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

STATE OF TRADE.

DUNDEE, Nov. 10.—Riga advices received by
telegraca 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 busi-
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.
NOTTINGEIAM, 11th.—The lace trade continues
quiet this week. There are a few American and
other foreign orders in the market, but they are by
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 FOE, 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 myeelf) but to each other.
The leading low comedian and the leading young lady had
been on the best terms possible until I sawed 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
I 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 had 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 ho had been commonly civil. But he
would insist upon altering my couplets and introducing
" gags," which I could not approve. Thus, without any
rhyme or reason whatever, he persisted in substituting for
a very neat joke, the vulgar expression, " Iloilo 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 13.1 s reputation to study too; and he had the audacity to
Isay that there was not a laugh in the whole piece, and that,
unless he was permitted to do seloetbing to "hit the people
up," it would be damned.—. Dickens. a "All the Tear Round."