemet-who once captured 100. 900 of them and
sold them as slaves-and by his successors. They
would remain quiet long Egypt was undis-
turbed, but if Ring succeeded in egging on Arab
to stand up against the authority of the Khedive
the whole territory of the Upper Nile would be in
revolt, and there saying how the insurrec-
ton might not end. asked why it was that Ring
melted Arab to give trouble at Cairof Because,
was the answer, the Khedive, thinking the English
are more solid allies than the French, pays more
attention to what they say. He feels his
own weakness and prefers 10 lean on the strongest
staff that is within his reach He is neither English
nor French but for himself and his family, and only
consults his own interests In stirring up Arab
the French Consul l-General awaking sleeping
giants. The Nubian and the Soudan blacks had
been from time immemorial cause of danger
and of renovation to Egypt. They fire.
auently conquered the delta in ancient
times, as the pictorial records in the Pyramids and
other architectural monuments showed. Their
blood gave new vigor to the indolent inhabitant
of tha oil I'm tha loft had ha
same effect as the inundations Of the Nile
upon the land. But the TRANSMISSION accom-
plished in the midst of social economic and polit-
cal catacysms. That reservoir of negro force above
the second cataract of the Nile stupendous
fact which political Frenchmen unable to
seize
Nubar was, at the time L speak of, against sew
erng the feeble Ink which holds Egypt to Tur-
KEY. One of the reasons that he gave was the bas-
tard Mahometanism of Nubia. Tho population
there had some sort of belief in the divine right
claimed by the Sultan to misiule them II they
cast it aside nothing but sheer force could hold
them in, and a resort TO it might be cause of
to the already over-burdened finances of Egypt.
Nubar was again here last winter, and paid ASST
duous court to the eloquent Deputy of MOntmatre IN
whom he thought he disecrned a coming man. He
was then treated by Nj. Ducerc as an agent Of Eng
land. Lord Granville at the same time held him in
suspicion as devoted to French influence. He re-
sided near tLe Pare NOncean, in an elegantly fur
nished set OF apartments, and had his family with
him. The Clemenceaus asked to all Madame
Nubars parties and to several dinners. Nubar
would never admit that he was pro-
digiously wealthy, and it is certain that
he failed to obtain for his daughter alliance
upon which he had set his heart, because unable to
give her sufficiently large dOwry. IL is possible
that he was ricked out OF part OF the great wealth
which he possessed in 1868 by Ismail Pacha. NJ.
Lesseps owed to Nubar's clever diplomacy the dis
appearance of many obstacles which Lord Pal-
lnerstons agents al Cairo threw IN the way of the
canal scheme, and paid largely for the services rem
dered.
the desert parts of the valley of the Nile at its
Lyban and Suez border He proposes 10 do this
by means of two canals from the last
cataract of the Nile, which will bring a perpetual
questions. For many years he has be in e g Ible
in his Efforts to obtain English and French con9te-
nance for the realization OF his scheme, which has
become an all-abSOTbng one 70 him. | dare say
that he takes Office with view to ca1y out his
Nubar Pacha is a Smyrniote Armenian. He
went 70 school in Switzerland aud completed
his studies in Paris. 1t is not true that he speaks
English as well as French. | always understood
from him that he was more at ease III the
latter tongue. lie is slxty-three years Old.
and has been IN official harness ior more nor
physiognOmIst who did not know his antecedents
that he is one of the sharpest Levantnes that ever
preyed upon the Egyptians. The big brown staring
eyes have a acid, good-natured and ox-lkeex.
preston which is deceptive Once in while they
glance furtively at the person with whom Nubar
may he conversing and bctray the excessive
shrewdness of the inner man. The new Egyptian
Prime Minister is n quiet humorist and can be
crnelly satrical. lie was charged by the Khediye
with different missions to C0nStantin0pe, and sue
ceeded there in getting the order of the trans
that aSf by this aT
ton he belonging, on the maternal side. to the ser
vile class But on account af his weak will he
was supported against his father Ismail by tho
Porte, England, France. and secretly by Nubar.
who eventually got him recognized ras
heir. Nubars temper Is cOnciliatory. lie makes 10
L. L.. Inn enfre