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NEW STORY OF TIIE DAY, BY THE AUTHOR OF
" AIsTTONINA."
On the 15th of November, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
BA SIL: a Story of Modern Life.
By W. WILKIE COLLINS.
Author of " Antonina," " Rambles Bey and Railways," &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

rrpHOMAS HOOD'S GRAVE.—The publication
_IL in Eliza's Cook's Journal of " Lines written at Kensall-green
Cemetry," has induced numerous readers to express an earnest de-
sire to assist in raising a fund for the purpose of placing a memorial
over the remains of "Poor Hood."
Many a burst of merriment has echoed above " Hood's Comic
.Xiinual," from the lips of all classes. For many a year he cheered •
our Christmas firesides with racy hamour, that never wearied by _
its frivolity nor offended by its coarseness. Far and wide was ho
known as the Poet of Mirth: but the higher development of his
genius and the noble" purpose of his muse were shown in such Tei
glorious hymns as " The Song of the Shirt" and the " Bridge of 1"
Sighs." These who have read either of these poems will acknow-
ledge that such a man deserves to have a mark upon his sleeping-
place, so that it mat' be f iund without the help of a grave-yard
servant, and a:1 who have laughed at his inimitable wit, or sighed
over his human tenderness, are now earnestly solicited to spare
what they can in aid of a purpose which is alike praiseworthy in gell
tne living and due to the dead.
lor the furthering of this design, the following gentlemen, mem- I
tiers of the Whittingt: Club, have formed themselves into a Com-
mittee
Mr. J. Balfour Mr. R. W. Roberts
Mr. Campbell Clarke Mr. W. Strudwicke
Mr. Edward Copping Mr. 11. Roscoe St. John
Mr. J. Pessmere Edwards air. George Waller
-I'.lr. H. C. Maguire Mr. John Watkins, and
Mr. C. S. Middleton Mr. G. W. Yapp-
At the request of these gentlemen, Miss Eliza Cook has Consented
to be Treasurer to the fund, and Mr. John Watkins to be Honorary
Secretary.

RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.

(From the Times)
Railway amalgation has now been brought, in its
true character and purport, plainly and distinctly
before the public. We yesterday reported the speeches
on ties question of two eminent chairman, who quoted
the opinions of three others, and, as their suggestions
were accepted by the assembled proprietaries, we may
assume that the mind of the railway interest is sub-
stantially made up. Taken from the evidence of
these very authorities, the case for hearing is as fol-
lows :—There are too many railways in the country.
These undertakings have been projected and executed
without any due consideration of what public con-
venience required, and the result is an overgrown and
ill-distributed system of communicatioes. The error
thus originally created is made worse by the particu-
lar species of rivalry in which the several companies
have indulged—a rivalry which (we borrow the di-
rectors' own words) entails upon themselves a need-
less and wasteful expenditure without any correspond-
ing advantage to the public. This is the case. The
remedy proposed is that Parliament, which already
leaves facilities for virtual combination, should sanc-
tion an actual amalgation of competing interests so
final and permanent as to settle the whole question for
all future time, and reduce the railway communications
of the country to one great incorporated monopoly.
With more or less candour the speakers generally ad-
mitted that certain restraints, restrictions, or regu-
lations would be called for in the interests of the
public, to protect the population from those into
whose hands they would be thus delivered.
Before we can accept the question exactly as the
directors propound it, there are several points involv-
ing some doubt to be taken for granted. It must be
assumed that the railway communications of the
country are superfluously convenient, whereas Mr.
Russell himself, the chairman of the Great Western,
confessed in his letter upon this subject that the
Legislature was net unlikely to take an opposite view
of the point. It must be assumed that competition
cannot exist between railways, although one of the
chief arguments of the Midland Chairman on Wed-
nesday fur the project of amalgamation was " the
great competition among railways, which was going
forward all round." It must be assumed, finally, that
this competion, thus going forward, has been so
ingeniously devised and conducted, that the public
really does not get any advantage from it whatever,
but that, contrary to all precedent and reason, com-
panies have contrived to fall out without permitting
a single customer to get his due.
