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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17.

IN the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord BROUGHAM,
on the authority of petitions he had to present, called
the attention of his noble and learned friends to the
fact, that, by the abolition of imprisonment for debt
acts, power was reserved of arresting debtors who
were about to quit the country ; but its exercise was
limited as to the granting of the writ, inasmuch as
an application for that purpose was necessary to a
judge sitting in Westminster Hall. It was urged by
the petitioners that this power ought to be extended
to judicial authorities in the provinces.—Lord CAMP-
BELL thought the Judges of the New County Courts
would be the most proper parties to exercise it.—On
Earl GREY'S moving the first reading of the Army
Service Bill, a conversation ensued as to when the
next stage should be taken, which was fixed for
Monday week.
In the House of Commons, Mr. WARD, in answer
to Sir C. NAPIER, replied that the Admiralty had
suspended the further proceeding with the works of
the three 72-gun ships at present on the stocks.—Lord
J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. HINDLEY, observed that
the reports of the school inspectors appointed by the
Committee of the Privy Council would be laid on the
table when they were made, which was not yet the
case ; and that he had taken care there should be
given with the estimates the detailed accounts of the
proposed distribution of the grant, so that the house
might see the manner in which it was to be expended.
And in answer to Mr. Mutrrz, the noble lord stated that
her Majesty bad directed, as a proof of the high
sense she and the government entertainedof the heroic
conduct of Captain Camp, of the Spanish brig Emilio,
' in rescuing the survivors of the Tweed steamer from
the Alacranes reef, that he should be presented with
a medal, on which would be inscribed the meritorious
services performed • and, further, that the sum of
5001. should be placed at his disposal in the manner
most acceptable to him.—Mr. B. E.corr, in answer
to Mr. DEPROY, intimated that he should abandon his
bill for the abolition of duties on butter and cheese for
the present, thinking it necessary to keep the sinews
of war unimpaired.—The LORD ADVOCATE, in an-
swer to Load DUNCAN, replied that it was his inten.

tion, if possible, to bring in a bill for facilitating the
sale of encumbered estates in Scotland during the
present session. The question of the third reading of
the Irish Poor-law Bill originated a further debate
on the condition of that country, and of the conduct
of the landlords, their tenants, and the people gene-
rally, after which the bill was read a third time, as was
also the Landed Property (Ireland) Bill, Colonel
RAWDON moving an addition to clause 4, that the
commissioners should authorise the erection of corn
mills to be worked by waterpower, which proposition
was rejected on a division by a majority of 69. Lord
G. BENTINCK moved an amendment to the same
clause, that they should be enabled to advance money
for the erection of substantial farmhouses, which was
negatived by a majority of 56. The bill then passed.

