The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

THE TOWER ON LONDON.-It appears not to be generally
known that all fees to the warders have been abolished, and
that one shilling paid by each visitor obtains a view of the
crown jewels, armouries, &c. The warders now get com-
pensation in full for the loss of the fees formerly exacted by
them.

A man, named Stone, exclaimed in a bar-room, " I'll bet

I have the hardest name in the company." " Done," said
one of the company, " What is your name ?" " Stone,"
cried the first. " Hand me the money," said the other,
" my name is Harder."
The Independent of Brussels contains the following amus-
ing anecdote :—One of the clerks in the Belgian War-office
having been desired to make a fair copy of a petition for a
pension from the widow of a general, on the ground of her
husband's long services, when he came to the words "devore
par un cancer," the disease of which the general died, wrote
devore par un canar," the letters ce appearing to him like
an a. On the report being laid before the minister, he sent
for the clerk, and pointing out the word caner, inquired
what it meant. The clerk made many apologies for his
error for having forgotten a letter, and taking his pen added
the letter d, thus making it " devore par un canard" (de-
voured by a duck), and withdrew, convinced that he had
repaired his error, leaving the minister convulsed with
laughter.

The London Record, in giving some Parisian religious in-
telligence, records the following :—One of the recent works
that has distinguished the operations of the French and Fo-
reign Bible Society has been the publication of the Gospel of
St. Mark in raised characters for the use of the blind.
Amongst the instances in which this work has been blessed
to the comfort and edification of the blind, is mentioned the
case of a poor blind girl, who, dissatisfied with the little pro-
gress she made in reading, owing to the callous state of the
fingers arising from the laborious occupations, attempted to
peel the skin from the ends of them with the view of render-
ing them more sensible, but being disappointed in the result
of this painful experiment, her despair at being obliged to
relinquish the reading of the precious volume was at its
utmost, when she suddenly discovered that by applying her
lips to the raised character the sensibility she sought for was
obtained. She has since in this manner attained to reading
it with ease, and has committed almost the whole of the
Gospel of St. Mark to memory.
DISS&NTING STATISTICS IN CHESHIRE.—This county
has a population of 395,300 ; has 487 parishes, townships,
&c.; covers 1,052 squares ; has 73,390 inhabited houses ;
and has 37 congregational meeting-houses. Of these 37,
there are two at Macclesfield, and three at Stockport. Some
of the meeting-houses in this county are very small, but we
will still adhere to the average of 400 per meeting-house,
and we find that only 14,800 can be accommodated out of a
population of 395,300. Deficiency, upwards of 380,000.
In fact, the real deficiency is much greater, for, instead of
14,800 persons attending these 37 meeting-houses, not more
than 10,000 at the utmost are ever present in them. " The
Cheshire Union," in support of itinerant preaching, raises
about £2OOO per annum, or £6 per meeting-house. It em-
ploys four agents to teach and preach over 1,052 square
miles, and to 395,300 souls ! Dissenterism dates as far back
as 1670, in Cheshire, at a place called Tintwistle, but though
170 years have since passed away, there are only 10,000 con-
gregationalists out of 395,300 souls. There are some vacan-
cies of pastors in the congregational places of worship, and
three or four places, being unable to support their ministers,
are connected with other " causes." Dissent is far from
prosperous in Cheshire.
TAKING THE VEIL.—On Monday morning a spectacle of
unfrequent occurrence in this country took place at the
convent of " The Sisters of Mercy," which is situated near
Hickman's Folly, Bermondsey. The ceremony was for the
initiation of two young ladies, one of whom was to receive
the white veil and the other the religious or black habit of
the community. Before eleven o'clock, the hour appointed
for the ceremony, the chapel attached to the convent was
filled by a numerous congregation, the major part of whom
consisted of ladies elegantly attired. As soon as the clock
struck eleven the convent bell began to toll, which was the
announcement of the entry of the procession into the chapel.
The Very Rev. Dr. Griffiths, V. A. L. D., the Bishop who
officiated, advanced to the altar, dressed in his pontifical,
robes ; in his train were the Rev. Messrs. Fisk, Browman,
P. Butler, Harrabin, J. Coyle, Foley, Hearness, H. Lea, and
an Armenian monk, named Lazarian, together with a number
of other of the clergy, arrayed in robes of white muslin, with
gold bands, &c., the choristers, bearers of incense, and others,
forming the procession. At a given signal, the choir struck
up the hymn to the Virgin, " 0 Gloriosa." The sisters of
the convent then entered in procession, in the usual costume
of nuns, each holding a lighted taper in her hand. The two
noviciates, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, who are both
young ladies of considerable fortunes, followed in order, led
by the superioress, assisted by two of the sisters (one of
whom was Miss Agnew, neice of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart.,
and the other Lady Babara Eyre, daughter of the Earl of
Newburgh. The religious names the latter ladies bear are
sisters Mary and Clara). The noviciates, Miss Baxter and
Miss Kellett, were both elegantly dressed in white embroi-
dered muslin, wearing chaplets of white roses as the head
dress. Each held lighted wax tapers in their right hands.
After they approached the altar, an exhortation was deli-
vered by the bishop from the 19th chapter of St. Matthew,
29th verse : " And every one that hath forsaken houses, or
brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold,
and shall inherit everlasting life." After the exhortation
the bishop severally questioned them as to their own free will
of taking the holy habit of religion, to which having assented,
the noviciates returned to put off their secular dress, and
shortly returned in the habits of the nuns. On returning,
the hymn " Veni CREATOR" was sung by the choir, during
which the two noviciates lay extended flat on their faces be-
fore the steps of the altar, where they remained until the
conclusion of the ceremony, when, after being assisted to
rise, they each kissed the other sisters, and the procession
left the chapel in the same order in which they entered, and
returned to the convent. Daring the delivery of a very af-
fecting discourse by the bishop on their retirement from the
world, the noviciates showed no signs of agitation, nor did
their countenances betray any symtoms of reluctance, hut,
on the contrary, appeared to be lighted up by an expression
of enthusiastic feeling.

