The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-25 00:00:00

cible. It is indeed true that, at present, there
seems no prospect of a PITT or a Fox to rule
our councils, or a WELLINGTON to lead forth
our armies; but the national spirit is not dead,
and that is the true secret of self-reliance. When
Lord PALMERSTON talks of sending a fleet in mid-
winter to the Baltic, he chooses to forget that
the spring was far advanced before any of the
more decisive engagements took place in the late
war. If it is to be broadly asserted that the course
of our policy is to take care of ourselves and let
others take their chance, it will be a ruinous one;
and let the country bo ever so great, ever so rich,
or aver so strong, the seeds of decay will be sown
in her constitution. It is time we had statesmen at
the head of affairs who recognise some principles of
justice and conform to some notions of honour. At
present we present the picture of a great nation
always ready to make a boastful parade of our
strength, and never willing to prove it ; and while
we rush in to interfere with all foreign questions,
we retire in unseemly haste when our mediations
are treated with deserved contempt and no resource
is left but an appeal to arms. Such a course
is most derogatory to the character of a
people, and it is most lamentable that our present
Cabinet should have pursued so reckless a path of
policy. Nothing is easier than to compromise one's
character politically or otherwise, and nothing is
more difficult than to rehabilitate it. Perhaps the
recent speech of Lord PALMERSTON at Tiverton is
the most suicidal act of his long career. He openly
identifies himself with the clique who have set out
with the dishonourable cry that we cannot fight;
such are far more contemptible than the peace at
any price party, who are at least consistent. The
language that was uttered at Tiverton was not suit-
able for an English Statesman, not in accordance
with the knowledge that should be possessed by a
public man of so much experience, but, above all, it
was unworthy of the position of the First Minister
of the Crown.

Declaration of the Danish Plenipotentiaries.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
BERLIN, Aug. 22.

According to the tenour of the armistice protocol
signed by the Plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria,
and Denmark upon the Ist inst., the Danish pri-
soners of war were to be set at liberty upon the
assurance being given that they should not serve
again in the Danish army until the conc:uiion of
peace. By order of their Government, therefore,
Lbe Danish Plenipotentiaries in Vienna have de•
livered the following declaration to the Prussian
Ambassador in that capital :

Vienna, Aug. 8, 1864.

The protocol signed upon the Ist inst., in execution of
Article 4 of the peace preliminaries concluded the same day
between Denmark upon the one part and Prussia and Aus-
tria upon the other, contains the following stipulation in
its Sth paragraph :
" Prisoners of war and political prisoners will be liberated
upon the assurance that:the prisoners of war shall not serve
in the Danish army before the conclusion of peace."
In reference to this stipulation, the undersigned Pleni-
potentiaries of his Majesty the King of Denmark, by order
of their Government, have the honour to give by these pre-
sents to Baron Werther, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, the
formal assurance that the Danish prisoners of war at pre-
sent detained in the States of his Majesty• the King of
Prussia will not serve in thd Danish army before the con•
elusion of peace.
The undersigned take this opportunity of offering to his
Excellency Baron Werther the assurance of their high
consideration.

(Signed) QUAADE,
KAUFFMANN.

The Grouse Season.

