The Sun. — 1863-11-19 (London, England)

STATE OF TRADE.  DUNDEE, Nov. 17.--Advice s from Riga report a further advance of three roubles in the price of flax, K. 1 having been done at 52 roubles, but a fall in the exchange reduces the advance to about £1 sterling a pound. Here holders are asking an advance upon last week's prices, but buyers are unwilling to comply, and only a moderate business is reported to-day, the sales being at very full prices. Some St. Petersburg flax was put up to public sale here to-day, and three-fourths of it was sold at fair prices, the balance being withdrawn for £2 a ton more than was bid for it. Tow and codilla are in good demand, but the high rates now asked check sales. Jute of good quality is in short stock in this market. and as it is much wanted prices are rather firmer since last week. Common is also inquired for at former prices. There was not the excitement in the market for yarns or cloth which characterised it lately, but a very good demand exists, and the business done was at firm prices, there being no appearance of weakness in any description of either. There were a number of buyers in the market to-day, both for the home trade and for shipment, but the firmness both of spinners and manufacturers, and their inability to make early deliveries, greatly restricted sales. The American advices received yesterday report an improved demand for burlaps and other heavy linens, at higher prices, but they will scarcely remit those now current here.  LEICESTER, 18th.—There is not so much doing in the hosiery trade, but still, considering the time of the year, the workpeople are well employed, and there is a fair amount of business doing. Business in the rural districts is rather quiet. Wools are in fair consumptive demand, and the market is firm. Yarns are realising high rates, and spinners, on the whole, are well engaged. NOTTINGHAM, 18th.—There has been very little doing in the lace trade during the past few days, but this is always a dull period for business. A few orders are completing in Mechlin quillings. Other branches of the plain trade are exceedingly dull. There are some small American orders in the market, and there is little doing for the home trade. The demand for silk goods—especially laces—is very dull, and there is less doing in quilling,. Buyers purchase in small quantities, and only for immediate wants. In hosiery there is a little doing, both for shipping and for the home trade. Yarns are selling at very high prices.  THE RECENT MUItDERS IN A CAB,—After the termination of the inquiry into the death of Mrs. Hunt and her two children on Monday evening, a discussion took place between the jurymen and the coroner as to who should defray the expenses of burying the bodies, which still lie in the dead-house at St. Mary's Hospital. The hospital officials objected to having the expenses saddled on them, and it was thought very hard that the parish of Paddington should have to pay, after the heavy cost it would be put to by the inquiry into the cause of the deaths. It was generally thought that the unfortunate victims cught at least to have a decent funeral, to be paid for out of the money and property of the murderer taken possession of by the Government. The coroner said he would write to the Government on the subject, but he could not officially do anything in the matter, except issue hie warrant for the jutorment, which, had boon done.