The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-21 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The supply of hops on sale is moderate. For good and
fine samples there is a steady demand at very full prices ;
otherwise the trade is quiet.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and trade rules
firm, as follows :

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4a ; mutton, 3s 83 to 4s 8d ;
veal, 3s 8d to Is 63; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 61 per Ms by
the carcase.

1 nor s cave,

This magnificent cave has its opening in the face of a
limestone cliff, at the height of about 250 feet above the
level of the river Manifold, and there is no more picturesque
view in the Midland counties than that which is presented
to the traveller ou the Wetton and Butterton road, when
looking across a ravine ha sees the towering and almost
perpendicular cliff perforated by the gigantic portal of the
cave, some 30 feet high, with the alder-fringed Manifold
winding at the foot along one of the sweetest dells in Staf-
fordshire, the landscape terminated by Grindon-hill and the
graceful spire of Grindon church. The cave itself repays
the trouble of a rather toilsome ascent. Its lofty roof, formedof rude cathedral-like pointed and groined arches, opening
out into several passages or aisles,
is majestic in the extreme.
It is therefore not to be wondered at that several attempts
should have been made to ascertain the archmelogical trea-
sures that might reasonably be supposed to be contained on
the floor of the cave, but all researches until the present time
have proved fruitless. Impressed by the favourable position
of the cavern, its main entranee facing almost due north, Mr.
Edwin Brown, of Burton-upon-Trent, had long been under
the impression that there was a great probability of discover-
ing in the mud of the cave both bones and teeth of some of
those ex. root animals which inhabited this country during
the glacial epooh, the northerly currents of which period
conveyed the mud into the cave ; or,
failing geological dis-
coveries, that there might be found traces of the ancient
tribes of the human race having inhabited the precincts of
the cave, which traces had escaped the partial attempts of
previous explorers to detect. To the end that an effi-
cient search should be made, a small grant of money was
lately obtained from the Midland Scientific Association ;
the permission of his Grace the Duke of Devon=hire was
asked and freely granted, and the invaluable services of Mr
S. Carrington, ce Wetton, as superintendent of the works,
were enlisted. Operations were commenced systematically
a few days ago, Men were employed carefully to remove
the floor of the cave layer by layer, and, after submitting
it th
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of the hill. Many hours had not elapsed before articles
of Celtic manuf .cture presented themselves. The cave
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the western declivity
had evidently been occupied at various times and for
long periods by the wild tribes of our island, who, levelling
spaces in the floor in some out-of-the-way nook of the
cavern, made their fires and carried on all the opera-
tions of ordinary life. Layers of charcoal, burnt to the state
of soot, were found more than a foot in thickness, together
with numerous fragments of pottery of the Celtic and Ro-
mano-Celtic periods, and bones of animals that had been use I
as food. In one place, near the stone known as the "Druids'
any cist, the bones were much crushed. II
altar," and about 5 feet from the surface, an ancient inter-
ment was discovered. The skeleton was placed in the con-
tracted form common to the most encient burials, but being
accompaniedby
y by a bone instrument, made apparently
the deceased, but as no simile'
brow antler of the red deer, perforated in two
discovered in the many barrows
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different directions, and with
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hole also at the I ate.
Probably it had been used strings as a fastening
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that have been opened by Mr. Carrington, or by the late
Mr. Bateman and others, in Staffordshire or Derbyshire,
the use is at present problematical.
. It is a singular cir-
cumstance that several other similar articles were found in
different parts of the cave. Thet.. collection of antiquities
so far brought to liiht-- i comiPB sets bones carved in seve-
ral peculiar ways, fragment 0 gritstone querns, an
armilla and a fine fibula o the harp pattern, both of
bronze, several bronze articles ( f very peculiar construe-
• lion—more or less highly ornamented—and of ethich the
uses cannot at present be even guessed ; whetstones of two
kinds—one of them Perforated to suspend to the dress;
a stone curiously shaped and pierced, possibly used to
attach to a fishing-not; iron knives of ancitnt pattern;
also a spear head, an arrow head, and an adze of unusual
shape, all of iron; a large Y-shaped piece of iron, use un-
known, and other articles too numerous or too obscure to
be catalogued. The discovery cannot fail to be of great
interest to all who have studied the history of our barba-
rous British tribes. It is, however, singular, that so far no
discovery has been made of flint instruments, nor of bones
of extinct animals, but the researches which are being con-
tinued may yet bring both to light, as the operations now
in progress promise the discovery shortly of the passage by
which the cavern is continued into the heart of the hill.

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DEATH OF A POACHER. FROM THE ALLEGED
VIOLENCE or TIIE PomeE.—An inquest was held on Mon-
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had died whilst undergoing
for night poaching in the parish of Blidworth on
the let inst. It was suggested that his death might have
been caused by the severe beating that ho had received when
captured, bat the inquiry was adjourned.
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the Chicago Convention as correspondent for a Philadelphia
paper. She wrote nimbly away until she had filled two or
three large pages, and after the adjournment hurried oft to
the telegraph offico to send special despatches.--.Arty Fork