The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-02 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day,

LONDON, Sept. 2.—Wind this :day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
CLYDE, Sept. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ailsa, from
Quebec.

Sounamr,Tox, Sept. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Douro,
from Rio Janeiro.

FALMOUTH, Sept. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Onde
miny, from Salornock.

DROGHEDA„ Aug. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sanbury,
from St. John's, N.B.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nyanza
'rom Monte Video.

WARRESPOINT, Sept. I.—Arrived—Jenny Mordie, from
St. John's, N.B.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—J. W.
Davis, from Trinidad; Thomas Order, from Prince Ed-
ward's Island.

Pm., Aug. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jane, from Ha•
vannah ; Laura, from New York; William, from St
John's, N.B.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. I.—Celia, from Neves; C. T. Bourvie,
from Colombo; Harwich, from Adelaide; Two Friends,
Monarch, and Frederick Willirm from Guernsey ; Glen-
dove r, from Algoa Bay; Ocean Child, from St. Kitt's ;
Karola from Gamla Carleby; Fleecha, steamer, from Ghent;
Flora, St. Übe's ; Alexandria, from Calcutta; Mary Camp--
bell, from Tinidad ; Hound, from Algoa Bay ; Wynyard,
from Cronstadt ; Fawn, from New York.

Arrived, Sept. 2.—The Dolphin, from Cronstadt ;
Lochiel, from Sydney; Isola Bella, from Soderham.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Clydesdale, for Liverpool ; Seine and Tamise,
screw steamer, for Rouen—both from London; Alexandria,
from Singapore for London.

Anchored.—Republic, from Sunderland for St. Helena ;
Matilda, for Lisbon ; Embling, for Port Sad—both from
London ; James B. Duffus, from Trinidad, for orders ;
Strang, from London for Honduras.
Passed in Tow.—Vandora, from the west for London.

ANTEDILUVIAN SCULPTURE.—Considerable inte-
rest was last week excited at the sitting of the

Academy of Sciences by a letter from M. Lartet, read by
Mr. Milne Edwards, concerning a lamina of fossil ivory
found in an ossiferous bed near Perigneux, and having the
figure of a mammoth rudely engraved on its surface. A
plaster cast of the specimen accompanied the letter, in
which M. Lartet stated that in the month of May, 1864,
he accompanied M. de Verneuil and the late Dr. Falconer

to one of tho caverns called La 3ladelaine, which he (M.
Lartet) had explored in company with the late Mr.
Christy. Some workmen were engaged at the time in con-
tinuing the excavations, and the visitors were in time to

lee five fragments of an ivory lamina brought to light.
The pieces being fitted together again, M. Lartet showed
Dr. Falconer numerous but shallow lines sunk into the
surface, and which seemed to represent an animal. Dr.
Falcoaer recognised the head of an elephant, and upon
a closer inspection remarked, besides other parts of the
body, a cluster of lines intended to represent the long-
haired mane which formed the characteristic feature of the
mammoth or elephant of the Glacial period. This pecu-
liarity had been verified beyond a doubt in 1799 by Mr.
Adams of the Academy of St. Petersburg, who dis-
covered a whole mammoth, flesh and bone, im-
bedded in the ice near the mouth of the Lena. A
bunch of the hair of this same mammoth may be
seen at the museum of the Garden of Plants. M.
Lartet mentions several other scientific gentlemen who
have examined his ivory lamina, which adds a new proof
to the many already collected of the co-existence of man
with the fossil element (elephas primigenius) and the other
great berbliora and carnivora which geologists believe to
have lived in the first phases of the quaternary period.
Another remarkable discovery was made about the same
time on the same spot : it consisted of a number of bones
of the ovibos moschatus or musk-ox, lying together with
the bones of the fossil bear, reindeer, horse, &c., and evi-
dences of the industry of man. The musk-ox now lives
in the Arctic regions of America, and is never to be found
below the 60th degree N.L. Hence during the quaternary
period, the temperature of France in the Perigord must
have been equal to that of the highest latitudes alluded to.
QUARANTINE.—In a paper addressed to the
French Academy of Sciences, M. Grimaud de Gaux
examines this important question, in which, he observes,
Governments are subjected to pressure from two different
quarters; for, on the one hand, publio health requires effi-
cient protection against the invasion of scourges which may
be imported, and, on the other hand, trade suffers from the
restrictions imposed upon it for sanitary purposes, and
loudly calls for the suppression of quarantines. Hence the
interests of humanity, which in France apply to 37 millions
of souls, are opposed to the interests of trade, Which
concern about two millions of persons, exclusive of
travellers. In 1846 a medical theory concerning contagion
was propounded in favour of the commercial view of the
case, and, after a long and violent discussion, the Govern-
ment thought proper to modify its quarantine regulations.
M. Grimaud now points to the state of things on the Medi-
terranean coasts, and contends that the results have refuted
the new theory completely, trade being injured by the very
relaxation of quarantine allowed to protect its interests.
When, in a thickly-peopled country, an illness assumes
an epidemical character, every one fears for himself, and
hastens either to quit the spot, or to lay efficient obstacles
in the enemy's way. Theories relating either to contagion
or infection are understood by no one, and no one cares to
understand them : it may be human weakness, it may be
ignorance, but certain it is that nobody has any faith in
the efficacy of any sanitary measure short of the absolute
suppression of all communication with the infected locali-
ties. M. Grimaud himself considers this latter course to
be perfeCtly rational. "For," says he, " if a disorder, whether
epidemical or contagious, passes from one place to another,
and from one individual to another, there must have been
circumstances favouring this emigration and transmission ;
some special element, some ferment, some germ detached
from a body must have been transported to some other
body, where it must have developed itself so as to produce
new ferments and new seeds." Our author, therefore, is a •
zealous advocate for the strictest quarantine.