The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE

some time been progressive in all its branches, and
,in the single item of pigs causing a diminution on
the half-year of over £1,360. The outlay charged
to capital expenditure was much reduced this half-
year, having been in the half-year ending June,
1859, £6,457 ; December, 1859, £6,050 ; June,
1860, £3,451. The outlay had been for addition to
rolling stock, £1,237; Parliamentary expenses,
£754 ; and works along the line, £978. The com-
pany's bill, which had been unanimously approved
by the proprietors, received the royal assent July 23.
The rejection of the bill for the sale of the Kilkenny
Railway opened the way for negotiations with the
directors of that company, which had terminated
in the Limerick Company undertaking an agree-
ment for the working of the Waterford and Kil-
kenny line, which was to take effect as soon as pos-
sible; also a prospective agreement for the working
of the extension line to Mountrath, for which a bill
had been obtained, and which they trusted would
afford a considerable increase of traffic. They had
also within the last few weeks completed arrange-
ments with the Limerick and Castleconnel Company
for the working of their extension line, which was
open to Birdhill, and in course of completion to
Killaloe. These agreements had been arranged on
terms which, while advantageous to the other com-
panies, would, the directors trusted, be found fairly
remunerative to their company. The capital ac-
count showed that £1,197,257 had been received,
£1,233,815 expended, leaving a balance of £36,558
against the company. The revenue account for the
half-year ending 30th of Jane showed that £32,278
had been received, and £13,600, or 42.14 per cent.
expended, leaving a balance of £18,671.

NOTTINGHAM AND GRANTHAM.
The report of the directors states that the name
of this undertaking was changed by the Actovhich
received the royal assent on the 15th of May last,
from the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston,
to that of the Nottingham and Grantham Rail-
way and Canal Company. The other principal fea-
tures of the Act were a reduction of the share capital
to £1,014,000, in lieu of £1,056,250, and of the bor-
rowing powers from £358,333 to £265,000. Look-
ing to the desirability, as expressed by the proprie-
tors 12 months since, of discharging the existing
debenture debt of the company as from time to time
it became due, and there being many proprietors
who desired at once to pay up in full, the directors
had resolved to a:low interest at the rate of 4 per
cent. per annum to shareholders paying up the un-
called £2 per share of the capital. The general
business of the undertaking contrasted favourably
With that of the same time last year, or any similar
period, the increase on the railway being in every
class, and amounting in gross t0.X3,253, while the
tonnages on the canals showed an addition of £139.
The amount received of the Great Northern Com-
pany for traffic, station rent, and interest, with the
net earnings of the navigatious, showed a balance
to the credit of revenue of £14,878, which would
admit of a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share, or 31 per
cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £9l. The
capital account showed that £1,029,041 had been
received and £1,028,987 expended, leaving a balance
of £54. The revenue for the half-year ending the
30th of June on the Nottingham canal amounted
to £3,132, the expenses to £994, and the balance to
£2,138. The receipts on the ,Grantham canal
amounted to £2,164, the expenses to £714, and the
balance to £1,450. Those balances, added to
£15,213 received from the Great Northern, and £Bl
from the last account, amounted to £18,882, the
interest on loans and the expenses to £4,004, leav-
ing £14,878 for dividend.

