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A Windfall for the Sultan.

--The news from Constantinople is that the hasnaderhanoum (lady treasurer) of the Imperial palace, has just expired, leaving a fortune of one hundred and fifty million plastres, the whole of which goes to the Sultan. Although a slave she possessed great influence in the palace, and her name has often been mixed up with ministerial intrigues. Her fortune is quite a godsend to the Sultan, who was on the point of sending his plate to the mint.

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