The Sun. — 1860-04-06 (London, England)

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed 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 professes to be a religious journal of the highest orthodoxy, 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 applying 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 inseparable 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 justified 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 Washington. Washington and his compatriots thought not liberty only, but independence even worth fighting 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 bxlotohdemofstehlveezhaituedmhaanve,' fimgelristltyofotrhethkenereigs hint sytout he bare the a ssiuLasnocfeptooo hr Africans,o d yourgr handsun d t o inth he odrurso doingdoin the same to save themselves, their wives, their ttohe ta r 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 forbid, 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. V 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 ?' "  For.re c oSnallmOennTd-oSdI Gb Hy Tt hEoDTchSoemOuLn is De a noI