The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

THE MURATS AND NEAPOLITAN

a 0 URBONS.

The Civil Tribunal of Naples is at this moment
engaged in hearing a claim brought by the descen-
dants of King Murat and Queen Caroline, against
the Minister of the Household of the King of Italy
and the Director of the Sinking Fund of the Kin-
gdom, for the recovery of property confiscated in
1815. Napoleon 1., in giving the throne of Naples
to his brother Joseph in 1806, reserved to himself
an annual income of one million out of the property
of the Crown, and when, in 1808, he put his brother-
in-law Murat in the place of Joseph, he transferred
to the former and his wife Caroline Bonaparte the
half of that income, not as a donation, but in ex-
change for palaces and property which the Murat
f irony possessed in Paris and other part of France.
Certain estates in Italy were appropriated to the
payment of this income and were administered as
private property belonging to the Royal family.
King Ferdinand 1., on recovering the throne of
Naples, although he had by a decree of the 14th of
August, 1815, declared all property inviolable,
afterwards disposed of that belonging to the Murat
family, adding a part to his own private domain,
and returning the rest to the State. The heirs of
Murat now demand the restoration of that pro-
perty, which has considerably increased in value,
and which all became natione.l property by the
decree of September, 1860. They also claim pay-
ment of the rent received on that property since
1815. The present claimants are four; the Prin-
cess Louise Murat, daughter of King Murat and
Caroline Bonaparte, and three daughters of her
sister, the late Princess Letizia Murat, Marchioness
Pepoli. The other descendants of the family re-
siding in Paris do not take part in the suit.

PAPER.

Among the botanical specimens sent over from
Japan to the Societe d'Acclimatation by M. Eugene
Simon, there are a few young trees, out of the bark
of which the Japanese make very good and strong
paper. In China, the bark of the Broussonnetia
papyrifera, a ki❑d of mulberry-tree, is used ; that
of Japan is a variety of the same species, to which
Van Sieboldt has given the name of Broussonne-
tia Kaminoki. Considering the daily increasing
difficulty of meeting the demand for rags, which
are sold at about £2 per cwt., the bark of this
tree, imported from Japan, would prove ex-
tremely valuable to the paper trade, inasmuch
as it would not cost more than half that price.
The B. Kaminotiii might be easily acclimatised in
various parts of Europe; it prefers a stony soil,
especially of a calcareous nature, and should be
planted at intervals not exceeding three feet ;
otherwise the branches would extend, whereby the
bark would become full of knots, causing much
loss of substance in the manufacture. The soil
is not manured until the second year; in the
autumn of that year the plant is lopped close to
the root, and this operation as well as that of
manuring slightly, is repeated every second
year. 1001bs, of branches thus obtained,
stripped of their leaves, yield 101bs. of bark.
The branches, on arriving at the manufactory,
are put into hot water for half an hour; the bark
can then be easily stripped off with the hands, and
is afterwards left in the sun to dry. It is next
macerated for three days in river-water, and
bleached in the sun. These operations having
been several times repeated, the bark is at last
boiled in a lye of ashes for the space of three hours,
the❑ manipulated for some time to separate any
epidermis that may have remained, and lastly,
when dry, the mass is pounded fine and made into
a pulp with water, to which a glutinous liquid, ex-
tracted from a shrub called Nebooriko, probably the
Accia Nenzu, is added, in the proportion of about
two pints per cwt. of pulp. The latter is then
made into sheets much in the usual way.

THIRD AE D ITION.

SUN OFFICE, S.,IEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING----'_TH IS DAY.

TUNBRIDGE RACE;;.— THIS DAY.
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TWO-YEAR OLD STAKES.
Witch of Endor 1
Aconite filly
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semima filly

LADIES' P LA TE.

Peahen
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Abron
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Mermaid

Six ran.
-VISITORS' PLAT 'E.

Lord Clydo
Acco
2
Bayard
Five ran.
NURSERY PLATE.

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Accident
Jemima filly

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......... 2
....... 3

Five ran.

LUDLOW RACES-THIS DAY.

LUDLOW HANDICAP.

Acre
The Miller
Octoroon
_ _ .... 3

OAKLEY PARK STAKES.

Quicksand .. • • ..... 1
Jesuista
2
Vindicta
3
Audale
...

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 28.
Lord Russell has received the following despatch from.
Dr. Baikie, in command of the Niger expedition :
Bids, Nusse, Central Africa, Feb. 26, 1862..
My Lord,—l feel it my duty again, respectfully, to re-
quest your lordship to call the attention of those in Rag-
land interested in the supply of cotton, to the peculiar eligi-
bility of this portion of Ventral Africa as a future cotton
field. Here there are no adverse interests, no speculative
political parties to interfere :with our wishes, no monopo-
lists nor capitalists to raise prices. Three-fourths of -the
labouring population, whether free or slave, are at liberty
to have their own farms, and to sell the bulk of their own
crops. Thus, though the small farmer may himself 13,8 a
slave, the larger his crops the larger his profits, and in
working hard be is not labouring by mere task, or aim ply
for the benefit of his master, but for his own immediate
behoof; and thus, though a large part of the population of
Bonu and Nusse are slaves, the labour on the small farms
is not strictly " slave labour."
It is from these small farms that most of the cotton conies
to the market, and it is these small farmers whom any de
mand would stimulate. In Yoruba, more is re oduced by
large traders, and there it has caused an increased demand
and price for slaves; but here it would have, if anything,
an opposite result, as it would enable many of the present
serf population to effect their freedom.
I have, in a former despatch, shown how superior Sudan
is, as a field for cotton, to the regions explored by 1 wr.
Livingstone, alike from the greater proximity and superior
navigability of the Niger to the Zambesi, as well as that
here cotton is already in abundance, and cultivated by a
people able and willing to work, and accustomed to its
habits and rearing. Nothing further is required but in-
creased demand, and means of purchase, cleaning, and ship-
ping; the rest would speedily follow.—l have, &c,,
(Signed) Wm. BALFOUR BA.IXIE.
WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 29.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of John Forsyth, Esq., late Principal In-
spector-General of the Medical Department of the Bengal
Army, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of
the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath.

WHITEHALL, Arcs. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, appointing Robert Joseph
Phillimore, Esquire, D.C.L., and of her Majesty's Coun-
sel Learned in the Law, to be her Majesty's Advocate-
General, in the room of Sir John Dorney Harding, re-
signed.

DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 27.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Robert
Longden, Esquire, to be President and Senior Member of
the Executive Council of the Virgin Islands.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

Ist Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—Lieut. Charles
Anderson Pelham Bullock to be Captain, vice Grange, re-
signed ; Claude Edward Scott, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice=
Walker, resig ed. Memorandum—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commis-
sion held by Captain James Hastie, in the Bth Surrey Rifle
Volunteers.