The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-23 00:00:00

THE GERMAN FLEET.

The following is a translation of a despatch
which has been addressed by Count de Platen,
Hanoverian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the
Governments composing the Germanic Confedera-
tion, communicating the intentions of his Govern-
ment respecting the construction of a squadron of
50 gunboats

Hanover, Oct. S.
The Federal Diet is already acquainted with the
present position of the negotiations relating to a
plan of defence for the German coasts of the North
Sea and the Baltic, other than those belonging to
Prussia. It does not appear probable that any
practical and decisive resolution will be soon taken
respecting the proposals for a general and compre-
hensive system of maritime defence which were
some time since made by the various Governments
most immediately concerned.
In these circumstances, the Government of the
King considers it not only desirable, but in the
highest degree necessary, that the maritime states
of the Confederation should come to a mutual and
common understanding, in order to take those de-
fensive measures which the situation requires.
Hanover taking the initiative in this matter, has
proposed the construction of 50 screw gunboats. In
the opinion of the King's Government the most cer-
tain way of obtaining this result would be to induce
the several riverain states immediately to set about
the construction and armament of a larger or smaller
number of these gunboats, under the sanction and
control of the Federal Diet, which should reimburse
them from the general funds of the Confedera-
tion. The King's Government, having satisfied

itself of the practicability of the project, has re-
solved to construct a flotilla of 20 armed screw
gunboats, to be specially appropriated to the defenoa
of the three great rivers, the Elbe, the Ems, and
the Weser. The Hanoverian Government under-
takes to proceed with all necessary activity in the
construction of this number of war vessels, which
will form its proportional part of the squadron of
the North Sea. There is reason to believe that each
of the other riverain states, without waiting for
the issue of the general deliberations on the subject
which are about to take place in the Federal Diet,
will show a :readiness not inferior to that of Hano-
ver in constructing and arming a certain number of
vessels destined to protect and defend the coasts and
ports of the North Sea.
The envoy of Hanover to the Federal Diet,
having received orders to bring the resolution of
his Government to the knowledge of the Diet, has
been instructed at the same time to submit the fol-
lowing propositions ;-
1. That it may please the Diet to authorise the
riverain govornments of countries bordering on the
North Sea and the Baltic, not including Prussia, to

join, each in proportion to its geographical import-
ance, in constructing under the control of the Diet
50 steam-ves:aels, which shall form the squadron of
the North Sea, and that the said Governments may
be requested to come to an understanding on the
subject.
2. That it may also please the Diet to order that
all the expenses resulting from the establishment,
armament, and maintenance of this squadron for
the North an d Baltic Seas shall be exclusively borne
and reimbutsed by the general treasury of all the
States of the, Confederation.

REMITTANCES OF GOLD TO ANE.RICA

The resumption of gold remittances to the United
States is a singular but wholly unimportant fact.

The certainty is just as strong as ever that if the
war continues not merely shall we witness a drain
of specie from that country, but a suspension of cash
payments. The Government expenditure is at the
rate of a hun,lred millions sterling per annum, to say
nothing of the augmented outlay of each individual
State, or of the cost sustained by the Confederates
while 700,000 at least of the ablebodied population
of the country are withdrawn from manufactures
and agriculture, and have become consumers instead
of producers. With an expenditure of only about
£15,000,000 per annum, and with all their people
engaged to the utmost in industrial pursuits, the
United States, were not usually found year by year
to accumulate any exceptional stock of the precious
metals, and the idea that under their changed cir-
cumstances, land with 40 millions sterling, or nearly
one-half of their usual exports cut off by the cotton
blockade, they may now, for the first time, begin to
fill their coffers and to draw away the supplies of
other regions., would appear the most extraordinary
assumption that could be entertained. If the United
States can show that the way to attract the precious
metals is by quadrupling their expenditure, with-
holding 50 per cent. of their ordinary exportable
produce, and. calling an eighth part of their adult
population from the plough and the loom to the
barrack, we shall soon have every country in the
world plunging into war in order to enjoy the ex-
citement, profusion, and idleness that are thus to
prove the most rapid causes of national wealth,
Yet the American journals have some dreams of the
kind, for they are predicting continuous arrivals of
gold from this country, and, while they have an
acute sense of the horrors we are to sustain during
the winter from the want of cotton, they can see
nothing but a plethora of resources at home, which
should induce all people to subscribe as fast as pos-
sible to each two-monthly issue of an additional ten
millions of Federal stock. The amount of sovereigns
now being sent from Liverpool by each steamer
will, of course, be cited as a confirmation of the new
theory, anti. will stimulate all the classes who are
revelling in the national funds to entertain antici-
pations even still more wild, of the continuance of
this splendid example of inexhaustible means,
which, in fact, increase in proportion as they are
drawn upon. Meanwhile, however, the less ardent
European world will prefer to watch the experiment
to the end. The French demand for grain and flour
will soon diminish, and in the course of a few weeks
the exportation of those articles will also be reduced
by the closing of the canals. Even if the whole
crop could be sent forward it would not be easy to
see how a total worth forty or fifty millions could
suffice not only to meet an expenditure of two or
three times that amount, but ereate a balance against
Europe that must be remitted in gold, and yet be-
yond breadstuff's there is little else we can look for.
The inference, therefore, must be that the present
financial felicitations at New York are like those of
a spendthrift who, having been momentarily put in
funds by a sudden realisation of his best assets,
wholly loses sight of the fact that these receipts
have not borne any relation to the actual yearly
course either of his income or liabilities.

