The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-26 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Nov. 25.—Opinions are rather
conflicting about the yarn-market to-day. Some
of the leading agents and spinners report a con-
siderable business so far as they are concerned, at
an advance on the rates of Friday last, while others
say that they have done nothing, and that business
is worse. The opinion most general, however, is
that the market shows an improvement, and that
prices are about ld. per lb. higher. At this ad-
vance,'wholly or in part, some business has been
done for India, Germany, and the Mediterranean.
The home trade have also been buyers, in some cases
freely. At the prices ruling last Friday thcre so.ma
to be a general opinion that a large business might
have been done this morning for all markets. A
telegram is to hand in anticipation of the mail from
China, reporting yarns at an improvement. The
cloth-market to-day has disappointed expectation.
Up to Saturday we had a considerable improve-
ment as compared with this day week, and a con-
siderable business appears to have been done on
Friday in printing cloths and shirtings at the
prices previously current. This, however, led to
an advance on Saturday and this morning, which
has completely checked business, and manufacturers
have been able to effect very few sales. Our report
of Friday stated that the increased business on that
day was mostly speculative, and it now appears that
speculators are unwilling to follow any advance
whatever. Shippers to the Levant are still doing a
limited business, picking up small lots of T-clothsof
good and favourite makes, and other suitable fabrics,
for which they are willing to give fair prices, but
the aggregate amount of transactions of this cha-
racter is too insignificant to exercise much influence
on the general market. Messrs. John Slagg and
Co. report
:
"From Tuesday to Friday last the market con-
tinued exceedingly depressed, with a further de-
cline in prices of all descriptions of goods. On and
since Friday, however, owing to the advance in the
Liverpool market, we have had a comparatively
active demand, and sellers are again firm at the
full rates of Tuesday last."
LEEDS, Nov. 25.—The cloth-halls presented a
rather quiet aspect this morning, the number of
buyers present, as on the last two or three market
days, being below rather than above an average.
The purchases were confined to small parcels of
winter goods, with a few spring fabrics and ordi-
nary cloths. Comparatively little is doing in cot-
ton-warp cloths, but a moderate business in tweeds.
The business at the warehouses is far from being
brisk, but a few houses are doing a fair amount in
the export trade. The reports as to the state of the
manufacturers are upon the whole satisfactory, but
the cloth-dressing branch is not so brisk as we
lately had to report it.

NEWPORT, Nov. 24.—The iron trade has not been
quite so active for the last few days as was the case
a month or six weeks since. There has been no
diminution in employment, and there is every reason
to believe that additional labour will soon be in re-
quest. In ccnsequence of the slight dullness which
prevails prices are a shade lower, and the iron-
masters are disposed to easier terms. The following
are the average quotations :--Rails (at the works),
£5 12s. 6d. to £5 17s. 6d. ; merchant bars, £5 15s.
to £6. The coal trade is also in rather an unsatis-
factory state. The present average prices are as
follows :—Steam coal, f. o. b., 7s. 3d. to 7s. 9d.;
house, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d.
ROCHDALE, Nov. 24.—The cold weather has in-
creased the demand for flannels, and to-day's mar-
ket has in consequence been an active one. There
was a good sale for all ordinary kinds, and . a
large bulk was bought for charities, many of which,
besides those that have sprung into existence in
connection with the distress in this county, have
annual distributions shortly after this time
or scarlet
year. There was also a good demand f
of the
and dyed goods, and the Yorkshire goods trade
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Captain Oldfield, of her Majesty's steam-sloop,
who has been cruising off the West Coast of Africa,
succeeded in capturing no less than 26 slave dhows
within the last 12 months. Several had slaves on
board—one 54, one 82, and two others 100 each.