LONDON DISTRICT TELEGRAPH.
The half yearly meeting of this company was
held on Friday at the London Tavern—Mr. Taylor
in the chair.
The SECRETARY read the report,which stated that
the total
.capital paid up to the 30th of June was
'X24,472. The directors regret that in consequence
of unexpected difficulties the contractor had been
unable to continue the work, leaving about 30 miles
incomplete, which will be immediately commenced
by the company's engineer on a different plan, but
within the original estimate. During the past half
year private wires have been erected for different
firms, with whoni agreements have been concluded
for forwarding messages from any of the company's
stations free of charge to the sender. The directors
have decided on the erection of wires round the
Isle of Dogs, by which the large shipbuilding, en-
gineering, and other establishments in that locality
will be served, and also to run lines parallel with
the bank of the Thames by which an improved sys-
tem of communication between the several wharves
and warehouses will be established. The profit and
loss account showed the receipts for the half year
to be £551, and the expenses £2,282. The engi-
neers' report stated that the new lines completed
embrace extensions to the Commercial-road, Poplar,
East and West India Dock-road, Bunhill-row,
Blackfriars-road, Westminster-road, Great Northern
Railway Coal Depot, and Paddington. Eleven ad-
ditional miles of wire have been added to the exist-
ing supports. Twenty-nine new offices have been
fitted with instruments, the total number being 80.
The CHAIRMAN said they only commenced their
works in February last year, and had not yet had
an opportunity of seeing the results. One of the
difficulties they had had was that of obtaining a
staff of young ladies' which had been attended with
great anxiety, but had been eventually overcome,
and they now had 90 of these operatives, who were
now educated in the working of the system, and
were equal to the requirements of the whole of their
offices when open. Another of their difficulties
had been that of getting the consent of persons to
allow them to carry the wires over their houses.
The directors had thought that, as they brought
the system to every man's door, there would
have been no difficulty in getting their con-
sent; but, on the contrary, in many instances
they had been obliged to give a trifling consi-
deration for that privilege, and in some cases
they had had to take the wires down again. The
directors had decided to reduce their own remune-
ration fixed by the shareholders at £l,OOO to
£5OO. After some comments on the position of
the company, and pointing out that the share-
holders could not reasonably expect any large re-
turn or increase of business until the whole of their
system was completed,
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. Alderman ROSE seconded the motion,
which, after some discussion, was carried unani-
mously, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman
closed the proceedings.

FALMOUTH DOCKS.
The report of the directors stated that since the
meeting in February last, the works had been car-
ried on in a satisfactory manner, although impeded
by the unfavourable, weather. The Prince of
Wales Breakwater had been completed with
.granite
for a length of 310 feet, being beyond low water
mark, from which point its construction would be
continued as quickly as possible. Great progress
had been made in the excavation of the graving
dock, the granite work for the caisson was in course
of erection, and would.speedily be completed. The
gridiron was also far advanced. A large portion
of the rock from the graving dock having been
found suitable -for filling the breakwater, an exca-
vation for a second dock would shortly be com-
menced, from which the further quantity of stone
required for that purpose would be supplied. The
directors anticipated that the breakwater, graving
dock, and gridiron would be ready for-use at the
end of thisyear, and they intended to erect a ware-
house on a suitable spot. 'The Cornwall Railway
Company had surveyed a line to connect their un-
dertaking with the docks, which would 'admit of
favourable gradients and easy works. The present
capital of the company amounted •to £42,675,
and as the directors were satisfied that this
amount would enable them to carry out the section
of the works now in progress, they proposed to
defer the question of raising further` capital
until the meeting in February next, when they
hoped the shareholders would see the works in ac-
tive use • and producing revenue. The capital ac-
count to the 30th of June last showed that £14,898
had been received, and £7,240 expended, leaving a
balance of £7,658. On the 11th inst. the balance
at the bankers amounted to £10,771.

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CAPTAINS,—On Friday an inquest was held at Newcastle
on the body of Lucy Gray, the Fortunate female sup-
posed to have been thrown into the Queen's Dock, and in
reference to which two Russian captains' had been appre-
hended upon suspicion, as when the deceased fell into the
water they were seen to run away. It was found that the
deceased was intoxicated, and fell into the water through
her own imprudence, and the Jury returned a 'verdict of
" Accidental Death," but disapproved of the conduct of the
two Russian captains in running away. It was explained
that in th4ir own country it was the pi actice to lock up
witnesses as well as persons implicated, and the fear of this
caused them to run away from the spot. The accused ha--e
been discharged.