EUROPE has not contemplated for many years a
spectacle of such imposing grandeur, and of such deep
intrinsic import, as the opening of a national repre-
sentative assembly of his people by the Monarch of
Pnussis. Central Europe is not indeed altogether a
stranger to charters and constitutions. Warsaw has
a constitution, Bavaria a charter, Galicia and each
benighted province of Austria has its states. But
constitutional practices and rights, thunderbolts in
the hands of a mighty and united people, are but
gilded and brittle playthings, wielded by minor states,
second-rate powers, or by provinces aping to be
sovereign.
The powers and privileges, which his Majesty of
PRUSSIA now recognises in the assembled body of the
deputies of his kingdom, were before in a great mea-
sure extended by him, or by his father, to these same
deputies sitting in provincial assemblies. Their union
in one meeting and one spot now makes all the dif-
ference; for here, indeed, union is strength—it is
empire. Nor do we measure that strength by the
extent of privileges or functions now formally con-
ceded ; we measure it by the weight, which the repre-
sentatives of a wealthy, and enlightened, and great
country must have and must acquire in the political
affairs and fortunes, not merely of that country, but of
Europe.
It is impossible not to respect and admire the
simple nature and liberal spirit of the King, his desire
to enlarge the national institutions and suit them to
the intelligence, the rights, and the wishes of the
people. 'Whilst, at the same time, the fears
which make his royal voice falter, and which
mar the confidence and magnanimity of his nature,
are more calculated to provoke a smile at their
naireN—than r-sentment at their backwardness.
Hesi.ation in the Ring of PRUSSIA is at present not
merely natural but politic. He has not only the
enthusiasm of his own people to rein in, but the
newly-awakened fears of northern despots to con-
ciliate. His constitution evidently affrights the
powers of Eastern Europe. It stalks forth before
their eyes as a portentous monster, one destined to
tear and to devour them. Austria is panic-struck.
The Czar has collected an army, under pretence of a
huge review, by way of a demonstration against
Prussia's parliamentary campaign. The King of
PRUSSIA, therefore, is every way bound to show that
his monster is not so formidable ' • and he has conse-
quently tied it up with a network of tiny cords, which
show great ingenuity, but which, however they may
gall the limbs of young LIBERTY, will soon be burst
by the mere efforts of its growth.
The chief argument made use of for the purpose
of blinding his despotic neighbours by the King
of PRUSSIA, is, that his constitution has nothing in
common with those horrid and vulgar things, which
bear the same name in Western Europe. They are
vulgar andnbominable pieces of paper--pacts between
crown and people. The King of PRUSSIA declares he
will have none such ; that his representative system
is of natural growth, and quite harmless. It will ally
perfectly, he declares, with the autocracy of a military
country. And as for its introducing such abomina-
tions as a government being influenced by the will of
the majority, or a king directing his government with
a view to popularity—all this his Majesty declares to
form a heresy and an absurdity, of which he is in-
capable.
If any one will look through our country, argues
the king, its different provinces, its singularly ir-
regular frontier, and couple with this its first history,
which shows that it was formed by the sword, he
must admit that Prussia requires to be governed by
one. The announcement of such doctrines dis-
plays a strange and awkward discrepancy between
these opinions of the Prussian King, and his
acts. He proclaims his country a military mon-
archy, yet he gives it successively, municipal rights,
provincial states, and finally a national represen-
tative assembly. The very organisation of the
Prussian army is merely the arming and military
instruction of the whole body of citizens and people.
The greatest pains are taken to give them an educa-
tion the very reverse of military, so that ideas, insti-
tutions, civil and commercial developments, municipal
and political rights, are all anti-military, anti-despotic ;
and yet the monarch insists on maintaining the
abstract principle, which he and his government
have been for the last century undermining in
practice.
The King of PRUSSIA must know much better than
to believe in the sophisms, with which the argumen-
tative part of his opening speech abounds. We will
judge the monarch by his act., which are liberal
and enlightened, not by his political philosophy,
which is mystic, weak, contradictory, and so unintel-
ligible as in parts to defy translation.
The press is evidently an object of the King's fear.
His MAJESTY condescends to recur twice in his speech
to the subject, and twice to denounce a power, which,
so young in the enjoyment of its rights, is natu-
rally prone to misuse them. It would have been
wiser in the King to have shown confidence in a
power which he cannot safely combat, and which is
one, so infallibly providing its own antidote. The Ger-
mans have, at least, this advantage, that the liberty of
expressing their thoughts can scarcely be taken from
them; what one state proscribes, the other welcomes.
And there are abundance of states jealous enough of
Prussian liberalism to allow full scope to those writers,
who would misrepresent or exaggerate Prussian
constitutionalism.

Religious infidelity. is another object of the royal
fears and animadversions; and, singular enough,whilst
he declares his estates to have no authority in matters
of religion, he condescends to denounce to them
the sect which labours in the explaining away of
Christianity. This is a very early proof, that with
whatever care the constitution-monger precludes the
national representation from meddling with reserved
subjects, all questions of national importance must
infallibly be brought before it, and be influenced by
its decisions. . _ .

He, however, who would collect truth or correct
views from royal speeches, must elo eo by implication
rather than by direct inference. The King of
PRUSSIA and his government have been under the
necessity of hoisting a kind of trifold banner over
their constitution. One side or fold is to be presented
eastward, to Austria and Russia, and beers the effigy
of a military monarch, merely summoning a few
notables to council. Another side is to meet the
eye of western Europe. A third is destined
to be scanned by the Prussians themselves. Each
has a different legend, points to a different future, and
would tell a very different tale. But the age is sharp-
sighted. Neither easterns nor westerns are to be
deceived by symbols and appearances ; nor is there
one that does not see in the great solemnity of
Berlin something far other than the Berlin monarch
would represent it.