One, which was taken with a cargo of slaves on
board in March last, at the very entrance of Zanzibar
harbour (the Sultan of Z intibar having given au
thority to search suspected vez,sels) produced a pass
from the Sultan, but his 1-iii.),htw.s itecifli (1 that !he
had no claim to his protection, having been guilty
of violating his ordinance prohibiting the slave
trade and the treaty with Greet Britaili ; she was
therefore adjudged in open durbar a lawful prize,
and the negroes were sent to it•eychelles, and the
crew distributed among vessels bound out of the
Sultan's dominions. In the following month the
Ariel chased a dhow, which made for the land
near Brava, and the crew escaped, and left
the vessel drifting into the surf with
nearly 100 slaves on board ; her position rendered it
impossible to remove them, and the boats of the
Ariel were in the most imminent peril, that com-
manded by Captain Oldfield being swamped, aud
the crew with difficulty saved, while the shore was
lined with armed men, who with muskets and spears
attacked the boats and such of the slaves as at-
tempted to make for them. The dhow soon afte
wards became a total wreck. The slaves escaped
to the shore, where they were seized by the armed
men, apparently Somali Arabs, and the dhow being
deserted her destruction was completed by shelling
her. _ She appeared to be from 160 to 176 tons
burden. The casualties in The course of the cruise",
seem to have been but few. In one instance a
lieutenant of the Ariel haring seized a dhow, from
which the crew had just escaped by swimming to
shore, placed a prize crew and native pilot on board,
and proceeded to sea with the dhow in company;
but when within 30 miles of Zanzibar the dhow
without any assignable cause, unless treacherously
scuttled by the native pilot, sank, with the loss of
two of the prize crew and the pilot himself. In
another instance a sub-lieutenant seized a dhow tit
anchor in port Chak chak with a crew of 15 Arabs
and six slaves, and it being necessary to follow ano-
ther vessel the dhow was left in charge of a single
seaman, the only hand that could be spared; un-
fortunately, on returning, the dhow was found de-
serted by the crew, who had carried away the
slaves,and our seamen was found mortally wounded.
An encounter took place in Mombas harbour, in
April, Lieuts. Clark and Fellowes cruising in the
Ariel's cutter and pinnace, with a tender in charge,
having put in for water, leaving the tender outside.
Observing a large dhow at anchor in the harbour,
they went alongside, and asked for water, which
was refused. By another dhow, of Buddeen build,
water was again refused. They boarded the latter
dhow, and observed that she was a slave and had
evidently recently landed a cargo of slaves. The two
lieutenants landed and informed the Governor of
Mombas of the fact of the Buddeen dhow having a
slaver, whereupon the Governor accorded them his
permission to seize her. Accordingly, about four
p.m., they proceeded in their boats to seize her,
when they found that since their first visit she had
been run ashore. A heavy fire was opened on the
boats, both from the dhow and from the shore. The
officers, however, succeeded in boarding the dhow,
but were not able to get her off in consequence of
the tide falling fast. While on board they had an
opportunity of seeing that she had a slave deck and
other slave fittings. They then returned to their
boats, and were pulling back, when, without cause
or provocation, the large dhow before mentioned
opened a heavy fire upon the boats, and wounded
Lieutenant Fellowes and two of his men. As the
dhow was obviously strongly manned and armed,
the officers did not think it prudent to risk their
men's lives by attacking her, more especially as she
received a strong reinforcement from the shore.
They, therefore, stood out to rejoin the tender, on
board which was a 12-pounder. That gun was
transferred to the pinnace, and at half-past two on
the following morning, when the tide had risen
sufficiently to float the slaver, the (mate* again made
for the harbour. On entering it they found that
the slaver had been moved up the river into a posi-
tion so close to the town that she could not be
attacked without injury to private dwellings, and
probably imperilling the Protestant mission station.
The officers then made for the dhow which had fired
upon them on the previous evening, in order to take
possession of her as a pirate, when she again opened
a heavy fire on the boats, which was replied to with
the 12-pounder. After 10 minutes' engagement
some of the pirate crew were seen to leap overboard,
and others, including the wounded, to escape in
their boat. On boarding her the officers found her
deck stained with blood, but none of the crew dead
or alive. Some swords and muskets were found
lying about, the rest of her armament having ap-
parently been carried off in the boat by the crew.
The dhow had neither papers nor colours, Aiid
appeared by her build to belong. to some
of the Persian Gulf piratical hordes. The boats
towed out the dhow, but at the entrance of the
harbour she struck upon a sunken reef, and was
set on fire and abandoned, the boats having
lost their anchors in trying to get her off. From
information subsequently obtained there is reason
to believe that the dhow was the Futhel Hhaire, of
Sober, in the Persian Gulf, and that she had five of
her crew mortally wounded in the engagement with
the Ariel's boats. She measured 89ft. in length,
17ft. in beam, 12ft. in depth of hold, and had a poop
measuring 25ft. in length, 13ft. in beam, and Mt. in
depth. She was 190 tons burden.