Omitting, however, these exceptions, let us suppose
that, in railway language, the "preamble" has been
proved. Two companies, therefore, appear before the
Legislature, desiring to be turned into one, on the
principal ground that more than one never ought to
have existed. One of them, therefore, by its own
present confession, must have betrayed Parliament
into the sanction of an undertaking so unnecessary,
wasteful, and injurious, that what was then done
requires now to be undone by the same authority.
Nothing, on such showing, can possibly be plainer
than that those parties alone should be damnified by
the result through whose misrepresentations it ea-
curred. We observe, indeed, that it was attempted
to charge all the responsibility of these transactions
on the Legislature itself, as if the assent given by
Parliament to the sworn depositions of railway pro-
moters exonerated those promoters from all obliga-
tions as to the truth or genuineness of ,their appeals.
The sooner this argument is put out of sight the
better will it be for those who, with such an assertion
in their mouths, are now going before Parliament
again. It will be a somewhat extraordinary proceed-
ing to apply for a second hearing on the ground that
the applicants had proved themselves unworthy of
credit in the first. Every one knows how these bills
were passed, and by what means the consent of the
Legislature was obtained. It was obtained only by
desperate importunity, and upon the most elaborate
affidavits. These very parties, who now charge Par-
liament with a false decision, procured this decision
by the production and array of all kinds of testimo-
nies and witnesses, and by declaiming, demonstrating
and swearing that the line or lines now sought to be
swamped or neutralized were absolutely indispensable
to the traffic and accommodation of the district, all
presumptions and arguments to the contrary notwith-
standing. They must now be judged by their own
words. Their attempted exculpation is preposterous.
On the same grounds any debtor might evade pay-
ment of a debt by representing that he was a tho-
roughly good-for-nothing fellow, who never ought to
be trusted.
Taking matters, however, as they stand, without
inquiry into faults or causes, and accepting the vo-
luntary declaration of the directors, that they are ut-
terly incurable, what are the securities desirable to
prevent these gentlemen from treating the public as
ill as, by their own showing, they have treated each
other ? If they cannot refrain from cutting each
others' throats, though no kind of profi tresults from
the pastime, is it likely that they will refrain from like
practices on the public when the amusement will be
attended with prospects of pecuniary gain ? The
amalgamating directors represent that railway trans-
action are now all gratuitously conducted in dupli-
cate, that there are two companies, two lines, and
two sets of trains, where one set, one line, and one
company would have answered the purpose as well,
or better. They propose, therefore, in each of these
particulars to substitute single action for double. But
But there is another point. Over and above
double railways there are double capitals, but we
do not observe any proposal for cutting these down
in the like manner. On behalf of the public,
however,
.we have here to remark, that we have
quite as much objection to double capitals as
directors have to double companies, and that we
have at least as much warrant for protesting. One of
the two capitals in a question like this must necessa-
rily represent a line which never ought to have been
constructed at all, but which was constructed in de-
ference to theimportunities of those who now decry
it. In the most favourable view of the case it was
either a mistaken speculation at first, or has become
so through incurable mismanagement. But neither
mismanagement nor mistake can possibly warrant a
transfer of the consequences to the public. If capital
has been invested in a losing or a superfluous concern,
those who placed it there must abide by the result.
The first condition, therefore, of the concession now
demanded should be the general immunity of the
public from those obligations which pertain to others.
The common stock on which interest is to be exacted
should be regulated, in this respect, with equitable
adjustments. Nobody would desire that the stock
of one proprietary should be rigorously sacri-
ficed, but neither, on the other hand, can any
claim be put in for its absolute recognition. The
next condition should apply to the lines themselves.
Directors must not be left in the unrestricted privi-
lege of saying what line should be closed, and what
left open ; or what train should run, and what be sup-
pressed. At present the competition which railway
managers ,are so eager to disparage does certainly
secure us some amount of accommodation, and if
this competition is withdrawn we must have what
Mr. Disraeli would term a "countervailing" check.