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'CE-Aug. 25,

WESTMINSTER. EXTRAORDINARY DIS-
CLOSURES.—AIIen Fairrie Johnstone and Sarah
Elliott, the latter a vulgar-looking but well-dressed
and well-spoken woman, with a nervous affection of
the eyes, and a large scar on the left hand, were
brought up for further examination, charged with
stealing a valuable child.
The child, Jane Smith, a very pretty, precocious
little girl of five years of age, is very intelligent,
and although so young draws large audiences by
singing at various concert-rooms. Three weeks
ago the female called upon the child's mother, and,
under pretence of buying her a new sash, as she
was to sing at the Spread Eagle, Wandsworth, that
evening, absconded with Johnstone, with whom she
cohabits, taking the child to Southampton, and the
prisoners were apprehended at Portsea, by In-
spector Street, of the Portsmouth police, with the
child in their possession.
ir. Firman, Inspector of the A reserve, who has
had charge of the case, said since the last hearing
the mother of the female prisoner had given
money to the child's mother not to press the charge
any further, and he had stopped the mother in the
act of leaving the court. Apart from this he had
some very important facts to communicate to his
worship. The female prisoner had passed by the
names of Arnold, Randall, Elliott, Hapgood, John-
stone, Farrar, Lady Fortescue, and other aliases,
and after making diligent inquiry he found there
were more than 20 cases of fraud against the pri-
soners at Southampton, and he had several people
present who had been duped by the female, in con-
sequence of her making various false representations
to them. They (prisoners) had visited almost every
lodging-house keeper in Southampton, absconding
without paying, and had on one occasion repre-
sented that they had obtained the child for the
purpose of taking her to sing before Lord Palmer-
ston. The mother of the female too had come to
London, and representing herself as the aunt, had,
he believed, obtained some of the property the pri-
soners had become possessed of by fraud.
Mr. Paynter asked if Johnstone was a party to
the frauds ?
Mr. Firman replied in the affirmative ; he had
been living with her all the time. He then called
. Mrs. Clara Gregory, who said—My husband is a
house painter and decorator, and I keep a wardrobe
shop at 52, Dorset-street, Portman-square. I know
both prisoners, and the dress and bonnet the female
has on are mine. I knew her as lodging in the same
street, and on the 21st of June she brought me
several letters to prove she would in a few days be
iu receipt of large sums of money. She also said
she was the niece of Lord Palmerston and Lady
Fortescue in her own right, but had married Mr.
Johnstone unknown to her friends; and, on the
faith of her representations, together with the let-
ters she produced, I let her have three dresses and
three bonnets, of the total value of £9 3s. 6d. She
was to pay on Saturday following, and I was to go
to her house, which I did, when she had left word
she was out of town, and on the Monday I heard
she absconded from her lodging, and had pawned
one of the dresses on the same day she obtained it
of me.
The female prisoner—Did I not tell you I was in
the habit of meeting gentlemen, and wanted the
articles for that purpose.?
Prosecutor (most emphatically)—You did not, or
you would not have had them.
Mr. Paynter asked prosecutrix how she had al-
lowed herself to be so duped. There was nothing in
prisoner's appearance to show she was a lady.
Prosecutrix replied she spoke in so plausible and
ladylike a tone that, coupled with showing the let-
ters purporting to be signed by noblemen, one
could hardly disbelieve laer.
Defendant denied this charge and all others that
might be brought against her, and then looking
round the court, and scrutinising the persons ready
to give evidence against her, she admitted she had
taken lodgings of several people and had not been
in a position to pay.
Sophia Dawson,l6,Southampton-terrace, Water-
loo-bridge, said—l let apartments, and know the
prisoners. They took apartments on the 6th Febru-
ary last for one week, as man and wife, under the
name of Elliott. They slept there two nights, and
then went to Southampton. They returned on the
Ist of March, and stayed till the 24th, again going
to Southampton, where she told me she was to meet
