The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

SWISS SYMPATHY WITH POLAND.

The Shirk of yesterday says :—" Switzerland
presents at this moment a spectacle which proves
at once its political foresight and its humanity. The
savage dismemberment of Denmark after that of
Poland has shown it the danger which threatens
nationalities weak in number and in territory,
before brute force elevated into the supreme law by
the three monarchies of the Holy Alliance. Danger
does not depress thecourageous--it stimulates them,
and little Switzerland shows an example to more than
one greet State by the energy and active sympathy
she displays towards the wreck of Poland. At the
same time that she endeavoured to snatch General
Langiewicz from the hands of Austria, by conferring
upon him the rights of a Swiss citizen, she gave
shelter to a large number of the proscribed, and
generously assisted them in obtaining the means
of existence on her own soil. She is now urging on
the realisation of a project originating with eminent
members of the emigration, and worthy of being
encouraged wherever courage and misfortune are
honoured. A committee sitting in Zurich is occu-
pied in founding an asylum for two hundred
wounded Poles. Is not the most honourable of
misfortunesthat of these men whose glorious wounds
render them incapable of working for their own
living I The Zurich committee, while invoking the
sympathy of the friends of Poland and of humanity
in general, make a special appeal to French and
foreign artists in favour of a lottery of works of art
to take place in Zurich for the benefit of the
asylum for the invalid Poles. It begs the artists
who may be disposed to assist in this work to send
their offerings to Zurich to the secretary's office
of the Polish invalids' asylum, at the Polish
agency. A certain number of works of art
by eminent artists have already arrived
from Italy and Germany ; and a foreign princess
has just sent a very generous gift. We hope
that the French artists, who always show
so much sympathy with good works and good causes,
will take a pert worthy of them in this noble corn-
, patitinarand that smelt an undertaking will every-
where and in every shape meet with the support it
1 so well deserves."

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Oompany, Oct. 24 :

"MARSRII LES, OCT. 24.
" The Banda with the above mails arrived at
Marseilles at 6.30 a.m. this day.

" The mails were to leave for London at 11 a. m."

SUICIDE AT COLCHESTER CAMP.-011 Saturday
evening Mr. J. H. Church, borough coroner, held an in-
quest at the cutout of Colchester Camp ea the body of
Thorcas Greenwood, private, 90th Regiment, who com-
mitted suicide by shooting himself with hie rifle in the pri-
vate soldiers barrack-maim. Deceased, who was tweaty-
sight yaws of age, had served eleven years in the army,
govern years of the time in India, and was at Lucknow,
for which be bed a medal and two clasps, and be bore
a good character. About five or six months back he
came to Colchester Camp from India, sad two months
ago he obesieed leave to go on fortiregb for two mouths
to Manchester to see his friends. Three days after going
on furlough his returned to Colchester, and stated that
epos his arrival in London he met a man at Shoreditch with
whom be west into a house for some refreshment, and
whilst there he was drafted and robbed of between led.
and 191., and be did not comet* him senses lentil nest
morning. He bed Moos his return to camp been very
how-spirited, end wished to leave the army, and
threatened if he was punished for desertion he
would take away h*.a life. He was reported *bust
from camp on the night of the 18th inst., and for this
he was awarded twenty-one days coo6Demest to
barracks. Deceased occupied the same but with
twenty soldier of his company, and altos tbey bad
retired to bed, about twisty mientes to twelve on
Thursday night, the 20th inst., some of the soldiers
were swathed by a creating noise is the hut. Upon
getting op they discovered the deceased lying half.drused
upon his beck on the Boor by big bedside is a pool of blood,
quit* dead, with his rifle lying beside him. He had no
doubt loaded his rifle with two bullets takes from bin cart-
ridge pooch, and having placed the morale of the rifle is his
month, had discharged it by pressing his foot upon the
trigger. The charge had shattered his skull, fragments of
which were lying about the room, and the bullets had
pierced through the rod of the hut, and one of them wall
found lying about fifty yards distant, new the aahpit. He
had a bottle of ram, partly drunk, near him. De-
ceased was paying his addresses to a young woman in
Colchester, named Susannah Aswan, to whom be
wrote the following letter on the night of his
death :—" Camp, Colchester, Oct. 20, 1864.—My dear
Susannah,—You will excuse me for writing you
these few lines, as I am going to Dave Colchester, per-
haps this eight. lam Masking of the letter you seat me.
cannot forget it. You mast excuse me for telling you this
much. Ever linos I got it lam trying to read it, and an
for making it oat, that's what 1 cannot do. You will oblige
ton if you won't answer this note, u I think your reply will
not reach me. So goodbye, Sukey.—Youn, THOMAS
GREENWOOD." The young woman said deceased bad got
her photograph, and she had frequently heard him say
lately, whilst very low-spirited, that he would destroy
himself, but it was not through her cionduet. A soldier of
the 90th Reginieet said be had marched 1,00• miles up the
country in India with deceased, who had been in hospital
with fever at Allahabad. He was fond of playing cricket
in the sun in India, and after playing he had complained of
pains in his head, but he sever beard he bad sun-stroke.
The jury, after being divided in opium, returned a verdict
I that deceased committed suicide, but there was no positive
eirideoce to show the state of his mind at the time.

