THE LATE EMPEROR NAPOLEON

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 53, 15 July 1878, Page 2

THE LATE EMPEROR NAPOLEON

A correspondent of a London paper writes s— A wookly journal, spoaking of n reoont nrtfelo in tho Globe on Lord BeaconsfJold, commits itself to tlio somowhnt slrni>go assertion thnfc tho Into Em-» peror Nnpoloou " by nil ovidenco saved nothing*" Aft ihotiroo ofliw overthrow various roports wore in circulation n« to the amount of personal property Ikcld by the Einporor, nnd to tho circumstantial statements a* to its investment. Messrs Daring woro inslruotol to givo a public contradiction, tho notual moaning ofwhi&'i puzzlod most) roudors* Within tlio past d«r or two, however, stitt fiwthor lifjht has boon thrown npon tho resources of tho oxilod Impcrinl family, and tbo means it possesses of kroping up its soaial dignity ns well ns tho often nscosNary political agitation. Tho document, which purports to giyo only tho roal estato avowedly held in Frnneo by or in trust for the ex-Em* pross nnd her son, is stated to bo nn offioiully prepared documout— of which, however, but few copies hnvo boon per* mittod to pns? into unofficial hands. The lint, os far rogards Paris, comprises throe houses or hotels in the Jtuo do l'Elysce, ono let nt n rental of £2000 per nnnum, and tho otliors, occupied by M. liouhor, iiro valued by tho Credit Functor at £36,000 ; a hotol in tho iiuo do Courcole«, valued at £53.000; a houso in tho Kuu d'Albn valued nt £30,000, but mortgaged to tho Credit Fancier for £M,OO0 } two honsoi in tlio Rue Francois 1., valued at £04 000; and mortgaged for £20.000 j tliroo houses in tho Hue Dosunettos, pur* Mally destroyed by nn explosion, nnd sold 'subsequently for £1000, on which, how. ever, there is a mortgage of £14,000 ; whilo another houscr in tho same xlreui has been assigned to tlw who of General Foray dr'lvluji. Th* total groan Yuluo of tho Plirw property, therefore, may bo ! reckons*} nt K»anb £2 13:000, on, which there 'nro moptgngos. to Iho extent of £-.liKOOO # l But in Hk> provinces also the- Into Km- ; peror,, with a desire to pjva an impetus- to fushionablo watering places nod cxpori* .mental I'aimini? neejjiiretl lion«c»nnd ostnt«J elsewhere in Fi'nnu(*t.To«tho former belong \h\n houses at Vichy, M»wseillea, Biurril», i n ml Bayonnc, to tf*o latter tlto land at .BeaklMrduru ( M^wr*)-, nnd ths- Holforwio property in tho L*»>dos r .whort* Much pto. fi table resuU has been obtained, iron) tJto bold idea of cultivatmg tliOHa wastes ? to those may bo ftrftfcwt the domain ol 1U Jonchore, not for front, i'aris—valunblo -l)oth ns a futuro bailding speculation nnd a present country abode Tho wholo of those estates arc valued at nod less (I'tar* 1 1325.500. One nlono of thorn, that in the L indos is mortangod, nnd only for tho small sum of £4,0,1)00. In addition to this avowod property it i* assort «tf tlimt trw 1 Empress holds under numerous prctonoms a largo amount of landed nnl houso pro* jpcrty in difforent parts of France. Tho ; Bouapnrto family ppssoss Pmrgo ostntoj m ;, Spain, Italy, in Civitn Nova, and in Romo i , in Switzerland, Corsica, and in England. Afv for ther porsonnl proporty, no just idea en v bo arrived nt of its amount, so mo estimates reaching nearly £3,000.000, nnd Homw falling ns low as £1,000,00). In nny oi>»o Ihovet is onough to show that tho lato f Emperor Napoleon, however freehanded ho may hnvo shown himsolf in fli.stributing money, wns not altogether forgetful of the possiblo forco of dtostiny, and took occasion to insure to himself ns light a fall ns possible, by providing n beautiful supply of woll-sufTed cushions.