her uncle and obtain some money from him. On
April 3d she came back again, stating that she and
her husband had quarrelled. She often told me she
was Lord Fortescue's daughter, and that Lord Pal-
merston was her uncle, and on the 14th she said
she was going to call on some friends to lunch with
them, and at half-past one would return, and bring
her friends with her to dinner ; and to carry out this
in the course of the morninc, a large quantity of
poultry, lobsters, prawns, and other delicacies came
in. She said after she had lunched with her friends
she was going to call on Lord Palmerston, and asked
the to lend her my watch, chain, and brooch, which
I did, and never saw her again. She also stole an
article of wearing apparel belonging to me.
Mr. Paynter—At the time she obtained your
watch, chain, and brooch, did she say she was Lord
Palmerston's niece and Lady Fortescue ?
Mrs. Dawson.—No; but she had frequently told
me so before, and I believed it, and on that account
lent her the things, During her stay with me in
March, too, she showed me a life policy, purporting
to be for £l,OOO, and her will, and I thought her a
lady of great property.
The female prisoner denied this charge, and said
that the watch and chain were the property of her
husband, as she called him (Mr. Johnstone), and
that she had slept with two men, one of whom was
Mr. Blackman from Lambeth, while in Mrs. Da,w-
son's house.
Mrs Dawson denied this.
The prisoner then stated that her mother's name
was Hewett, and her proper name Hewett ; but she
was the illegitimate child of a gentleman named
Fortescue, and she did not consider it was wrong
to use a name to which she thought herself entitled
—the name of her father.
Mr. Firman here produced the life policy and
will, which he said were shams. The will was her
own, and she pretended to be willing away large
sums of money and property, while she was worth
nothing except what she obtained by her fraudu-
lent practices.
Mr. Paynter said he did not think there was any
case made out here, as the prisoner had not made
the false representations to Mrs. Dawson at the
time she obtained her watch and chain.
Miss Ann Hemmings of Davis-street, Berkeley-
square, was then called, and said—.l let my house
in apartments, and have at present a prince lodging
there, and this woman has among other things en-
deavoured to take away ray character and the cha-
racter of my house. She did not come to lodge with
me. I should be very sorry to have such a person in
my house, but I went to see the last witness, my
sister, one day, and heard that the female prisoner
wished to be introduced to me, and my sister intro-
duced her to me, which circumstance I shall ever
regret. On that occasion prisoner and myself had
a long chat together, and she showed me several
letters, one of which bore the pretended signa-
ture of a solicitor, and stated that she would re-
ceive £5,000 on production of her marriage certifi-
cate. She also told me she was going to Cambridge
House. I could not believe it at first, and when
she came buck, roznarking on my not crediting her
story, she read me a letter from Lord Palmerston,
and showed me the envelope it came in, which bore
Lord Palmerston's crest, and when she showed me
this, I believed her other statements to be true.
She told me she was going again to Cambridge
House to have an interview with her friend Lady
Palmerston, who would get Lord Palmerston to in-
tercede with her (prisoner's) aristocratic family in
order to restore peace between them. This, of
course, was not true ; and among twenty-two other
letters which she showed me at that time, several
bore the signatures of the nobility. These I have
ascertained to be forgeries, for I must tell von she
can write no less than seven different hands:
Mr. Paynter inquired whether the letter from
Lord Palmerston was a sham or not ?
Mr. Firman replied, he had every reason to be-
lieve the letter was, but not the envelope, for be-
sides it having Lord Palmerston's own crest upon
it,'be had been to Downing-street and was told a
letter had been written to her by Lord Palmerston's
secretary, but as the latter was out of town he (the
inspector) could not find out the purport of it.
Mr. Paynter said no doubt she had written to
obtain possession of the seal, and had then de-
stroyed the original letter, substituting another
for it.

