The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

£42,698,911

Dated April 5,1860.

£42,6M,911
:ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 3rd day
of April, 1860, exclusive of thel duties of Customs paid lir
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :

Per cwt.
From the British possessions in A meriza .. 27s 4d
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 29s 9'd4
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. —s
Average price of the foregoing

DR. GUTHRIE AND TILE SLAVE TRADE

An American paper, the Presbyterian, which pro-
fesses to be a religious journal of the highest ortho-
doxy, has attacked Dr. Guthrie's speech delivered
lately at the meeting in Edinburgh, sympathising
with Dr. Cheerer. The rev. doctor has written an
.indignant rejoinder, in which he stigmatises many
of the charges in the Presbyterian as " untrue and
contemptible." He proceeds to rebut some of the
statements which he is accused of making :
" You state that I spoke of the American eagle
as polluted with blood.' Now, that may or may not
be the case ; but I never used these words, nor said,
indeed, a word, good or bad, about your eagle. You
state also that I wished the next negro insurrection
to succeed,' though they might have to fight to the
knees in the blood of the white man.' How can I
deny that ? for in your article are not the offensive
words, fight to the knees in the blood of the white
man' set within inverted commas, the usual sign of a
quotation and the pledge of accuracy ? Alas for
the credit of inverted commas and certain religious
newspapers ! There is not a word of truth in
your statement. The wronged and down-trodden
negro may or may not be justified in doing for
his personal what your own fathers did for
their national liberty ; though a man, he is black,
and notwithstanding that an old-fashioned book
called the Bible, says that God made of one blood
all the families of the earth, he may no more have
rights than the cow he is sold with; yet I never
used the words, nor spoke of blood, either on black
men's knees or on American eagles. You say I was
bloodthirsty.' A horrid charge to bring against
any minister of the Gospel. If you mean, by apply-
ing this abusive language to me, that I delight in the
shedding of human blood, or would have recourse to
arms rather than suffer any wrong, I deny your
charge, and appeal for my veracity to those who
know me, and know how I abhor the cruelties in-
separable from war. Perhaps you mean something
else. Perhaps you mean that I would regard the
slaves, if they had a fair prospect of success, as jus-
tified in rising to recover their freedom, and as a last
resource, meeting arms with arms in the battle for
liberty. If so, I plead guilty to the charge; guilty,
I must add, as were our Wallace and your Wash-
ington. Washington and his compatriots thought
not liberty only, but independence even worth fight-
ing for. In the days of the struggle which you yearly
commemorate ministers preached up resistance ;
pulpits, as well as drums, sounded to arms. You
laud the men who did the fight, and were ready to
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doingdoin the same to save themselves, their wives, their
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children, from bleeding under the brutal lash, and
being sold like cattle to the highest bidder ? Though
a violent termination to slavery is not one that any
reflecting and right-thinking man would wish, the
system, as one of cruelty, of immorality, of robbery,
and of murder, is accursed both of God and man. It
is the plague•spot of your state ; the plague-spot of
your churches ; and should its end, which God for-
bid, be one of violence, on the heads of those who
are not straining every nerve to bring it to a
speedy and bloodless termination, will lie the
guilt of all the fearful crimes that shall amom
pang its dying struggles.
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and the slaves are fighting forl theirlen h
rights,escome,
and
y our
disasters may recall the fearful words of Jefferson,
What attribute of Jehovah would allow him to
take part with us ?' "

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experiment, SPECTACLES
infantry recruits lately arrived from England were at the
usual medical examination found to be short-sighted, and
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effective. The Director-General observed that if the C
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mander-in-Chief mander-in-Chief did not object to the incongruity of a
soldier in the ranks wearing spectacles, there
other objection to their being supplied to such could be no
ch men as might
require them. A large number of office
in this way, and it is a well known frs assist their sight
men wear glasses, some of whom act that many sports-
men
who could not see to shoot withoutare first-rate shots, and
them. Government
have accordingly authorised
to the men referred to, as the supply of suitable glasses
atiexperimental measure, to L •
reported upon hereafter.—Madras Vines and Spectator.
UNI oRTUNATE .
LE VVE-TAKERS.—On Thursday
last, over 400
emigrants took their departure from this
country for America by the mail steamer; which left
Queenstown for New York and Portland. While the
steamers were in the harbour a considerable number of
country people, friends of the emigrants, accompanied
them on board, to bid farewell, intending to return either
by boat or by one of the steam tenders, which they sup-
posed would remain alongside. To their dismay, however,
the mails being placed on board, the steamers got under
weigh, being bound under heavy penalties to be on the
route by a given time, and before any means could be pro-
cured to send the parties ashore the steamers were en route'
to America, having 26 of them on board. Several of those.
unlucky individuals, who have now a journey of some
5,000 miles before them to America and back, had actually
left their carts and some of the members of their families
behind them in Queenstown, and the inconvenience and
alarm occasioned by the unwelcome trip to which they hay.
been treated may be easily imagined.—COrk Constitution.