A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—Saturday after-
noon, Beaver-court. off Meclenburgh-street, was the scene
of a most lamentable and tragic occurrence, when a woman
named Mary Connell fell a victim to the ungovernable pas-
sion of her husband, Michael Connell. The parties occu-
pied part of a cabin, consisting of only a ground floor, being
No. 1 in the court. The man's occupation was that of clearer
out of night soil, and a collector of manure, by which he
made out a comfortable livelihood ; but it appeared they had
lived unhappily together, and had frequent and violent alter-
cations. Between four and five o'clock on the above-men-
tioned afternoon some relatives of the Connells who lived
adjoining, and other persons in the neighbourhood, heard
the noise of quarrelling (how originating we have not heard)
going on in the house. An aunt of Mrs. Connell attempted
to enter the place, but found the door fastened from the in-
side. A brother of Connell's forced it open, and with some
others got in,.when they found the parties having a hold of
each other and engaged fighting—the wife was a remarkably
robust, stout woman, the husband of extremely diminutive
stature. The persons who entered disentangled them, and
forced him out into the street, where they endeavoured to
pacify him, but without effect, his passion seemed to be ex-
cited so as to be beyond all control. He swore that he would
kick her livers out while he had a sole on his shoes, and
rushing trom those about him, he got into the house by a
back door. He was followed by some persons, and it is said
that, immediately on entering the apartment, he raised a
smoothing iron which happened to be near him, and flung it
at the head of his unfortunate wife, but whether it struck her
or not could not be positively ascertained. The woman sunk
on the side of a bed apparently as if in a state of exhaustion.
Interference with him was attempted by a woman named
Halpin, his wife's aunt, but, snatching up a poker, he swore
that if she did not instantly leave the place he would give
her the same usage. The woman, alarmed for her own
safety, hurried away ; but a son of hers, a boy of 13 or 14
years old, remained on the threshhold, and if his account of
what he then witnessed be correct, it would appear that Con-
nell drew out from the deceased, and swearing that he would
be hung for her, he struck her a severe blow with his clenched
fist about the head, by which she was knocked partly against
one of the bed-posts, after which, seizing her by the neck,
he pulled her down towards him, and, as she bent forward,
he dealt her a tremendous kick in the throat or stomach.
She fell, and never spoke afterwards. Death seemed to have
taken place almost instantaneously. The wretched man
made no effort whatever to fly, and in a few minutes after the
perpetration of the horrid act he was taken into custody by
the police, and lodged in Sackville-place station-house.
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The merchants (chiefly of Liverpool) who trade with
British North America are complaining of the serious effects
occasioned by the absence of any bankrupt law in New
Brunswick. The British creditor has, of course, in such a
state of things, no chance of receiving any satisfaction for
his claim on an insolvent house in America, if there be cre-
ditors on the spot, who can at once take possession of all the
goods to satisfy their own demands, without being compelled
to a division. In this complaint the English merchants are
joined by several respectable parties in the colony itself, who
feel that the disadvantage of the English creditor reacts to
the injury of the better sort of people in New Brunswick,
as it tends to destroy credit altogether. A letter written by
one of these has been published in a New Brunswick paper,
and has been read with great interest by the merchants here
who correspond with that colony. This letter exhibits a
most melancholy condition of the state even of internal cre-
dit for the want of a bankrupt law. The merchants and
their country customers are described as being afraid to trust
each other ; every man, when dealing with his customers,
appears, it is said, to be " treading on a charged mine ;" and
indeed credit has sunk to such a state that the heavy dealers
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colony to such a degree, that if a man comes to England with
a letter of credit to purchase goods, he
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creditor's interests can be protected • Again, it is said, that
the want of a bankrupt law operates as a preventive against
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they place their money, they may find their
by a judgment obtained by some other creditor, without a
possibility of redress.

