The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-07 00:00:00

TEE' ZUREK PRWAI EVENING, RUMS 7, 1866.

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EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.
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An extraordinary trial has, during the last Math,
amplest the Coast of Orleans. The facts of it were thew :
A Mdlle. Balsas, who was born is 1772, falimibei from
her parents, whe ware large leadowaers and massataftws.
a very peat fortune, and she *creased it by 7 bin treezmj
and by earryimg on semi yea* the um
they bad *add shed. Her odueaUcus, bowmen, was very
imperfeet, sad her iatelliac:4B7o. meows gnat, sad mho
wee very superstitions. sad ffieeere of Charity
wormed themselves into her 'asides's, mad, under the
/sift of religion, seised a complete asoendascy over hoe.
Ia 1818, having retired from basiiseas, ohs, by tbedradvice,
removed her residence frees flarese, her native place, in the
I department of the Oise, to Tours, which then plareseed the
reputation of being a very religiose tows. bite bad may
two Ireton' Befog with her—oas a Sate, of Charity, the
other the daughter of a son aimed Ldeeque, who acted as
13. r steward; bat after a year or two another sister of
charts installed hereon in the bow. 15boitly tier her
arrival at Tours she parched as old convent of the
Feailleas, and took up her residence in it. She was there
coastantly sorroundel by priests, and they pleased her
greatly by saying masa* her chapel; she was aho • frequentl
visitor at the Commit of the Petit Wet Martia, a breach'
of the groat boles of Piave% at Paris ; she moreover, suer
• while, charged Father Philibert, ehaplain of the convest,
who was her own confessor, with the management of bee
property. Is 1828, in compliance with the re.ommundatles
of Felber Philibert, the seam, the Sisters of Charity, saddle,
priests who surrounded her, she to* up her resides*, is
the Convent of the Petit Saint Martin. She then trans-
fetrol to a priest, who was the representative of the Con-
vent of Pieper', the proprietorship of Les Fenillana, acknow-
ledging that she had " gold" the photo to him for 40,000 f ,
though to reality no ouch saga wee, noo any other, ever
paid. Some time after she eaeowt.d deeds, by which she
.old " for 180,000 f, to the Bishop of Chalcedonic, superior'
of the Convent of Pispas, a 'slush* estate at a place called
M tillers, and she acknowledged having received the
sum in question in ash; but not one farthing of it wines*
really paid to bor. In aidition t this, she gave cr sold to
Lampe, her steward at tierces, al the nil property she
peuessed there; bat this sox was, to a certain *stoat, the
orsieesoas of the community of Plops.. D,fforsates subset-
quietly woes between his and the community as to the
eastesee in which the Sanaa property should be divided
between them, and *me di/Creams *,me to the know-
ledge of Madame Bulmois' family. They wore greatly gar-
primed se learn Hut she had made any disposition of her
property at all, as they knew that she had &Ilea into a stet*
of imbecility, and as thty had supposed that the reli-
giose trommenity is wh'als she writ at Tears would, is her
natural protector, have prevented her from doing anything
of the kind. They instituted inquiries, and were astounded
to dad that she hai made away, not Daly with the property
at Snow, ow, bat with the estate at Mannevilliere, and with
Lee Peaillaas at Tours They immediately took proceed-
lags for Reving her pined leader iaterdieUow, and one of
the law cows, after making inquiries, and subjecting her
to interrogatories, declared that she was undoubtedly so
imbecile as to be incapable of managing her own affairs,
sad it charged one of her ni phews with the administra-
tion of them. This was in January, 1847, sad in JalT.
1848, the poor lady died. Her nephews and nieces, as
her heirs at law, then took proceedings before different
courts to obtain the meditation of her real property ; and
the result of this we. that the Bishop of Chalcedomia
was forced to give up t 3 these the estate of Menne
sillier*, the community of Piceas to rester* the convent of
Les Feuillane, and List quit nearly all the donatioos and
purchases which he proteaded had bees male at Sugar.
Bat these re oration, wort only of the real property, end
her heirs found that from the time .he went to Tours up to
her death, the rents of her hams and lands, the capitol the
had pawed, and the sums she had received from various
sources, bad gone into the heeds of the authorities et the
Comsat of Le Petit Saint Kart*. As welt at they oould
make out, the total was 626,601 E—namely. 384,6941. in ca-
pital sad 244.0071 is rem's. They actoodioglv demanded
the rettoritioa t f that gam, with, in additim, 100,0001. at
damages. To entry* their demand, they nrougLt an action
to-ton the Civil Trasuaal of Orleans egain.t the Bishop of
Chalcedocie, as superior of t'e community of Piqua,
and against limes de Besessale, Joliet; Nemesis, and
