A letter from Cairo, in a journal of January 1824, contains a whimsical exemplification of Turkish manners in the provinces, and the absurdity of attempting to honour distant authorities, by the distinctions of civil society. A diploma of honorary member of the Society of Frankfort was presented to the Pacha, at the divan (or council.) The Pacha, who can neither read nor write, thought it was a _firman_ (despatch) from the Porte. He was much surprised and alarmed; but the interpreter explained to him that it was written in the _Nemptchee_ (German) language, contained the thanks of the _ulemas_ (scholars) of a German city named Frankfort, for his kindness to two _Nemptchee_ travelling in Egypt. But the most difficult part was yet to come; it was to explain to him that he had been appointed a _member_ of their society; and the Turkish language having no word for this purely European idea, the interpreter, after many hesitations and circumlocutions, at last succeeded in explaining, “that as a mark of respect and gratitude, the society had made him one of their _partners_.” At these words the eyes of the Pacha flashed with anger, and with a voice of thunder he roared that he would never again be the _partner_ of any firm; that his _partnership_ with Messrs. Briggs and Co. in the Indian trade, cost him nearly 500,000 hard piasters; that the association for the manufactory of sugar and rum paid him nothing at all; and, in short, that he was completely tired of his connections with Frank merchants, who were indebted to him 23,000,000 of piasters, which he considered as completely lost. In his rage, he even threatened to have the interpreter drowned in the Nile, for having presumed to make offer of a mercantile connection, against his positive orders.