In short, as the proposed amalgamation, if fully car-
ried out, would reduce our railway system to the
continental form, we must get the advantages of
this form, along with its drawbacks, as far as we
can. Directors cannot expect to unite for their
special benefit the opposite conveniences of private
enterprize and chartered monopoly. Government
indulgence must, to a great extent, carry with it Go-
vernment supervision ; and, if railway managers can-
not conduct themselves in the ordinary way of
business, they must be made amenable to extra,
ordinary control.

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LORD MAIDSTONE AND MR. MACAULAY.

In another column will be found an epistle from
Lord Maidstone to Mr. Macaulay—a composition
which, considering the relative position of the par-
ties cet rhna et d ,
remarkable and the
nature
which
usher in the impending session,
may well serve to il-
lustrate
couples the grave with the
co
gay, the serious
can only account
with the foolish, the ridiculous with the sublime. We
would
a swellnot
have
arenot e t sure,ter su tiendd ethede,dtihganti
dignity
or .f
the
Macaulay
occasion,
s
as his own, by suffering Lord hexameters,Maidstone'tshe
obscurity
together
which
properly with theirbe fi tt author,befitted
them. t oWe sleep in
for
his
leadsreference
dramatiststo
pa a topicinte
rto diversify their on the principle
which
grandest objects with a few grotesque images, in
order to set off to greater advantage the more strik-
ing characters and scenes in their compositions. Lord
Maidstone does not seem fully aware of the purely
artistical purpose for which he and his hexameters
and his late rapid conversion were introduced into
Mr. Macaulay's speech ; so be writes in a tone of
mingled apology and defiance, asking consideration in
one sentence, and proclaiming no quarter in another.
His Lordship is a poor complaining soul. There is
nothing light or cheery about him. He has a quarrel
with mankind, with Mr. Macaulay, with the electors
of Westminster, with Sir J. Shelley, and Gene-
ral Evans, with Sir James Graham, as le drops
out incidentally, and not the least with himself. Lord
Maidstone doubtless thinks he ought to be a states-
man, being born to that rank, and having started in
life with very fair prospects. But to be born a states-
man, without the possibility of ever being one, is
enough to sour any man's disposition. His lordship,
having in a manner forfeited his birthright, is at war
with the whole world. His hand is against every
man, and every man's hand is against him. " Be-
ware who touches me," he exclaims, as if he wished
to be toucbed for an opportunity of letting out what
had been long pent up in his soul. But the penalty
of touching him is not very serious, if all the damage
he can do Mr. Macaulay, with the very best inten-
tions, is to tell him he is not a sound historical autho-
rity, that he has made some mistakes, and that he
has been ungenerous to Lord Maidstone in attacking
a man who could not answer iu person. Mr. Macau-
lay will not sink under these terrible accusations.
His authority is above Lord Maidstone's impeach-
ment ; and there cannot be much cowardice inattaek-
log a man who has spent a life in collecting a socabu-
lary of abuse, and rolling it up into hexameter pellets,
for discharge at the first assailant.
But all that Mr. Macaulay has said is, that Lord
Maidstone was'converted very suddenly from a furious
hater of Sir Robert Peel into a humble belie•er in
Free Trade. Lord Maidstone exclaims that his
motives are impugned, and claims the immunities of
a conscientious convert. "Duty," he says, "excuses
every man who changes his opinion conscientiously
from the charge of inconsistency." Why, who denied
you, my Lord, the right of changing your nand ?
Not Mr. Macaulay, or anybody that we know of, ex-
cepting yourself. You have yourself laid down in
your immortal hexameters that every one who
changes his mind is a rogue. This charitable and
most comfortable doctrine is your own, propounded
specially for the use of Sir R. Peel, but recoil-
ing on your own head. So now, like that ingenious
gentleman of Syracuse, you are roasting in your
own bull, and bellowing loudly enough to do
honours to your own workmanship. When
Lord Maidstone next addresses the populace of West-
minster, and finds them insensible to the charms of
his eloquence, he threatens to speak to them in legends,
like the figures in old windows. He need be at no
loss for the matter of these legendary scrolls. Let
him cut out of his books all the rubbish he has
written against " the apostate Peel," and exhibit it
round his own noble person as the best account he
can give for suddenly adopting Peel's measures. Per-
haps, however, something like a difference will be
necessary
in applying to himself the heraldic decora-
tions he has granted to Sir Robert. Let him state,
then, in addition, that Peel was converted by a fa-
mine, and Lord Maidstone by unparalleled prosperity;
that Lord Maidstone tried to come in as a Protec-
tionist, and, only when that failed, tried for another
place as a Free-trader ; and that the conversion cost
Sir Robert his power, but did not procure for Lord
Maidstone a seat.—Times.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court visa held; the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor in the chair. This being the last meeting during
the present mayoralty, the Council Chamber was nearly
filled with members, and the gallery crowded.