THE proceedings of ttbie Conference of the opponents
of state education, can give little satisfaction to those
who originated so imprudent a meeting. Gratitude for
the many and eminent services which the nonconform-
ists have rendered to the cause of national education,
from the time that the Pilgrim Fathers proclaimed'
the great principle, " the duty of the state to educate
the people, and the right of the people to be educated
by the state," to the report of the congregational
committee in 1846, showing the value of a parlia-
mentary grant in increasing the emoluments and
elevating the social position of the instructor, rendered
us sincerely anxious that modern nonconformists
should not reprobate the principles of the brave old
puritans, and directly contradict their own recorded
opinions. We wished to save men, whom some un-
reasonable passion and some misplaced suspicion had
misled, from placing themselves in a false position be-
fore their countrymen; and we knew that we should
thus incur their displeasure, for nothing is so annoy-
ing to men bent on mischief as to have the nature of
their occupation expounded to them in plain terms.
We were of course prepared to encounter some revilings,
for the very first effort made by all fractional
factions is to establish a censorship of outcry over "the

Press." But we nevertheless persevered in maintaia.
ing the genuine principles of nonconformity and the
substantive rights of the people. " Pnoetox,"
s id
DEMOSTHENES, "the people will destroy you in some
mad fit or other." " And you," said PIIOCION, "
be their first victim when they recover their senses."
Such is our position with regard to the Leeds DEMOS-
THENES ; his denunciations will be cheered while
passion rages and prejudice has away. We can afford
to wait the sure reversal of the sentence from return.
ing reflection and restored reason.
When we saw that the conference was unavoiaable
we suggested to its members a rational course of
action ; we recommended deliberation and discussion,
not " platform speeches." We deprecated such urn.
seemly exhibitions as the ridicule of Christian ordi.
minces in a Christian assembly, amidst the boisterous
laughter of the meeting. We called attention to the
dignified course pursued by the Wesleyan methodist',
to the quiescent attitude of the Sunday-School Unica,
and the British and Foreign School Society ; to the
positions taken by Doctors VAUGHAN and BINNET,
with whom the only question at issue was practica-
bility, not principle; and we expressed our fears that
the voice of these men, so eminent for their piety,
their learning, and their powers, would be °verbenm
by the clamour of the rash and the headstrong.
Finally, we should be glad to have spared the un-
offending public from so painful an infliction as the
thousandth iteration of Mr. BAINES'S Statistics, to
which recent times have given no parallel bat that
described by Moose.
Essays that Cartwright's pea indite,
is which, with Ingleal ornately;
The Majorlike a Afi..w. writes,
Asd never opines to a aawandon.

