HC Deb 02 May 1861 vol 162 c1379
MR. BAILLIE COCHRANE

said, he would beg to inquire of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether certain statements are correct which have appeared in the French papers of yesterday, stating that there had been a collision between the English garrison and the Ionians, and in which some persons had been wounded?

LORD JOHN RUSSELL

said, that he had seen some accounts in the newspapers to the same effect as the hon. Gentleman bad stated, and he had inquired at the Colonial Office, but he was informed that no information of such disturbances had been received, and that none were apprehended.