New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-31

every years experience tends 20 prove that there
is scarcely any affair Of Government or State which
is not liable 10 be complicated add embarrassed
BY the influence of this ever present institution.
Law suit ngaInst Cardinal ViseIoau.
The following is q statement of case now
being tried in which Cardinal Wissman is de-
fendent and which excites great interest 10 Eng
land:
eeediDg before Lordg Cranworth The following
is an outline of the facts stated by the counsel
for the plaintiff Mr.. Bethel said he appeared
for a person famed Julie Metairis, the plaintiff.
The defendants were Cardinal Wisemaa, who
was only defendant in his official character,
John Athenssius Cooke, the Very Rev. Mr.. Nor
ris, and MIR. Cox and the object OF the spDllca-
tion Was TO restrain Cooke, Norris, and Cox from
dealing with -or transferring SUM of $1,000
tbree-and-R quarter per cent annuities, and from
receiving any future dividends This sum Of stock
was made the subject of a deed Of gift obtained
from dying man under the influence Of his spir-
>itual director
The defendants were John Athanasius Cooke,
gentleman at the eqHity bar, well conversant
with the practice OF our law; and be was the gen.
tleman employed 70 prepare the deeds, and ls
trustee. More than City years ago, in 1897, Ma
thurin Care, native of France, came to live in
England, being then very poor, but he gained
Daring the last eighteen years of his life he lived
in the same house with the mother OF Matthew
Hamilton, one Of the defendants 10 this slit, from
whom he rented two small apartments on the sec
ond floor The house was situate in Charlton.
street Somerstown.
III. Care was q man OF great vigor and indus
try and by extraordinary exertions In his calling,
and by very rigid parsimony, he gradually amas
sed two sums Of $1,000 and $4,000 stock, and in
vested bis savings in the public funds Of Great
Britain. He attained the age OF n years In Jsuu
airy, 1s47 when he still retained his strength aud
vigOr. He possessed one peculiarly not usual
with his countrymen-a rooted aversion 10 wo-
men-a matter of Importance when the gift is 10
q female school. On the Goth OF February, l547,
he became in a weak state of health, and, at the
suggestion of Mr.. Hamilton, q medical practiton-
or, named Gasquet, who was OF the Roman Catho-
lie persuasion, was called in, and attended him,
and learned that he bad property to the amount
of 10000.
Mr. Gasqnet, shortly after quitting NJ. Cares
house, had an interview with the defendant, J.
Holdstock, Roman Catholic priest Of chapel in
Clarendon square, Somerstown. On the follow
ing day the said James Holdstock called at Mr.
Hsmilton's and said he wanted 30 see III. Care,
and must see him alone; and while he was alone
with him Care, there was no evidence TO show
what has taken place but it was said that Care
of himself proposed to give the larger part of his
property TO the charity. The priest then sent one
of bis congregation, Mr. Cooke, who represents
himself as being q convert 10 the Romsh religion
in 1887, and, without the Intervention OF solicit
tor drew a will and returned on Monday, the LIST
of March; and the priest James Holdstock, and
John Athansus Cooke, called upon,M. Care,
bringing with them will ready engrossed.
On Thursday, the 18th March, the deed and will
were ready prepared, and a Miss Clarke and
MIR. Hay former TX in Wright's house, came
to the door. III. Care was then worse, and he
desired that they should not be admitted. Some
alteration took place, but eventually the priest
went up to NJ. Care, who admitted he had pro-
hibited them. Some conversation took place, and
after some time The priest induced TIE sinking
man TO consent. The old man was unwilling to
proceed with the business he desired to be left
alone, when the priest interfered, speaking to
him in French.
Cooke then read the will through; he was desi.
rous to leave the room, but the priest commanded
him to stay. The priest then propped the old
man up, and held his fingers, as be annexed his
signature, and all this took place between i've
and seven O'Clock. Among the documents signed
" as power Of attorney to enable Cooke to get
the fund. The old man wished TO have the docu
nnents left with him that was refused. Tue
power Of attorney was left at the bunk, on Satur-
day the transfer was made, and on Saturday the
Care died. 1t appeared that the priest never
visited him again, so that he died unsbsoved, un-
confessed, without those consultations OF his reli
gion which were the price for which he had given
up his property.
Troops for the Kafllr War.
There is now DO doubt of the Vulcan steam
troop ship being ordered to the Cape Of Good
Hope, with the 74th regiment OF foot, the mo-
inert that gallant corps embarks in her at Cork.
The 18th, Prince Alberts light infantry, at pres
ent at Sterling Castle, and several OF the remote
parts of Scotland. will supply the place of the
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