The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-19
THE YOUNG KHEDIVE.
"REMINISCENCES OF TEE YOUTH
Full RULER OF EGYPT.

EOL 6OL 1fE Oc Ell Z !.
More Disposed to Plot and Intrigue
Than to Be straightforward - Sur
rounded By Bad Influences, No Won
der He Makes Trouble for England.
A Peep Into the Immoral Atmos-
phere in Which the Khedive Lives.
Ais European Tastes.
From the LOUISVILLE Cotrier-JourndL
I suppose of all African monarchs the
most civilized. according to western ideas,
is the young Khedive or King of Egypt, who
has been educated partly at Switzerland
and partly at Vienna. To what extent the
lessons which have been inculcated in him
have borne fruit may be gathered from the
fact that, although he is but 10 years of age
and not legally married, be maintains a
large harem of odalisque', most of whom
have been presented to him by his imperi-
Gus and power-lovIng mother, very mas
terful woman, who realizes that she will
be able to maintain her influence upon
her son more easily by pandering to his
vices than by permitting him to wed
a woman OF rank and education. l have
s years old, when under the care OF bis
English tutor MIR. Butler, he used to attend
the Ali school, situated Just opposite his
fathers palace at Cairo. He was very de-
mure in those days, and very pronounced
in his European tastes and appearance. But
1 hear that since he has assembled the
throne he has given manifestations Of a
tendency toward Mohammedan fanaticism
and open expression to his dislike OF Euro
pesns. 1t Is just possible that this may be
question of policy rather than taste with
him, for there is no doubt that it has vastly
increased his prestige aud his popularity
among his subjects.
Be this as it may, his attitude has become
a source of much concern and anxiety to
the English, who, instead OF decreasing the
army of occupation since his fathers death,
as they had announced their intentions or
doing, have. on the contrary, increased it.
Indeed. it is admitted by many of the lead
ing Auglo>Egyptian officials, and even by
the authorities in London, that the loyalty
OF the young khedive to his English friends
is very questionable, and that an anti
European insurreotlon. similar to that
which occurred eleven years ago. may
break out at any moment. There would be
no ground for surprise in this, as both his
father and his grandfather before him,
notwithstanding the protestati0ns of
friendship and of regard for Europeans
detested and despised them at heart with
all the fervor OF a true believer, and IL is
we'll known that the late khedive, by the
advice of his wife, the present rulers
mother. countenanced and took part i'll the
auti-European movement of Arab Pasha
in 1882. until he perceived that it was
doomed to failure. Indeed, his conduct in
the matter was such. that Lord Randolph
Churchill publicly demanded, in the House
of Commons, his deposition by the English
government.
The present khedive is a short, fat young
man, with a tendency to the excessive en-
bonpoint, which distinguished both his
father and his grandfather. His mother,
too. is enormously stout, obesity hav-
ing almost obliterated her remark
able beauty OF former days. Her
eyes are still very fine, and her hands,
though plump, are small and snapelY.
She 10 generally clothed in white silken
tissues, cut a pEuropean. with a great
profusion Of marvellous lace and q guam
tity of jewels. She is in every way a
more attractive woman physically than
the old khediviah or mother OF Khedive
Ismail, who died about four years ago,
aud who was, up to the day Of her death,
one of the most remarkable figures of Cal
rene life. She was one of the most wicked
old omen imaginable, and was noted for
her depravity. People we're won't to turn
their heads aside and spit when they passed
her palace at Abbassie, just outside of
Cairo, for it used TO be said that the meu
who entered It's doors never emerged there
from again. On several occasions her car
riage was pelted with stones when out
driving, and she herself mobbed by crowds
of women, some of whom demanded their
sons, others their husbands, and others
again their brothers.
Khedive Ismail, who is still alive and a
Al. l.
obtained his throne by bringing about the
death OF his elder brother. The latter was
killed by the special train on which he was
journeying from Cairo to Alexandria, fall
ing into the Nile at Katfr-el-Zayat the draw
bridge have been left designedly open. The
director OF the railway, who was RESPONSE
BILE for this negligence, was Nubar Pasha,
who was obliged to flee from the country at
the time, but who was recalled and made
prime minister, and loaded with honors,
Immediately on Ismsil's succession to the
throne. The household of the young khe-
dive is altogether oriental in its constitution,
and at Cairo, as in Morocco, the chief
eunuch occupies one Of the very highest
offices Of the realm.
Nor is Nubar by any means the only
Egyptian statesman whose record Is open
TO question. Thus, for instance, the present
prime minister Riaz Pashe, spent the
early years of his life as an inmate Of the
hsrem of that monster, Khedive Abbas l.,
aud while was in Cairo, fifteen years ago,
old Cherif Pasha, who was prime minister
at that time, was called upon by Riaz
Pasha, who held the position of minister OF
the interior, to dismiss and punish his Eu-
ropeau secretary for holding him up to ridi-
cule. The secretary, who was a very skill
full artist, had drawn a pen and ink sketch
OF Riaz, representing him In the guise Of a
Nsutch girl in the act of dancing, thereby
calling attention to the early career of the
pashe. The caricature had heen posted up
in the smoking room Of the Khedive Club,
and for few days was the talk of Cairo.
Another Of the khediye's advisers, Mus
tapha Pasha Fehmi. who up till few
weeks ago occupied seat in the cabinet
indeed be held the position of premier-is
known to be one of the two chnmberlains
of Khedlva Ismeil, who was concerned in
the killing of Mustapha Pasha Sadyk by
the orders of their master. Mustapha
Fehmi is q very handsome man, and, a few
years ago, a young English girl Of excellent
family and considerable fortune who was
spending the winter in Cairo, became in
fatuated with him TO the extent of promis-
ing to become his wife. When she dis
covered that he had acted TO all intents and
purposes as one of the executioners Of
Sadyk Pasha she broke Off the match. II