THE KHEDIVE’S PRINCESS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2974, 6 October 1882, Page 2

THE KHEDIVE’S PRINCESS.

Recent events in Egypt give special interest to the graphic descriptionof people and things in the land of the Pharaohs which a “ Lady of Alexandria” has been publishing in a leading German periodical. The writer in question has just given a picture of the home family of Tewfik Pasha, the present Khedive, who, as most people are aware, has distinguished himself from bis predecessors and contemporaries on the Eastern throne by restricting himself, in the Western and Christian manner, to one wife. The Vice-Queen, as “ The Lady" styles Tewfik’a spouse, is a daughter of El Hamid Pasha, and a grand-daughter of the famous Abbas Pasha. She is a beautiful and highly educated woman, who tenderly loves her husband and their four children, and,takes an active part in the education of the latter. The eldest boy, Abbas, and his brother are taught by a Swiss tutor; the two little girls are placed under the care of Swiss nurses. The Khedive’s wife is often made the victim of petty annoyance, inflicted on her by the political enemies of her husband. Thus she lately received the visit of two Turkish ladies of high rank, to whom she offered, after the usual fashion, cigarettes with the cypher of the Khedive upon them. When they had gone, the black servants found that these ladies had left behind them, in the ante-room a quantity of cigarrettes with the cypher of Arabi Pasha, as an insult to the Khedive through his wife. The Vice-Queen has lived in agonies since the first outbreak of tumult in Cairo' Like the members of the Imperial; family in Russia, she is in daily dreads of palace intrigues, and restricts her personal entourage to a few Circassian, slaves, on whose fidelity she thinks she can count. She told her European visitor that nothing could give her such joy as an entire renunciation of the precarious. and dangerous splendor and dignity in which she lives, and retirement with her husband and children to a safe and quiet private life. She has always.; been profuse in her charities to the

Arab imputation ab'-n: h pr , but sioce jlio sanguinary horrors o' J 1 • t>'' H, il!) * fearful scenes of winch she was a trembling eye witne-s if’ in hclriol the iron bars of >he lom-m windows, she df-t-i .r.-w lion s' 0 shall in futmc lie more drc'Mmsi'ei l in 'ho ex-ncise ot lirr benevolence.