THE EXILE OF ISMAIL PACHA.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1746, 24 September 1879, Page 3

THE EXILE OF ISMAIL PACHA.

The following account is given of the departure of Ismail Pacha, the dethroned Khedive of Egypt:— From early morning of the 30th June a large guard of infantry did duty at the Gubbary Kailway and on the quays of the new harbor at Alexandria, where the deposed Khedive was to embaik. The recognised station for passenger traffic is close to the centre of the city, and at Qubbary, which is the .branch for cargo and produce, the rails are laid nearly to the water’s edge ; but there is no regular accommodation for passengers, a large shed doing duty for a station. Messages were received at Alexandria that Ismail Pacha would leave Cairo at 11 a.m., arriving at Gubbary about 3 p.m. Long before the latter hour the quays in the neighborhood of the railway, wherever a view could be obtained, were crowded by Arabs, and the large shod where the Koyal train was appointed to bring up was filled by old servants and friends of the departing Yiceroy. All the superior officers of the army and navy were present in full uniform ; the ConsulsGeneral of Russia, Holland, and Sweden, as also the Consuls of France, Portugal, and Greece, were in attendance in private clothes. The Italian and American Judges, the Pro-curer-General, and several native Judges represented the reformed Courts of Justice, and there would have been a much larger number of European judges but, the Courts being closed for the summer vacation, the magistracy as a body are absent trom Egypt. The Governor, all the heads of departments, European and native, were in waiting from an early hour, and, with a few notable exceptions and desertions, the leading firms and banks of the city, whose members have from time immemorial been accustomed to wait on the Khedive on every occasion of a visit to Alexandria, were strongly represented. At 3.30 p.m., the long train of Royal saloon carriages glided slowly into the shod, and drives by Mr Garwood, the locomotive superintendent, the engine was brought up exactly at the spot intended. Ismail Pacha, accompanied by his sons, Prince Hussein and Prince Hassan, by Mansom Pacha, Rahib Pacha, Barrot Pacha, and a large suite, immediately descended from the carriage, and commenced saluting the crowd of officers and friends. His Highness was evidently surprised and affected by his reception, and for the first few moments showed visible signs of emotion. A carpet had been spread to the water’s edge, but there was no possibility of maintaining a protected avenue to the Royal barge; the immense crowd of European and native visitors pressed forward, and it was found necessary to escort his Highness by the shortest and quickest cut to the stairs. Soldiers on both sides of the route presented arms, several military bands played the Khedivial hymn, and as his Highness embarked the guns of H. M. turret ship Rupert, of the French ship Renard, and of all the Egyptian men-of-war and forts, gave forth a Royal salute. At this moment Ismail Pacha seemed to recover somewhat from his fatigue and emotion, and standing up in the barge, again and again saluted the multitude on shore. It was not known whether his Highness would hold a reception on board the Mahroussa, but the officials and the leading merchants who could obtain passages, followed on in the hope that this would be so. On arriving at the Mahroussa all were cordially received. Through a long line of attendants visitors were passed on to the grand staircase of the yacht, at the foot of which the Princes Hussein and Hassan acted as masters of ceremonies, but in a very friendly and unceremonious manner, and some two hundred officers and gentlemen of every nationality were admitted on the poop, to take formal leave of the Sovereign whom most of them had known for nearly sixteen years. With his usual politeness and inimitable tact Ismail Pacha took a separate adieu of each visitor, and, with a quickness and discernment for which he has always been remarkable, addressed a few parting words to each. Everyone seemed to linger about, loth to quit the scene; but as the yacht was to sail before sunset, the reception had to be closed, and with mutual good wishes for the future, the final parting took place. Soon after six o’clock the Royal yacht, which, as Ismail Pacha said, “ his son had graciously deigned to place at his disposal,” steamed from her moorings, and when over the bar was seen steering the course for Italy.