Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1852-01-08
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
Pardon Of the Cuban Prisoners

Pardon Of the Cuban Prisoners
Lmporton.1 from France.
PROGRESS OF THE ELECTIONS.
Decline in Cotton.
The steamship Africa arrived at N.
7. on Friday morning, with seven days
later intelligence from Europe.
Among the passengers by the Africa
is Colonel Moore, bearer Of dispatches
from London to Washington.
Chton had declined l,sd.
Madrid accounts, of the 18th Dec,
state that the reply Of the Government
Of The United States to her Majesty, for
the insult offered to the Spanish flag,
was highly satisfactory. Her Majesty
has. thel efore, pardoned all the Ameri-
can prisoners concerned in the lated Gu
ban invasion. The Council of Ministers
lad consented to allow the King to sign
! public acts during the con6ne .nent OF the
Queen. III
The news from France is interesting
and important. ......
The President held leyee on the 18th
All the Corps Diplomatic attendant, ex,
cept Mr.. Rives, the American minister.
Tho President is said to take an &C.
tive part in drawing up the new Con-
s.itution, occupying no less than eight
hours daily. The Consultive Commits
sion is said to have disagreed upon the
principal points.
The European Liverpool Times Of the
goth says The Occurrences in France
succeed each other with such frightful
rapidity, that il is almost impossible to
crowd into our ordinary space even a
summary of what is going on in that de-
voted country. Scarcely day has pas.
sad, but several departments have been
declared in state OF siege. In tho de-
| partments east, west, north, aud south,
u reign of terror has been established,
and it is evident, from the facts which
are filtered through the corrupt Jour-
nails Of the tyrant, that q wide spread
resistance against his despot'sm prevails
in every quarter. which is only checked
by the fear Of popular infamy. and the
too ready bayonets Of the military die
tator.
We have now learned from authentic
sources. that the slaughter Of the Parsian
populace on the Boulsvards. and in the
north eastern quarters Of Paris, where
the brief struggle took place, yas perpe .
trated by the brutal soldiery with : wan
ton ferocity which reminded US of the
massacre Of St. Bartholomew. No
troops, still less the French, would have
dared commit such acts of butcherv,
unless they bad been sure Of an approval
from their superior officers they who
resisted, and they who did not resist.
were cut down rsmorselessly, without
distinction Of age or sex. or nation -
Even Americans suffered in the melee.
Gagged AS the press Of France is, it is
altog, taer impossible to state the extent
Of the loss ot life, still less Of personal
liberty, which the French people have
b ID " endure.
] II is affirmed that the total number Of
Frenchmsn killed in Pals and in the
Department, in carrying out Napoleon's
coup dc etGt, is not less than 1000.
IL is currently reported 10 Vienna that
the coup Getat Of Louis Napoleon had
been long preconcerted with The Empe
Iors Of kusia and Of Austria; that The
funds necessary for its accomplishment
were iugn.shed by the former, aud that
they were transmitted 10 Paris via Wen.
ma.
III strangest report upon French
events were Tor time current in Turin
OF ballentm. stating that Kossuth had
been made President of the French re-,
public. three thousand copies were i'm.
mediately sold.
Ahe steamship Asia, from Boston, ar.
rived At Liverpool On the goth Of De.
ceMber.
The money markets remained without
alteration. na
Advises from Naples. Of the eth Ina.
state that The news OF the eoup Of n,
President In Paris had been resolved i,
: she government tbere with the mos. live
> " satisfaction.
a The market for American atocka az
y y plotted changed Eapsct. Al acllv
Y demand had sprung up. extending !
most OF lAs dssel lplioMs usually dsaI
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