The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-29 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

The Leith Banking Coz'.ipany haVm stopped payvint. It
was a very old concern, ba the buSineSs nas latterly been

Firm AND Loss OF LIFE.—A tire occurred in London o
Wednesday, in Loder's-place, Chapel-street, by which
little boy, four years old, lost his life.

much curtailed

The reformed corporation of Cork halve resolved on dis-
n official residence for the mayor, and on redn-

continua

The trial of Good for the Roehampton murder will take
place at the coming sessions of the Central Criminal Court,
which begin on Monday week. It is thought the day fixed
for the trial will be either Thursday or Friday.

officer's sa

z.':1,000 a year will thus be obtained.
DYING FOR LOVE.—Among the wonders of the times we
find it recorded, says the Nashville Whig, that a certain " Dr.
Conyers dissected a person who died for love in London, and
found an impression of a lady's face upon his heart." This
beats animal magnetism.

Forty thousand emigrants were sent out to New South
Wales last year, at a cost to the Colonial Government of
£900,000. In future the average number of emigrants to
that colony is to be limited to 10,000, and to Van Dieman's
Land, £1,500.

AN EFFECTUAL PREVENTIVe.—There exists in some parts
of Germany a law to prevent drinking during divine service.
It runs thus ;—" Any person drinking in an ale-house during
divine service on Sunday, or other holiday, may legally de-
part without paying."

Advicas from Belfast mention the suspension of payment
of Messrs. Carell and Sons, manufacturers of that place. It
is supposed that only time is required to enable them to meet
their liabilities.

CORDAGE AND OAKUM.—By a return moved for by Sir
Howard Douglas, M.P., the total quantity of foreign cordage
and caNes imported during the year ended the sth of January,
1841, was 5092 cwt. ; and the total quantity of oakum so im-
ported 13,271 cwt.

BLACKBURN AND LICHFIELD ELECTION PETITIONS.--
The respective committees have closed their labours, and the
sitting member in each case (Mr. Hornby for Blackburn, and
Lord Alfred Paget for Lichfield) have been
"declared duly
elected.

Sir David Wilkie's posthumous works announced for sale
by Messrs. Christie and Mason will occupy no less than six
days. They are from his earliest performances to his last
productions, and in number six hundred and sixty-eight.—

We understand that the marriage of Miss Cecil Wellesley,
only unmarried daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Gerald
Wellesley, a sister of Viscountess Chelsea, with the Hon.
Mr. Liddell, son of Lord Ravensworth, is to be solemnized
in the course of the ensuing month. The fair betrothed is
niece to she Duke of Wellington.

Literary Gazette.
A WOMAN TOSSED BY A Cow.—On Wednesday last, as a
young woman of the name of Alice Foulk, who lives at the
Old Park, near the Oaken Gates, was going with a pail under
her arm towards a part of the farm yard of Mr. Bournes, of
Oaken Gates, near Wombridge, where a cow that was rather
wild was kept, by some chance she went too near, and the
animal made a plunge at her and threw her up into the air
with the pail under her ann. Fortunately, though much
hurt, she is likely to recover.—Salopian Journal.
An extensive seizure was made on Wednesday by the
officers of customs. on board a vessel in the Thames. The
cargo, at first sight, appeared to consist of tierces of beef and
other articles, but it was soon discovered that, instead of
beef, the casks (forty in number) contained bags of snuff,
closely packed, the contents of each cask weighing upwards
of 31 cwt., the duty upon which would have amounted to
nearly £5OOO. The goods were removed to the custom-
house stores.

The London Courier newspaper is advertised for sale. Mr.
George Robins is the auctioneer, who says in the advertise-
ment that the " retrograde march" of the Courier is owing
" to its having in an evil hour been tempted to advocate
those political (liberal) principles that fortunately now are
very much out of fashion."
FREE TRADE BEEF.—About a fortnight ago, a young
gentleman at Pendleton lost a fine young well-bred horse by
accident. The animal was bought by a person at Eccles,
where it was cut up with a little skill, salted, and sold in
Manchester for free-trade, or South American, beef at 4d.
per lb.

