Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-06-04
s9- The New York papers have the
details Of The foreign news per Austria and
Fulton. We extract the following

details OF the foreign news per Austria and
Fulton. We extract the following:
In the House of Lords, on the Sd inst,
in reply to queries from Lord Shaftesbury,
the Earl of Ellenborough declined (as
stated in our telegram) TO furnish the
Indian documents relating to the massacre
at Cawnpore, assigning the following rea-
sons:
"The public document which was sent
to him had no signature. The noble earl
wished the appendix had been published.
but he thought that if such an appendix
had been received there would be the
greatest objection, at the present moment,
to laying it before the House. The ap-
pendix would contain an account of in
dividual sufferings at Cawnpore, and he
did not think any public benefit could
arise from placing such an account before
the world. On the contrary, in his opinion
it would be very undesirable to take such
course. He believed that the production
of further details on the subject would
only tend to perpetuate feeling which
was inconsistent with good legislation and
good government and be was most desir-
GUS that all feelings of animosity against
the natives, instead of being increased,
should, if possible, be obliterated.
"The Earl of Shaftesbury desired as
much as the noble earl that all animosity
should cease, but he was equally anxious
that the truth should be known, and that
the characters of those who had been gross
ly illuminated should be cleared from the
imputation which had been cast upon them.
If the noble earl would not lay the docu-
ment before the House he would move an
address to the Crown for its production,
and he would persist in that course until
he obtained it."
The Herald says the town of Frankens-
tein, in Silesia, situated on the road from
Breslau to Glatz, was on the Gath ult. en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Out of 500 houses
which the town contained, 400, including
the Catholic Church, are in ruins. Six
teen persons perished in the flames.
A letter from Moscow Of the 18th states
that the accounts which had been received
of the state of the crops in the provinces
were not so favorable as could be desired.
1t was feared that considerable portion
of the wheat would rot in the ground.
Baron Charles Dupen has placed in the
Conseryatorie des Arts power-loom that
weaves silk by electric mechanism. An
Able Cassell, at Florence, has invented an
electric telegraph cylinder which works
the reproduction of writing and drawing
on similar cylinder at any distance, and
requires no intermediate hand to work the
transcript. The discovery is yet in en-
bryo.
The attempts made to obtain from the
English Government q mitigation of the
sentence on the Rev. Samuel Smith, a
clergyman of the Church of England, re-
siding near Bristol, have proved unavail-
ing, the Secretary for the Home Depart.
ment having decided that "there is no
sufficient ground to justify him, consistent
y with his public duty, in advising her
Majesty to comply" with the request of
his friends. 1t viii be remembered that
Mr.. Smith was sentenced to four years
imprisonment for premeditated attack
with intent to MAIN, former lover of his
wife, who, under instructions from her
husband, had inveigled the victim into a
lonely spot for the purpose.