Jealousy in politics is as dangerous as it is in love,
"Trifles light as air" become " confirmations strobe
as proof of holy writ ;" but the opponents of state
education went beyond Orilm.r.o ; far kritiex they
were contented to accept nullities, and when Mr.
BRIGHT talked about reading the minutes of conned
which they had assembled to condemn, he was in-
formed that such a course was unnecessary.
We are not disposed to dwell further on the pro-
ceedings of the conference, for none bewail these Pro-
ceedings more than some who were unfortunately
compelled by their special ties as leaders in the con-
gregetienal body to take a part in them, and we
believe firmly, that ere a week panes by, few will
look buck or, these proceedings with satisfaction. It
is more pleasing to glance at the meeting in favour
of the government measure, over which Lord
ASHLEY presided, and in which that consistent
friend of civil and religious liberty, the Bishop of
NORWICH, took an active part. No boisterous
laughter at the forms used in the administration al
the Christian sacraments by ministers of any dears.
mivation shook the room ; no subscription was pro-
posed for the purchase of seats in parliament; the
last election for Southwark afforded topic neither f,
regret nor congratulation; the press was left es-
assailed by vindictive censorship ; the one greed
object was kept steadily in view, the moral elevation
of the British people by educational agencies,
irrespective of church, or sect, or denomina-
tion. The same may be observed of the City Meet-
ing yesterday, when the Bishop of LONDON displayed
all the meekness, good sense, good feeling, and gong
humour, which have been represesented as Moms
patible with episcopacy. The conference and its con-
trasts afford subjects for comparison universally pro-
voked, and decision which it requires no gift of pro-
phecy to anticipate. These are words not of triumph
but of sorrow ; we grieve to find any body of men
spending three anxious days, engaged in no other task
than heaping up substantial reasons for much future
and bitter regret.
The decision of the Common Council of the City of
London was such as all reasonsble men must have
foreseen. It is, indeed, impossible to walk through
the streets of this metropolis without perceiv-
ing abundant and melancholy evidence that some
authoritative interference is necessary to put an end
to the systematic miseducation which is training its
thousands to future misery and future geilt. There
is not leisure for discussing such novel points in
metaphysics as whether ignorance or poverty has the
greater share in producing guilt, for miseducation is
the obvious cause of all three; there is such a thing
as a schooling in ignorance—there is a training to
mendicancy and vagrancy—there is an education is
guilt. These are practical evils which all lovers of
their country wish to see removed; the metaphysical
questions may be left to those
Who wrare fine cobweb,+ at for Ann
That's empty when the moon I, full.
The constitutional privileges of vice so properly
asserted in one of the argon, of the conference, may
safely be left to the care of those who have any. per.
sonal interest in their maintenance; it is too nice a
point to be handled when substantial evils are prem.
ing upon us—when from every police-office, from
every court of justice, and from every, prison in the
land, the same melancholy cry is raised, " What is to
be done with these little ones ?"—a cry which rings
in the ears of every one, save those who ensemble In
conference at Crosby Hall.
It is the bitterness of this cry which induees us to
support the government measure, though it contains
many details which we could wish omitted. But
something must be done : a generation is perishing
around us, while we are quarrelling about points of
dignity and etiquette, with a captiousness which
would put to the blush the scholastic hair-splitters of
the middle ages. More than once we have declared
our adhesion to the scheme proposed by Doctors
VAUGHAN and BINNEY, and which has so admirably
succeeded in Ireland and America. But the expe-
rience of the Conference must have taught those gear
tlemen that the most bitter opposition which such it
plan would have to encounter, would come from their
own associates assembled in Crosby Hall. We have
not got the best measure possible : we have got the
beet at present attainable, and that measure cannot
be worked without throwing off the useless encum-
brances which have been reluctantly superadded to
it at the behest of prejudices as
.yet unconquerable.
The regulation requiring the use of the authorised
version of the scriptures is one which cannot be re.
twined in its integrity : it would pre judge a question
in which many churchmen, and, indeed, most of the
biblical scholars of the country, take a deep interest;
namely, whether the time has not come when ths
natural changes in the Englishlanguage,since the time
of JAMES 1., and the immense advance made is
Oriental literature, render a revision of that
version necessary or at least desirable ? It will
not do for a committee of council to set itself up as s
court of final appeal in questions of biblical criticism.
We say nothing of the unfairness of excluding oaths•
lice, unitarians, and Jews from participating in tht
national grant, as they doubtless would be if any seek
regulation were rigidly enforced, but we rely on the
promises of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE and DA
J. Russet'. to give every fair consideration to eater
tional cases. Difficulties arc so multiplied &retina
them that large allowances must be made for their
position ; and it is creditable to them that in effecting
a great national good they evince a sincere enlist!
to conciliate all who evince a disposition to be
conciliated.

The Paris journals and correspondence of Thiusday
have been received, but contain little intelligense
of general interest. The debate on the bank rpm
tion was continued in the chamber, and the discussion
on parliamentary reform, which was to have ease
menced, was postponed till Monday. There is some
discordance in the cabinet on the question of issai.l
100 fr. notes, in favour of which the Journal de
Debats declares itself. The Minister of Finaneel
however, has pronounced the opposition of the call
net to it to be upon the curious plea, that all the fano-
tions of a note of 100 fr. can be realised by the ex-
change of a note of 500 fr. against two notes of 200&
each. "If this argument, observes the Journal it
Debate, " be worth anything, it will not be recessed
to have notes of lees value than 2,000 and 1,900 k.
The cabinet are compelled to submit to the cheek
given to them by the committee on the credits d►
mended for Algeria. The committee has, in 64
refused the supplies, and it is now pretended thatqll
Marshal Bugeaud is confined by indispoeitiac, UIP
proposed expedition could not, at all events, haW
taken place, and the matter will be allowed to d►op;

