"MEINE HERREN, you are the first that ask a favor of me on Silesian ground; it shall be done you!" said the King; and straightway despatched, in polite style, his written request to Wallis, engaging to make no military use whatever of said Church, "but to attack by the other side, if attack were necessary." Thus his Majesty saved the Church of Glogau; which of course was a popular act.

Getting to see this Church himself a few days hence, he said, "Why, it must come down at any rate, and be rebuilt; so ugly a thing!" Wallis is making strenuous preparation; forces the inhabitants, even the upper kinds of them, to labor day and night by relays, in his rampartings, palisadings; is for burning all the adjacent Villages,--and would have done it, had not the peasants themselves turned out in a dangerous state of mind.

He has got together about 1,000 men.

His powder, they say, is fifty years old; but he has eatable provender from Breslau, and means to hold out to the utmost.

Readers must admit that the Austrian military, Graf von Wallis to begin with,--still more, General Browne, who is a younger man and has now the head charge,--behave well in their present forsaken condition.