1112 EgceHoney Sir George Arthur, accompanied by Lady
Arthur, took his departure on Sunday morning for Bombay.

A committee has been appointed by the London merchants
to watch the Bankruptcy Bill now before parliament.
Several of the iron works in the neighbourhood of Wolver-
hampton have ceased work.
A destructive fire occurred at Colchester on Saturday, by
which property to the amount of £lO,OOO was destroyed.
A subscription of £5OO was on Tuesday last forwarded
anonymously to the Church Missionary Society.

Seven ships, with sixteen hundred troops, have sailed for
ndia since Sunday.

The new Botanic Gardens at Glasgow were opened for the
first time on Saturday.

The army of Poland and Lithuania is, it is reported, almost
immediately to be placed on a peace footing.
No fewer than 170 religious meetings are announced to be
held in London during the present month.

Out of 2,787 houses in Pontypool and the parish of Tre-
vethin, nearly one-half are at present unoccupied, the late
residents having emigrated.
The Forth steamer left Southampton on Monday, with 22
passengers. The Clyde was expected on Wednesday with
the West India mails.

It is expected that the Right Hon. J. C. Herries and Mr.
Fitzroy Kelly will become candidates for Ipswich on the con-
servative interest.

There were no less than 400 sail of vessels waiting, on
Wednesday, in the channel for a favourable wind to come up
the Thames to the London docks.
On Monday some of the scenery at the London Opera-
house fell upon two of the sceneshifters, who lie without any
hopes of recovery.
READING AND FALMOUTH ELECTION PETITIONS.—
These inquiries have terminated, and in each case the sitting
members have teen declared duly elected.

It appears from a parliamentary return that orders have
been issued to 101 p 3or law unions prohibiting out-door re-
lief, and that to *0 such orders have not been issued.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Tuesday morning the Ander-
ston Grain Mills, in Washington-street, Glasgow, were re-
duced to a heap of ruins by fire.
POISONING.—A verdict of wilful murder has been returned
against a servant named Sarah Goss, for poisoning her mis-
tress, a lady seventy-one years of age, living at Kettering,
Northamptonshire.
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A correspondent in Wednesday's Times, states that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has agreed to take five per cent.
on the gross receipts from railway passengers, in lieu of the
present mileage duty.
SHIPWRECK.—During the night of Thursday last, the
brig Leon, of Rouen, laden with wine and brandy, was
totally wrecked off Bere Island, and all the crew perished.—
Cork Constitution.