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We only learn that General Serrano had left ,
on the 10th for Arjanilla, near Malaga.
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FRANCE.—Paste, Arm 13.—0 n Tuesday N.
Goixot gave a grand dinner mrty, at which the follo
personage* were present :—Lord and Lady Norma
Lord gad Lady Granville, Lady Tankervillc, Gen
Fox, Prince of Walleratein, the Btvarian Minister,lnt
Charo d'Affaires of Rubs*. Count de Beekendoiff, 1I
shal Sebastiani, the Duke of Broglie, Count and Camaro

Thaw, Berea de Busueres, Count and Countees
et la
Farmer, Doke Pasquier, M. Sauset, preamltat of he
Chamber of Deputies, the Duke d. Osuna, Count and
fottotess de St- Ankare. and Count Ktelmansegge.
FJECUTION OP CORN-RIOTERS.—The three indi-
ahals condemned to death for their participation tn the
offleriots at Busanc.us, were. executed. on the public square
of 1681 town on 0,0 12th *oat , amulet an immense wo-
ws of people. A great dmplay of military was made
"op having been ,ent to Basancats from Bourgea, Nevem,
ha
sad Chatesuroux.
LYONS, APRIL 12. MR. O'CONNELL.—" After
bo;ne txee espectel for several days, Mr. O'Connell arrived
roftiday at the natal de Mutates, where he will probably
twain a few days before he resumes his journey to Italy."
FRENCH 111vENrE.—The Ataniteur publishes the
owing table of the receipts of indirect taxes for the first
garter of the motet year :
1647. 1848.

leglehitioti dam, he.
t. 11,0
0.000 tr .SKii,ooo
toW 11,064.0c0 10,917,000
Maw, soiSslik al—
troth **dig swim. ^ 9.086,009 8,948,000
Cam Mu* 1,773,00(/ 1,0711,000
Ctta ~772,000 5,0.13,000
'wort *duties ea mmdtlei
Wort dor cs =dries . 749,000 483,060
yesom4 OWN
11811 dm rteselime)
NB dem cum 099609)
?agar ti9gare
1,9918 earns., sod o:l29rl2llmat taxes 0.341,000 4,666,000
Ibbiceo mks
Gimpu•der mles
Menial day am 4140131419 00.87 13,277,000 13,497,000
ft, ...mem by the mallm-pades
;lib, Mai sad picker 101,040 203,000

