The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

THE STREET DEMONSTRATION.

If anything were required to show the popularity
of the late Premier it would have been found by the
appearance of the streets at the West-eud this
morning.

Long before the time appointed for the departure
of the funeral procession, the neighbourhood of
Cambridge House was thronged by persons repre-
senting every grade in society, from the lowest to
the highest.
Carriages with emblazonments " crowded the
way," and some vehicles of less prententious cha-
racter put in their claims for notice. •

But the earnest and fervid feeling of the people
was developed by the crowd that assembled outside
Cambridge House, the eager demand for the effigies
of the departed Statesman, which were hawked
about the vicinity, and the comments relative to his
protracted career, which were uttered alike by
gentlemen and working-men, Englishmen and
foreigners, and which might be simply summed
up in the words, " that he was a great States-
man, and that he was truly an English Mini-
ster." Most of the houses along the route through
which the funeral cortege passed were closed, and
in some cases black cloth was suspended from the
windows, and in the humbler localities surrounding
the palatial edifice where the great Minister's re-
mains temporarily reposed, " drawn shutters"
evinced that the inmates were animated by the
general feeling of the community, in deploring the
loss of ono of the most popular statesmen that ever
adorned the annals of English history.
The arrangements of the police were efficient, and
prevented unnecessary obstruction, but at certain
points per viam interruptions occurred, that in some'
instances were rendered serious by the fact that
children and women were crushed and borne away
insensible, but we are not aware that there was any
fatal accident.

When the procession left Cambridge House it
proceeded very slowly down Piccadilly, where nearly
every alternate house was closed, with the blinds
drawn down, or, where they were not, filled from
basement to attic with faces, male and female,
anxious to witness the procession.

St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly, was crowded by
visitors, and we inferred from their appearance
that a large majority were foreigners.
The crowd was very large, and it formed, as it
were, a funeral procession, partaking seemingly of
an, embodiment of public feeling of reverence and
respect to the illustrious deceased, for it flowed on
to Westminster Abbey.

The closed shops and the emblems of mourning
displayed in shops and dwelling-houses testified to
the general feeling of the community in regard to
the death of Lord Palmerston. •

The procession reached St. James's-street at
half-past twelve, and here the crowd had increased
to a great extent. All the principal houses in the
street were closed, and the Reform Club was draped
from top to bottom.

On the procession reaching Charing-cross the coup
d'ccil presented was of the most imposing character.
Trafalgar-square swarmed with human beings,
and the Nelson Monument from base to plinth was
covered with spectators, while every window had
an undue compliment of faces.

Ancient Sculptures on the Walls of Caves

in Scotland.

LETTER FROM PROFESSOR SIMPSON.
(To the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette.)
Sir,--In the Medical Times and Gazette, for October 14,
you quote some interesting observations regarding the dis-
covery of archaic sculptures of animals found within the
Dordogne, &c., in France. Perhaps you will grant me a
corner in your journal to say that I discovered lately an
ancient series of interesting sculptures of animals upon the
walls of some caves in Scotland. _ _ _

During last summer, when seeing a patient with Dr.
Dewar, I mado a rapid visit with him to one or two of the
deep and extensive caves upon the sea shore at Wemyss, in
Fife, with the view of finding out if there were any sculp-
tured concentric rings upon the walls of these caves, being
engaged, as I was at the time, in writing out an essay upon
archaic ring and cup sculptures as the earliest form of
carving left by the hand of archaic man upon stones and
rocks in this country. I saw enough in one of the caves
which I visited to induce mo to go back some weeks
subsequently, accompanied by my friends, Drs. Joseph
Robertson, Dune, and Paterson.
On the walls of some of the caves which we visited on
this occasion we found rude incised sculptures of nume-
rous animals and symbols exactly similar in type and
character to those existing on the ancient sculptured stones
of Scotland, and which Mr. Stuart has so well represented
in his excellent work upon that subject.

Amongst the animals sculptured on the walls of the
caves we saw figures of the elephant, horse, deer, dog,
hare, birds, serpent, and fish. Among the debris on the
floor of some of the caves were long bones, of the ox, sheep,
&c., split to extract the marrow, and a few rude imple-
ments.

If archaic man carved figures of animals, as has been
found in the caves of the Dordogne, upon bone and ivory
at a time when his implements and weapons were of the
rudest kind, and not yet metallic, he probably carved also
upon the stone walls of the caves in which he sometimes
dwelt. And I write this notice principally with the object
of pointing out that the walls of our ancient inhabited
caves in England, as those of Kent's Hole, Brixham,
all require to be carefully looked over (with artificial light,
if necessary), with the view, of discovering any early hu-
man carvings upon them. Will any of our professional
brethren who have opportunity aid in such cave researches.c
No doubt they will constitute an interesting and fruitful
subject for anthropological research.—Yours,
Edinburgh, Oct. 24 J. Y. SIMPSON.

DROUGHT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The Adelaide
7elegraph gives a sad account of the disastrous
drought in the "Far North" of South Australia:—From
Port Augusta to Nuccaleena the country is destitute of
either vegetable or animal life. The Kanyaka and Edi-
owio stations are entirely deserted. Of 12,000 sheep
on Mr. Peter Ferguson's station it is expected that
not one will bo alivp in a month's time. The settlers
generally aro abandoning the country. Messrs
Dunekel and Lockit, who bought the Chambers
Creek Station some time since with 4,000 head of
cattle upon it, have only 2,000 left, and they have not
branded_a single calf or sold a head of cattle. They have
abandoned the head station, and are living under the utmost
privations in a hut constructed on the sand near a well.
Hay at Hokina is £2O por ton, and oats 13s. 6d. per bushel.
Even the tufts of saltbush are reduced to mere heaps of
powder, and the remains of kangaroos starved to death are
scattered about the country.'