Glasgow Courier. — 1863-04-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

RUSSIAN BARBARITIES IN CIRCASSIA.  We read in the Courier d'Orient :—We have received from Circassia intelligence which will arouse the indignation of all civilised men. The incendiaries and butchers of Poland have, it appears, infused their bloody rage into their comrades charged with the subjugation of the Caucasus. A scene of cannibalism has been enacted at the village of Hafifs, in the country of the Chapsoughs. The men of that village were at the frontier for the service of the outposts. Taking advantage of their absence, the soldiers of the Czar fell on the rest of the population, which was defenceless,' and killed, burned, and pillaged them. Among the number of the victims were eighteen old women, eight children, and six old men. On the back of one of the slaughtered women there was lett a board bearing these words, "Go and complain to the Kraahtza (Queen) of England, to whom your deputies went to demand assistance," On the body of a little boy was found this inscription:—" Remain here instead of going to sell yourself to your protectors, the Turks." Finally, on the corpse of an old man, the eyes of which had been put out, was read, "Go and rejoin your deputies; you will find some good oculists at l'aris." It is thus that the armies of the Czar diffuse civilisation. Thanks to the system of burning pursued for the last five years; nearly all the cottages situated in the valleys are destroyed. The population, hunted from their hearths, have taken retuge on the mountains. Now a great number of families are struggling with famine. In their despair they are thinking of submitting to the Russians. The calamity of being abandoned by the Turks and by Europe tends to drive these poor creatures to cast themselves into the arms of the enemy. The greater part of the Circassians, however, prefer dying with arms in their hands. The insurrection of Poland, and the revolt which has broken out in the government of Kagan, have revived their hopes.  Commissioner Fonblanqne of the Bankruptcy Court has resigned from ill health. On Friday the estate of Springhill was sold to Mr John Macpherson, combmaker, at the upset price of £9000.-4berdeen Herakl.  At the Warwickshire Lent Assizes on Saturday, Henry Carter, the youth who murdered his sweetheart, Alice Hinkley, in Birmingham, in December last, was convicted and sentenced to death. The Trustees of the British Museum have elected the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., to supply the vacancy occasioned in their number by the lamented death of the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Gazette says that Earl Russell has received from Mr Christie, her Majesty's Ambassador at Brazil, a despatch containing another from a number of British merchants, in favourrof his recent action on the question of the Prince of Wales and the Foote.  _ _ The steamship Ripon has arrived at Southampton with .6100,000. She left Gibraltar on the 26th inst. Violent easterly gales prevailed there from the 23d to the 25th Instant, causing several slight disasters among the shipping. Exchange and freights at Gibraltar unaltered.  An extraordinary case of attempted fraud on the underwriters in London, Paris, Bremen, Hamburg, and Rio Janeiro, has just been discovered. False bills of lading were forged for the Peruvian brig Maria, sailing from Bahia for London, and insurances on these bills were effected for 44000. The ship was scuttled off the Awes. Soon of the per. le-- isphoeted hare ehesoaded,