The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-29 00:00:00

DOCKS.
Dividend ; Amount ,
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----
X s. d. 1 X s. d.
Commercial -
East and West India - 1353(
East Country ••.• • • • - 21
L mdon - 116
St Katharine • • • • • • .. ' 5 per cent. Stock. - 108%
Southampton ••.• • • -4/. per cent. , 50 0 0 , 50 0 0 33
CANALS.
.4 Dividend!
Names of ~, Dividend t Names of .
, r., , r Price.
Companies. 2 per Companies. 2 Annum.
:/] Annum.' cn
-- ,
£1 , X
Ashtn ED Oldh 97 5/.55. p c 70 Monmouthsh 100 81. 160
Ashby-d-la-21113{ 41. 72 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 98
Barnsley - ..11601 121. 180 ,Macclestleld. 100 - 95
Basingstoke..lloo; - - Neath - • ... 100 201. 340
lirkiik&Abrg 1501 51. , 85 Nottingham. 150 121. 266
' Cromford.... 'lOO 181. ] 150 Peak Forest . 78 31. 40
Dudley !100' 4/. i - Regent's - - 33 1/.
, 263
Derby -•• • • ,190 i Si. 73 !Rochdale ...• 85 4/. 84
Ellsmre&Chs 133' 4/. 65 ?Shropshire • • 125 81. -
Erewash • - !100r 321. 300 i•Soinrset Coal 150 71.105. , 130
1
Forth & Clyd.loo. 4/. - 1 Do.Lk Ed St 12 61. p. c. 111
GrandJunctif 1001 71. 100 :Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 1 303
Grand Union 100: 1/. 10s. - 'Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. ' 230
Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 270
Glstr&Brkly, , 00' - - Strttsdon A.v 79 1/. 10s. -
Grantham l5O 121. 100 Severn rtnd
Huddersfield ' 571 - 20 Wye Rail.l 26 1/. Ss. 32
Kennt & AYH,' 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1
50 301.
Lancaster .• • ' 471 11. 10. 40 sty, 1A sh.
Leeds& Livrp 100 i 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - 10
Leicester .. •• , 140: 101. 105 rorcstr Bc.l
78 2/. 44
Leicstr &Nth B.li 41. 60 Binning.
Loughborogh 142; 701. 850 Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11
WATER-WORKS
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of , Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share.

East London... • • • • • • • 81.
Grand Junctien .. • • • •
.. •••• • • • ••• • • 21. 10s.
Vauxhall •.•.•• • • • • • • 57. per cent.
West Aflddlesex .•• • • . 4/.165. pr ct.

X P, d.
IZ.O 0 •

46 13 4
180 o 0
109
63 12 9 '

AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTE

Died, on Saturday morning last, on St. David's-hill,
Exeter, Miss Catherine Mary Moore, a very eccentric
old lady, who, for a great number of years until very
lately, had lived in great seclusion. Regarding the last
moments of the deceased a professional gentleman has
sent us the following particulars:—" About one o'clock
in the morning she sent for a solictor to make her will.
She was found in a state of great debility, but gave her
instructions very clearly. In these she had excluded her
relatives—giving 2,0001. to two children of a friend, a
dwelling-house to another, with the residue to a lady
with whom she had for some short time past been on
terms of intimacy. The solicitor asked her if she in-
tended wholly to exclude her nephews and nieces, and
she replied in the affirmative. The solicitor declined
making the will without the attestation of the medical
gentleman who had attended her, and who was sent for.
By the time the instructions were given, one of her
nephews came to her house and into her bed-room; the
old lady expressed great aversion to this gentleman, di-
rected a policeman to be called: she became highly ex-
cited, gave a violent shriek, and expired."
From the Luminary we copy also their statement of
this very extraordinary lady :—" The deceased was a
member of a most respectable family, of long standing in
the county, and formerly settled at Cadeleigh Court.
She was most eccentric in her dress and manners, and
was better known by her eccentricities than by any
other point of her character. She bad a sister who was
a great invalid, and who died about three years ago.
For many years the two lived together, in the same
house upon St. David's Hill, without any servant or
attendant of any kind. The sister who first died was
not seen out of doors for many years before her decease,
and the one whose death we are now recording, not more
frequently than was necessary to purchase the necessary
supplies of the house. Though always reputed wealthy,
they suffered the house in which they lived to fall into a
most ruinous and dilapidated state, and the front shutters
were invariably kept closed, so that the house, to
the passers by, had all the appearance of being unin-
habited. On the death of the sister, Miss Catherine
Moore hired a person to assist her in the house, who was
in the habit of coming in the morning and leaving again
at night. Within a comparatively recent period ber
habits have become much more expensive than the:y had
ever been before. Costly plate, and articles of dress
have been purchased in, apparently, the most reckless
way ; and she has been dashing about at racris and con-
certs, and other public places ; her attire, tt whatever
cost procured, always maintaining its eccentricity of ap-
pearance. Her last illness was of short duration, for she
had kept her bed only a very few days. Her property
is understood to be large, and as she is believed to have
died intestate, it will be divided awing her relations,
none of whom are rich, There is a story, well authen-
ticated, about a will that was made but not executed,
by which far the larger portion of her wealth would
have devolved upon a lady who has manifested for soma
time past the most anxious solicitude for her, and has
been most assiduous in her endeavours to cheer her for-
lorn condition. The lady we mean was the , successful
Party in a will cause of some consequence, not long
since decided in the Ecclesiastical Court of t'ae Diocese.
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Since the above was in type, we have been i t f
on authority we can rely, that LieuteeneanntoMm friendly
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nephew of the deceased, who had b
terms with his aunt, and had drunk tea with her on the
y
evening of his leaving Exeter to join his ship, ,arrlyedon
the night of the late Miss Moore's decease. '.rho de-
ceased ha d inquired for him only two hours b :fore his
arrival, a nd was informed by the nurse he I would be
there in ;in hour. Being informed
i that Miss
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solicitor I lad been sent for and was n the house Lieute-
nant Mod )re presented himself at the door, a .nd (not-
withstani ling the means taken to prevent his en try), was
at lengt' a admitted by the nurse. He followed Miss
Bellew t. P the bed-room of the deceased, where his en-
trance ' gas again opposed—but by gently, yet ',firmly,