Total. 194,274,000 198,419,000
monism a deeneeas of 4,185,000 E Compared with 1845, the
lereesor 9,448,000 f.
r fiat SARDINIA.— TURIN, APRIL s.—The
Nal sasbassador, Count Mortier, has made energetic
euriestrald“ to the Sardinian government against the
glaged exportation of arms and ammunition into Spain for
tie ate of the esthete. The differences between the Austrian
sad Sardinian governments are nearly settled, and anew rem-
:Denis' treaty is to be concluded.—Allgemrine Zeitung.
AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, APRIL 7.—ln order to alle-
viate the misery of the lower classes in certain portions of
Bohemia the emperor has ordered public works, such as
rd.* hc., to be made, for the purpose of employ iag the poor
people ~poo Mem. Private funds. have been raised for the
yid the works will, it ts stated, be continued for
six congestive years. The emperor has also unsigned 20,000
&ray hr the use of the people of Hungary, and a royal
anualeoner has been sent there to devise mean+ for m-
oody alleristuag the distress of the population. Archduke
gloom was at Procne, and it is said his stay there would
basil weeks.— Frankfort Journal.
•97phifeerosition of the Saxon government for the
of the Elbe duties on gram has been submitted
new to the imperial gofkammer, and it has been decided
fist they are from the present moment to be reduced one-
halt Before this step is finally taken, the Prussian govern-
ment is to be coasts:tot on the subject. The Bavarian minis-
ter has bad severed interviews of late with Prinz.° Met-
Mad& It was still rumoured that Count Stadion, governor
sf Trieste and the coast lands, was to be appointed governor
of Osheia.—Allfiemeine Zeitung.
AUSTRIAN FRONTIERS, APRIL 7.—The AUgemeine
bison/ says, " You will doubtless have received direct in-
termits= of the happy termination of the Turco-Greek dif-
Unseen A letter from Vienna of the 6th inst., from a well-
informed person, states that the sudden change in the
opinion of the Sultan on this subject had, in addition to its
ewe importance, caused a lively satisfaction at Vienna, as it
proved that the influence of fteschid Puha on the young
Behan was not diminished, but was rather on the increase,
as sotwithstandiog the opposition of nearly the whole divan
to succeeded in four-and-twenty hours in calling the atten
Mon of the Sultan to the representations made by Austria, and
finally persuadiust him to follow them as a guide to bisections.
When Schekib Effendi, on Easter Monday, waited upon the
Austrian minister in person, to inform him how much he
regretted that it was not in the power of the Porte to retract
iu ultimatum, and presented to that effect a note from
the Turkish government, Prince Metternich, to his no smell
astonishment, presented him the note from the Grand Vizier,
which he bad reoeived by courier but two hours previously.
GRAND DUCHY OF BADEN.—The earlartshe Ga-
zette, of the Iltb, contains a proclamation calling ..pon the
inhabitant+ of the grand duchy to remain without ansietfat
the reported outbreaks in different parts of the grand duchy.
Revolutionary pamphlets have been clandestinely published,
and the 12th of April designated as the day for a general
rising against the government authorities.
SAXE-MEININGEN.—The system of public works
commenced for the purpose of alleviating the distress of the
poor, has become almost general. The Prussian Allgetneine
Zeitung states that the Duke of Saxe-Meiniogen has given
25,000 florins towards the maintenanei of the public works,
and for the purchase of corn. The states have adjourned
their sitting till the 2ud of May. One of their last acts was
to vote 100.000 florins for the poor.
PRUSSIA.—MERLIN, APRIL 12.—The first ple-
nary sitting of the united diet was opened this morning by
Prince Solor-flohen-SolnieLich, as marshal of the united
diet, with a short speech. He then announced the three
secretaries named by him, in concurrence with the three
estates, two of whom immediately entered on their functions.
The royal commissioner then presented the general order of
the proposals, which was read, together with the annexed
special proposal, on which the marshal appointed the com-
mittees for the pri paratory reports.
Count Von Schwerin then proposed the drawing up of an
aldrein of thanks. This proposal being carried by a very
large majority, a committee, of which Count Solna. Barath
is preq.dent, was appointed to draw up an address. The
question was then put, whether the assembly should imme-
diately make use of the power given it by the 24th section
of the regulations, to publish its discussions, which was
unanimously carried after a short debate. On a motion by the
Deputy Ilansem.mn, that the Marshal should immediately
name ade putation to examine those regulations, and to propose
those wishes which might be formed for any change in them to
to decided by the assembly, it was observed that such wishes
could be brought forward only by way of petition, as prescribed
by the regulation. The motion was set aside after a sh-,rt
debate by referring to this mode, the marshal, however, pro-
mising that any proposals referring to this subject should be
forwarded as ily as possible. The plenary assembly
then adjourned, and the deputies of the three orders,
nobles, burghers, and commons remained in their plies.
The general statement contains several proposals to be laid
before the diet, among which is the general account of
knees for 1847.

PETERSBURG, Meeca 29.—The
Emperor Nichllas was attacked on the 23rd March by an
indisposition which, it was fe►red, might result in bilious
fiver. In this case, the intended journey of his Majesty to
Warsaw, and a projected meeting of several members of the
royal family in that city, would be necessarily deferred for a
couple of weeks. However, u the disorder of the stomach
might perhaps be the consequence of a violent headach
which the emperor suffers from from time to time, and which
retuned %Ise on this occasion, it is not improbable that Isis
Msjesty's illness may not last many days.
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UNITED STATES.—The Congress at Waalling-
sse, previous to adjournment, pasaed two acts for the ad-
ulation of lowa and Wisconsin ea states of the union. The
Mite of Florida to the same privilege would appear to he
adjourned.—lt is a circumstance worthy of remark, that in
the great bat,e between Santa Anna and General Taylor,
every colonel in the United States army was either killed
or wounded. Thin speaks well for the gallantry with which
tke Gaited States (Aiken led on their troops.