At Gannochy Loe.ge, on Saturday, Capt. Pearoth
killed 531; braes of grouso and 1 rabbit; Captain
O'Hara, 20 Brace and 2 snipes ; the Hon. CharL!s
Carnegie, M.P., 20 brace and 2 snipes; and Capt.
Carnt gte Lour, 301 brace, 2 hares, end 4 rabbits.
On Cordovon Moors, Viscount Holmesdale, M.P.,
and Sir Edmund Phillimore, MT., on the 12th,
bagged 30 brace of grouse on the moors attached to
the Lodge. On the same moors en Friday last,
Viscount Holmesdale and party were out again
grouse shooting, and bagged 32 brace. On Satur-
day Lord Holmesdale went out deerstalking and
was successful in bringing down, right and left, two
noble stags on the hill to the north-west of Iver-
cauld House. One of these stags possessed a fine
head. The Hon. George S. Duff was out deer-
staking in the Alton 0 wer Forest on Thursday last
killing a fine stag. The Earl of Fife, on Monday
week, when on his way to Crocklach Lodge, Glen-
dee,lo go out grouse shooting, was fortunate in get-
ting a capital stalk on a fine herd of deer. His lord-
ship brought down three r(Oendidstags,one of which
weighed list. 12ib. clean, and had a magnificent
Royal head. Another stag weighed upwards of
15st. avoirdupois. Since then the noble earl has
been grouse shooting daily on the Baynoch Moors
adjoining the Croclach Lodge, and has had excel-
lent sport during the week, killing upwards of 120
brace. On Thursday he had the best day's sport of
the week, bagging 31 brace grouse. On the Glen-
callater moors good sport was got by Mr John
Marshall, Gilbert Wilkinson, Esq., and party bag-
ging daily from 20 to 30 brace grouse, 30 brace
being the highest reached on any day of the week.
On these moors there are plenty of birds, but there
is the usual complaint that they are very strong
and wild, and, to use a gamekeeper's phrase, are
"packing," or collecting together into large flecks
on the moors, which materially impedes the progress
and success of the sport.—. Dundee Advertiser.

On the 12th August Messrs. Gerald Fitzgerald
and two friends killed, at Gawe, Dingwall, 95
grouse, 5 hares, and 2 woodcocks. Shooting small,
birds plentiful ; since the 12th sport has been good.
On Farr Moor, near Inverness, Messrs. Joseph W.
Pease, John \V. Pease, and H. F. Pease, killed 166
grouse and 25 hares. The broods were generally
good and strong ; a considerable number of barren
birds, the result of the snow in May, caused the
bags to be light. The 12th and 13th were exceed-
ingly hot ; for the last four days the weather has
been wet and unfavourable.

CASTLE CARR MOORS, NEAR HALIFAI.—CoIoneI
Edwards, M,P., entertained a succession of visitors
this year, as usual, including his sans, Viscount In-
gestre, H, W. Wickham, M.P., Mr. Alfred Dan-
combe, Hon, Colonel Duncome, Lord Warneliffe,
Sir J. Lyster Kaye, Bart, Sir S. Armytege, Bart,
Graver Browne, Esq., Hon Captrin Lawley, Gen,
Hall, Captain Dearden and Rowland Winn, Esq.
The weather has been very fine and the sport excel-
lent. The three first days 406 brace were shot over
the dogs ; the five days following 703 brace in
"driving," the total bag in the first eight days
being 1109 brace.—Halifax Guardian.

LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGE STIENS.—We are sup-
rounded by forests which are infested with ele-
phants, buffaloes, rhinoceros, tigers, and wild boars, and the
ground all about the pools is covered with their footprints.
We live almost as in a besieged place, every moment dread
ing some attack of the enemy, and keeping our guns con-
stantly loaded. Sometimes they come close to our quarters,
and we cannot go even a few steps into the woods without
hearing them. As a general rule, however, they fly from
the approach of man, and in order to get a shot it is neces-
sary to lie in wait, either among the branches of a tree, or
hidden amid the brushwood near the spots where they come
to drink. Scorpions, centipedes, and, above all, serpents,
were the enemies we most dreaded, and against which pre-
cautions were chisfly requisite; but the matquitoes and the
leeches, though less dangerous, were the most troublesome
and most inveterate plagues. During the rainy sesaon you
cannot be too much on your guard ; going to bed or getting
up, you are ever in peril in putting your hand or foot on
some veuemous snake. I have killed more than one in my
house with a gun or hatchet. As I write I am obliged to
be continually on the watch, fearing to sea one re-appear on
which I trod this evening, but which made his exit without
hurting me. From time to time, also, I stop to listen to
the roaring of a tiger, who is wandering round our dwelling
and looking longingly at the pigs through their fence of
planks and bambocs. Again, 1 hear a rhinoceros breaking
down the bamboos which oppose his progress towards the
brambles encircling our garden, on which he intends to
banquet.—Jinhere Travels fr; pglat,China.