18 JUNE 1864, Page 2

An English clergyman, the Rev. B. Philpot, Rector of Lydney,

confirms from personal observation the statements of the frightful distress of the Circassians. He found at Czernavoda 20,000 men encamped, and swarming out detachments under Turkish guidance towards the Danube. On the shore of the Black Sea "dense masses of ragged men, women, and children literally covered the sea shore. All looked wan and hungry. Many were all but naked. Several lay dying, and fair delicate girls, with their heads reposing on their mothers' bosoms, seemed 'only to be waiting for those mothers' hands to close their eyes in death." And all this, be it remembered, in order that one family may, by planting these peoples' homes with military colonies, draw a little nearer to its object—universal dominion.