The Sun. — 1858-01-22 (London, England)

REPLY FROM THE LONDON PROVISIONAL COIVI MITTEE ON BEHALF OF CIRCASSIAN INDEPEN  DE N CE.  London, Jan. 12, 1857. We, the undersigned, have received and peruse with the warree-t interest andsympathy the address of your Highness to the British nation, awl gladly undertake to use our best exertions to promote its circulation and abject. We do so under the profound conviction that the unfailing heroism displayed by the Circassian tribes in their uational struggle during the last 30 years against Russian invasion—heroism which ought to excite the liveliest emotion in every. heart capable of appreciating the blessings of f. eedom and the virtues of patriotism, is not less glorious to themselves, than eminently protective of the independence of Europe. The Caucasus is not only a bulwark of Turkey and Persia, and through them of India, against Muscovite aggression, but its subjection would remove one of the strongest impediments to the full and unrestricted action of Asiatic despotism against European liberty. We gratefully acknowledge to your highness that your nation evinced their sense of the identity of their own interests with those of Great Britain by tendering to the allied army in the Crimea, as stated by your highness, the offer of their valuable aid against the common foe, and we deeply regret the suicidal policy which led alike to the rejection of that offer and chilled the expectant chivalry of Poland. May the time be at hand when the selfish interests of rulers and of castes shall no longer be able to paralyse the mutual interests and fraternal aspirations of nations ordained by a beneficent Creator to be the source of reciprocal strength and happiness to one another. We as deeply regret that the prevalence of a similar suicidal policy should not only have caused the treaty of Paris to be framed without any express provision for the independence of Circassia, but should have since allowed the stipulation of that treoy which formally and in perpetuity interdicts the Black Sea to the flag of war, and thus indirectly protects the Circassian coast, to be violated and set at nought, in order that Russia may continue her barbarous and unjustifiable hostilities against the commerca and freedom of your people, and incidentally therefore against the commerce of Great Britain and all nations seeking to trade and communicate in peace with your gallant countrymen. Of all the wars thst have ever disgraced humanity. we regard the war which Russia has for upwards of half a century continued, to wage against Circassia as one of the most iniquitous, because wholly devoid of any just grounds or pretext. It is the mere brutal and undignified onslaught of superior force against a weaker neighbour, of might against right, of a power determined, in defiance of all law and morality, and in gratification of an insatiable lust of aggression and ambition, to obtain possession of a territory which it considers desirable for the rounding off and consolidating its present possessions, and enabling it to advance with greater security to other acqtii-itions. We beg to assure your highness that with these sentiment-, we shall endeavour to induce our countrym-n to take a warmer and more active interest in all that regards the welfare and independence of Circassia, and with a sincere ad nuira-• win for all your own arduous and unrewittel labours throughout a life devoted to the fur, herauce hf t.:e best interests of your glorious and beloved laud, we have the honour to subscribe ourselves. Viscount Rayeham, M P *T. Slingsby Dermot-I,We M.P. .W. Scholefield, M.P. *James Wyld, M.P. John Arrowsmitls, Soho-square. • Edmund Bealee, Lincoln's-inn. W. Lloyd Birbeck, Lincoln's-inn. James Stanislav, Bell, Glasgow, Henry Brookes, Temple. Harrison Chilton, Cornbill. W. E. Durant Cumming, Cornbill. Edward Johnstone, Temple. Walter Savage Landor, Bath. Frederic Lawrence, Temple. George B. C. Leverson, Kensington. Alfred H. Lewis, Lincola's-inn. John Mackintosh, John-street, Fitzroy-square. Montague Merry weather, Jun. United Service Club. Samuel Morley, Wood-street, Cheapside. William Pritchard, High Bailiff of Southwark. Adams Smith, Reform Club. Mr. Turner, Southampton. W. Weir, Hunter-street. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. Alfred B. Richards, Hon. Sec. the*irNsoigt namteurnrebsetros theof trheeplyc.ommittee, but authorisieg