CURIOSITY DISAGREEABLY GRATIFIED.—Two females
applied for admission to the Crown Court at the Gloucester
assizes, one of them remarking that she had never seen a
trial, and wished to have an opportunity of doing so. She
had not been present long before she was recognised by a
policeman as a person who was charged with a robbery at
Cheltenham. She was immediately apprehended, a bill was
found against her, and her curiosity to be present at a trial
was gratified to a greater extent than was agreeable, she
being the party tried, and being sentenced to six months'
imprisonment.
RIOT AT WlGAN.—Great distress has for some time pre-
vailed in the town of Wigan, and particularly among that
unfortunate class of operatives the handloom weavers, who,
in consequence of the introduction of power looms, or some
other cause, are unable, when in work, at 14 hours per day,
to earn more than from 4s• to 7s. per week. Many thou-
sands of these wretched people, scattered throughout the ma-
nufacturing district, are wholly destitute of the means of'
subsistence, excepting the relief so niggardly doled out by
poor law guardians, who cannot, legally, afford them any
out-door relief whatever. Groups of hundreds of these poor
men and their families are continually parading the streets,
craving charity. On Thursday last they assembled in un-
usually large numbers, in Wigan, and about six hundred of
them went in a body to the board room, where the guardians
of the Wigan union were sitting, and there demanded instant
relief. This was denied, and they were ordered to leave the
premises, upon which they rushed towards the :board-room,
demanding " Food or death, " and took possession of it.
The guardians were put to flight, and the police were sent
for, but they were unable to disperse the mob. Upon this,
the authorities, fearing for the peace of the town, held a
consultation, when it was determined to send for the mili-
tary from the barracks, who speedily arrived under the di-
rections of the Mayor. They were two companies of the 60th
Rifles, who drew up in front of the mob. The officer in
command civily but firmly desired the mob to disperse on
pain of consequences, which they ultimately did without
resorting to violence. Placards have since appeared upon
the walls, headed " Bread v. Steel," calling a public meeting
to take into consideration the best means of satisfying the
immediate wants of these starving people.

