Glasgow Courier. — 1853-05-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STATE OF THE COTTON TRADE IN ATH.—The weaving busness is brisk, and manufacturers pressing the getting in of their work. Advances have lately been given of Ad per ell on the makes for India, id per ell on those for the home and American markets, and id per spindle for winding. Still weavers cannot be got to supply the demand. In certain fabrics some houses are offering prices as high as those they paid in IMO, and yet they cannot get their orders met. The demand for India is not particularly urgent at present; manufacturers in this department, therefore, • cannot cope in prices with those engaged in the home and American markets; still they were obliged to give the ad per ell advance above referred to, in order to retain their hands. An opinion is entertained that.. should the present demand for gmels of various styles continue, and a cheek not be applied to the increasing emigration of workmen, ar.ll openings in other pursuits, a farther advent. a must of necessity be made. The sowed and pent workers are also abundantly employed, with iree choice of fabric, patterns, anti price. Agents, indeed, are overstocked, and their employers are pressing them for more than can be got done, notwithstanding the Increasing supplies from the Sister Isle—Ayr Weiser,  I  sup at t reft and BUM tO  stot till till( mei C 3.  -I  been sold, and where they might be found; not omitting to mention the massacre of 200 en voyage, and then demanded that a commission should at once be named, who should make a summary inquiry, and punish the offenders with all the rigour of the law. 'ln consequence of this interview Brigadier Morales Hale was sent to this city by the Captain-General as a commissioner to examine the case. He forthwith caused the several ' armadores," or owners of the ship, to be arrested. The examination brought out the atrocity of the affair in the broadest light. Capo directed his course to a Portnguese (negro) colony on the coast of Caffraria, and finding they had no negroes to sell, he determined to fill his ship without being at the expense of a purchase. He therefore took every possible means to lege,' tiate himself with the inhabitants and secure their confidence, awaiting an opportunity for a coup de main. When the time struck him as favourable, the whole population was bidden to a spleuilid feast on bourd the ship, and plied with drugged ruin, until the great mass of them were completely stupified with their potations. Orders were then signalled to the Crew to make all sail, and when the unfortunate wretches recovered their senses they fonnd themselves out of sight of I shore, and those of their company who had been more i moderate in their cups already secured in irons. Nato- I rally enough they attempted the first thing to release themselves by rising on their kidnappers. But they possessed no weapons, while the crew' was large, and armed at all points; so that,notwithetanding repeated efforts to liberate themselves, they were uniformly over-mastered. These encounters were murderous. Large numbers were thrown overboard or cut to pieces with knife and sabre: no that the loss of life during the trip was at least two hundred persons. Of thole who survived, and whom the agents of government have received since the Lauding, 100 are at this moment in our hospital undergoing surgical treatment for sabre-cuts, stabs, and other wounds of greater or less severity received from the kidnapping ruffians who captured them. Many of the