The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

A Curious Case,

An application was made last week to the Civil
Triknal of the Seine under the following circum-
stances :

A widow lady named Hautefeuille, whose hus-
band died in 1844, became insane some years after-
wards, and was finally doclared, by a judgment
of the Tribunal of the Seine, in July, 1862, in-
capable of managing her affirs. Previously
to this judgment, Madame Hautefeuille had
confided to her confessor, the Abbe Canbert,
manager of the School of St. Genevieve, a con-
siderable part of her fortune. In August, 1862,
the Abbe Beaurain, who had succeeded the Abbe
Caubert as manager of the school above-men-
tioned, restored to M. Moulin, the husband of one
of the lunatic's daughters, recently appointed her
guardian by the tribunal, 22 Roman bonds, and an
inscription of Piedmontese rente producing a yearly
dividend of 200 fr. These securities represented a
total of about 28,000 fr. The Abbe Beaurain also gave
M. Moulin a note of hand for 8,000 fr., which was
paid in the October following, and received from him
a receipt in full of all demands. In July, 1863, how-
ever, M. Media commenced proceedings against
the Abbes Caubert and Beaurain, to recover a fur-
ther sum of 12,000 fr., on the ground that Mme.
Hautefeuille had not confided to M. Culbert secu-
rities worth only 28,000 fr,, but a sum of 48,000 fr.
in cash, and he demanded to be allowed to prove—

1, That Mme. Haute feuille had frequently expressed
to third persons her intention of leaving her pro-
perty away from her two daughters ; 2, that she had
borrowed money and given it to the Jesuits ; 3, that
she had led a miserable life, as if she had no resources
whatever; 4, that the Abbe Beaurain admitted that
he had received from her 48,000 fr. in each; and 6,
that the Jesuits had a quantity of furniture be-
longing to the lunatic which they had not paid
for, as they pretended. The applicant's counsel
stated that Mme, Hautefeuille had been under
the influence of her Jesuit confessors ever since
1844, and had confided to them whatever money
came into her possession, and had received little
or no interest for it. His client was therefore
justified in taking measures to recover the full
amount of the principal. The application was
opposed by the Abbes Caubert and Beaurain,
whose counsel sti gmatised the present proceed-
ings as an attempt to extort money from his clients
by charging them with scandalous dishonesty. All
the money e.ue to the lunatic's estate had been re-
stored, and tbo applicant himself had gave a receipt

in full of all demands. The Tribanal,after bearing
the Public Piosecutor, who strongly reprobated the
applicant's conduct, rejected all Moulin's demands,
and condemned him to pay all coats.

Dr.PUSET has evidently got a profound conviction
that true unity of spirit is engendered by common
repulsion rather than common attraction. " Any ono," ho
confides to the Record, " who knows anything of human
nature, knows in what countless cases the fear of Hell first
drove men to their forgotten God and Saviour," and there-
fore he calls the Lord Chancellor's recent judgment in the
case of "Essays and Reviews'' soul-destroying, and, on
exactly the same principle, he offers to ally himself with
the Record, on the ground of a strong common repulsion to
that judgment—an offer which the Record, recognising in
the most cordial spirit that common hatreds imply a truly
Christian unity of spirit, gladly accepts, calls Dr, Pusey's
letter " admirable and faithful," and sounds the
call to common action on the part of all who think
with the new Puseyite and the old Evangelical party
that, as Dr. Pusey naiiely remind us, " Good when He
revealed Hell, knew the creatures which he had made better
than these people." This, then, is to be the basis of the
new coalition between the dregs of the Puseyito and the
dregs of the Evangelical party—for common belief, the
assertion of tho verbal inspiration of the Bible, and the
Gospel of Hell everlasting ; for common action the subver-
sion of the Privy Council's judgment. Dr. Pusey writes,
and the Record receives what he says, exactly as if our
Lord had come preaching and revealing not Himself and
the Kingdom of God, but the Devil and the Kingdom of
Hell, in order that the scared human race might walk back-
wards from the bottomless pit, and so recoil into their
Saviour's arms. It is a cations example of a great spiritual
engine with the wheels leversed.—Spectator.
"We have received acecunts," says the Thulota-
ngis, "of the Iphigenie frigate, which left this part
on the 6th January, having on board n number of convicts
for New Caledonia. She touched nt St. Vincent's (Cape
de Verd Islands) on the 27th of that month. Some eases
of scurvy had appeared among the passengers, but, owing
to the precautionary measures adopted, the disease was soon
checked, The conduct of the convicts on board was very
satisfactory, A number of them, under the direction of
the Abbe Renouard, the chaplain, had learned religious
choruses, which they sang during the performance of mass
on Sundays.",

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

The Chwtla announces that the military school of
cadets, which was some years ago transferred from
Moscow to Wilna by order of the Emperor Alex-
ander, and organised in the latter city at an enor-
mous expense, hos been suppressed by General
Monrovia', on suspicion of the inmates entertaining
feelings in favour of the Polish revolution.

THIR : ! E - ITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

NOTTINGHAM RACES-•-•TIIIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGR iPH)
TRIAL STAKES.

Twilight
The C10wn."...
Partesan
Eight ran.
STAND PLATE.

Gipsy Girl
Mother Bunch

Seven ran.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Ossian

Danaus

Four ran.
NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP.

Tourist

Revolver
Trojanus

Eleven ran.

LATEST BE rTING.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 1 agst O,man Witch (taken)