20 OCTOBER 1860, Page 1
France has a small quarrel with Switzerland, arising out of
the zeal of some French agents or sympathisers—and these gentry are at work on all the frontier states—at Sion. These differences are, we fear, the inevitable consequence of the acquisition of Savoy and the appearance of the French flag on the Lake bf Geneva. Swiss suspicion is aroused and takes offence at the smallest symp- tom of French interference. And no wonder ; for Geneva is now enclave in French territory and the route over the Simplon is in French hands.
