The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-05-20
ForeiRnIteihs.

We extract the following from the news
brought by the Steamer Canada, to the 4tb
inst:-
ENeLAND.-Great devastation has been
produced in England by heath and moss fires.
Whole plantations have been buried over,
and game, crops and houses destroyed. At
Holme Fen Hants the fire spread for six
miles, and the loss is there estimated at f2O,-
900.
FRAEoE.-TAe Political 0fenders-The
chief event of the present week in France
Is remarkable report by Colonel d'Espihs
asse, one ofthe extraordinary commission
ers OF pardon, sent into the provinces to re-
wise the sentences ofthe political offenders,
He asserts that, in all the departments he
has visited, circulars inculcating mercy have
been received with hostility, and have pro-
duced the worst impression. The pardoned
demagogues have retracted their confessions.
The departmental commissions have sinned
by excess of mercy. Wherever he went,
Colonel dEspinasse, to calm the inhabitants.
ordered the suspended conveys of convicts
on their way to Africa to continue their
march towards their penal destination. He
represented the number of the affiliated to
secret societies as being so enormous that
even the deportatioHs of the ring-leaders a.
lone would have included several thousand
in two or three departments. This commiss
siOner of mercy out of 1000 condemnations,
has only been able to bring his conscience to
admit 2U0 offenders to pardon. Col. d'Espi-
nasse is the officer who took possession of
the legislative palace on the morning of the
} I'd December.
IRELAND.-Several Lords, nine Bishops,
fNua nfu- oc A.
Mayors of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Wexford,
Sligo, Drogheada and Clonmel, with some
scores of A ldermen, Doctors of Law, Justices
of the Peace, &c, in Ireland, have petitioned
the Queen for the pardon of VIM. Smith o.
Brien and his compatriots in the resistance
ofthe year lS4S.
} The approaching Parliamentary election
attracts very general attention in Ireland
There will be large addition to the "Catho-
lie Defence" and independent ranks.
f lrALY.-On the 26th inst powder mag
azine in Turin blew up, doing great damage;
r 200 persons were reported to have been Kill
? led, but no exact accounts have yet come to
! hand.
Y AUsrRTA-Kossuth's Family,-It having
: been found impossible to establish case
against Mesdames Meszlenyi and RWtt-
kay, they have been liberated, and are now
$ residing in the Hotel National, in the Le-
$ polandstadt. The Austrian Government has
d at length come to the conclusion that nothing
n is to be gained by OBTAINING Kossuth's rela-
t tions here, and accordingly the whole family
5 some l7persons, believe-will be per-
: mitted to quit this country on the lst of May.
!, AS people here can never do any thing with
= good grace, difficulties have been raised
t about the servants. The authorities insist
on the Kossuth family emgrating alone,
y which, in my opinion, is most unreasonable,
as there are four females and eleven chill
dren of the party, From perfectly credi-
BILE source, learn that Madame Meszlenyi,
Il who is said to have as much moral courage
: as all the rest of the family put together,
: completely bafAed all the attempts of the au-
u u thorties to extract any information of conse-
u quence from her.
. . The military judge (auditor) to whom the
- case was intrusted, dictated a protocol puf-
IL !, porting to bea recapitulation of the ad-
} missions made by the defendants, and Mad
=. anne Meszeny was instructed to sign it.
" "Nevcr," cried the spirited woman, twill
consent to sign that which, though not
o positively false, is not perfectly true. Let
!. me dictate the protocol, which am well
= able to do, and then will willingly sign il.
= Justice requires that should state that Kos
IS suth's sisters were kindly treated during the
y Imprisonment, and that their mothers let
n tiers to them were duly delivered after having
70 been read by the authorities to whose sale
10 Keeping they were entrusted. The old lady
- admonished her children to take courage and
~ remain firm, "as the sun must rise Mt last, be
: the night ever so dark Il long" This, have
reason 10 believe is the sense, ifnot the literal
a translation, ofa phrase contained in one of
ct the letters delivered into the hands OF the pris-
n, oners. As Madame Kossuth and her family
Or will not be permitted to come here, they will
W meet with Mesdames Meszlenyi and Ruttkay
of some vi e e on the road to Bodenbach.-
ID enna Correspondent cfhe Times.
it MIscELLANEoUs.-The Grand Duke ol
Baden is dead. The gold stories in South
. Australia have proved a humbug; this is in
CT one province only. The Queen of Spain is
p becoming more liberal to the press.
nc ITEMs.-We acknowledge the receipt o.
rd two copies of the Scioto Daily 6a,ette in
" regular succession, and make note Of the
fact by the following items
"Building Materials of every kind, bricks
ne lime, flooring, timbers, joist, shingles, &c.
ID, &C., are in demand, and quick sale Al
ne present, in our city. Brickmasons and car
as penters have busy time oft. There ar,
ID, many who desire to build, but are not ye
ch able to contract to their liking. "Things Il
working"
nj "There was serious white frost, witnes
W sed by the early risers hereabout, on tht
% . grass and young corn, this morning. A few
~, more of the same sort would render re-plant
r. ing necessary"
"Fdme!-Gentlemen are announced, a
late members OF the Ohio Constitutions
nd Convention, on arriving at Cincinnati.
he takes the Qucenites to complment!'
'e' "Daiy HilSbOrough Ga.ette.-We hav
received the first number of paper unde
the above title, from the enterprising city O
- Hillsborough, Highland county. 1t is edite
nc &c and published by Judge Emre-very neat
printed and deserves to succeed"
"By the Buckeye Blade of Friday, we no
no tice that the Spirit Wrappers are giving en-
n tertainments in Greenfeld.-Daiiy Hillsborc
IN Gdsetie.
The wrappers" are not needed on tn
,c "Sraight" Line railroad"
ip. And for that reason, we suppose, they 10
cate in the vicinity ofthe "Ramshorn route.