INCENDIARY FIRES.—On Wednesday information was
received in London of several incendiary fires—the work
of incendiaries. The first consumed the farming premises
belonging to a gentleman near Hucking, West Kent. The
loss is estimated at several hundred pounds.—Another took
place on the estate of the Rev. W. Dansey, Danhead,
Wiltshire, whereby two large barns, a granary, stables,
cow and cart-house, and other buildings, have been de-
stroyed.—A third consumed the premises of Messrs. Tas
ker and Co., timber merchants, at Andover.—A fourth oc-
curred at Havant, near Chichester, which destroyed two
granaries and two dwelling-houses.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.—PUGILISM.—The follow-
ing notice was issued on Monday last by the Vice-Chancellor
of Cambridge :—" Whereas it has been represented to the
vice-chancellor that some students of the university have
lately resorted to a professed teacher of the art of boxing,
contrary to the good order arid discipline of the university;
we, the vice-chancellor and heads of colleges, whose names
are underwritten, hereby order and decree that it any person
in statu pupillari be hereafter found resorting to or having
any communication whatever with any such teacher of the
art of boxing, or be found attending any prize-fight, he shall i
be liable to the punishment of suspension, rustication, or
expulsion, as the case shall appear to the vice-chancellor and
heads of colleges to require." (Signed by the vice-chan-
cellor and masters.)
The neighbourhood of Saunderscourt, Newcastle, and all
that part of the country along the side of the Slanev down to
the Bridge of Deeps, has been in the greatest and most
alarming state of excitement for the last ten days, in conse-
quence of the number of mad dogs now prowling about and
attacking every animal in their course. The first appearance
of the kind took place in the early part of this month, when
a dog from the Deeps ran through the neighbourhood of
Kilown, where he attacked two or three dogs ane a calf be-
longing to Mr. Paul Walker; three dogs and two heifers of
Mr. Thacker's ; and two dogs of Mr. Richard Bennett's,
Newcastle; also a lamb of Mr. Paul M'Donnell's, Ferricar-
SUSPECTED MURDER.—MERTHYR, APRIL 24.—The ma- rig, most of which have since been destroyed. Two favourite
nufacturing town of Merthyr (in the Welch hills) was thrown greyhounds of Mr. Thacker's have been shot since Saturday •,
into much excitement yesterday afternoon, in consequence and there are many of those furious and rabid animals still
of the discovery of the body of an old woman, of the name of going about. In fact, such is the state of the country, that
Edwards, hid under a bedstead in her own house, a wretched the families residing in the neighbourhood are absolutely
hovel, in Plymouth-street, near the tram-road. It appears afraid to venture out of doors. We hope the authorities will
that the deceased, who was 70 or 73 years of age, resided as take prompt and effective measures to abate this awful and
above, her son and his wife living with ber' and sleeping on terrific evil.—Wexford Independent.
the bed underneath whiAh the body was found. The old JEWS IN PRIJSSIA.—A. letter from Berlin, 16th inst., in
woman having been miss by her neighbours for some days the Gazette of Upper Germany, has the following; with re-
past, inquiries were made of her son as to where she was, in ference to the proposition now before the Prussian Council
answer to which the son stated, that she had gone a few miles of State, on the subject of excluding the Jews of that coun-
into the country. On his leaving the house yesterday morn- try from the liability to serve in the army :—This ',proposition
ing he told his wife that he was going to Dowlais to get his has led to a conference between M. de Humboldt and M.
pay, and particularly ordered her not to look under the bed. de Stollberg. In a letter M. de Humboldt says r—lll-na-
After he had left, the wife, excited by curiosity to know what tured rumours have been current on this subject ; but if
it was her husband was so anxious to conceal from her, went public opinion be against the principles involved in the pro-
to a neighbour's house, and told two women of it, who agreed position, Ido not hesitate to regard it as contrary to sonnd
that the wife ought to see what it was. The three women policy and liberal feelings. It does not belong to man to la-
then returned to the house, and raising the foot valiance of terpret the decrees of God. The ages of barbarism show
the bedstead, were horror-struck at observing the body of the to what an extent the human mind may err ! M. de
poor old woman under the bed partially wrapped up in a Humboldt adds that complete emancipation appears to him
sheet, and quite dead. The alarm having been given, the su- to be a necessity of the times. The Academy of Sciences
perintendent of police was sent for, and from the information has just given a noble example of tolerance. 1t has admitted
obtained by him suspicion pointed instantly to the son as the as member, on the proposition of M. de Humboldt, the
murderer, and the more readily so from the son being the learned philosopher, Dr. Riess, of the Jewish persuasion.
person who was two years since committed for the murder of In the present state of things, this choice cannot fail to create
a poor Irish girl, an unfortunate woman of the town. In a profound impression."
that case, the evidence not being deemed conclusive, Edwards On Thursday night, between eight and nine o'clock, the
was acquitted on his trial at the assizes. Information was city
of Canterbury was thrown into the greatest state of
immediately given to the coroner, Mr. I'. Davis, and at live alarm in consequence of a disturbance created between the
o'clock last evening the coroner and a respectable jury as- military and police; the origin of which was, that two pri-
sembled ; having viewed the body, the inquest was adjourned vates, one named Dyson, of the 3d Light Dragoons, in an
until six o'clock, Monday evening, in order to allow time for intoxicated state, molested everybody they came near in the
the post mortem examination of the body. The police are in streets, especially females, broke several windows, upset the
active pursuit of the murderer, but have not as yet succeeded goods of the tradesmen, and otherwise annoyed them. The
in capturing him. assistance of the police was obtained, and they were con-
SHOCKING MURDER IN WALES.—On Friday, the 15th veyed to the station-house. News of this having come to
instant, a revol.:-.;ng murder was committed at a place called the knowledge of other soldiers, they mustered 150 strong,
Coed e Vedw, which is the name given to a few cottages in and at once proceeded in a menacing attitude, to the po-
the parish of Dingestow, about two miles and a half from lice-station, and threatened, in very violent language, to
Ragland, on the road to Monmouth. The victim was a child raze it to the ground if their comrades were not instantly
one year and ten months' old, named Eliza Hughes, who released. A desperate row ensued, in which some severe
died by the hands of its own mother, committed by drowning blows were given on each side, and the soldiers tried to
it in a pan of water, and then cutting open the abdomen. break open the station-house. Luckily, however, the ser-
The unhappy woman, who is thirty-nine years of age, and geant-majors promptly attended, and it was chiefly by their
has been married about three years, is insane. A few days persuasion that the soldiers were somewhat quieted ; till
core the committal of the dreadful deed, she appeared low- at length the police were induced to relinquish their prisoners,
'1 and dejected, but not sufficiently so as to cause any and they were conveyed to the barracks under the direction
• ',hours. On the day of the of their superiors. The row at one time bore a very threa-

