Bastia has a single newspaper--_L'Ere Nouvelle, Journal de la Corse_--which appears only on Fridays. Up till this summer, the advocate Arrighi, a man of talent, was the editor. The new Prefect of Corsica, described to me as a young official without experience, exceedingly anxious to bring himself into notice, like the Roman prefects of old in their provinces, had been constantly finding fault with the Corsican press, the most innocent in the world; and threatening, on the most trifling pretexts, to withdraw the Government permission to publish the paper in question, till at length M. Arrighi was compelled to retire. The paper, entirely Bonapartist in its politics, still exists; the only other journal in Corsica is the Government paper in Ajaccio. There are three bookselling establishments in Bastia, among which the Libreria Fabiani would do honour even to a German city. This house has published some beautiful works. CHAPTER VII. CORSICAN STATISTICS--RELATION OF CORSICA TO FRANCE. In the Bastian Journal for July 16, 1852, I found the statistics of Corsica according to calculations made in 1851, and shall here communicate them. Inhabitants In 1740, 120,380 1760, 130,000 1790, 150,638 1821, 180,348 1827, 185,079 In 1831, 197,967 1836, 207,889 1841, 221,463 1846, 230,271 1851, 236,251 The population of the several arrondissements, five in number, was as follows:--In the arrondissement of Ajaccio, 55,008; Bastia, 20,288; Calvi, 24,390; Corte, 56,830; Sartene, 29,735.[B] Corsica is divided into sixty-one cantons, 355 communes; contains 30,438 houses, and 50,985 households. Males. Unmarried, 75,543 Married, 36,715 Widowers, 5,680 ------- 117,938 Females. Unmarried, 68,229 Married, 36,916 Widows, 13,168 ------- 118,313 236,187 of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, fifty-four Reformed Christians. The French born on the island, _i.e._, the Corsicans included, are 231,653:--Naturalized French, 353; Germans, 41; English, 12; Dutch, 6; Spaniards, 7; Italians, 3806; Poles, 12; Swiss, 85; other foreigners, 285. Of diseased people, there were in the year 1851, 2554; of these 435 were blind in both eyes, 568 in one eye; 344 deaf and dumb; 183 insane; 176 club-footed.