21 OCTOBER 1871, Page 1
France has been troubled this week by rumours of disturbances
in Corsica. Something or other has evidently occurred in the island, for the fleet has been thither in hot haste, and ohasseurs-a- pied have been ordered to Ajaccio, but no official admits anything. All the measures ordered are, by their account, measures of pre- caution rendered needful by the election of Prince Napoleon to the Council-General. The Prince received a passport to enable him to take his seat, but did not use it, preferring to proceed by Genoa. Bonapartist feeling is deep-rooted in Corsica, but it is not likely that a single department, separated from France by the sea, will be the first to rise for the dismissed family.
