The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

A letter from Berne, dated August 29, says that
Pare were four Swiss citizens among the 34 persons
who were nogg( d with the knout at Milan by the
Ituasianieed Austrians. The Swiss consul, lteymond,
has taken up the matter, it is said, so far as to write
energetically to his own government.
By a decree of the federal council of the 28th, the
observation corps on the frontier of the Grand Duchy
of Baden has been dissolved.
LOMBARDY.—A letter from Milan via Switzer-
land, is alluded to by the Dukpendance Bettie of the
3rd inst., stating there was a rumour there that 'La-
detski was dead, but that the rumour required con-
firmation. The marshal is 84 years of age. Now,
the Corriere Mercantile, of the 28th, says tho marshal
arrived in Rome on the 23rd, at the Hotel Spillmaun.

11:Glin'AY ROBBERY AT WEDNECHERY.—On Wed-
nesday night last, about eleven o'clock, a most daring high-
way robbery was committed between Holloway-bank, Wed-
nesbury, and Hill top, by two ruffians, upon a commercial
traveller, named Walter William Cobb, residing in Aston-
street, Birmingham. It appears that Cobb (who had been
to Wednesbury on business, and was toe late for the last
conveyance out of Wednesbury to Birmingham) called at the
Hare and Hounds public-house, and inquired if he could
have a horse and trap to go to Birmingham, but receiving a
reply in the negative, he walked en towards Birmicgham,
He had not gone many yards before be was followed by four
men, who had been thinning at the Hare and Hounds, and
they asked him for some money, stating that they were
" poor colliers on the strike." He refuszd to give them any-
thing, and two of them went back ; but the others followed,
and still importuned him for money, and, on his giving an-
other refusal, one of them struck him a blow on the bead,
and knocked him down. The other villain then held Mr.
Cobb while the one who knocked him down rifled his
pockets, from which he took 11. 10s. in gold coin. Mr. Cobb
struggled hard with the thief wise knocked him down, and,
for some time, held him by the hair of the head; but he ul-
timately got away, and, withhis companion, made off. Mr.
Cobb immediately raised a cry of police," and, fortu-
nately, George Bailey, an officer of the county constabulary,
and another policeman, came nip at the time, when, from toe
description 'oven of the men, Bailey apprehended two men
in bed at a house at Rollo way.bank,an hour after the robbery.
The men, whose names are John Ingram and Thomas
Holmes, alias Pass, were brought up on Thursday, before
the magistrate, when Cobb fully identified them as the men
who had robbed him. The depositions having been taken,
the prisoners were committed for trial at the neat Stafford
assizes.—Birmingham Mercury.
SUICIDE OF A SERGEANT IN THE GrAnDS.—Before
Mr. Wakley, jun., at the Canteen, in St. John's-wood Bar-
racks, on the body of David Smith, aged 42 rears, late quar-
termaster-sergeant of the let battalion of Coldstream Guards!
Robert Martin, a private in the same regiment, said, about
ten minutes past six o'clock on Saturday morning witness
saw, through the window of the store-room, the deceased
hanging near the well. Witness instantly gave an alarm,
and on entering the store-room with Sergeant Sheedeo, they
found the deceased suspended by a cord which was fastened
to a wooden peg in the wall. There was a noon in the rope
which was round his n&k, and the other end of the cord the
deceased held firmly in his hand. The deceased was in-
stantly cut down, but life was found to be quite extinct.
Witness had seen the deceased about ten minutes before the
discovery, when the deceased on.. oat of his quarters which
adjoins the stare- room, with only his shirt and drawers
on, and after lookiog about for the space of a half minute,
he went in, and witness did not see him again alive. The
deceased had been very desponding for some days past, and
on Friday last he wanted as if he was not in his right
mess. Sergeant-Hejor Harrold stated that the deoeaaed
had been 23 lean is the regiment, and about three years
since, is consequence of his good conduct and behaviour, he
was raised to the rank of quarter-master-sergeant. He was
• married man, and had four children. He had been very
low spirited for several days past, on account dins wife's
ill-
nen.
*The jury returned • verdict of "temporary in-
lenity.