New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-13
Cost Him Nearly $4,000. GOO.

II the presentation Of a sum of S4.yo0,
90 N cash 10 the Sultan Abd-el-Aziz, and
bN TIC distribution of about twice that
amount in brides among the various dig
nltarles &C the Ottoman court. the Grand
huEueh COMING; in for the largest share.
HnedlFe 1sTraH secured. in 1866 Z frrTan
from the Sultan transferring the success
sion from Prince Hahn and from Prince
IhraniTn to his eldest SON Te1fh- Il may
Re added thar IsteT on khedive Islnan took
. pronounced dislike TO Tewfik, whose
mother. like Tie first wife OF the present
hhediVe, was OF slave origin. Tewfik en-
joyed none or the educational advarta Ees
arising from foreign travel which we're
possessed by his younger brothers, IIus-
sem and HaSsan, whose mothers were
priT,cesses, ard who we're tflcir father
favorites. They were graduates of English
and German universities and Hasssr had
served in the Prussian army. At one time
lSTail who regarded TeEfik not only as
stupid. but also as disposed to side with
the English ana the French against him
was the point Of banishing him to Fa-
sE0da. on the charge of treason. q sentence
which was equivalent TO DEATH since the
persons thus banished were usually muir
Gered. either By strangling or by means
of poison. before they had even reached the
First Cataract; an instance IN point being
Ismails Minister Of Finance the Noufet-
fish. In fact. II was King Edward. as
Prince Of Wales who may be said to have
saved Tewhk's life on that occasion. For,
warned in time by the English government,
he visited Cairo, in 1871, on his way back
from India and laid 50 much stress on
the regard which he entertained Tor few
fix. and the fact that the latter was
especially under English protection, that
Isman no longer dared to fulfil his project
about consisning him to certain death
Not long before khedive IsmaiIs depo-
sitiUn he made another vigorous attempt
TO get, by means OF money, from the Sui
tan a fi-nan changing the order of success
sion il favor Of HUsseia. on the ground
that ths latters mother was q princess OF
The blood. whereas Tewfh's mother had
been merely q slave: but before the in
trisUe could be nlztured he was removed
from the throne by the Sultan. who acted
in the matter under the compuIsion of
Great Britain France. Austria and Ger
many.
khediye Abbas TIilmis Hungarian wife.
Countess Marianne for the sake Of whose
son he Is endeavoring % obtain from his
suzerain, the Sultan, another change il the
order OF the succession 10 the Egyptian
throne. became 4 convert 10 Islam al
Cairo last winter Just before her marriage
10 the Khedive, after having lived under
his protection for three years in a villa
IN the suburb OF houbben not far from
HE palace OF that name She is the
daughter Of Count Joseph Torok, Gov
erno- of the province Of Ungvar. her
mother being 4 member Of the historic
house Of EeJter Won der Lille, which Is
descended from King Francis 7 of France
and one Of his fair hut frail fayorjtes.
Countess Marianne Torok married Baron
Arthur Muller Won hlingspor, Of the 9Th
Regiment Of artillery of th, Austrian
came a professional pianist. attracting the
attention and making the acquaintance Of
the hhedive al the Hotel Hungaria, a
pesth- The Egyptian rulers infatUation
for Countess Marianne. who, although
handsome aud Fascinating, is 4 woman Of
the most ungovernable temper, was fos-
tered by his mother. the DoWager hhrcli-
wen, in order 10 get even with Ikbal
HaDem. hrs first wife, for when she pre-
scented Tkabal 10 him a. a slave 10 prevent
his marrying d Turkish princess, who
would have supnIanted her influence over
hin-she Is an exceedingly ambitious
woman. with a lust for power-sle never
dreamed that lie would we'd the despised
and uneducato6 odalisqUe and that the
latter would show herself ungratefui "a
her former mistress and become her en-
euv NARQUISE DE FONTENOY.