Ccw Fllt/LD AT • RAILWAY TRAIN. Sat urday
morning. about two o'clock. as a Yorkshire luggage train
wag appreching the station of the Lasesehire sad Yorkshire
Railway Company. at Ilirfield, Yorkshire, it was fired into
from a bridge crowing the line. The driver and stoker say
it was moonlight at the time, and as they approached the
bridge they saw a man ou the Midge raise his gun sod take
deliberate aim at them es they stood together. They
stooped hastily behind the weather board io front of the
elegiac and mutiediately afterwards heard the wreck of the
O. a/Writer& examining
od that acham e tloife outside of
ttli;lizes the:
board
lodged is it, near the top. No motive can be assigned for
thug set but area of • wankel malice. liiirfield is a statics
at the aeries of the London and North Western and the
Laicashino and Yorkshire lines, when third is always a
great number of luggage trains metimulated, to be emit
forward m the nature of the traffic will admit; arid had the
driver and stoker both been disabled by the shot (snot very
unlikely eoeurreeee) their train would have nut Ist* the
statism at • speed of about those miles per boar, and would
no doubt have destroyed mock property.
MITILOPOIXTAN tau Harmer, DLTOWISTITILB.
SQ17•111. CITT.—The sigreirati number al patiesta relieved
Oaring the week ending October 22 wee—Medical, 1,030
isitrigind. 714; total, 1,744, it which 64d were sow saws.

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HAYMARKET.

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A new ?area by Mr. Maddieon Mottos, welled
skilled Iron Frisch pies, *stilled, "Mao
le Colossi, wee paidieed at AK haw last aight. Kith Kg.
Boeiratose la the midst sharaater. Let humour at aisle*
is somewhat alight sad draws eat, bat Kr. Bookstewaitea-
trives to sea/sii ese of thane Irimoreus realities cM snail
materials whloh tamer fail to amass the molt csilloel.
The &ranger will be revised at this hoses on Theilidry
vast, wit/e Beatrice as Mrs. Haller.

ADELPHL
Mr. Basting and his apnea offered too teatipting
• subject lass to mops die attention of faros writers ; but
unfortunately Mammies% stoutness has airesdy been mode
the foundation at • popular piece called How Stout You're
Gating. which is • stook favourite both with actors sad
amateurs. This fad woe probably felt to be esabarrossiag
by Maws. Brants and Halliday, the authors of the sow
Wee, 'elided Deis, Breatiae, produced at this thrifts last
night. In their eadeavour to avoid treading on posuxi
already °stapled these gentlemen appear to ham eat Omni.
selves cd from some of the mom obvious capabilities of the
mks*. The tuft oonoludiel with some Lanham among
the andlenes.