alarm to her husband and neig.
murder, her husband returned home to dinner rather before
his n zual time, and told his wife that, as he was in a hurry,
he would not wait for his dinner to be cooked, but would
have bread and cheese. He dandled his child on his knees
during the time ; and, on going back to his work, the little
credtire followed him to the door. The mother told her
husband to pick her up and kiss her, which he did ; and it
must have been soon after his departure that the unhappy
creature destroyed it. She immediately posted to a neigh-
bour, a quarter of a mile from the house, and narrated the
particulars of her crime, and was soon afterwards apprehended
at Penrose. Since her apprehension, up to the time of her
being conveyed to the county jail on llonday evening, she
was exceedingly violent and outrageous, but did not make the
least allusion to her child. An inquest has been held on the
body, and a verdict of wilful murder returned against Maria
Hughes. The wretched woman was forthwith conveyed to
Monmouth jail.
THE ROYAL MASQUE.—Her Majesty's " Masque" still
continues to be the ruling topic. Her Majesty has signified
her gracious permission that each fair leader of fashion
should bring her own baronial court to pay liege homage to
Edward and Phillippa, and in the costume of such epoch as
best may suit themselves, their sworn knights and dames
The most remarkable addition to the splendour of the pageant
on the 12th of May will be the Court of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge. Her Royal Highness, with cha-
racteristic good taste, has adopted the character of Anne de
Bretagne. The costume of this Princess is the most beau-
tiful, and is preserved in many illuminated volumes with all
its original grace and splendour and the minutest detail, this
celebrated beauty having brought the largest province of
France as an accession to the French crown, and married
successively two sovereigns of that great country. The cos-
tume belongs, besides, to one of the most splended and
and chivalric period of French annals. Fifty followers ate
to accompany Her Royal Highness, most of them wearing the
costumes of the great dignitaries of the Court of Charles
VIII. and his successor. We do not know what costume
her Royal Higness's consort will wear, but the character of
the stalwart, chivalric knight and kind-hearted sovereign,
Louis XII, would well befit him, not only in the superfices,
but in the moral similarity of disposition and habits.
Amongst the cortege of her Royal Highness will be formed
four complete quadrilles—French, German, Spanish and
Italian. We hear that their Excellences the French Ambas-
sador and Ambassadress have joined with her Royal High-
ness, and, no doubt, will contribute to uphold the memory
of one of the noblest Royal dames that ever bore the sceptre
of St. Louis. The Countess of Jersey, we hear, is to wear
the costume which the great Medici, by the ascendancy of
their taste and their power, rendered so much a vogue in
past ages, and which bears the stamp of the classic source
from which it flowed. All these arrangements would, how•
ever, lose their charm if, from the very outset, the Royal
mummers were mixed. It is, therefore, expected that each
party will rendezvous at ;some given point, and thus pro-
ceed to the " Masque." It is therefore expected, we repeat
that Her Majesty, seated under a canopy, will receive the
' bright squadrons with their seperate cognizances as they
I arrive, and that these, as soon as they have paid their obei-
sances to Royalty, will file off right and left, to raised seats
in the Presence Chamber, and in their turn become specta-
tors, after being actors in the mimic scene—until, at last, the
brilliant assemblage being complete, the quadrilles, under
their seperate leaders, will once more occupy the floor. Be-
sides this, younger ladies of high rank are organizing quad-
rilles, of which each of the partners is to wear some uniform
peculiar dress. We never knew curiosity in matters of
pleasure more intensely excited. This projected (and now
determined)fete has been received by all classes with general
acclamation, ministering, as it will, not only to the pleasures
of the great but to the resources of the industrious.—Morn-
ing Post.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The health of Queen Adelaide.
we are concerned to announce, precludes the possibility of
her venturing out of doors at present. Her Majesty has
been confined to .Marlborough House since her return to
London, and it is gratifying to notice the affectionate atten-
tions of her royal relatives, who, without exception, are con-
stant in their visits to the august patient. Her Majesty em-
ploys her leisure in works of charity, and it was only the other
day that she sent for the Lady Mayoress, and presented her
with a handsome assortment of articles for the charitable
bazaar held on Wednesday and Thursday at the Egyptian
Hall, many of which having been worked by her Majesty's
own hands, possess a value for purchasers which neither cost
of material nor nicety of workmanship could bestow. Her
Majesty has been advised to try the air of the south of De-
vonshire, and will, we are informed, select a residence for
her delicate frame
this purpose during the ensuing autumn. The voyage across
the channel, it is feared, 6
sidered the most de'
months. would prove too severe
desirable
the south of France is
recommended by her physicians. '
how-
ever, her Majesty will
two or three generally con-
sidered a shock for
_a_berquh. ate and had been previously
In the first instance, l
remove to Bushy Park for a period of

