The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Good and fine English hops are in steady, request, at
full prices ; otherwise the trade is dull, at barely late
rates.

Mr. J. J. Powell, who, in consequence of his ap,
pointment to the recordership of Wolverhampton, had to
vacate his seat for Gloucester, offered himself for re-election.
The election took place to-day. There was no Opposition
candidate.
STREET MUSIC (METROPOLIS).--The following is
a " copy of all the instructions given to the police
constables of the metropolitan district for the purpose of
defining their duties with regard to the removal of street
musicians, under the Aet 2d and 3d of Victoria, cap. 47 :"
" The superintendents are to give instructions to the
constables that the law does not authorise them to remove
street musicians unless at the request of an inhabitant on
account of illness of an inmate of the house, or for other
reasonable cause. If it be stated that an inmate is ill and
there is no reason to doubt such statement, the constable
is to require the musicians in the street to depart from the
neighbourhood of the house. Whenever any cause other
than that of illness is stated by the inhabitant, the constable
is not to remove the musicians, buf, report the first oppor-
tunity to his sergeant, or at the station, the cause stated to
him for the removal. The constable is not to take any fur-
ther steps without instructions from his superior officers,
The superintendent or inspector on duty at the station is to
give directions according to his discretion as to the suffi-
cincy of the cause alleged by the inhabitant for the re-
moval, and if complaint is made against the constable foe
removing the musicians the householder is to be required
to attend before the magistrate to give evidence of the
cause for which he required the constable to act, and a re-
port is to be made to the commissioner whenever a constable
requires musicians to depart for any other cause than illness
of an inmate of a house. Should the musicians continue to
play in the street after being required by the constable to
depart the constable is to ascertain their names and ad•
dresses, and if he cannot obtain this information he is to
take the musicians into custody, according to the law 2d
and 3d Victoria, cap. 49, sec. 37,"
TIGER SHOOTINb IN INDIA. Rumours were
afloat in Poona on Monday and Tuesday that a
serious sporting accident had occurred at Khandalla. The
particulars are conflicting, but from all we can gather the
following details appear to be accurate :—Four officers of
the Royal Artillery recently went to the Ghauts, about 12
miles north of Khandalla, in quest of large game. On the
7th of April they
killed a tigress, and next morning there
were iwo tigers marked. On approaching the spot, and
after tracking them for a considerable tinae through jungles,
the hunters succeeded in severely wounding one of the
beasts. The animal appeared, to all intents and purposes.
dead, and did not even stir when petted with stones. How-
ever, to make sure, a shot was fired at him, when the tiger
jumped up—the beaters bolted, of course—and ten snore
shots were fired. At length the attention of the tiger was
attracted towards Lieutenant Buller and Lieutenant
Fletcher, who were running down the hill. A shikaraodr
native hunter, was following with a hogspear in h
which, in his excitement, he ran through Lieutenant
Buller's leg. This gentleman became consequently Yalr.ea.dy
com-
pletely disabled. In the meantime, the tiger
seized Lieutenant Fletcher by the thigh,
d the
but perceiving
Lieutenant Buller he dashed at him, and seized
doalready
wounded officer by the left arm. Both rolled wil the
hill, when the brute sent his teeth throngthigh.The
before he could inflict further injury on hie insensible
tiger became so exhausted from loss of blood
that he died
r k
Both wounds
officers, were
was
victim. Assistance was soon obtained, when the animal
was found to be dead. Lieutenant Fletcher was conveyed
more serious,
to Khandalla, andsLenietubtyentarneitnßtuollieiri, whose
we are happy
to say,aro doing well, although their wounds
are very severe. It would have been better had the sports-
men followed the rule which experience has taught us-
4,3:lever trust a dying tiger." More accidents arise from
the spasmodic struggles which precede dissolution than
from the ferocity which is characteristic of the living animal.
—Deccan .Herald.