Mr H. BLARE, being called upon, proposed the follow-
ing resolution, viz. „What it be referred to the freedoms
committee to prepare a bill for extending the franchise
at ward elections, and to report the same to this Court."
After some discuseion had taken place on the motion,
Mr Cox moved that the report upon the freedom ques-
tion be referred bock to the committee for execution;
but ultimately this amondment was negatived by a ma-
jority of 76 to 22.
Alderman LAVRANCE then moved the previous
question, which was also negatived ; but before
the " original motion" was put, however, Aldermen
Wire and Finnis escaped from the aldermanic bench
by the aide door, leaving but ono alderman (Lawrence)
present. This circumstance being noticed, a member in
his place exclaimed, "No Court." The Lord Mayor,
however, sent the officer of the Court with the mace after
the departed aldermen, but upon hie return he reported
that he had sought for but could not find them. Much
confusion ensued, several of the members declaiming
loudly of what they stated to be " a trick played upon
them;" Mr Anderton indignantly, though apparently
triumphantly exclaiming, " Have you not now the proof
that what I have told you with reference to the necessi tj
for a reform of the Court of Aldermen is neither more
nor less than the truth?"
The LORD MAYOR then took leave of the Court. He
said—l shall hand over to my successor, unsullied I trust,
my insignia of office, while I wish both to yourselves
and the Lord Mayor elect every happiness and pros-
perity. (Loud cheers.)
Mr Nona's, in the name of the Court, offered up a
high culogium upon the pucctuality, urbanity, and gene-
rous character of the worthy chief magistrate on his re-
tirement, which was received with loud cheers, after
which the protracted sitting terminated.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON
THE CONFESSIONAL AT PLYMOUTH.

The following letter, from the Archbishop of Canter.
bury to Mr. J. W. Soultau, has been published:—
" Lambeth, Oct. 29, 1852.

AICNICIPAL BOROUGHS.—From a Parliamentary paper
(yesterday issued), it appears by municipal boroughs in
England and Wales in the year ended the 31st of
August, 1851, amounted to (with the balances in hand)
1,254,483/. ls. lid., and the expenditure (with balances
due to treasurers) to 903,721/. 45.11 id.
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had sat not less than 13,000 hours. (Cheers and laughtet)i,.
He had no hesitation in saying that the Right Hon"
Gentleman had compressed into his period of service),
more labour and more successful energy than any one►
of his predecessors. He most cordially supported the
motion.
The Right Hon. C. SHAW LEFEVRE claimed tie
indulgence of the House before the motion was put,.
while he made one or two observations. (Hear, hear.)
It was quite unnecessary for him to assure his [tenons-
able Friend the Member for Berkshire, and his Noble
Friend the Member for Middlesex, that he highly valued
their friendship, while he felt deeply sensible of
the complimentary manner in which they had done
him the honour to introduce his name to the House.
(Mar, hear.) He hoped it was equally unnecessary for
him to assure the House, that he had not only listened
to the speeches of his Honourable Friend with sincere
pleasure, but he was also most sensible of the flattering
reception which the House had bren pleased to give to
the proposition of his Honourable Friend, and he begged
leave to assure the House, that he witnessed that recep-
tion with feelings of unfeigned gratitude. (Cheers.) An
experience of more than thirteen years had confirmed
the opinion which he held soon after he had the
honour of a seat in Parliament, of the value and
importance of those privileges which were enjoyed by
the House, and which his Hon. Friend the Member for
Berkshire had justly observed were vested in the House
for the benefit of the community at large. (Bear, hear.'