Cowing, superiors of the CAset at of Petit Saint Martin
&Wog the time Meals. Melanie wag ia ft. Bat the tribunal
decided that the persons amused could mot for various t•ch-
ideal meow be sited as the representatives of the comma-
sky, and it dismissed the adios. It was oo 'opal asaltist
His deeis"on that the matter was broserht baron the Im-
perid
Court. The representatives of Mdlle. Halmois. ate,
conesading that the pereooggeo in qaestka were responsible
fort the Parsons community, adduced • number of fact. to
prove that their aged aunt was is such estate of mind se sot
to be able to dispose of her property, and that Hs priests and
nuns by whom sta: was emeroooded hod taken undue 'doss-
Nee of Umtata", to despoil her. Amen. other *lop cake
lased to show her imbecility, they produced a letter which
she wrote in 1839 to her servants at Mannevillers. an
noose tag that the Archbishop of CLalcedo 31a was about to do
her the great honour of visiting hrr chateau then. In this
letter, which was fall of bed epellimg, she ordered that
clean sonnies seoald be put up, and the eea'rs be wel
dusted," that "the dogs should be tamed out before Mar-
migasur's arrival, foe beer they should shake off &rookie's
might hirommod• hise,” that " the chapel should be
cleaned, and the in partleulae no spider should be lilt in
may of the wrests," sad that " when Meneelgessur wen
about to enter hie carriage to leave, all the serrate.. should
kneel down 00 reetive his blessing." Oa the part of the
archbishop and the other dofeadents it wall vehemently de-
nied that thsp had surmised unfair itillsecce ea the old
woman to get her property from her, and it cos. stated
' that they appealed to the Court of Caseation against the
jedgmeets ordering teem to restore Les Fruitless and
Idannevilliers; also that the derbies with respect to the
Sanas property concerned Liveque and est OM. On the
part of the archbishop it wise (either represented that he ie
the spiritual and not the unaroral superior of Picini', and
emmempseutly not responsible for its temporal awe ; and on
gee parte( tM ladies it was urged that they were not re
e~wM►ie is law. The mw! of the defeat's% however,
dMlwnd a glowing eulogises oa the arehbishop of the
Plpat_cousasity. The mart said the first point ft had
to Nelda was whether or met the Archbishop and the lady
superiors of the community were, under the chcometarc o,
the proper parties to pro-sod satinet; and it decided that
they were. and that coeseoueetly the decision of the Tri-
bunal declaring the contrary yeast be quashed. With
regard to the merits of theorise, the taunt said that the fact.
alleged wore such as to call for inquiry, and it authorised the
plaintiffs to produce proof of their allegations.—Oalignani.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE MANCHESTER EXCHANGE.
—Oa Wedamday smiler, friar of the workmen employed
is making as alteration is the semi.c.roular front of the
Maaeheater Ezeltangs were bort, and one hes linos died. in
communes of the fa'l of a .oaffolt om wb:ob they sems
standing. They were all removed to the Royal Infirmary.
sad two of them were able to premed to their bows after
fuming the braises they bad reeeived properly dreised by
me of the surgeons. On of the men. William Beardmore,
joiner, of Robson-street, Hahne, was found to have sus-
tained several hectare', one ens and his beak being broken,
and he died at the infirmary yesterday morning. William
Settee, joiner, the other man, abo moire& a severe injury
of the back, beide' bruises, and is is a urination, state.
ROYAL OLOGEAPIHCAL Swim. Evening
meeting, Monday, March 10, at half-peat 8 o'ilwk.—Papers
to be read—l. Notes of a loamy from Besdad to Swab,
with deecriptions of meant Craldeas remain,, illuserated
with drawees" by H. A Churchill; by W. Kennett Loltee,
Egg. 2 Notre taiga in • jemmy outwards from Bhierks
to Fees. and Dtrhb, theses westward by Jalnomm ti He
mum is 1860, by Keith Abbott, Esq., bar Majesty's
Ceased at Tehraa ; c 'umiak:geed by the Earl of Cia.
madam.

Tr= ZOOLOGICAL SOCIM or LoNDow.—At lba
ninthly general meeting held yesterday at the onefety's
home, la Hanover-equare, the Hight Hon. B.r George
Clerk, Bart., is the shut, him &aim, sad Masan. W.
Beals, W D. Joardain, B. Birkbeek, sal IL C. Kidd,
were sleeted follows cf the omiety, sad Memo. G. P. Car-
ter, J. Leighton, C. Balm, J. Hatelgesea, sad Cant. J.
F. Pad, wen proposed as candidata ter the fell.wthip.
TM number of visataresdafttad to the gardens oh >wed an
Isomer of upwards let cis thossaad so compared with
isetpur.
ATTINSTED MIDIDTg AT LIVZSPOOL,--Yeeitilday
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City of Mobile, lying Is the Brasaley-Moor3 Dack, Liver-
pool, deliberately fired • elle pis'ol at Jobs Sesalao, a
mass on board the lens vowel. The ball streak &Woo
oa the hip, shattered the boos, and passiogrotted lodged in
as astortasate essa% &Massa. Ho Ma in an ascertain
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