The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-20 00:00:00

STATE OP TRADE.

MANCHESTER, June 19.—The quiet and languid state
of the LiverpooL cotton-market has again operated un-
favourably on the sale of yarn and cloth, and the business
has been very limited. In all cases where sellers have
not been willing to make considerable sacrifices buyers,
both for home trade and export, have steadily held
aloof. In yarns lower prices have very generally been
submitted to, but the offers made to them are generally
so much below the concessions they are willing to make
that but a small trade has been effected. Export houses
that had purchased stocks of yarn at lov7 rates before the
late considerable rise took place have to some extent
made matters more difficult for spinners, by taking ad-
vantage of their present position and reselling at home
in pref-rence to waiting until they can find a market on
the continent. In this state of things prices are very
irregular, and the market has been a very unsatisfactory
one. Prices of goods are receding much more rapidly
here than those of cotton at Liverpo )1, especially in
cloth ; and where manufacturers have been disposed to-
day to force sales, they have to submit to a reduction
in some cases of 6d. per piece for the common shirtings
from the highest price touched a fortnight ago. To
continue working at this rate, and with the pros-
pects before them, producers must soon incur
very serious losses, and it will be learned without much
surprise that spinners and manufacturers are at length
stopping their mills at once without waiting for concert
among their neighbours. In the list of names mentioned
to-day of persons who were taking this course were three
concerns in Stockport who had given notice to their
work-people that their mills would be stopped altoge-
ther. A manufacturer and spinner in the northern part
of Lancashire has taken a similar course, while other
producers are resorting to short time.
Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report as follows upon
the cloth-market :
"From the date of our last report to the close of the
week the market continued in a more inactive condition
than we have experienced for some years ; and as con-
tracts have been running out, and stocks beginning to
accumulate, prices have gradually receded, and are now
from 2i to 5 per cent. below the rates asked a fortnight
ago, but at which very few sales were made. To-day
there have been large speculative offers made at low
prices for India goods, but we think they have not re-
sulted in much business."
Messrs. George Fraser, Son, and Co., say :--
"There has been a fiat depressed market to-day, with
a more decided tendency to lower prices both in goods
and yarns."

LEEDS, JUNE 19.
The woollen cloth•markets here to-day have been
steady, both as to demand and price, and a fall average
amount of business has been done. The general tone of
the trade is as cheerful as can be expected, but the chief
derband is still for home consumption, neither the state
of the North American nor the Australian markets yet
offering any temptation to send goods to them, and the
war acting as a check to our exportations to several
parts of Europe. Though very little is doing for the
United States, the last reports of the state of commer-
cial affairs there are of a somewhat favourable character,
and we may look for an opening soon for our woollen
goods in the transatlantic markets.