DEATH OF THE FRENCH MINISTER OF FINANCE.—A
great shock was given in Paris on Monday in the ministerial
and financial circles by a report being spread that M. H umann,
the Minister of Finance, had died suddenly that morning.
On inquiry the intelligence proved to be true, the unfortu-
nate gentleman having been struck with an apoplectic fit,
which proved instantly fatal. M. Humann had been slightly
indisposed for some days, and on Sunday his medical attend-
ant thought proper to bleed him, but none of his friends or
family had any serious cause to be alarmed, and the blow
which has fallen was as sudden as unexpected. It must be
admitted that he was an able Minister, and none but a man
of his talent and energy could have carried the finances of
France so well through the crisis occasioned by the Thiers
a..,roinistration. Indeed, his loss will be severely felt; and it
;s possible that the plan, now before the Chambers, of esta-
blishing a general system of railroads, will have to be laid
3':'''
• for the present. It is said that M. Duchatel, Minister
ac Interior, wil undertake, pro fempore. the financial de-
p.; rttnent, and that
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morn-
ing of his death, the successor of
had breakfasted, and retired in his usual
health into
r gs
hlibrary. On his secretary entering about
an hour afterwa d
, im extended on the floor.
He
raised him up, but life was quite extinct.

tening aspect, as (so it is in most cases) a number of civilian
got mixed up in the broil. The military consisted chiefly
of volunteers into the regiments under orders for India,
and some of the 4th and 9th Light Dragoons, and 78th
Highlanders. Some of the party are to have a hearing
before the magistrates. It was only the night previous that
Corsets Morgan and Dixon, of the 9th Lancers, wantonly
and brutally assaulted a pot-boy named Gregory, broke
his whip, bit his finger in a horrid manner, and other
wise maltreated him, for which they were had before the
magistrates._
THE GREAT FIGHT FOR £3OO A SlDE.—This contest,
which has excited such interest in the sporting world, and
upon which bets to an enormous amount have been pending,
was decided on Wednesday in favour of Broome, who, from
his frequent victories, had become the champion of what is
technically termed the " like weights." He is a fine scien-
tific fighter, of great muscular power and stamina. His op-
ponent, an Australian, named Bungaree, is also a man of
great strength, and, for a foreigner, possesses much know-
ledge of sparring and the tactics of the ring. Both men for
the last few weeks have been in active training in the subur-
ban districts of the metropolis, under the most experienced
professors, and their condition was considered by the best
judges to be first-rate. The Australian, from being compa-
ratively unknown to the " fancy," did not meet with so many
backers as his opponent, but, nevertheless, he obtained con-
siderable patronage from some of the principal supporters of
the prize-ring, as he was reported to have fought several
well-contested battles, and to possess the most determined
courage. The odds on Friday and Saturday last at the
sporting houses were 6 and 7 to 4 on Johnny Broome, and,
notwithstanding this confidence, there were plenty of takers
among the London fancy. According to the articles of the
match, it was arranged that the fight should come off within
20 miles of Newmarket, and it was generally understood the
I ring would be formed on the six mile bottom, the favoured
resort of boxers in the palmy days of pugilism, and where,
among other celebrated battles, the fight between Gully and
H. Pearce, at that period known by the cognomen of the
" Game Chicken," was contested. The combatants and their
friends experienced very great difficulty in obtaining a site
for the erection of a ring; but after one had been formed, a
desperate struggle ensued, which lasted for an hour and a
half, when Broome, amidst the tremendous cheering of his
partisans, was declared the victor. Our correspondent was
unable to ascertain the number of rounds, but was informed
that both men were much punished, and the fight in the opi-
nion of the cognoscenti was of the first description.