The subscriptions raised for the purpose of erecting and
endowing an episcopal college in Scotland, amount, at pre-
sent, to £17,000, including £l,OOO from the Society for Pro-
moting Christian knowledge.

C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., has contributed £5OO, and
11. H. Williamson, Esq., £3OO, towards the erection of a
church, parsonage house, and school, at Brown Edge, Nor-
ton-in-the-Moors, Staffordshire.
It appears from the report of the council of King's Col-
lege that the total receipts of the past year amounted to
£21,569, and that the number of students who matriculated
was 813.

A letter from Florence says that the mine of quicksilver,
discovered last year in the environs of Peravezza, near Pisa,
is in full work, and yielded last month more than 6,0001b5. ;
produce that is daily increasing.
The Courrier Francais states that, according to the rate at
which the emancipation of the slaves in the French West
India Islands is proceeding, it will require a century to set
them free.

We understand that arrangements are being made by the
principal booksellers and stationers in Edinburgh to shut
their places of business on Saturdays at five o'clock, for the
purpose of allowing themselves and those in their employ-
ment to have a larger portion of time than heretofore for
rational amusement and recreation.—Glasgow paper, 23d
April, 1812.
Frogmore Lodge, the residence of the late Princess Au-
gusta, has recently been extensively improved, and is to be
appropriated for the future to the use of the Duchess of
Kent. It is understood that it is intended as the nursery of
the infant family of her Majesty and Prince Albert, where
they will generally reside, under the same roof as the Duchess
of Kent.

The eminent preacher, South, who dearly loved a pun,
once exclaimed from the pulpit, " marriage was formerly a
merry age, but matrimony is now become a matter of
money." If this was true in Charles the Second's days,
how much truer is it now, when habits of business have
superseded everything in the shape of natural emotion ! In
affairs of the heart we now split upon settlements, where for-
merly we split upon sentiment.

An old lady, aged sixty, was walking down Camberwell-
road, London, on Tuesday, and in her anxiety to avoid a boy
with an iron hoop slipped off the kirbstone, and fell with such
violence to the ground that there is scarcely any hope of her
recovery.—[The trundling of iron boops in many of the
crowded thoroughfares of Liverpool is a great nuisance, and
ought to be suppressed.]
At Windsor, on Tuesday, a foreigner ascended 400 feet on
the inclined plane of a tightened single cord, the extreme
point rising from 30 to upwards of 60 feet in height. When
reaching the top he addressed the multitude assembled to
witness him, and as there was no ladder sufficiently long to
enable him to descend by that means from his immense
height, he was compelled to let himself down by clinging to
one of the poles to which the rope was affixed, and saely
alighted on the ground.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of the Wesleyan Missionary Society was held on Monday, in
the great room, Exeter-hall. Colunel Conolly, M.P., pre-
sided. The Rev. Jabez Bunting read the report for the past
year, from which it appeared that the receipts amounted to
£101,688 2s. 4d.—(loud cheers)—and the expenditure to
£98,754 7s. 9d., leaving a surplus of £2933 14s. 7d. The
nett increase of the year, as compared with the preceding, is
£11,505 13s. Bd. The present number of principal or central
mission stations, called circuits, occupied by the society in
the several parts of the world, is 261; the number of mis-
sionaries employed, exclusive of catechists, 368; the number
of full and accredited church members, exclusive of those
under the care of the society's missionaries in Ireland, 87,258;
and the number of scholars in the mission schools is nearly
60,000. The report was adopted.
ADVICE TO TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS.—Let no place or
circumstance prevent your acquiring knowledge. Whenever
and wherever a leisure moment offers, improve it; and, that
you may be prepared to do this, always carry a book in your
pocket. If the writer may speak his own experince on this
point, he would say, that by following this course for years,
he has acquired a considerable portion of his information. In
waiting for another, if it be but for a minute or two, open
your book, you may fasten on a sentence that will sup-
ply you with matter for hours afterwards. You will be
told that, in so doing, business will most likely be neglected,
and that business must be attended to ; but may it not be
said in answer, that the mind must not be neglected, and
and that business cannot be neglected when there is no busi-
ness to be transacted. The interest of a master is not more
likely to be promoted when his servant is sitting or standing
idle than when he is enlightening his mind by means of a
book ; for if he be not, in his spare moments, gathering up
the thoughts of others, it is very probable that his own, like
the fool's eye, will be wandering to the ends of the earth.
Thousands in this great city waste a considerable fraction of
their time in waiting for business. Now, if they cannot put
forth fresh efforts to obtain it, it were better for them, till it
comes, to occupy themselves in the important duty of mental
culture. Time, invaluable time, should never be passed in
idleness ; for time, with us, will soon be no more. Acquire
knowledge, then, whenever you can. In all places, under all
circumstances, acquire knowledge. Let your determination
to acquire it be but fixed, and you will succeed.—From a
pamphlet entitled " Mental Culture."

