The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 158 to £4 103 Od; clover,
£4 Os to £5 108 Od; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 per load.
A moderate demand.

CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to LI 103; clover,
Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £l4s to £1 10s per load.
Trade inactive.

WIIITECHA.PEL.—Meadow hay, £2lsa to £4 10a ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £l2s to lOs per load.
Supply limited.

The Circassian Exodus.

Tho following is an extract from a private letter dated
Varna, June 1— " I see by the English papers that it is pro-
posed to raise a subscription for these poor Circassians, and
never did people need it more. There has been a mistake as to
where they are to be landed in Bulgaria., The Government
meant to send them nearly all to Rustchuk, but contracted
with shippers fora passage only to this place, which is 100
miles from their destination. The Circassians are accordingly
all turned ashore till the Pasha concludes a fresh bargain with
the captains to carry them on. This has happened three or
four times already, and in some cases the s►teamers have
gone away and left the miserable creatures to shift for them-
selves. Many of the Circassians speak Turkish, and I have
had long talks with them. Their descriptions of the hard-
ships they have suffered arc heartrending. They tell me
most of them were turned out of their homes by the Rus-
sians in the winter (four months ago), and driven down to
the sea side, where they waited long for the means of getting
away. Hundreds of them died from the cold, and hun-
dreds of hundreds of complaints brought on by want and
exposure, especially small-pox. They say, We all have
had it, or have it now;' and I can answer for the truth of
this, for nearly every man, woman, and child I see is
marked, and in hundreds the faces and hands are quite raw
with it. Since I have been here (three weeks), 300, at the
lowest estimate, have been buried in the sands outside the
town. They all said they died of cold. We have had much
rain, especially by night, and these poor wretches have had
to sleep out in it with nothing to cover them but their ordi-
nary clothes, consisting only (in the case of the women) of
a sort of long dressing-gown and a pair of drawers. After
one of these nights the dead lie thick on the ground, the
others longing, I should think, to follow them. Of coarse
the women and children suffer most. To-day I saw a ship-
load landed and marched out of the town. They were in a
dreadful state. I noticed one woman carried by five men;
she was a mere skeleton. In her arms she had a baby that
could not be more than a few hours old. I saw a max walk-
ing by a cart with five of his children in it; he was a fine
looking fellow, but oh, so thin! and the poor. children the
most fearful oljects I ever saw. I shall never forget the
sight. Their skins were so tight over the bones that it
seemed these must come through, and, in the case of one
per little thing, about throe years old, covered with sores;
I believe the bones were through the skin. They tell me it
is not starvation from hunger that is killing them, but star-
vation from cold. It has been a very cold spring here, and
even now a well clothed man would suffer from sleeping in
the open air at night. The Turkish Government does what
it can for these miserable people, but that amounts only to
bringing them here and giving each person 21b of bread per
day."