THI RD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

GLOUCESTER RACES.—(This Day)!

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SCURRY HANDICAP.

Gauntlet
Caliban
Bookaloom .

Nine ran.
CORPORATION PLATE.

Confession
Shepherdess. 2
Billy Dwindles
Six ran.
GLOUCESTER CUP.

Flitch
•
Conqueror
Bay Shirley ........................................ 3
Seven ran.
SELLING PLATE.

Dunoon .................
Jackal'
3
Miss Coutts
Thirteen ran.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

1
The Miller
Heads or Tails
3
Miss Eleanor
Eight ran.

EELSO RACES.—(This Day.)

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
TRIAL STAKES.

Lady Ripon 1
Eidolan
3
Estrelda

Five ran.
ROXBURGHE HANDICAP.

Confidante
Monk
3
Oldminster

Six ran. Won by two lengths.
KELSO PLATE.

Montrose
Fast Runner 2
Nelia

Nine ran.
BOWMONT STAKES.

Benvoirlich _
1
Johnny Cope 2
Tousle 3

Six ran.
STEW ARDS CUP.?

Lady Ripon
Coronet .. 2
Peggy Taft....
Four ran.

WEIGHTS FOR THE LIVERPOOLNUP.

Thormanby
Wizard ..
Underhand ..
Comforter ..
Butterfly ..
Avalanche ..
Wildman

st lb
.. 9 2
.. 9 2
.. 8 9
.. 8 0
.. 8 0
.. 8 0
.. 713

st. lb.
Dictator .. .. 6 11
Petra .. 6 9
Timandra 6 9
Gabriel d'Estrees .. 6 9
Willie Wright .. 6 9
Herne .. 6 7
Brewer 7

Crater 7 12 Jingling Johnny 6 7
Faultless .. .. 711 Joey Jones .. 6 7
Dulcibella .. 711 Ready Reckoner .. 6 7
Master Bagot .. 710 East Stanley .. .. 6 7
Special License .. 7 9 Flirtation .. 6 5
Stockade .. 7 9 South Australian .. 6 5
Chere Arnie .. 7 8 Somersault .. 6 5
The Monk .. .. 7 8 Millionaire .• 6 4
Caller Ou .. 7 8 Soothsayer .. 6 4
Oldminster .. 78 M. Philippe .. .. 6 2
Pierreponds .. 7 7 Remunerator .. 6 2,
Ariadne .. 7 5 Invader .. 6 2
Artless .. 7 5 Isabella .. • • 6 2
Light .. .. 7 5 Syringe .. .. 6 2
Coronet .. 7 5 Venison .. •• 6 2
Lovett .. 7 5 Romeo .. .. •• 6 0
Walkington .. 7 4 Br to Meg Merrilees.. 6 0
Kildonan .. 7 4 Queer &Jury .. 6
Nemesis .. .. 7 4 Wombat .. 57.12
Prologue .. .. 7 4 Marksman .. 512
Mainstone .. 7 3 Eheu • • 5 12
Ivanhoff .. 7 3 Pagoda .. 5 1
Sir William .. .. 7 2 Confidante .. 5 1;1
Fitzavon .. 7 2 Squire Pierce .. .. 512
Upperhand .. 7 2 Rein Deer .. .. 510
Old Robert .. .. 7 0 Dubious .. .. 510
Donner and Blitz .. 7 0 Crusade .. .. 510
Von Stroom .. 7 0 Ericthonius .. 5 10
Predictor .. .. 7 0 Calpe.. 55 10
Sawcutter 7 0 Wild 'Wave . 7
Palestro .. 613 Duchess .. .. 5
Doefoot .. 6 13 Foxhead .. 5 '
Finlande 6 13 Zuleika .. 5 77
Pan .. .. 613 Fisherman .. 5 7
Milverton 6 12 Bemise.. .. 5 7
Lady Ripon .. 612 Emulous gelding .. 5 7
Bally Edmond .. 612 The Rock .. 5 7
Prince of Denmark .. 612 Lancaster .. .. 5 7
Corona .. 612 Promotion .. .. 5 7
Sutherland . 612 Orion ..
Rosebud cAt .. 6 12 Kinnaird .. 5 7
Russley .. 6 11 Babette filly .. 5 7
Killigrew p 611 Physician .. pays ft.
Weights published at 1 p.m., Oct. 23. Forfeits to bo
declared on Tuesday next, the 29th inst., by 12 o'clock at
noon, to Messrs. Weatherby, or the clerk of the course at
Chester. 100 subs.