THE OFFICERS OF EXCISE.—Several communications
have appeared in our columns relative to the salaries of the
working officers of the Excise, particularly the supervisors,
and showing that the expenses of a horse, and the cost of
five or six journies a week, which are necessary for the proper
fulfilment of their duty (nothing being allowed for travelling
expenses), swallowed up the greater part of their income,
leaving but a small sum to support them and their families
which their position as Government officers, and their gene-
ral integrity, entitle them to hold. A correspondent has
since called our attention to an article in Chambers' Jour-
nal, which points out many of the hardships which have been
complained of. The writer observes that the duties of a su-
pervisor are exceedingly heavy, he being employed in super-
vising, examining, and sifting the operations of the whole
district, which often occupies him 15 hours a day. The sa-
lary is two hundred pounds a year, out of which in a country
district, he is obliged to keep his own horse and pay every
expense. This salary, the writer observes, "is inadequate
to the severity of the labour and responsibility of the office."
The duties of the inferior officer are equally severe, and his
accounts are required to be kept with the utmost exactness.
Added to this there is the discomfort and inconvenience of
removal every few years, not less teasing to the individual
than useless in point of public advantage, which prevents
these officers renting or furnishing a house on the most eco-
nomical terms, properly arranging for the education and
settlement of their children, or permanently attaching them-
selves to any religious communion, In fact, the claims of
these officers, upon whose diligence, efficiency, and integrity
depends the fair collection of a revenue of such vast impor-
tance to the state, is entitled to the consideration of " the
powers that be ;" and, if the matter were fully looked into
by them, the justice would be seen of giving to those who
are emphatically " the working men" in this branch of re-
venue, at least an allowance for travelling expenses propor-
tionate to that enjoyed by the officers of a higher grade.—
Chehnsford Chronicle.

SINGULAR SCENE AT LOUGHBOROUGH.—On Wednesday,
the 20th ult., a woman named Mary Rollett, the wife of a
pensioner named William Rollett, formerly of Sutton Bon-
nington, latterly of Nottingham, died at Loughborough
workhouse, worn out with debility and age. She had been
almost helpless for a considerable time, and her death had
been hourly expected for several weeks before it took place.
Her husband was informed of the circumstance, and came
over to the funeral, which took place on Friday, the coffin
being borne by six inmates of the workhouse. After the
grave had been filled up, some children playing near the spot
fancied they heard the woman groan, and ran home to tell
their mothers of it. In a short time a number of women
gathered round the grave, and putting their ears to the earth,
were convinced they heard the groans also, and even affirmed
that they felt the earth shake from the efforts of the woman
to escape from her horrible confinement. It was known that
the funeral was a parish one, and the idea immediately came
into their heads that the officers at the workhouse had calved
her to be buried alive to get rid of her. Burning with the
thought, they resolved to open the grave, having first ex-
hausted all their rhetoric upon the sexton (who stood by a
silent spectator), but all to no purpose, for he positively re-
fused to act without orders from his superiors, and several
of them setting to work with their fingers they cleared the
rods from the grave in an instant, and commenced raking
the earth up with their fingers. The churchyard was soon
all in bustle with persons flocking to learn what was going
forward, and at last there could not be many short of 2000
present, some manifesting great anxiety ; others laughing at
what they believed to be little short of madness. Mean-
while the women raked away, changing when tired with other
bystanding females. At length they got a trencher, a broken
plate, and a piece of a saw for tools, and the digging went on
apace. At first they durst not use any implements besides
their fingers, as a wag had told them that they would not be
prosecuted if they used only natural tools, but their earnest-
ness increasing with their toil, they resolved to bid defiance
to what they supposed was law, and dig with what they could
get in any way useful. To crown all, a spade was handed
in, and one end of the coffin was laid bare in a twinkling,
and the other would soon have been, but here the sexton was
ordered by the clerk to finish the job. He did so, the coffin
was opened, and the corpse was found exactly as it had been
placed, the funeral habiliments not disordered, and the body
dead enough. While the digging was going on the sexton
had to stand no little insult from the infuriated women, one
of whom, named Barney, a sweep's wife, told him he had
often buried people alive for money, and would do it again.
She also put her fist in his face, and loaded him with almost
every epithet in the genteel vocabulary. Another woman got
on a tombstone, and harangued the crowd on the abomina-
tions of commissioners and bastiles, and also of workhouse
masters who would not hesitate to bury people alive.—
Leicestershire Mercury.