The orders and regulations which governed the proceed-
ings of the House had been framed with much wisdom,
and they were well adapted to the principles for which
they were intended, namely, the dispatch of public busi-
nets ; but salutary as, those orders and rules were, his
experience had also taught him the enormous amount
of responsibility that attached to an individual in whom
was vested the guardianship of those privileges, and the
power of enforcing those rules and orders of the House.
(Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend the Member for the
University who, from his long standing in the House,
was well qualified to speak upon the point, and whose
opinion ought therefore to be highly respected, had
ventured to give the House some idea of the onerous and
laborious nature of the duties that devolved upon the
office of Speaker ; now, even with that experience which
he had referred to, he should almost have hesitated in
again undertaking those duties, but he felt that he was
under a debt of gratitude to the House for its unvarying
kindness during the period that he had served in the
chair, and that he had no alternative but to accept the
office again. (Cheers.) He entertained a strong con-
viction that an honest determination on his part faith-
fully and impartially to discharge the duties imposed
upon him, would not only meet with the indulgence, but
also the cordial support and co-operation of the Home.
(Cheers.) With these few observations, he begged once
more to express his gratitude to the House for the man-
ner in which they had received his name, and to
assure them, that whatever might be their decision upon
the motion before them, he should most cheerfully bow
to it. (Cheers.)
The motion was then put by the Chief Clerk, and
carried by acclamation—after which the Right Hon.
Gentleman was conducted to the chair by the mover and
seconder of the motion, amidst loud and long-continued
cheering.
The SPEAKER having ascended the steps of the
chair, said: Before taking his seat he must be allowed
once more to thank the House for the compliment they
had paid him, and to assure them that the renewed mark
of their confidence would, if possible, cause him to re-
double his anxiety to discharge faithfully and impar-
tially the duties which belonged to the office of Speaker.
(Cheers.)
Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
must now be allowed to congratulate the Speaker upon
hating received to-day the highest honour which Eng-
lish gentlemen could confer upon any one who possessed
their confidence and esteem. (Cheers.) Those who
had preceded him had specified the great and eminent
qualities necessary to bo possessed by him who fills the
seat which the Speaker now occupies, end he was there-
fore not called upon to dwell upon that branch
of his subject. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") But he
remembered that during four Parliaments of the Queen
the Speaker had occupied the same post that he now
filled ; and during that time, those who were old Mem-
bers of the House had frequent opportunities of witnes-
sing the courage with which the Right Hon. Gentleman
vindicated the privileges of the House, and the firmness
with which he maintained order in their debates, and
supported that impartiality which should always regulate
their conduct. (Cheers.) He might perhaps without
presumption, having had the honour of a seat
in the House when the Right Honourable Gentleman
was first elected to the chair, and having been a member
of the House during the interval, be allowed to notice
one trait in the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman
which ho had often observed, and which he thought would
have alone entitled the Right Hon. Gentleman to their
increased confidence. (Hear, hear.) It was this—ho
had often observed that in those conflicts which occa-
sionally occur where mere routine could not guide the
individual filling the chair—when he was, as it were,
taxed upon a moment, the Right Hon. Gentleman's re-
sources have never failed him. He had always been, in
such a crisis, sustained by his own knowledge and zeal,
as well as by the high respect which the House enter-
tained for him. (Cheers.) There was one other reason
why he thought it was a subject of great congratulation
that the House had elected the Right Hon. Gentleman,
and that was, that he could not but remember that in
this new Parliament the individual on whom would de-
volve, in the first instance, the disposition and control of
public business, had hardly had sufficient experience to
make him tally conversant with the forms and regula-
tions of the House. (Hear, hear.) So far, however, as
he himself was concerned, he felt he should never
appeal in vain either to the Right Hon. Gentleman
himself, or to independent members on either side of the
House, and under these circumstances he felt that the
selection which the House bad this day made would be
alike satisfactory to all parties. (Cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL felt that it was a matter of the
greatest importance, and ono of the greatest good fortune
that at this particular period, when there were so many
Members of the House without experience, they should
have to preside over them a gentleman who had
already shown the highest qualifications for the
eminent post of Speaker, and who, whenever it
was necessary to enforce the orders and rules
of the House did it with so much firmness and cour-
tesy, that he always secured the willing obedience oven
of those who might seem disposed to question his deci-
sion. (Cheers.) With regard to the observation of the
Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer), in which he alluded to his short experience
of the conduct of public business in the House,
ho must be permitted to say that he felt p©
that any assistance which the House or th C air
could render him in facilitating progress of public
affairs would always be most cheerfully giver!. (Chthers.)
