The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

DUNDEE, Nov. 10.—Riga advices received by
telegram report that there are no sellers of flax
there at 48 roubles for Kl. This has tended
to make holders firmer here to-day, and a fair bust-
ness is reported on sellers' terms. Tow and codilla
are also quite as firm as before, especially fine, which
is very scarce. The demand for jute continues ac-
tive, and prices tightening. Anything offering at all
worth money is readily taken, but stocks in sellers'
hadds are very light here. The demand for yarns
keep up remarkably well, and a large business
would have been done to-day at full prices had
spinners been in a position to take on more orders,
but their inability to do so circumscribed sales. For
linens the inquiry was also active, both for the home
trade and for export, but manufacturers are unable
to meet buyers to the extent desired, being already
so far foresold. Less business was in consequence
done than on previous market days.
Prices both of
yarns and linens are fully maintained.
LEICESTER, 11th.—The hosiery trade is more
quiet, and there is not so much doing in fancy or
regular hosiery goods, business being usually quiet
at this period. In the rural districts there is also
less doing. Yarns are realising very high prices,
and the market is firm, spinners being fairly em-
ployed. In wools there is no material change,
prices are high and the tone of the trade is firm.
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NOTTINGHAM, 11th.—The lace trade continues
quiet
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no means large. There is no improvement in the
demand for black silk laces and
edgings, The silk
quilling trade is also quiet. Stocks of all descrip-
tions of goods, both silk and cotton, are very low,
everything being now executed to order. There is
no material change in the hosiery trade. Consider-
ing the high price of the raw material, there is a
fair amount of business doing in hosiery.
goods.
Yarns have an upward tendency.

HANDEL'S " ODE FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY,"
which was one of the principal attractions at the Dusseldorf
Musical Festival, will be brought forward during the
coming season by Herr and Madame Goldschmidt.
THE DRAMATIC AUTHOR AT REHEARSAL.—In
my imagination I had always pictured a stage
rehearsal as a very pleasant affair. Realising it, I found
that, as the author, I was regarded as an enemy by every
one who had a part in the piece ; and that I had not only
made all the actors inimical to myself, but to each other.
The leading low comedian and the leading young lady had
been on the best terms possible until I awed the seeds of
discord between them by providing them respectively with
the parts of Jack, and the Giant. Jack confided to me pri-
vately that, so far as the lines were concerned, she would
much rather have been the Giant; while the Giant pro-
tested, for the same reason, that he would have infinitely
preferred to be Jack. There was only point on which they
were unanimous, and that was in their hatred of me, and
their envy of each other. The discontent of these two was
so unreasonable that I could treat it with indifference; but
it cut me to the quick to be pitifully informed by the second
old man, whom I had been partly instrumental in casting
for Mother Hubbard, that his line of business, until he had
joined that theatre, had been tragedy, and that he /led been
accustomed to enact Macbeth and Coriolanus. I had a
fellow feeling for the second old man, and could have sym-
pathised with him, if he had been commonly civil. tut he
would insist upon altering my couplets and introducing
it gags," which I could not approve. Thus, without any
rhyme or reason whatever, ho persisted in substituting foi.
a very neat joke, the vulgar expression, " Hello boys, there
goes another guy," which he said was safe to bring the house
down. The Giant also took similar liberties, and finished
' lines with " What's your little game ?" " Who's your
hatter ?" " How's your poor feet ?" and other slang expres-
sions of the streets which had no relation whatever to the
subject of the dialogue. I protested that I could not allow
my name to appear in connection with such nonsense, and
begged the Giant to speak only the words set down for him.
I had my reputation to study. The Giant retorted that lie
had his reputation to study too; and he had the audacity to
say that there was not a laugh in the whole piece, and that,
unless he was permitted to du something to "hit the people
up," it would be damned,--.Dickens's theicar Boine."

Fairwater heads the list with the steadying weight of Bst
121 b. She is one of the best mares in training, but I fear
the heavy course will stop her, Balkam is a good sound
horse; and, besides, heavy ground will just suit him.
Catch'em Alive is in first-rate form, and must be near
winning. He would have won the Cambridgeshire much
easier had he not lost start and been shut in at the finish.
Somersault I expect will be kept for Shrewsbury Handicap.
Golden Pledge has been backed for as much money as any
horse in the race, bat at present he occupies a very
suspicious position in the market, and I think he is as
likely not to see the starter as he is to win. Blithfield has
always run well; and looking at the position he held in the
Cesarewitch, where he was fourth, his chance almost seems
second to none. He is well worth backing for a situation.
The only other that has any chance of troubling the judge
is Chaff, who has often been going to do a good thing, but
has not. I believe he tries this time, and may secure a
place in the first three. My impression is that the judge
will place

CATCH'EM ALIVE
BALHAM 2
BLITHFIELD 3
A FRESH MAN.