StifIDUM REPRIEVE.—On the coast of Patagonia Is El
small town called La Carman, which is under the Buenos
Ayrian government, and which is occasionally subjected to
predatory incursions from the Aborigines, who carry off
cattle, horses, and sometimes prisoners. In the year 1836
they made a bold attempt to take possession of the town,
though it is generally protected by a large party of soldiers.
Such was the vigour of the attack that every individual in
the town capable of bearing arms was called out by the com-
mandant. Notwithstanding the powerful attempts made to
repulse them, the Indians succeeded in gaining considerable
advantage. They sacked the town, and took a number of
prisoners, whom they carried away with them to their own
territory, where they encamped. Amongst the prisoners was
an Englishman, who had been ordered by the commanding
officer to bear arms with the rest. The Indians, who were of
the Pampa tribe, immediately held a council, and, according
to their custom, led out the prisoners to put them to death.'
The executioner performed his office with the singular weapon
which they use to catch wild horses. This weapon consisted
of three balls, attached at different distances to a rope of
green hide. With this they entangled the legs of the horses,
and captured them with great ease. Each of the prisoners, on
this occasion, was in succession placed opposite to an Indian,
who, holding by one ball, rapidly swung the others round his
head, till, at length, a blow was struck which put an end to
the existence of the unfortunate individual who was doomed.
Five of the Spaniards were in this manner despatched, and the
Englishman was next led forward. He was placed opposite to
the Indian who wielded the fatal balls, and expected instant
death. His appearance, however, attracted the attention of
the chief, who, observing the fairness of his complexion,
stepped up to him, and, in broken Spanish, asked him whe-
ther he were a Christian. Fortunately, the Englishman was
aware that Christian was the term by which the Indians dis-
tinguish the Spaniards. He replied, "No ; lam an English-
man." " And how came you to fight against us ?" asked the
Indian. " I was compelled by the commandant," was the
reply. The chief ordered him to be instantly released, pro-
fessing the greatest esteem for the tribe to which the English-
man belonged and its chief. The Englishman was not less
surprised than overjoyed at his escape, as the reader may
readily believe. The chief ordered a horse to be provided
for him, and sent a guide with him to put him fairly on his
road to La Carman. The above was related to the writer by
the gentleman who experienced this rather singular proof of
kindness from the chief of the Pampas. That preference is
thus accounted for. Some years previously to the occurrence
alluded to, the English sloop-of-war Beagle was on a survey
of three years in the River Plate and round the coast of
Patagonia. During that time the captain of the Beagle made
an excursion a considerable distance up the Rio Colorado in
his boats. He established a very friendly intercourse with
the inhabitants, and made various presents to their chief.
On his departure, he erected a flag-staff, and hoisted aunion
jack thereupon. It is to this polite conduct, on the part of
the captain of the Beagle, that the gentleman alluded to
attributes his fortunate escape. It is also worthy of remark,
that a crew of Germans, who were cast away on the Patago-
dian coast about twelve months previously to the occurrence
above alluded to, were treated with extreme kindness by the
natives.

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