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a most anfcrtunate circumstance that his Highness Ahmet Pacha should happen to be the victim of the first railway accident we have had here ever since the line was opened. According to report, he very reluctantly allowed himself to be persuaded by his relatives to come down from Cairo to pay his respects to his uncle, the Viceroy, on the occa-sion of the Beiram festivals; and immediately after having gone through the usual ceremony on the morning of the 14th of May, he hurried to the railway Btation, accompa* nied by several distinguished personages, including hia Highness Halim Pacha, brother to the Viceroy, and reached the place just in time to catch the up-train that was to bring him to his untimely death. The train, aa usual, started and arrived safely at Kafer-Lais, where passengers generally alight to cross the Nile in a steamer, but, as on all occasions when princes are on the line, the ferry is held in readiness to convey them across in their carriages. The Araba in charge, on poshing the waggons on the ferry, very carelessly omitted to put on the ahappens, and the four waggons, one after the other, dropped into the Nile. As soon as it was perceived that the wheels of the first carriage had got oTer the aide of the ferry, the alarm was instantaneously given, but, alsa ! too late to be of any avail, aa Ahmet Pacha, with hia suite, together with Rifaat Bey, Minister of Commerce, and Kernidin Pacha, formerly director of the transit administration, perished. Halim Pacha escaped by jumping into the Nile, whence he was rescued by some of the English railway employes, whose indefatigable exertions in trying to aave some of their fellow-creatures merit great praise. This disastrous newa waa received shortly after the accident occurred, and both the European colony and the whole Arab population could not help manifesting how deeply they felt the sudden loss of the man in whom the hope of Egypt rested. He was the eldest son of the late Ibrahim Paclxa and the eldest living prince of Mehemet Aii'a family, consequently successor to the present Viceroy. Under hia rule the prosperity of the country would have been almost certain. Besides his many good qualities, he *aa the only one of the Egyptian princes who acknowledged that it waa to England that Egypt was indebted for her present improved condition. He was a great admirer of all that was English, sympathised with English ideas, and knew that there was much to be’gained by cultivating the friendship of the British cabinet. Twenty*four hours before he ceased toexist, he was heard to say that the catting of the Isthmus of Suez would be the ruin of Egypt.The Gnr.n is Va vmnvER’a Tat.awn
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Watchman and Wesleyan Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Jun 02, 1858
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