New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15

waited upon by Ismau ana his sons AS soon
as the repast was over, the entire service was
packed up and placed in one of the imperial
equiTa2es as a humble Offering to the Sultan
who, resuming his place in his carriage drove
OIL with scarcely a word to his host the latter
as on the arrival, being forced to trot on foot
beside the imperial eIuiplge to the park gates.
presenting a most undi gniGed appearance.
Abbas H. tutored from the age of eight 70
Twelve by an oxford graduate of the name Of
bulIer was, after a brief spell at prepara-
tory school in Switzerland. sent to the There
sIahum at Vienna, q military college founded
by Empress Marie Theresa, where lads OF good
family are trained for the commissioned ranks
Oh the army, many Of the Bourbon, Braganza
ana Coourg princes. as well as the late King
OF SPAN, having received their schooling there.
During the holidays AUbas visited the various
capitals Of Europe, and was therefore better
prepared than most Oriental princes for the
responsibilities Of rulership when the unexpected
death OF his father brought him to the throne
1et the transition from the role of schooIbov who
would rather have been kept in the background
10 that or hhedive was too sudden not to have
resulted in difficulties in the first few Years
difficulties that at one moment led to a discus
sion in England Of the question Of deposing
him and Of setting up in his stead either his
younger brother, Mehemet Ali, or one of his
uncles.
Lord Cromer, however. who had known Abbas
from his earliest childhood, realized that the
fault lay not so much with the lad himself IS
with his encourage The latter was OF the most
heterogeneous character, composed as it was OF
Turks. Greeks. Italians. Swiss. French and non
descript Levantines the ma Jority Of them ex-
tremely shady. all rivals for the young rulers
favor, on which were based their hopes Of fort
une, and invariably united only on one point
namely. their adherence of the English
Then there were the foreign diplomatic agents.
most OF them bent on combating British in
fuence on the banks OF the Nile. The Sultan,
too, processing to see in the English occupa-
ton and control of Egypt a usurpation OF his
rights as suzerain. had swarm Of agents at
Cairo. melting Abbas against everything Brit
Lsh, while almost every foreign visitor seemed
10 consider II necessary TO urge the khedive
10 resent what were described as the attempts
by the English 70 reduce him 10 the role Of
mere Indian yassaI rajah- When TO all this
were added the y.ruleut attacks upon Great
Brtains policy In Egypt BY nearly all the for
eign newspapers and the disapproy4I with
which 4 certain element OF the Egyptian people
regarded the control exercised over their des-
tnics by England, it VIII readily be appreciated
that there much to lead AJbas To believe
that in resisting her he would earn the ap-
prevail and receive Tho support both Of his own
people and Of Continental Europe.
Meanwhile Lord Cromer and his ueuterants
We're busy recognizing all the branches OF the
KhedivIaI administration and Strengthening out
the tangled finances OF the Land Of the Nile.
while Lord Kitchener continued building, UP the
Egyptian army and pursuing his work Of
gradually reconquering the SouGan: and ers
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