The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-30 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

The market has again assumed a quiet tone, and
sales will probably be about 4,000 bales. The
market has been dull all tho week. Week's sales,
34,00 bales, including 5,960 on speculation, and
8,673 for export. Actual export, 9,390; import,
49,178 bales; sales to the trade, 19,000. Qlota•
tions—Middling Uplands, 261 to 261 ; Mobile,
261; Orleans, 27.

The Countess Dowager of Tankerville has arrived
from Paris at her house in town, liertfard-street, Mayfair.
A SILLY HOAX.—SJrne of the Yorkshire papers
of Saturday last contained acc(,uats of a " Curious
Antiquarian Discovery at Driffield," in which the remains
of mesczotc life were curiously enough jumbled up with the
workmanship of man and legends of the 15th century. The
main portions of the narrative are sufficiently remarkable
for reproduction. They are as follows :—." In excavating a
chalky quarry belonging to Mr W.Clark several interesting
fossil and antiquarian discoveries have at different times re-
cently been made. At the depth of 30ft. fossil bones, in-
cluding what has been described as a human hand, shells,
sponges, and other marine and vegetable productions, have
been found. . . . The most interesting object, how-
ever, which have been brought to light are the handiworks
of man. While one of Mr Clark's workmen was employed
breaking up the large pieces of chalk which had been dub
up from the quarry into smaller portions, for the purpose
of being burnt into lime,he was somewhat startled on taking
up one of the pieces to fins that it bore upon it a striking
but rudely soulptured human face. This figure was found
among the chalk which had come from a depth of 30 feet
and corresponded in character and appearance with the
chalk among which it was found. It presents the appear-
ance of age, and of having been in the earth for a great
length of time. . . This discovery was soon followed
by a still more interesting relic being brought to light under
the same circumstances, This article appears to have been
a model for casting a fibula or brooch. It is neatly and
clearly executed in chalk, and is circular, running off in a
band or strap, ornamented with lc zenge-shaped figures. It
is larger than a crown-piece, and in an indented or concave
border is an inscription in antique characters. The words
when written at length are, Jhcsus Rex Judceorunt snise
rere,' which may be rendered ' Jesus, King of the Jews,
have mercy upon me.' There is no question about this
being a genuine production of the period to which it belongs
—about the middle of the 15th century." The incon-
gruity of the above statement, and the utter impossibility
that any traces of man or his work should be contained in
the chalk, one of the secondary rocks and a marine formation
induced an inquiry at Driffield on Monday last, for the pur-
pose of finding out, if possible, what really was the nature
of these discoveries. At Driffield, after inspecting the
quarry, which certainly presents a breastwork fully 30 feet
high. the whole cf the three remarkable discoveries men-
tioned in the abave extracts were found to have been made by
one man, a quarryman. Tuffs man was very willing to give
information of the wonderful things he had found. The
human hand, he asserts, came out of the solid rock ; but on
close inquiry he admit'ed that it was jointed, and that on
being handled the joints fell asunder. It became clear enough
that the so-called human hand was nothing more or less
than one of the common 2crals found in the chalk, but had
evidently been rather more digitate than is usual. In like
manner, the only solution to be arrived at about the
" fossil bones" was that the ordinary baculites and be-
leranites of the chalk fossils had been so called. The human
face, the man protested, came out of a solid mass of chalk.
This face was produced at the residence of the owner of
the pit, and it is assuredly nothing more than a very
bad attempt to carve a figurehead in the soft chalk by
some workman who has practised sculpture with a pocket-
knife. The best solution is one offered by Mr Brown, of
Driffield, a gentleman who has paid much attention to anti-
quarian matters in the locality, that this wonderful face has
been carved by some amateur sculptor on the face of the
rock, which had fallen in as the excavation had progressed.
It was quite certain that, so far from being of vast age, it
had never known a winter's frost. The "find," too, it ap-
peared, was some months old. The chalk model is now
held by Mr Brown,

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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1804.1

MISCELLAN EOUS—Continned.
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Bra., 6 5; 6 I
Hudson's Bay, 15i 15
Imperil Mercantile Credit Asso., lira., 6 5i
International Financial society, Mil., 61 a iI
Joint Stock Discount, Um., 4; ; f ; 6
London Financial Association, km., 202.;
Ditto, new, 15;
Milwall Iron Works, 41
National Discount Company, lira., 11; 11(1 11
Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lira.,
Ditto (el), 1
Otago and Southland Investment, I
Panama, New Zealand, and Australian 13.. Mail, lira.,
Ditto, new, 2 dis
Universal Marini, Insurance, lira.,
Warrant Finance, lim., 8

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE SHOCKING CONDITI)N OF OMNIBUS HORSES.—
ANOTHER CASE —James Curner, dziver of omnibus 7,390,
belonging to the London Gtneral Omnibus Company, was
charged before Mr, Tyrwhitt by the .11.)yal Society for the
Pre.vention cf Cruelty to Animals, with working two horses
in an omnit•us in a state totally unfit for working.
The horses wero brought to the front of the court for the
magistrate's inspection, and it was apparent to everybody
that they were only fit for :he knackers.
nu' herford, one cf the officers of the Society, proved
seeing defendant driving two horses attached to an omnibus
near the end of the Tottenham-court-road. The defendant
was flogging the poor animals to get them along, the omni-
bus being heavily laden. On asking the defendant why he
flogged the horses, he said if he did not do so they would
stand still in the street.
The officer then described the state of the horses as being
in the most wretched condition, and said they were both
unfit for work.

Mr Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary sur-
geon, described the horses as being in a worse state than
those brought in front of the court a few days ago, s.nd
stating that they were both lame and old, and quite unfit
for any kind of work.

The defendant said the horses were given him to take
out by an odd man, and if he had seen their condition he
would not have taken them out.
Rutherford said the defendant had driven the horses
from Paddington to London-bridge, and was on his way
back again with a load when he was taken.
Mr Tyrwhitt said in all these cases there was an " odd
man," who was the cause of the horses being sent out.
Tho proprietors of the ho:ses were far worse than the
drivers.

Rutherford said that the horses had been whipped till
they bled to make them go; the insides of their thighs
having dry blood on them.
Mr Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s. or a month, and
ordered a summons to be taken out against the manager of
the company—stating that he should consider if he should
not inflict imprisonment in the next case.