The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-10 00:00:00

SCENE ON TLIB MANCHESTER EXCITINGE.

The Greek members of the mercantile community at
Manchester have given rise to a great deal of public
indignation by their—to say the least—unwise mani-
festations of hostility to the course of the Allies in the
eastern war. There are upwards of 60 Gzeek firms
established at Manchester as exporters of yarn and cloth,
and until the outbreak of the present dispute with
Russia the members of these mercantile houses were
treated by commercial men with that careful considera-
tion and respect to which it was considered, as fo-
reigners resident among us, they were entitled ; but
their partiality for the Russian siale in the struggle, and
their unconcealed exultation at any rumour of ill for-
tinue to the Turks or their allies, have provoked a
marked change in the public feeling towards them. The
news of the Sinope massacre was received by them with
great satisfaction, and the supposed conquest of Kalafat
by the Russians was celebrated by merry-makings at one
of the principal hotels in Manchester. They raised sub-
scriptions in aid of the Greek insurrection, but the sup-
pression of that most abortive movement and the subse-
quent disasters of the Russians, both a,t Kalafat , and
Silistria, gave no further opportunity for such promi-
nent displays of partisanship with the enemy until
the Greeks were again brought into unenviable noto-
riety by their proceedings at Varna and Balaklava.
Notwithstanding the great and general interest of
the English nation in the success of the invasion
of the Crimea, the Greeks appear to be careless of
wounding public ' feeling by manifestations of ad-
verse sympathy, and it was currently rumoured on
the Exchange that two of the Greek houses had
declared their intention, if Sebastopol was not taken, to
keep open house, and celebrate the discomfiture of the
Allies by balls and fetes. On the receipt of the first iin•
perfect telegraphic account of the attack by Liprandi,
ono of the Greeks, for want of a better means of express-
ing in English his delight at the news of half our light
cavalry being cut to pieces, wrote under it the words
" Blessings ! blessings ! " where it was posted on the
walls of the Exchange. The offensive words were for.
tunately pointed out very early to the Master of the
Exchange, and were erased ; but the feelings of anger
excited by the unwise conduct of the people is not to be
so easily stifled. An article in the limes of Monday
censuring the Greeks was reprinted and placarded on the
walls of the town, A copy was 'put up in the Exchange
yesterday morning, and its removal by one of the pro-
prietors (who is also a member of the committee man-
agement) led to a scene of great excitement. The Mas-
ter of the Exchange had been paid the usual fee for post-
ing placards, and the removal of this one led to much
angry expostulation, leading ultimately to its restoration
to the place from which it had been taken.
The Greeks have had the discretion, however, for the
last few days to frequent the Exchange much less than
usual, and it is hoped that their future demeanour in
public will save them from a project which has been
seriously entertained among their follow subscribers to
the Exchange of forcibly expelling them, and that the
present angry feelings against them may be allowed to
subside.

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Siege and decision of the contest at Sebastopol, and will
be continued whenever demanded by the progress of the
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