The returns of the Bank of France for the past month
are again unfavourable, and present a further diminution
in the bullion of 930,0001., making a total falling off of
1,700,000/ within the past two or three months. At
the same time there has been an increase in the note cir-
culation of 1,300,0001. The other items of the account
show that the deposits have fallen off 860,0001., that the
discounts have remained stationary, and that the ad-
vances on securities have increased 200,000/.
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It has never fallen to our lot, in the course of a long
experience, to comment upon anyone event so distressing
to the best feelings of this nation, so disgraceful- to tbe
enemy with whom we are at war, so shameful to hu-
manity, as the massacre committed by the Russians on
the boat's crew of a British man-o-war on the sth of
June at Hango. Not only do we mourn the loss of six-
teen gallant young fellows, whose fate would have been
glorious if they had fallen by any of the common acci-
dents of war —not only are we revolted by the treachery
Which fitist allowed this boat to reach the shore under a
flag of truce, and then butchered the crew—unarmed,
unresisting—with an overwhelm*force of troops, who
sprang upfrom. their lurking places in the rocks; but,
participate
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while we deplore the passion and'violence which so base
and ferocious an action will impart to every.future en-
ncoouenffteorrt is i n tthoios
greatwa and
we.
the authors of this crime to the condign punishment they
deserve. War, no doubt, is full of horrors, and is
marked by a long tract of devastation and of blood ; but
strongeob r
it is also the school of honour, Ond no laws are more
sacred than those which regUlate its excesses. Between
civilised nations those acts of forbilarance and of courtesy
which are not unfrequent, even in the beat of a contest,
mitigate the wilder passions, and show that in defending
the interests of their country the combatants have not
forgotten' the rights of humanity., The boat of the Cos
sack was engaged in one of these very errands of
,civility at the moment when this murderous onslaught
was made upon it. It was to convey seven Finnish
prisoners to Hango, whom the Admiral had no wish
to detain, as they were not in the service of Russia,
that the boat was sent on shore. The stewards of
the mess accompanied the party, in the hope that
this little attention would be acknowledged by the per-
mission to buy some fresh provisiqns. Thus confiding,
thus diceived; Lieutenant Genest4 and his men pulled in
behind the islands off Hango Point. It may here be
observed that.this was no plot of our officeis to send a
boat into Hango harbour, for orders had been given by
the Admiral to land the prisoners wherever they pleksed,
and it was by their own choice that Hango was selected.
A flag of truce, visible from the shore, was flying all
the time on the ship, and on approaching the jetty the
officer in command of the boat again waved the same
ensign of peace. It is, however, apparent from the re-
sult that the approach of this boat on its friendly errand
had been deliberately used by the Russian officers in
command at Hango to organise one of 'the most detest-
able and bloody stratagems recorded in history. Five
hundred armed men lay concealed in the immediate
neighbourhood of the landing-place. The liberated pri-
soners and the officers jumped out of the boat,--they
were immediately surrounded by this overwhelming
force. The miscreant commanding the party seems to
have been a man of some education, for he spoke Eng-
lish—enough, at least, to utter a brutal oath upon that
flag of truce which he was about to violate. By his
order the riflemen opened a sharp fire immediately and
indiscriminately on the officers who had landed, on the
men in the boat, and even on the Finnish prisoners who
had just been set on shore, and who fell to a man under
the merciless bullets of their own, tyrants. Every man
was struck clown, and, with one exception, murdered.
One wounded man was dragged out of the bottom of the
boat, where he had fallen, and was bayonetted upon the
jetty. One sole survivor marvellously escaped by feign-
ing death as soon as he was hit, and ultimately cutting
the boat adrift.
This awful. crime was not, therefore, left without a
living witness to relate and attest the tale, and to de-
nounce to mankind and to posterity, in the strongest
language of indignation and horror, the atrocious cruelty
of this unmanly deed. Among the dacoits who infest
the banks of the Irrawaddy or the savage and piratical
tribes of the Eastern Archipelago our seamen are on
their guard against every stratagem of bloodthirsty and
faithless barbarians ; but in what is termed Christian
warfare, at a spot to which- orders can be forwarded in
a few hours from the seat of Government, separated
only by a few miles of inland sea from the capital of the
Russian empire, and consequently under the direct con-
trol of the supreme_ authority in that country, we cer-
tainly were not prepared for a breach of military honour
And of common humanity which would disgrace the re-
motest settlement and the most barbarous savages of the
habitable globe. Had the authorities at Hango had any
motive to prevent the boat from entering their port, or
for refusing to receive the flag of truce, nothing was
easier than to have stopped the approach of our men by
firing a shot across the bow of the boat. Had they even
attempted to take them prisoners for any alleged mis-
conduct or breach of the privileges of a flag of truce,
nothing was more easy, for the party were. unarmed,
and the disproportion of numbers on the side of the
Russians quite irresistible. But such were not their in-
tentions. No signal was made to warn the boat, off,
and,, when the gig aubsequentlypulled in to ascertain
the fate of her missing comradesivan attempt was made
by people on the shore, to decoy-her, toe,-, into their
power. No summons to surrender was addressed to
the party, and the strongest proof that could be given
of the insane ferocity of the Russians, who were deter-
mined upon the instant murder of the whole crew, is
that they shot down seven of their own countrymen,
who had scarcely set foot upon the beach, and the Fin-
nish captain fell waving the flag of truce upon which
the Russians did not hesitate to fire. Such is the nation
which barely half a century age wrested the province of
Finland, the scene of this tragedy, from the mild and
free government of the Crown of Sweden.
A crime of this nature—a violation of all that is held
sacred and honourable and brave among men—leaves an
indelible trace upon the annals of a nation. A period
of 227 years has not effaced from the memory of the
people of England the atrocity of the Amboyna mas-1
nacre, when an English sea captain and nine of his men
were sacrificed to the suspicious policy of the Dutch ;
and a century has not diminished the infamy which the
night of the Black Hole of Calcutta left upon the me-
mory of the ruler of Bengal. As long as the annals of
this memorable year are recorded in the pages of history
the massacre of Hango will rank with these sinister
achievements, for no parallel can be found to it save in
the worst and most perfidious actions which have dis-
graced humanity. Indeed, this surprise exceeds them
all, for our gallant countrymen were cut off in the very
performance of an act of courtesy and kindness, and
under the shelter of an ensign which every nation but
the Russian knows how to respect. Throughout the
world, wherever this tale is told, the compassion felt for
the untimely end of these braVe young fellows will be
followed by a thrill of horror at the guilt of their mur-
derers. Throughout the world, wherever the British navy
can carry its flag or point its guns, an avenging spirit
will walk the deep ; and not a British seaman afloat but
will remembertbe boats crew of the Cossack in the hour of
battle. It is not the least of the evils of such bad
actions that they invest Jugtice herself with the fiercer
passions, and render war more pitiless and destructive ;
but, on the other hand, they show more clearly with
what an adversary we have to deal—how false, bow
cruel, how unscrupulous ! They prove bow impossible
it is to bind the Russians even to the observances• held
sacred among enemies, except by the influence of feir
and of superior force. They convince us more and more
that the enemy to whom it is our fortune to be opposed
is not only the enemy of England and of France, but of
honour and humanity.—Morning Paper.