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he and. his colleague avowedly supported the head
of a Radical party, Lord PALMERSTON could be a
member of any Cabinet without losing caste. He
mentioned his own relations with Lord PALMER-
STON as a proof that the great statesman was
always ready to encourage rising talent. When he
first entered the House Lord PALMERSTON took no
notice of him, but when after many years he ap-
pealed to Lord PALMERSTON for assistance in pro-
curing some official information necessary for the
completion of a report on the Tariffs of all nations,
which he was then engaged upon, Lord PALMER-
STON'S manner changed, and thinking, said Mr.
NEWDEGATE, " that I had won my spurs," and ever
after he showed him kindly consideration. For
many years after Lord PALMERSTON'S own entry
into the House, he was, said Mr. NEWDEGATE, no
speaker. He worked his way up in silence,
having always been distinguished for
his close attention to business and for
the great amount of work which he got through.
The long peace which succeeded the passing of the
Reform Bill was, Mr. NEWDEGATE considered,
principally due to Lord PALMERSTON'S foreign
policy, cultivating a close affiance with France,
while maintaining the old prestige of the country.
Mr. NEWDEGATE'S words on this subject are worth
notice in these days of timorous and vacillating
councils, when Englishmen are not ashamed to de-
clare that they are afraid to offend continental
nations, and reckon up the millions of their popula-
tions in a manner that assures us that the days of
Poitiers and Agincourt are indeed over. " Depend
upon this," said the speaker, " those are, no peace-
ful councillors who would allow the prestige of
England among foreign nations to decline—who
would degrade her to the position of being a fol-
lower of any other Power, or of any other State, in
the councils of nations. We are too influential in
England, we are too wealthy, we have been too
great a nation to take such a position with safety ;
and I honour the memory of a man who was the
embodiment of a policy sustained with prestige, and
who, by sustaining it, maintained the pease of Eng-
land and all the world through a longer series of
years than any Minister before ever held the seals
of the Foreign-office."

Mr. BROMLEY, Mr. NEWDEGATE'S colleague,
spoke in much the same terms, and an incident
which he mentioned as having occurred to himself
illustrated very forcibly what had been said by the
previous speaker about Lord PALMERSTON'S prestige.
While travelling in a remote part of the Continent
he had great difficulty in getting admittance to a
frontier town. In vain he presented his passport,
duly signed by Lord ABERDEEN. The absence of his
servant and one or two other trifles made Ur offi-
cials hesitate. Fortunately for Mr. BROMLEY he
remembered having in his pocket an old passport
bearing the -magic name of PALMERSTON. He
showed it to the refractory official, who at once
said, " Oh, PALMERSTON ! that's enough." Mr.
BROMLEY, quoting the well-known lines on the
dotage of MARLBOROUGH and SWIFT, observed that
it was a matter of congratulation to all persons
that the late Premier died in the full possession of
all his vigorous faculties ; and while it is a melan-
choly thing to see the wisdom and experience so
valuable to the country go down to the silence of
the grave, yet it is a satisfaction to reflect that the
faithful public servant died in harness, and has left
a name no less honoured than renowned.