VAN AMBURGII AND HIS LIONS AT DOVER.—FATAL OC-
CURRENCE.—On the morning of Monday last, an accident,
which was attended with fatal results to a fine young man
named Pratt, and which had well-nigh terminated in still
more serious consequences, occurred at Lock-hill-lane, a
short distance from the town of Dover. It appears that Van
Amburgh, who had been performing with his lions at Dover,
had given directions to the above unfortunate youth to pro.
ceed with the van that contained the lions, together with an
immense elephant, to Folkestone, about fourteen miles from
Dover, where a fair was that day to be held. On proceeding
down Folkestone hill, which is rather steep, Pratt imprudently
neglected to lock the wheel of the van, and before he had
gained many yards the vehicle began to proceed with great
rapidity, throwing the weight of it on the backs of the shaft
horses, who fell underneath its ponderous mass. This, how-
ever, fortunately had the effect of turning the van partially
round across the road, when the poll struck against the op-
posite wall dashing the former to atoms and seriously damag -
ing the latter. Several persons rushed to the aid of the poor
driver, whom they found lying in the road with life quite ex-
tinct, the wheels of the van having passed over him. The
horses miraculously escaped almost unhurt, and the van re-
ceived comparatively trifling injury. Had not the van been
turned round in so providential a manner in decending the
hill, it would most probably have come in contact withlthe
wall at its base, and by the impetus given to it it would no
doubt have been dashed to pieces, and thus have given liberty
to the animals inside, which in all probability would have
been productive of much mischief.
A SUCCESSFUL CHASE.—The following details are given
relative to a person who had absconded from Paris with
200,000 francs, and was arested at Vienna, after passing
through Ratisbon :—lt is stated that he was a banker or mer-
chant, named W—, who left Paris for Meaux on the
18th ult., to meet the Strasburg mail, in which he had
engaged a place by the name of Reutter. On the day be-
fore his departure, his partners, en commandite, had placed
in his hands 24,000 francs to meet bills which were com-
ing due. When his flight became known, his creditors,
who had made him a bankrupt, in the hope of discovering
the direction he had taken, opened a letter that came to his
address, and found it to be from his mistress, promising to
meet him at Rotterdam, and thence cross over with him to
England. Upon this one of the creditors set off for Lon-
don, and another for Frankfort, thinking that the fugitive
might either go to America or to the north of Europe. Being
made acquainted with the exposure of the abovementioned
letter, and convinced that he would be followed to London,
he, with the lady, took the road to Frankfort. The person
who went to Frankfort, immediately on arriving there,
tket
in-
spected the registers kept at the hotels of the travellers who
os tfo
ap tik. there,
and and
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n llCollin, v‘h
entry,
hado
that handwriting of W—,
day
taken
their departure for Aschaffenburg, and followedi them there.
‘
At this place they assumed the names of M. and Madame
became , ...
by which they went on to Wurzburg, where they
d the name of Collin and
and Madame Reutter. Hence they were traced
capital their pursuer arrived
to Durand,Ratisbon,
assistance '
four hours after them. Having obtained the of
passed on to
the police, the bankrupt and his companion were soon disco-
I,ie whereona . they
At rtehsiusmeea p i
vered at one of the principal hotels. War were s his
The i,ooof, lie
beard to grow, put on a wig, wore spect cles, in thefor hope of
sufficiently disguising himself, but it was useless,,
~, he was
wherehad with
he
e himhad
deposited
impounded,irefusedthe
large
sum,
n discloseosr
easily recognized, and committed to prison.
said to be 300,000 E, with which he had absconded. h While
waiting for the formalities to warrant his being sent back to
France as a fraudulent bankrupt, he will be ma e answra
.le
et i
nant a Ma-
the country with three false passports.—Galig
to the Austrian criminal laws for entering and tr,:sie,lling in
aenger.