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The Circassian Exodus,

The following address has been drawn up by the
sub-committee, consisting of Lord Stratford do
Recicliffa (in the chair), Lord Gtrangford, Mr.
Danby Seymour, Mr. Oliphant, and Mr. Stanley,
and agreed to at a meeting of the general committee,
the names of whom have been already published :

The committee which has been formed for the relief of
the distressed Circassians feel it incumbent upon them to
lose as little time as possible in appealing to the public. for
support to enable them to carry out the benevolent object
they have in view. The accounts which have already reached
this country convey some idea of the nature and extent of
the misery it is sought to relieve.
The committee, in the intetests of the Circassians them-
selves, are anxious to have it clearly understood at the out-
set that the present appeal is based exclusively upon motives
of humanity. At the same time, whild they disclaim any
object of a political character, they cannot possibly deny
that their desire to assist in relieving the Circassians is
greatly increased by the consideration of those circumstances
which have led to the present catastrophe.
The final result of 40 years of determined resistance to
the armies of Russia is the deportation of the three principal
tribes of the western Caucasus. The resources of their
country having become exhausted, and the energies of its
population worn out by the protracted struggle, they have
at last submitted to an overwhelming necessity, and are now
undergoing the painful process of expulsion from the coun-
try to which they have shown themselves so peculiarly at-
tached. We may, indeed, measure the degree of pressure
under whichiKey are migrating to Turkey by the vigour
with which they have resisted the encroachments of their
enemies through this long course of years.
As there is no circulating medium in Cireassia these
mountaineers arrive at the coast utterly destitute. Ships
provided by the Turkish Government convey them to Tre-
bizonde and other ports on the northern shores of Asia
Minor. The mortality during this short voyage has been
in many instances fearful, and typhus fever and small- I
pox have already swept off thousands of men, women, and
children. The Turkish Government has taken most ener-
getic steps to mitigate this misery, and we are credibly
assured that a sum of £50,000 has been devoted by the
Sultan himself to conveying the Circassians to Constanti-
nople, housing them when there in refuges and hospitals,
and sending them in small colonies as settlers into the in-
terior. The necessities of a whole nation, however, tax the
charitable resources of Turkey beyond what they can bear.
It is, therefore, earnestly hoped that the public, in the true
spirit of our national generosity, will contribute towards
helping the Circassians to reach the land provided for them
by the Turkish Government, and towards keeping them
alive until they can work for themselves. As these poor
people have been reduced to their present condition by no
fault of their own, but, on the contrary, are suffering in
consequence of the very zeal and ardour of their patriotism,
as they have no choice left them as to their fate, but are
compelled to face pestilence and starvation, and as their only
desire is to find that peace elsewhere which has hitherto
been denied them in their own country, and to earn their
bread by honest industry, they have the highest claims
upon our charity.
It is calculated that in the course of the next two
months a population of 300,000 souls, a large proportion of
whom are women and children, will be cast, starving and
half naked, upon the shores of Asia Minor.

The Committee trust that the circumstance that this
nation is obscure and little known in this country will not
deprive it of the sympathy of the public. Nor should the
fact that the misery is on such a gigantic scale dishearten
us in our attempts to relieve it. Whatever money is
collected and subscribed in England will be applied to the
relief of the most urgent cases of suffering.
The late Sultan himself set us an example which we
might now gracefully follow when he subscribed £l,OOO out
of his own purse to a fund which had been raised in this
country to relieve a distress in Ireland almost as vast in its
dimensions.

THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT LOWE, M.P., has
been elected a trustee of the British Museum, in the room
of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis.

