The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

We find the following in the Coum'er Suisse of
the 26th:

In the absence of official information relative to the late
measures adopted towards the refugees, we publish the Pd.
lowing particulars which have reached us : On the 20th the
refugee, residing at Lausanne received an order to present
themselves immediately at the office for foreigners, in order
to hear a communication made to them. On the following
day the refugees, being informed of the fate which awaited
them, sent a delegation to the office, composed of MM.
Felix Pyat and Duchesne for the French, and Sterbini and
Fare for the Italians. The secretary made known to them
verbally the measures which applied to them all without dis-
tinction, and then lacing before them a map of Switzerland,
requested them to point out which of the non-prohibited can-
tons they would select as their future residence. The dele-
gates replied that they refused to make choice of any canton,
that they would onlyrecognix a written order signed by the
federal authority. countersigned by that of the canton, and
officially communicated. In this position the Council of
State was called on to decide. What will it resolve on?
Will it persist in executing the orders given, or will it draw ,1
back ? Everything appears to indicate that it will adopt the
latter course. The A mire/lisle, in mentioning the petition
which has emanated from the Patriotic Association, and
another to the same effect from the students of Helvetia,
adds that it cannot sec without pleasure these manifestations
of public opinion. This declaration adds to the account
published by the Tribune Suisse that "the government of
Vaud had decided, in consequence of the objection felt by
a part of the population against the measures adopted rela-
tive to the refugees. to represmt officially to the Federal
Council the desirability of releasing the cantonal authority
from the execution of them." If such be the case, and the
representation of the government of Vaud be favourably re-
ceived, it is to be presumed that the Federal Council will
send a commissioner to Lausanne on the subject.

TURKEY.—Samos has surrendered to the Turks
without a blow. Eight ringleaders have been de-
livered up.

DEATH IN A DITCH.--On Saturday Mr. W. Carter,
held an inquest at-the- Europa Tavern, Church-stto t.
Rotherhithe, on the body of Richard Tenser, aged 29, *ho
was found dead in a ditch. Deceased was in the service of
Mr. Hineks, a coal merchant, of No. 69, Fetter-lane,
Holborn, and on Wednesday last, shortly after eight o'clock,
as a man named French was going along a field on the Seven
• Islands' at Rotherhithe, to shoot a blackbird, he discovered
the body of a man ltinalaoa downwasdairs-a remote dit
The deceased was unity embedded in the mud, and the:
was scarcely any water. The-preeumption was, that th,
i deceased being found in such a position, and on private
property, he must have been placed there or have walked
there in the dark, and by some means have fallen in. The
jury returned a verdict "That the deceased was found
dead iu the water of a certain ditch, without marks of
violence, but how he came there they had no evidence to
prove."