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Show A SCANDAL FROM THE HAREM Constantinople, .Tuly 2o. A great scaudal'is at this moment the common com-mon theme of conversation in both native and European society. The wi:e ofllaiil richerif Pasha, nee Prin-CC;S Prin-CC;S Na.il of Eyypt, niece of the Khedive, Khe-dive, and daughter of the Mustapha Fazvi F.ish, has just separated herself from her husband after a short married mar-ried life of fourteen months. This t beauliful.and accomplished lady is one of tlie very few Turkish women who havo received a good education. Brought up in the society of a most accomplished English lady, she is thoroughly conversant with English and French, Ppenkmg both languages llmmtly, and possessing a very respectable re-spectable knowledge of the literature of the two grat Western nations. She is, besides, a good musician, and altogether a clever woman. Her ( father, like all the descendants of the 1 Mehemet Ali of Egypt, is a most enlightened man, and has given his three daughters a thoroughly European Euro-pean education. But behold the result! This lady is too delicately-minded delicately-minded to be merely tho chief of a harem. And tlie marriage which, it was trumpeted abroad, would have an immense influence on Turkish female society, has .in so short a time come to naught. Verv lately the Princess dined with Lady Elliot, the wife of the British Ambassador, at the British Embassy, the first Mussulman woman who had ever entered and dined there. Her influence, joined to that ot her sister, and u few other Turkish ladies, was really having a most beneficial effect on the domestic life of many of the highest Turkish families, but unfortunately unfor-tunately ali has Veen rudely withered in the hud, for her husband's couduct although he is a Turkish minister fur Foreigu a Hairs, and has passed much ot his time in Paris), became so biid that human nature could endure en-dure no more, her sense of propriety being olVended every day. It was impossible lor an intelligent, pure-minded pure-minded woman to live longer with him, and she was compelled to return re-turn to her father's house, where she lies dangeroualy ill. Her father, as well as her uncle, is dreadfully scao-daii.ed, scao-daii.ed, and !or this reason the lattor did not come to ConMantinoplelatoly, ' a,s hiis always been his custom at the Suhan's fete. No doubt slrps will be taken in s. -.me way or other to puui.-h an in div.dual whom they imagined they crc honor hip by their alliance. Tbe mother of the Khedive, ilh a great n-tinue. Mine l.wt week to Constanti-r.ple Constanti-r.ple from Eypt, and her granddaughter, grand-daughter, ill aw she was, went to throw herself at her feet, demanding his-tice at her h;uuls. As this oid lady is a pen-rn,ige by no means lack-;ng lack-;ng in iuU-nigence, and has beside the reputation of being rather re-. re-. vengeful, she will doubtless use all her influence at the Imperial Court, which is very great, to bring about a change in the fife of her granddaughter's grand-daughter's late husband, the latter having already taken unto himself another wife, and added generally to the increase of his already ample harem. |