Comparatively little was said on general subjects
at the Warwickshire meeting, though Mr. NEWDE-
GATE, in proposing the health of " The Electors,"
touched upon the two difficult subjects of the fran-
chise and the game laws. As might, perhaps, have
been expected, Mr. NEWDEGATE supports the prin-
ciple of the game laws, but considers that all diffi-
culties may be avoided by special and definite
agreements being made between landlord and tenant.
But so long as the landlords retain their present
power over the land and the leases, there will,
we suspect, be always fresh troubles springing
up under the game law system. As for the fran-
chise, Mr. NEWDEGATE is again on the unpopular '
side, but his arguments against the:unmanageable
nature of large constituencies would apply to the
present arrangements, and do not certainly rebut
the asserti* that a far larger class has the right
to be represented than now possess it. Even Mr.
NEWDEGATE, however, confesses that prior to the
Reform Bill the Tory party made grave mistakes,
and deserved their subsequent exclusion from power.
The mistakes then made are not possible in the
present state of political feeling and enlighten-
ment, but let their descendants take heed
lest they repeat under another form the errors
and the blunders into which passion or prejudice
led their predecessors. Mr. NEWDEGATE gave
utterance to a truth which certainly the Tories
of the old school would have been slow to admit.
"England," he said, " cannot afford to stand alone."
If she would be safe she must propagate those great
principles cf civil and religious freedom which have
been at once the growth and the fruit of her own
experience and of her native power." Further, Mr.
NEWDEGATE declared that England should be ready
to hold out the hand of fellowship to every nation
that is struggling for that freedom which she herself
possesses, a duty which, of late years, our statesmen
have been too apt to overlook. Altogether the
Warwickshire addresses, if not sufficiently liberal in
domestic policy to meet the wants of the time or
the requirements of the people, were srtaightfor-
ward and manly declarations of opinion, while the
tributes of respect and admiration paid to the
memory of the great man who is this day laid to his
rest, spoke at once to the hearts and the sympathies
of their hearers.

AN AK.

" There ars Giants in these days."

A Great Man yesterday paid us the honour of
a visit—Monsieur Jean Joseph Brice, the Giant of
the Vosges Mountains. There may be doubts en-
tertained as to the Greatness of other Great Men,
--but as to his there can certainly be no mistake
whatever Anak is the name this truly Great
Man is now known by, and as Anak he will on
to-morrow (Saturday) make his public appearance
for the first time before Londoners, in St. James's
Hall, Piccadilly. Then, of course, the public will
be enabled to judge for themselves. But in the
meantime having seen his Highness M. Brice, or
rather that High and Mighty Personage, the modern
Anak, now newly arrived amongst us from the
Vosges Mountains, we can speak very positively as
to his stupendous dimension. Beside him—Chang
is dwarfed by four inches ! For—Anak, standing
on the soles of his feet, measures to the crown of
his head more than Eight Feet in height—measures
fully Eight Feet and one inch! Introduced to
us yesterday afternoon by that Master of Mysteries,
" The Wizard of the North," known to ordinary
mortals by his professional title and patronymic, as
Professor Anderson, Anak has fairly astounded us
by the magnitude of his proportions. Professor
Anderson, although himself owning to the goodly
height of six feet, looked, when by Anak's side, of
no importance of height whatever. And, while
the frame of the Vosges Giant is thus gigantic, his
features, and the expression of his features, are
agreeable to look upon as those of a good-humoured
comely man—upon an immense scale—but per-
fectly in proportion.

FRENCH FISHERIES.—The tunny fishery in the
Gulf of Lyons has been very productive during the last
few days, and the fish aro now selling at 2d. per lb. in
the markets of Marseilles. Other kinds of fish are also
atunclant 4iid cheap.

FOURTH CARRIAGE.
Lord Ashley.
The Hon. Lionel Ashley.
The Hon. Cecil Ashley.
Viscount Jocelyn.
FIFTH CARRIAGE.
•
Viscount Sudley.
General Sir G. Bowles.
Sir G. Shee.
Mr. Charles Barrington.

►SIXTH CARRIAGE.
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge.
Viscount Bury.
The Lord Chamberlain.
The Archbishop of Canterbury.

SEVENTH CARRIAGE.
The Right Hon. the Speaker.
The Lord Chancellor.
The Earl Russell.
The Earl Granville.

EIGHTH CARRIAGE.
Tho Duke of Argyll.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey.
The Right lion. Sir Charles Wood.

NDZTIT CARRIAGE.
The Earl of Clarendon.
The Earl de Grey_
The Duke of Somerset.
Lord Stanley of Alderley,

TENTH CARRIAGE.
The Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.
The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson.
The Hon. Henry Brand, M.P.