And it was right that it should be so, for it was of the
. _ few
years, of carrying on
utmost importance that they shohualdddchohnettinhurethtoe set that
example to Europe which they
dom, and yet at the same time wt e utmost regard
discussion w
hithththe utmost free-
i
for decorum and propriety, as well as for the difficult
situation in which the president of such an assembly as
this must sometimes find himself. (Cheers.)
Mr. HUME said, he had been requested to make a
representation to the Speaker on behalf of several mem-
bers of the House. It was very desirable that the
Speaker should have better opportunities, than he had
enjoyed during the last three Parliaments, of becoming
acquainted with lion. Members, and he was most anxious
that Members should have more frequent opportunities
of paying their respects to the Speaker. (Cheers.) . name
looked upon the Right Hon. Gentleman in the antir
the first commoner in the land. Hon. Members haelt
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Hon. Gentleman's predecessor, but they we
from doing so to the present S ra ct
usage.ice
which was not consistent with.theo
anu address to the
When the House went
could Peakestritubtionaalp
was not able to pay his
ordinary dress (a laugh) b
his levees, as be might do, in his
Throne, he (Mr. Hume)
uthweatitend Her Majesty in his
respects to the Speaker
atued laughter.) Mr. AbercrombY,
dziino,:sg
thatwith tthheelt
Speaker,
ghtH on. Go
uent Gentleman
dining common
pedarkesesr.,
yielded Con. to the application made to him on
which troubled him. (I
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that was not th
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andrt of
this subject. An
ter.) lle v" an
ot have 40 or 50, or
Members should n
abthlemetowphs;
even 150 Mem-
setaquestion
that the •
belonged- respects to the Right Hon. Gentleman. (Hear.)
their hitsoltahveesHs'obuuset should bem
fie was one of thus© who highly
bets at
approved of the Right
lion. Gentleman's conduct in the chair. No man was
more anxious to support the rules and orders of the
Souse, and he had, in his humble capacity,
given every
assistance in his power to render them efficient, believ-
ing that upon those rules depended the regularity of the
proceedings and the high character of the House as a
deliberative assembly. It was not that he was desirous
to detract from the respect due to the Speaker's office,
but he was anxious to see the Right Hon. Gentleman's
levees attended by the numbers who would do honour
to him. The alteration he suggested would give great
satisfaction. It rested with the Speaker to make the
alteration, us it was a private matter, and he did hope
that Members would be admitted attired in the same
manner as when they accompanied an address to the
Crown. Ho asked nothing more than that the Bight
Hon. Gentleman should revert to the practice of his pre-
decessor. (A laugh.)
Mr. F. MACKENZIE, then moved that the House
do now adjourn, which was put by the Sp ea er and
carried. at 3 o'clock until
The House accordingly adjourned
2 to-day.

DEATH OF THE WIFE OF OPIE OF SIR JOHN FRANK-
IAN'S CAEW.—Wednesday afternoon Mr W.Baker, the Coro-
ner, held an inquest at the Marquis of Wellington public-
house, Upper Cornwall-street, St. George's-in-the-East, on
view of the bod of Ann Johnson, aged 46 years. The de-
ceased was the y wife of William Johnson, a mariner, and one
of the crew of the error, in Sir John Franklin's expedition.
The deceased occupied apartments at No. 53,Upper Cornwall-
On Wednesday, the 2d ult., deceased, who had street, and was in the receipt of 21. Bs. monthly from the Ad-
a health, came up to London from Hull on board
mbeiernalotyf;
a steamer, since which time she had suffered severely from a
violent cold, which ultimately proved fatal. The jug
_e-
wised A TerdiCt " ligtartkl death by the Tieitetien Of Ws