MELANCHOLY DEATH...--It is our painful duty to
announce the death, in the prime of life and health,
of Mr. Henry P. Pigot, of Capard-house, who was found
drowned in his own lake on the 28th ult., at 6 o'clock. It
appears that the unfortunate gentleman left his house on
the evening previous, at 8 o'clock, to take his accustomed
walk through the grounds; and, in anticipation of a sheep.
shearing which was to take place on the following day, he
gave orders, as he was leaving, that he should be called in
the morning half-an-hour before the bell rung for the work-
men to assemble. Expecting his return to the house, one
of the household remained up to open the door and receive
any commands he might have to give. Not returning for
some hours, there was a certain amount of uneasiness felt
at his stopping out so long; still his absence was attributed
to his having gone to the house of some neighbouring gentle-
man, and it was only at 6 o'clock next morning, when the
labourers were coming to Capard for the day, that a search
was instituted for him. On passing the edge of the lake,
which lies at some short distance from the house, two of
the workmen saw in the water the body of their lamented
master, and, having carried it to the shore, they discovered
that life had been extinct for several hours. It appears
that the walk by the lake at this particular point is very
narrow, and has been made more difficult to pass by
the boughs of the laurel trees which thickly overhang it;
and it was evident from the marks on the ground at
the edge of the lake that the unfortunate gentleman's foot
slipped, and that he was unexpectedly immersed in the
water. Although the lake is not more than three or four
feet deep at this place, the bottom, which is composed of a
thick, slimy mud, carried down from the mountain, would
render it, in all probability, impossible for him to extricate
himself, and he thus lamentably perished. An inquest was
held during the day on the, remains, and a verdict in accord-
ance with the circumstances, of " Accidentally drowned,"
was brought in by the jury. There is one universal and
widespread feeling of regret at his death. He was heir to,
and, but for his sad and untimely fate, would have in-
herited, on his father's death, who still survives him, the
vast estates of the family, which bring in a rental of nearly
£lO,OOO a year, and which must now pass to another
branch.—Freeman.

MECHANICS' FINE LADIES.—Very different in
texture altogether is the physical humanity of the
small-handed woman opposite, dressed in a shabby gown,
with a soiled flaunting bonnet, and a torn shawl A many
colours, who evidently thinks that nerves and idleness are
three parts of the essence of gentlehood, and that she can
make herself "a lady" by ceasing to be a woman and be-
coming a doll. Her husband is a rough-mannered, rough-
handed mechanic, making perhaps forty shillings a week
or so, more or less ; and he, too, shares in the delusion that
work
is "low" for a woman, and that idleness is a refine-
ment, and a thing to be cultivated by the ambitious. It is
his pride to boast that "his wife is kept like a lady, with a
servant of her own—and needn't do a hand's turn if she
don't like." So he puts her in a "nice little home" at
Camberwell, with a best parlour and a black horse.
hair sofa, quite comfor;;able ; and there she lords it in state
over a miserable little elf, a parish apprentice, small enough
to be carried like a lapdog in the pocket. But the elf does
all the dirty work, and the rough and the hard work
toe, that my lady the mechanic's wife, may not soil her
hands, or make them " hard like a common woman's."
She is one of a kind I see a great deal of, and that I can
never sufficiently deplore ; for they seem to me to be cutting
at the root of all that is most wholesome in the English ar-
tisan class, its simple strong hold on realities ; and that
while the men of that class are so wonderfully improving,
the women are just as much deteriorating by their terrible
spring of fine-ladyisrn and finery. Look at the envious
glances which our lady of Camberwell is casting at those
two pretty young creatures in bright blue Bike, so
carefully tucked up over their knees, evidently off to
a friendly party somewhere. You; can see that they are
ladies, even if papa's income makes it necessary for them to
peril their best dresses in an omnibus, rather than spend a
few shillings In a cab. That they are happy and innocent,
and inneently happy in their present finery, is also evident ;
and yet both these girls would do real good hard work if
need be ; and, indeed, do so ; helping their one servant,
Jane, as much from kindness that she should not be over-
worked, as from mamma's desire, and their own, to make
things look nice."—Dickens' "All the Year Round."
DROWNED WHILE BATHING IN LOCH LOMOND:7
Mr. James Begg, jun., stationer, Glasgow, h
three others, having come down by the earlyabpopartoaocnhSewadttuhre-
day, proceeded to the water to bathe. They
where the bank seems to slope gradually orus from the edge
,
loch a short distance to the south of Rotw.abrudtenthneangelnntnie,
inclination terminates abruptly a
feewead attains a depth
of the loch, and beyond the water soddenly
of about seven fathoms. Mr Begg
was the first to plunge
in, which he did with a race. He had scarcely entered the
.
awater
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distress.m inu t e when
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the began
to strike wildly about him
bank thought at first he was
-
making sport ; but perceiving him to be meartnest, one of
tthheemshroursehedl
in, caught hold of his
arm, and struck out for
Unfortunately Mr Begg was struggling with
violence, so that his friend had to relinquish his hold and
swim
to shoal water, His companion then joined hands
awith him to support each other, and, wading to the edge of
the descent, strove to reach Mr Begg as he rose to the sur-
face, but in vain. He never appeared again, but sank
slowly in from 8 to 10 feet of water. His brother was a
ed7eseenrti and his agony may be
bed. The body was not
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recovered till Sunday afternoon, when it was conveyed to
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