The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-01 00:00:00

STATE OP TRADE.

DUNDEE, Dec. 30.—A few sales of flax have been
made since last report, but the business done in to
day's market was
not large. The price of fine flax
is higher, but common qualities, on the contrary,
can be bought rather easier than of late, the stocks
of such goods in sellers' hands being large. Tow
and codilla remain unchanged in value, but the
demand is quiet. Jute is rather more inquired for,
and prices are steady. For yarns for early delivery
there continues a fair inquiry, and a moderate busi-
ness was done to-day at previous prices. Linens of
all kinds continue in good request, and some rather
extensive transactions were entered into to-day at
full prices. Altogether there was more life in the
market to-day than is usually seen so close on the
end of the year, but the year has been an excep-
tional one, and the trade, on the whole, very
prosperous.

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orders for useful goods. In the country districts
trade is flat, and the workpeople continue only
partially employed. Yarns are realising high
prices, the market being firm and worsted spinners
well engaged. In wools there is no important
change, but prices remain firm.
NOTTINGHAM, 31st.—During the past few days
the lace trade has been very quiet, but this is
usually the case after Christmas. A better demand
is, however, expected to set in shortly. Very few
buyers have been in the market, and their opera-
tions have been limited. There is less doing in
foundation nets and cotton quillings. The home
trade is dull, and there is not much doing for ship-
ping. In the silk department there is a little doing
in edgings and black laces ; stocks of all kinds of
goods are low. In hosiery there is fully as much
doing as could be expected, considering the high
price of goods and the advanced period of the year.
Buyers, however, purchased very cautiously. Yarns
continue extremely dear, and are difficult to pur-
chase.

A TIGER ADVENTURE.—As an evidence of the
good service attendant upon the efficient use of the
rifle by our young men of the volunteer corps, we (Greenock
Advertiser) may place before our readers the following
communication from a young townsman, lately a member
of our corps, and recently settled in a distant locality :
" One day we had a bullock killed by a tiger, close to the
cattle shed; it dragged it into the jungle about a hundred
yards from the road. We followed the trail and found the
bullock, after pursuing it well, and got it dragged near a
large tree, and as night came on, I went along with an old
acquaintance and ascended the tree, with two guns loaded
with ball, It was a fine moonlight night, and the carcass
was only 20 yards off. At three o'clock in the morning the
moan set and loft us in total darkness. Shortly atter this
I observed a pair of eyes shining in the dark quite close to
us. I touched Mr. on the shoulder with my elbow;
my hair began to stand on end with excitement, but Mr.
told me not to fire—the animal was too near to us, and
if I missed him he might try to sprires up to us. I followed
the eyes till the owner reached the bullock and began to
devour it. I lifted my gun to my shoulder, took a deliberate
aim at the eyes (the only thing I could see), and pulled
both triggers; there was an awful roar, which made my
blood run cold, and then a profound silence. We waited
for daybreak with the utmost anxiety. At six o'clock in
the morning we descended from the tree, and found the
tiger lying stone dead, with his teeth firmly set in the
haunch of the bullock, and two neat little holes in its skull,
just above the eyes. The balls had penetrated the brain, and
done the work of death. It measured Bft. 10in: to the tip
of the tail, and_was a fine animal, quite young too, judging
from his teeth, which were like ivory."