The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

hunters," as they designate themselves—and certain
abolitionists, resident near George-town, in Brown's
county, Ohio, human lives were sacrificed, houses
burned and sacked, and the whole neighbouring dis-
trict thrown into commotion by atrocities worthy of
the horrible campaigns of the "soldiers of the
Church" against the Albiganses or the Vaudois.
Slaves, it appears, following the first and most holy
impulse of our common nature, were in the habit of
escaping out of Kentucky into Canada and freedom,
through the State of Ohio. Two well-known abo-
litionists dwelt on this border land, near George-
town. To their houses the "party of Kentuckian
negro hunters" repaired to look for runaway slaves,
and of these unfortunates discovered two in the resi-
dence of a Mr. MILLER. 'Whilst this man was gene-
rously aiding one of the slaves to get away, he was
knocked down, and repeatedly stabbed by the Ken-
tucky people, and presently expired. The ruffians
then proceeded to the other house, that of a Mr.
KING, carrying with them the two slaves, bound. At
KING'S, they were stoutly resisted by four or five
armed men, who declared that the house should not
be searched. In the fierce conflict that ensued, a son
of a certain "Colonel" TOWERS, a Kentucky slave-
holder, was killed on the spot, and KING, whilst re-
loading the arms of his companions, was shot through
the window and left for dead. The sheriff at length
appeared, and took the " ringleaders" on either side
into custody. But sheriffs and their posses are held
as cheap, and are as utterly repudiated in the Slave
States of the Union, as human liberty, negro life, or
Pennsylvanian bonds. Another body of Kentuckians
came up and recommenced the slaughter. " One of
the slaves was hung without ceremony" for—hav-
ing resisted " Colonel" TOWERS, who had captured
him, and therefore was one of the ruffians engaged in
the first affair. The brave Kentucky hunters then
entered the house of another obnoxious abolitionist,
and beat him till his life was despaired of. The New
York Sun makes these hideous outrages the ground,
not of rebuke and denunciations of shame to their
compatriots, but, forsooth, of absurd accusations and
childish menace against England. Let us remark, in
perfect calmness, that if the wise editors of these
iournals will cast their eyes over the map of the
Western hemisphere, and note the proximity of San
Domingo to the Southern States of the Union, and
consider the character and free condition of the com-
patriots of the " blacks " of San Domingo or
Jamaica, and all the British West India Islands,
they will find more substantial grounds for appre-
hension and alarm, as well as accusation and menace,
in respect of and against their own unpardonable
treachery to the cause of human liberty, and their
own inexcusable blunder in the toleration within
their own territory of negro slavery.

But we fear that considerations founded on the
rights of man—in the black variety—are lost upon a
vast community of American citizens. Let us put
one of another kind, calculated to appeal to their
more active sympathies. Can they afford to lose
their inordinate exports of raw cotton—of that slave-
grown staple—for the English market ? By a
righteous dispensation, it seems as if England were
destined soon to release slave-labour from its cultiva-
tion in one hemisphere, and to employ free black
labour in its cultivation in another. We quote, with
unfeigned satisfaction, from the City article of a
Morning Contemporay, the following remarks on its
last intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope :

" We some time ago mentioned that some experi-
ments had been made in the cultivation of the cotton
plant last year, which had produced rather promising
results, and we now find that an associati, n has been
formed for the parpose of continuing the experiments on
an extended scale. Some districts in the new province
of Natal are represented as offering every facility for the
growth of the cotton plant, and it is a species of
production in which the labour of the aboriginal
tribes can be rendered available with advantage to
themselves as well as to the colonists who may
employ them. We have seen a letter to-day from
an intelligent observer in the colony, who is exceed-
ingly sanguine on the subject, and who looks for-
ward to the extended cultivation of cotton as a most
useful auxiliary for the civilisation of the natives, and, in
time, for rendering the mother country less dependent
on foreign supplies. There may be something too san-
guine in these anticipations ; but it ought to be recol-
lected that thirty years ago few persons would have be-
lieved that this country and the rest of Europe would
have been dependent, to the extent they now are,
on the production of this staple on the great plain
of the Mississippi. It must be further borne in
mind, that between Algoa Bay and Port Natal about
100 streams of varied capabilities discharge them-
selves into the ocean, which may yet be destined to pro-
duce as astonishing results as the development of the re-
sources of the Western and South-Western States of the
North American Union.