The carriages of Viscount Palmerston, of her
Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Duchess of Inverness, the French, Rus-
sian, Prussian, and Bavarian 'Ambassadors ; the
American, Belgian, Austrian, Italian, Turkish,
Danish, Spanish, and Portuguese Minister ; Greek,
Hanoverian, Netherlands, Persian, Swedish, Saxony,
and Hanseatic Chargé d'Affaires; the Hon. the
Speaker, Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, Duke of Argyll, Right Hon. W. E.
• Gladstone, Sir George Grey, Sir C. Wood, Earl of
Clarendon, Earl De Grey and Ripon, Duke of
SOmerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Right Hon. E.
Cardwell, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Right Hon.
Milner Gibson, Viscount Sidney, Lord Chief Jus-
tice, Master of the Rolls, Sir R. Kindersley, Sir J.
Stuart, Sir W. P. Wood, Sir J. L. Knight Bruce,
Sir G. J. Turner, Sir W. Wightman, Sir C. Black-
burn, Sir J. Mellor, Sir W. Erle, Sir C. E. Williams,
Sir J. B. Byles, Sir H. Keating, Sir F. Pollock,
Sir J. Martin, Sir G. W. Bramwell, Sir W. F.
Channell, Sir G. Pigott, Sir W. Shee, Right Hon.
L. Sulivan, Duchess of Wellington, Duchess
Dowager of Somerset, Countess of Jersey, Earl of
Rosebery, Earl of Arran, Countess Dowager of
Lichfield, Lady Molesworth, Miss Burdett Coutts,
Admiral Sir G. Bowles, Sir G. Shee, Sir Moses
Montefiore, Baron Rothschild, Lady Dinorben, Earl
Spencer, Hon. 11. Elliott, L. Cuningham, Esq., Dr.
Protheroe Smith, Miss Lane Fox, Lady Middleton,
Bishop of London, Countess of Fife, Countess of
Lichfield, Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Lyveden,
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, Sir H. Holland, Lord
Wenlock, Sir R. Murchison, Major-General Mal-
colm, and Mr. D. Williams.
The procession moved along Piccadilly, clown St.
James's-street, along Pall-mall, by Charing-cross,
down Parliament-street, to the western entrance of