The female prisoner declared that Lord Palmer,
sten himself had written to her making an appoint.
znent with her; she had often hem to see him, but
it was not likely she was going to say there what
connexion there was between her and Lord Pal-
merston. (A laugh.)
Miss Hemmin!rs
s continue
d—Durin," the conver-
F
sation he and Ild, she stated tS'e ady
orteseue and Loiard Palmerston'sh n at
'ie hce;was thatL she
was short of money, but would have some in a few
days, showing me letters to that effect, and
asked me to lend her some, and believing her
story I did not hesitate. I first lent her a
sovereign, and then £4
the mone 10s., receiving an I 0 U for
y. These sums were to purchase various
articles to visit Lady Palmerston in, and I also lent
her a very handsomely-worked and valuable petti-
coat, but never saw her again.
The female prisoner—You lent me the money to
go to the Argyll Rooms with, to see a gentleman.
Miss Hemmings (in an ironical tone)—How do
you Make that out ? You were a lady in your own, right,.and one great person and the other. Surely

Lady Fortescue cannot want to meet gentlemen at
the Argyll Rooms. Your -worship, the prisoner is
the greatest . swindler going ; she's peen robbing
everybody for years, paying nobody ; can write, as
I said, seven different hands, and has been known
to receive 40 letters a day, written, I suppose, by
herself. She has at various times been maid, wife,
and widow, and has been seen in widows' weeds,
that being part of her system. She speaks in a
plausible and ladylike way, which disarms all sus-
picion ; in fact, she ig up to every dodge there is.
The last witness, we are given to understand,
hearing of these and other worse cases, had been
most persevering for weeks in following the pri-
soners about from one place to the other, both in
London and the country, and had at length got
everything in train to bring them to justice, when
the police apprehended them for stealing the child.
Mr. Firman said he had another case against her
of obtaining a pianoforte, which she had left when
she absconded from Mrs. Dawson's, but the parties
were not present; and she had also endeavoured,
'under the title of Lady Fortescue, to obtain a
Brougham and pair of horses, but fortunately did
not succeed.
The witnesses in the case of the child were then
bound over to prosecute at the sessions ; and the
prisoners were about to be remanded for the two
frauds upon Mrs. Gregory and Miss Hemmings,
when

A gentleman stepped forward and said the female
had lodged in his house in Dorset-street a fortnight,
and had absconded without paying a farthing. The
instant she had obtained the dresses from Mrs.
Gregory, she wanted his servant to pawn one, but
he would not allow it ; and
Mrs. Dawson said she had pawned her watch
and chain in the Strand, a few hours after she ob-
tained it of her.

Mr. Payntet:said in the first case it was merely
a matter of debt, and he could not interfere for
Mrs. Dawson, as her case was insufficient to convict
upon.

Mr. Paynter then remanded the accused, and in-
timated that, unless thelvariousicharges were taken
up by some solicitor, they must utterly fail.
The following, received by Mr. Finnan, was
handed us :
" I hereby certify that banns of marriage between Allen
Ferrie Johnston, a bachelor, and Millicent Helen Lavinia
Zara Hewett Fortescue, a spinster, were duly published in
St. Mary's Church, St. Marylebone, on three following
Sundays via., Sunday, Juno 17, Sunday, June 24, and
Sunday:July, 1, of this present year, 1860.
" Witness my hand,
1860. " H. H. GYTON, Parish Clerk.
" The above parties were not married at St. Mary's
Church."
And by means of this trick it appears the- creditors
were brought to the church expecting the marriage,
leaving the prisoners a clear field for quitting their
then place of abode, and going elsewhere to commit
further frauds.