" But the modus operandi may be made as different as
light is from darkness. In the one case the extension of
the cultivation of the cotton plant has not only propa-
gated but refined upon the cruelty of domestic slavery ;
whilst the other, under the guidance of the enlightened
Government of Great Britain, may render it subservient
to the civilisation of the African race in the south, and
thereby, in time, penetrate to the stronghold of slavery
in the centre of that continent."

The Spanish Senate met on the 4th inst. to discuss
the Bill for the suppression of the slave trade, when
some opposition was made to it on the ground that
England, the great leader in the movement, had pri-
vate interests in view, and desired to ruin the Spanish
possessions in the Atlantic. The Minister for Foreign
Affairs said the progress of the age required the ex-
tinction of the traffic, and the Bill could not be dero-
gatory to Spain, as similar conventions had been
signed by other great powers. The principal clauses
of the Bill were then adopted without any amend-
ment or modification.

The Three per Cents. closed at 31i at 60 days ;
the Five per Cents. at 23-1 at 60 days ; the Float-
ing Debt at 77 for cash ; the Coupons at 264 at 60
days; and the Debt without Interest at 7-4 at 60 days.

We find no additional information in the Paris
papers on the state of parties, or the crisis which has
suddenly sprung up, threatening the existence of the
GUIZoT Ministry. According to some reports the
KING had an interview with M. GUIZOT on Wed-
nesday, and afterwards sent for Count MOLE. Their
interview, it is said, related to a change of Ministry,
and a programme of the new dramatis persons was
presented by the ex-Minister to his MAJESTY, of
whom the leading characters are MOLE, BILLAULT,
PAsSY, and DUFAURE. What gives some
air of probability to the report is the circumstance
that THIERS' name is not mentioned. lie, of course,
will lie by for a time. It would be rather too abrupt
to yoke him and MOLE together at once, and a little
time and a little coquetting for the purpose of saving
appearances will therefore be necessary before
the coalition can be completed. One thing, how-
ever, is certain : GUIZOT is in great danger, not
from his enemies, but his friends; and, though he will
at last, to a certainty, make a gallant stand, and sur-
pass his opponents, both in argument and eloquence,
with the "chateau" against him, he can only die
nobly. The Journal des Debats stands up for him
manfully. It is, indeed, almost the only paper that
he can depend on, and makes no secret of the fact
that an intrigue is in operation, conducted by men
who, in office, would maintain, to the full extent, his
political principles. There is, also, a significant
allusion to the real mover in this mysterious affair at
the conclusion of the following extract from that
j)urnal :—" What is the part the Opposition intends
t take in the intrigue that is to form the policy about
to be enacted ? There is no idea of changing the
play of the Government, or even of modifying it in
any serious degree. Better still ; the intrigue seems
to have but one fear—that it should be suspected of
being capable of not doing all that the present Mi-
nistry is doing. Listen to its programme. of only
will it be Conservative, hut will be more so than
M. GUIZOT himself; not only will it be pacific, but
will, more effectually than M. GUIZoT can, insure
peace partout et toujours. It would not have endea-
voured to trick England in the Pacific ocean in order
to open new doors for our commerce. It takes little
account of those two or three petty islands which M.
GUIZOT has had the imprudence to place under the
protectorate of France. It accepts not from the
Chambers the mission of modifying the treaties on
the right of visit. If this question is wanted to be
settled, let the administration be given to the in-
trigue. The Chambers will then have nothing more
to desire ; the right of visit will then sink down again
into that happy state of oblivion in which it rested
for ten years. M. BILLAuLv himself will not recol-
lect that the right of search ever existed. Whence
arises the insolent presumption of M. GutzoT in
representing himself as the only Minister for the
maintenance of peace and alliance with England ?
It is he, on the contrary, who compromises this
peace and alliance. The entente cordiale is not
attacked ; it is a mere watchword or pretet