The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

It is singular that we hear nothing from Sir
GEORGE on the subject of the proclamation. This
is doubtless intentional. The last American advices
inform us that it is beginning to arouse the wrath
of the South, and there is plenty of what the Ame-
ricans term " tall talk" in the Congress at Rich-
mond about it. Of course, it is represented as an
incitement to massacre and pillage, and all that
kind of thing, and dreadful alarm is professed.
Now, we have two remarks to make to the
Southerners and their pro-slavery friends here, on
this kind of rant, for we believe it to be rant, and
those who use it to be aware that it is so. First,
we say—if you are afraid of a massacre, then you
have told ns most shameless falsehoods hitherto on
your own good usage of the negroes, and on their
attachment to you and to slavery. if the relations
between you and your negroes are what you
have described them to be, they would, scorn
the offer of freedcm, and beg to remain with their
beneficent masters, who gave twelve hundred or
even two thousand dollars a piece for them, and of
course use such treasures most tenderly. If all you
Southerners have told us be true, it will never
occur to the negroes that they can be worth two
thousand dollars each to themselves, and they will
laugh at the bribe of liberty, work, and wages.
Secondly, we say, if you do not believe the negroes
will massacre you, you have not a shadow of com-
plaint against Mr. LINCOLN. He has done only
what is perfectly fair in war. You went to war with
him because you said his policy of excluding slavery
from the yet free soil would abolish slavery—for
slavery, therefore, you have broken up the Union
and shed torrents of white men's blood—you wanted
independence to propagate slavery—you have
used your slaves, too, to support you in
war, as well as made them the occasion
of the war. Most just is it, therefore, that Mr.
LINCOLN should, after giving you three months for
repentance, tell you that after that time he will to
the extent of his power abolish slavery. This is
taking the slaveholders' own ground ; we do not see
how they can deny that Mr. LINCOLN is quite
right.

We confess we begin to hope that there is more
in the proclamation than we had thought when we
see the fury it creates in the South, and how it is
denounced by the pro-slavery organs of this country.
We almost hope that all the wrath is real, not
feigned, and that the South may find that even this
timid and proerastinating document is full of just
terrors to the guilty buyers and sellers of men—to
eigs—human beings we can hardly call them,
denywho o
that a black man has any rights which
a white man is bound to respect Oue thing is
certain. These furious slaveholders have an easy
method of saving themselves from massacre—they
can emancipate their slaves themselves. They will
not pretend that it is not in their power
by this simple act of justice to secure
the attachment of the negroes, to retain them as
labourers at wages, to lose nothing by it, for free
labour would be the cheapest for them, and then,
indeed, they might, with the assent and recogni-
tion of all Europe, defy the North for ever. If
they would take this easy, profitable, and righteous
step, England must recognise them at once, and
would hear no longer of a war of subjugation.

THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL.—The com-
mittee of the Memorial Fund met yesterday at the Mansion-
house. It appears that the amount already invested is
£47,235 155., and the balance in the haws of the bankers
is £3,315 6s. 5d., of which sum the committee directed
£3,000 to be invested. The total amount paid and promised
up to yeaterday amounted to £53,089 9s. 10d.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary have left Cambridge Cottage,
Kew, for Brighton.

Sir Henry Bulwer, English ambassador to the
Sultan, has arrived at Vienna, and Baron de Prokesch is
expected there. It is reported that the baron is resolved
not return to Constantinople, and even intends withdraw-
ing entirely from political life.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
Madlle. Elphinstone de Flahault come to town to-day, from
Tulliallan Castle, Perthshire. The Countess de Flahault
returns to town on Saturday.
The Duke of Wellington is passing the season at
his seat in Norfolk. The duchess is staying at Dufferin
Lodge, Highgate, on a visit to her brother, the Earl of
Gifford.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Beaufort and Lady
Edith Somerset have returned to Dupplin Castle, Perth-
shire, from a visit to Floors Castle, Kelso.
The Marchioness Conyngham has left town on a
visit to her ladyship's sister, the Duchess (Dowager) of
Richmond, at Highcliffe, Hants.
The Earl and Countess of Craven left their resi-
dence in Charles-street, yesterday, for their seat, Ashdown
Park, Berks.
ROBBERY OF £3OO IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—Yester-
day morning information was forwarded to the different
metropolitan police-stations that Mr. Isaac Worthington,
of Norwich, who had been to visit the International Exhi-
bition,
100,
ionl,had been plundered in a public-house in the City of
25 two
gold saon,
dansdilvfierv.e STsheStahnikeveosf
got England
clear notes,away
with their booty- The numbers of the notes are known;
and
they have been stopped, and a large reward is offered for
the apprehension of the robbers, who can be identified.
The Bishop of Durham refuoed, on Tuesday, to
allow reporters to be near him while he delivered his pri-
mary visitation charge in the church of St, Mary-le-Bow,
Durham,