the Abbey, in the choir of which the following long
list of eminent personages had seats apportioned to
them :—W. P. Adam, Esq., the Marqus of Ailes-
bury, the Marquis D'Azeglio, Sir F. Baring, M.P.,
T. G. Baring, Esq., M.P., Rev. E. Berthon (Rom-
sey), Lord Brougham, Right Hon. H. A. Bruce,
M.P., Sir John Boileau, Bart., Earl of Bessborough,
Lord Broughton, Viscount Castlerose, M.P., H. E.
Childers, Esq., M.P., Sir R. Collier, M.P., Sir
Augustus Clifford, Charles Clifford, Esq., Duke of
Cleveland, K.G., Earl Cowley, Sir W. G. Craig,
Chief Justice Cockburn, Earl of Derby, Right Hon.
B. Disraeli, M.P., Hon. Ralph Dutton, M.P., Sir
Jyhn F. Davis, Bart., K.C.8., Earl of Dalhousie,
Hon. George Denman, Dr. Drage, Viscount Enfield,
M.P., ViscoUnt Eversley Hon. Henry Elliot, Sir
Charles-Eastlake; Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue,
M.P., Sir Thomas Fremantle, Lord Glenelg, Earl
Grey, Hon. Charles Gore, Hon. Charles Gore, Hon.
Charles Harris, Arthur G. A. Hamilton, Esq. (Trea-
sury), Marquis of Hartington,M.P., Sir W. Hayter,
Lord Houghton, Hon. James Howard, Right
Hon. T. E. Headlam, M.P., Right Hon. W.
Strutt, M.P., Colonel Jervoise, Hon. Arthur
Kinnaird, Kennard, Esq. (Dublin), Colonel
Kingscote, M.P., E. 11. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Esq.
M.P., the Bishop of London, Lord Lyveden, Right
Hon. J. A. Dawson, M.P., A. H. Layard, Esq.,
M.P., Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., Lord Monck,
Sir Roderick Murchison, Earl of Malmesbury, Right
Hon. J. Moncrieff, M.P., J. Murray, Esq. (Foreign
office), Nicholl, Esq. (Lincoln's-inn), Lord C.
Paget, M.P., Sir R. Palmer, M.P., Right Hon. Sir '
Robert Peel, M.P., Lord Proby, M.P., A. Panizzi,
Esq. (British Museum), Hon Spencer Ponsonby,
Lord Alfred Paget, Captain Powell, Lord Charles
Russell, Dr. Prothero Smith, Sergeant Sullivan,
M.P., the Master of St. John's, Cambridge, Earl
Spencer, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Earl of St. Ger-
mans, Earl Stanhope, Lord Taunton, Sir Henry
Verney, Lord Westbury, Dr. Watson, Lord Wens-
leydale, Mr. Waddington, Under Secretary of State,
Home Office ; Hon L. White, Right Hon. Spencer
Walpole, M.P., Dean of Winchester, his Grace the
Archbishop of York, and the Earl of Zetland, &c.
In the gallery set apart for the invited peers and
commoners the following were amongst those who
arrived early :—Thomson Hankey, M.P., J. A.
Roebuck, M P., J. Ayrton, M.P., J. A.
Smith, M.P., Mr. Crawford, M.P., Dr. Brady,
James Stuart Wortley, the Duke of Buckingham,
Marquis of Salisbury, Serjeant Gazelee, M.P., Mr.
Newdegate, Lord W. Russell, Gen. Peel, Sir G.
Bowyer, Earl Harrowby, Hon. F. Byne, Harvey
Lewis, M.P„ Lord Naas, Vice-Chancellor Page
Wood, Justice Keating, the Recorder, Russell Gur-
ney, Danby Seymour, and Lord Ernest Bruce.
Shortly before the arrival of the funeral proces-
sion the vergers, choristers, and officers of the
Abbey proceeded to the great west door to receive
the corps acid accompany it to the choir. The pro-
cession walked slowly along the nave, the singing
boys in black scarfs, the choristers with black silk
over their white gowns, and the High Bailiff of
Westminster bad his silver staff and insignia of
office covered with black crape. In a few minutes
afterwards the members of the various corporations
were conducted to the places assigned them, and im-
mediately the notes of the organ broke forth, and the
funeral moved up the nave in the following order:—

The Precentor.

Canons.
The Deans Verger.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster.
The Funeral Feathers.

The deceased Nobleman's Coronet, on a crimson
velvet cushion.
THE COFFIN,

covered with a black velvet pall, emblazoned with
the arms of the late lord, borne by the fol-
lowing Cabinet Ministers : —Lord Chancellor, Earl
Russell, the Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Grey, Sir
Charles W ood, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl de Grey,
and the Duke of Somerset.
Chief Mourner, Relatives and Frionds of the

deceased.

Immediately upon the entrance of the body within
the Abbey, the organ pealed out and the choristers
sang the words, " I am the resurrection and the
life," which have been so beautifully set by Croft.
By the time this was finished the choir was reached,
and the coffin was placed under the screen, while a
portion of the Burial Service was read and chanted.
The Psalm was the 90th—the music by Purcell—
" Lord thou bast been our dwelling place in all
generations." It was chanted with unusual effect
by the choir. Then followed the Lessons from
Corinthians, chap. xv., " Now is Christ risen from
the dead and become the first fruits of those that
slept." The expressive music of this delicious
anthem was sung to perfection, and not a note was
lost in the sacred building.
The service in the choir having been concluded in
the procession, was again formed, and it entered in
the North transept in the following order :

Choristers.
The Canons.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster,
Having on his right
His Royal Highhness the Prince of Wales,

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-end this
morning.

