A DEPOSED EASTERN STATESMAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 30, 18 June 1877, Page 2

A DEPOSED EASTERN STATESMAN.

Ismail Pasha, late the Egyptian Finance Minister, was a remarkable man. Origin* ally one of the lowest grooms in the stables of the Khedive of Chosbra, his first step on the ladder of fortune wasj gained by Carriage with a liberated slave* froni the harem, who speedily initiated him in all the mysteries of that mstitatien, and showed him how by an artful use of harem influence a clever man might raise himself to almost any eminence in the State. Ismail profited by his wife's advice, cultivated the harem through her* and found himself eventually the most powerful subject in the kingdom. He amassed an enormous fortune, and his expenditure was lavish even beyond Oriental extravagance. His harem was one of the largest and most celebrated, in the East. It consisted of 300 women all young and beautifol— for Ismail would have no wo Jien in his harem over the age of thirty—and corps de ballet, one of French, the other of Hindu girls. Every night he was conducted to his chamber by twenty young girls, clothed in fantastic and magnificent attire, biasing with gold and jewels, each carrying in her hand a gilded taper stick, and each taper giving out a different colored light. Immediately after his death his harem was bought up by the rich Beys and Pasha's and fabulous prices were said to have been paid for some of the beauties, His jewels ore computed to be worth 3,250,000d018, and as everything is for. feited to the Khedive, that astute ruler will mako a good thing out of the death of his Fnance Minister.