A 71GER STO.R.Y.

The following, from the pen of an Ensign in the
72d. Regiment, appears in the Field :—" I had just
arrived at Khandalla, and I met there an old

schoolfellow, who 'was going out to shoot pigs,
and he asked me to come with him. He lent me
a single barrelled rifle, and we went out, about
a mile and a half from camp, to a place which was
notorious for pigs. It was a deep ravine, with a very
high mountain on one side, and a low one on the
other, and filled up with dense jungle. My companion
placed himself about the middle of the ravine, and I
took up my position near to the end, where the ra-
vine narrowed. We had below about forty beaters
or coolies, who began at the open end. and beat up
towards me. They had passed Hoyland without
anything being seen, but as they neared the spot
where I was stationed, I heard a rushing and break-
ing among the bushes, and -naturally expected to
see some pigs come out, so I cocked my rifle and
brought it up to my shoulder ready, when, to my
utter amazement, out bounded a tiger ; I then did
what I have since been told was a very foolish
thing. I fired at him with a single-barrelled rifle.
Luckily the shot struck him through both his
fore legs ; had I hit him anywhere else he
would have charged, and I should have had no
chance of escape ; as it was, however, he rushed
on as well as he could into the small part of the
jungle beyond me, and we got him to show
himself by making the beaters roll down large
stones at him ; but he always disappeared again
before we had time to fire. At last I watched the
exact spot where he went after one of these short
appearances, and, making a lucky shot, sent a ball
right through his stomach. Upon this he got up,
and with a frightful roar that made my flesh creep,
he rushed back to his old haunt, receiving two or
three balls in his body as he bounded through the
open space between the two jungles. It appeared,
however, he was in no hurry to give up the ghost,
for he got back all right to his original lair. We
now
theow
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had now no alternative but to ride home for fresh
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supplies, which we did, after giving
well-deserved thrashing ; and we took advantage
of the opportunity of making a late breakfast ;
having done which, we again started for the
scene of action—this
two rifles and a large hunting-knife. Screw-
iongnglueponofuorotp,laundtracked time
each carryingck w e enteredhim by
thheisthhiclkoodof. the
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last a native pointed him out to Heyland, who fired
at and wounded him ; the tiger came after us with
a terrific roar, and considering discretion the better
part of valour we hastily mounted a tree ; this
operation was repeated three times, and at last we
found him lying on his side, apparently dead. We
went up within five yards of him to have a look at
him, Heyland firing both barrels at him, about 15
yards off, previously, to make certain of him; but I
suppose in his excitement he missed him, as the
tiger never moved. When we were about five
yards from him, I proposed to give him a shot and
make doubly sure; but Hgland said, 'No, no ! you
will spoil the skin,' and laid hold of my rifle, which
I, like a fool, let go, thinking the brute must be dead;e
make I
se brealecexe
running
effortt
alongside save moyfs
me l fel
but as we were taking another step forward he rc;:.
with an awful roar, and sprang after me.
up-
ran down-hill, and got off all right; but I 111111
had
hill as hard as I could, and the tiger after rce-
just got up to some coolies who
in our advance, and were
I heard the
as fast as they could,k.
andirhat an awful mo-
beast breathing at my
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scrape alive, so drew pected to get out of the
ing his mind, leaped upon the
desperationwhen
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back
and mauled him most
frightfully ; but it was his
ffort adchthanegcoolie got off with a mauling
would have i led any European, but did not
dYing ' lel
native who was .
killthat him. I can assure you that I shall in future be
a little more cautious about
going up to one again.
before I am quite certain of his
being
dead.'s