Longbefore 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 one 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-hous©s 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'ail 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,—ln 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 made 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 me to go back some weeks
subsequently, accompanied by my friends, Drs. Joseph
Robertson, Dun; 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,
ac., 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, &c.,
all require to bo 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.
No doubt they will constitute an interesting and fruitful
subject for anthropological research.—Yours, &c.,
Edinburgh, Oct. 24. J. Y. Srmrsox.

DROUGHT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—The Adelaide
7 elegraph gives a sad account of the disastrous
drought in the "Far North" of South Australia:---From
Port Augusta to Nucealeena the country is destitute of
either vegetable or animal life. The Kanyaka and Edi-
owie stations aro entirely deserted. Of 12,000 sheep
on Mr. Peter Ferguson's station it is expected that
not ono will be alive in a month's time. The settlers
generally aro abandoning the country. Messrs.
Dunckel 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 llokina is .£2O per ton, and oats 13s. 6d. per bushel.
Even the tufts of saltbush aro reduced to mere heaps of
powder, and the remains of kangaroos starved to death are
scattered about the country.'

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His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Mutes and Pages. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
Feathers.
The Coronet.
THE COFFIN.
The pall borne as before. The organ
pealing out the funeral march by Beethoven.
The dean and clergy stood at the head, while
on the sides or foot of the grave were
grouped the large body of mourners. The impres-
sive language of the Service for the Dead was then
proceeded with. The anthem of Purcell's " Man
that is born of a Woman" was sung, and the coffin
was lowered into the grave ; and the Rev. Dean,
with a voice distinct and clear—heard over the
suppressed sobbings of the mourners—consigned
" Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
Before the last echo had died away in the cloistered
pile the organ pealed through the sacred edifice, and
the choristers sang Handel's " Funeral Anthem,"
composed for one of our Georgian Queens, the words
being altered to suit the occasion—
" His body is buried in peace, -
But his name liveth for evermore."
To the music of this anthem one might apply,
without exaggeration, the description that it is " fit
for martyrs to play and angels to hear."
Then followed the Benediction, and the mournful
procession- passed away from the grave as Dr.
Tune played the magnificent Dead March in
Saul."
An effect too solemn to be described was caused
just as the last words of the benediction pasSed
from the lips of the Dean. The sun had been
shining gloriously during the early part of the ser-
vice, but at the moment we are mentioning the
sky became intensely overcast, and the north
transept, with its sorrowing multitude, was filled
with a deep gloom that had an effect of magnificent
solemnity but rarely if ever witnessed before.
It was during this peculiar period. that theßrince
of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge, and the
Cabinet Ministers, and friends took their last look
and farewell of one whose whole ambition through
life had been to serve his sovereign and advance
his country's greatness.

SWITZERLAND.
BERNE, OCT. 27.

The 'National Council is proceeding with the re-
vision of the constitution, and has proclaimed liberty
of conscience as inviolable, and the free exercise of
religion to be permitted to all religious communities.

CALCUTTA AND;CHINA MAILS.
• MARSEILLES, OCT. 26. t
The Delta, with the above mails, arrived here a
4.30 p.m. to-day.
The mails leave for London at 10 p.m.
Passengers and ship will receive pratique at
p.m. on Saturday.
The Tanjore, with the heavy portion of the same
mails, left Malta at noon on the 24th inst., andnia/
lie expected at Southampton about the 2d Nov.

LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER 2i.
The Steamer Mexican from Colon, which has
arrived here, reports having passed in lat. 42 N./
long. 40 W., a large bright barrel with a large
pole attached. It appeared to be stationary, as 1
buoyed, and it was supposed to be one of th°
Atlantic bu9ys.