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
It has already been stated 4hat application had
been made by the authorities of the Home Office to
issue a reward for the apprehension of the mur-
derer or murderers, and that Mr. Faith and Mr.
Whittaker, the two sons-in-law of the deceased,
had also declared their willingness to add £2OO as
a further reward of the assassin or assassins. The
application to the Home Office in this respect would
appear to be successful, for during Saturday after-
noon the police were busy posting at the various
police stations, and throughout the Eastern dis-
tricts of the metropolis, monster placards, as well as
distributing small hand-bills, of which the follow-
ing is a copy :
" THREE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.—MURDER.--
Whereas, ' Mary Elmsley,' widow, has been brutally mur-
dered at 9, Grove-road, Mile-end-road, on or about Mon-
day, the 13th August, 1860, £lOO reward will be paid by
her Majesty's Government to any person giving such in-
formation as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction
of the guilty person or persons; and the Secretary
of State for the Home Department will advise
the grant of her Majesty's gracious pardon to
any accomplice, not being the actual murderer,
who shall give such information as shall lead to
the same result. A further reward of £2OO will also be
paid by Mr. Ratcliff, solicitor, Dean Colet House, Stepney,
to any person who shall give information as above. A
mourning ring to the memory of J. Jones, who died 1830 ;.
a dark-cooured pocket-book, containing an acceptance of
£25 ; also a cheque on the Bank of London for £lO are
missing. Information to be given to Inspector Thornton,
or Sergeant Tanner, Detective Police, Scetland-yard, or to
Inspector Kerressey, Bow Police Station, K
Metropolitan Police Office, August 24, 1860."
Amongst the various rumours that are afloat as
to the murderer of this unfortunate woman, none
appears to gain so much credence as that which
assumes that the party who committed the crime
was well known to the deceased, and that he had
been to see her upon some business connected with
the rent for one of her houses, or the pretence of
purchasing some of her paperhangings. On Satur-
day, however, a curious circumstance occurred,
which has put the police upon quite another track.
During the morning, three well-dressed foreigners,
who could speak English tolerably well, and who,
we believe, gave their names and addresses, called
at the police station, near Arbour-square, Stepney,
adjoining the Thames police court, and informed
Inspector Griffin of the K division, then on duty,
that they had a strong suspicion as to who were
the murderers. They said their suspicions rested
upon three or four Frenchmen who had been for
some time lurking about the East-end of London,
whom they knew to have been French convicts, and
who upon their release or escape from the baynes
had made their way to England. They stated that
these men were in the habit of going about in twos
and threes with slippers, which they represented as
of French manufacture, and on gaining access to
premises for the purpose of effecting a sale, they laid
their hands upon anything which was within their
reach. Several house robberies and burglaries
have lately been reported as perpetrated by
foreigners answering the description given of these
men. The most remarkable part of the representa-
tion, however, is that the three foreigners stated to
the inspector that they have seen the individuals to
whom they refer since the period of the murder,
and that they are now well-dressed and have been
spending a deal of money. It is their impression
that one if not two of these men had called upon
the deceased, and having gained access to the
house, and finding she was alone, had committed
the murder. Whether the police authorities
attach any importance or not to this representa-
tion remains for themselves to decide; but certain
it is that in the course of the afternoon Sergeant
Coppin, one of the detectives of the K division in
the case, and who has been directing his energies
to a particular quarter where he has suspicions, re-
ceived a communication from head-quarters, Scot-
land-yard, to turn his efforts in quite another direc-
tion, but in what direction the police very properly
abstain from affording information. It was stated
at the inquest that the deceased, when discovered,
was perfectly dressed, with the exception of one
slipper, having one on, and the other laid a short
distance from the left foot. It has since been dis-
covered that these slippers are apparently quite
new, and of a kind which Mrs, Emsley had never
been seen to wear before.
In the placard offering the reward for the appre-
hension of the murderer, it will be observed that
amongst articles missing is a dark-coloured pocket-
book, with an acceptance for £25, and a cheque for
£lO on the Bank of London. It has since been
ascertained that that cheque was paid to Mrs.
Emsley on Monday, the 13th, the day of the sup-
posed murder, in the evening, by Mr. Carryer, of
the firm of Pickering and Carryer, operative
chemists, for the rent of premises they occupy be-
longing to the deceased, situate in Barnsley-street,
Bethnal-green. Up to Saturday afternoon that
cheque had not been presented at the Bank of Lon-
don. Mr. Carryer has, however, been to the bank
and stopped it, stating the circumstances. The
person, thereforo, who presents, should any one do
so, will of course be detained, and the cheque may
probably lead to the discovery of the murderer.
During the afternoon, Inspector Kerressey waited
upon Mr. Humphreys, the coroner, at his office in
Spitalssquare, and intimated to him his hope that
he shall be able to produce some evidence calculated
to elucidate the mystery, which up to the present
time is almost equally profound as that of the mur-
der at Road. Sergeants Coppin and Venables, upon
receiving their fresh orders, at once set out upon
their new line of investigation, and it is hoped their
efforts will be attended with success. Sergeant
Miller, another detective of the K division, has also
prepared plans of the premises and of the spots
where the footmarks of blood were found on the
stairs, in order to lay the same before the coroner
and jury at the adjourned inquest to be held to-day
(Monday). There can be no doubt that the large re-
ward offered will stimulate the police to energetic
action, and if there are any accomplices it may lead
to one turning Queen's evidence, as it is understood
that not only the reward but her Majesty's free
pardon will be accorded to any one except the ac-
tual assassin. It appears that the income of the
deceased, although very large, was by no means so
great as has been represented, and it turns out that
she had only a life interest in the property left by
her last husband, Mr. Emsley,
which now passes
into the bands of Mrs. Faith and Mrs. -Whittaker,
her stepdaughters. With reference to her character,
although attempts have been made to deny that she
was of slovenly and penurious habits, the state of
the place, for a woman of her wealth, clearly estab-
lishes the accuracy of the first point ; and the dis-
covery of the money secreted in the cellar amongst
the coals, coupled with her general appearance and
her dealings generally, is ample evidence of the
latter. There is one trait in the deceased's character
admitted on all hands by he thatantry which ought
stances where her rent was paid r
not to be overlooked, and is, that in all in-
egularly she was