The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. -.4 BURGLAR
CAUGHT AT SHEFFIELD.

A moat desperate encounter occurred at Sheffield,
at sit early hour yeckerday somas, heiress a burglar sad
the, Ludlum, of the nearer Tams, ie liumellutemet. A
little before ose o'clock Mn. Gregory. the lesdiedy at tie
hrerh.use, wee awoke by a seise is INC bedroom, sad, es
looking at the toot of the bed, she um a men aresched
vooet the drawees, raiz her hseleard's troween pushes..
Abe at moos awoke her heabsed, and immediately tit*
burglar discovered he woe its. ha attempted to get to the
door ; hut Grepry jumped out of bed, mist seising him
tie
the collar, they etninled toretber os the dour, but tie
burglar beios the eteesgeet of the two, be got out of the
.00t co to the imarhar at the ead of the stak-
e... 4. The Leaked retehard kin held of him,
the key* dremples Orrery 1106"1 the mama The trust
dace, teadierg Wu a large yard, bed previously been mi.
belted sod Owed wide apes, so that wits the two washed
the beim of the Mein the thief had se dl espy Is
Imes( hi opponent Into the yard. de they vies is tide
act of pesetas threesk the door.thregeey star* the burglar
a eiespisreit blew mader the ear, art her lell tegeree ender
the rely of • Gut which wee Mamba it the peed. ARO'
• drat&
.of lee sr ax miastee, the era pi the
Wit hood* Gregory teesseda the
leading as. J.."l&"%d'urtriasselarislaimes agar=
for the lamillaries arise of "polite," sad the wile's screws
of "Murder!' bed attracted the of
Moore and a wa.einies, sad these to the B'hiartif
OndajmakollOd the strasie be sad the thief
wee lute eseisiiy. Ile Mars ham r a
pehessr mused Parr Liam wee empleyed
ataketilesirdlilse Weer, sad it • ammerr of the Atha air
pry cd the Mho sopa He le nee leiaed tie Tema
•dha ease tat p helm the as*Mettee War.

The reception et Metier Lasordair• am • member
ot the lonia Attailetay win Übe phew he Nay. M. Guist*
wal reply to the mitre= of the sew eawlemicisa.

It is anuouseed that the railway from Boulogne
I. Gaeta is shortly to be commenced, aud is to he con-
, Atha as quickly as possible. It is to unite with the Paris
as& Calais Railway at Post de Driquee, in the Pas de Calais.
The works of the railway from Toulon to Nies
have emmemieed in the illitrict of St. Raphael. The
mobs, rd mamma a menaced every day, aad
awmosa Maw have be mated at Rt. Raphael mid
the arislimmissod to ledge the contractors and
'Win agreed to the railway company. The appear.
macs of Raphael has become quite changed.
lleueral prerilea stores have been wooed there for the cep
ply of the opeentivea, sad the boats whir h were lyiag idle et
the quay hare bens hired to °marry the materials required
for the railway.

M. Pair* a professor of chemistry in Perla,
hes weaved • specimen of oilseed silver, which
renehed Gemmel Muria, the Director of the Camervii-
Mins dm Arts s Madam rem Wirers's, only three
ape are. it is said to hem hsen takes from •
seam which oemples • surface of twestr•dmi square miles,
and le of great depth. The misers' is described as
nowkagy, pare sad rich, tuataining sot Woo them
111 per emit. of silver, together with • fair proper.
tiou 4 gold, copper, awl antimony. Should the Wee be as
rich as it is described, it will, in the minim of the learned
chemist, rester* the equilibrium Weems the relative vales
of gohl and silver, which was brain Wet is he ilieterbed.

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barraccnra FlRlll—Youtegday morning about
two o'clock a in broke an. upon thepremais occupied by
amarire ctom dealer naniesi rase, No. 2, Porciral-place,
Lower Tot.onhaan. Owing to the inflanimablo nature el,
the ma.orials in stock As flames spread rapklly, and
goeml4iv extended to the three adjmoing houses, the whole
• which ware newly destroyed. Unfortunately Übe
ninon we sok it ie understood, insured.- -A in also
broke nut hot aiyht a. the Queen's Hotel, NewpateMinest,
which oared onasiderable dorm to the neighbourhood.
lartanately, however, owing to timely assistance the imam
were extinguished, and the &..age cootiosti to throe (ohm,
MOM

SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Saturday
afternoon, about two o'clock, great eonstentation was ex-
cited in Gnat giseen-street, Westminiter and its neigh-
bourhood by the report that a gestletuan had precipitated
himself from the scomiddloor window of the residence of
Mr. Charles Foreter, Y.P. for Walsall, at No. 16 in that
street. We understand the facts to be as follows : is It,.
Fonter's house there resided with him hi. made, Mr. John
Forster. a genaennin of 76y/afoot age, whose state of mind
for amid trine pant has been such as to neceseitam hie
fatal placed niftier charge of a malo attendant. Hr. John
Forster occupied a suite .1 rooms on the second door, and
while hie a...eadant had wine down stairs to dinner Hr. and
O. For...'ar went up to me their addicted relative in his
Otani...AN, which was at the back of the house. They
were in the a.. of eonversing with Mr. Forster senior,
whips the old :,sa.lemsa walked out 4 the hack mom into
the (met room, Lill keeping tap a ainvenation, until in a
omen& he :know up one of the sashes, awl scrambling
over the wiedoe-.41H, precipitated himself into the street.
He foil partly upon some teas railings sad thence on to the
pavement, and when picked up was quite imieusible and
very math lacerated. Medial aid waa speedily obtained
from R. Ceorki• Hospital.
ALlienD DDAWAT ON AT LITZITOOL —Liver-
pool has tam some aim. no:cd a late ieicumequesoe .4 the
dna-boom d u ariLri.les and defakatioas by some of its
Public 0skall• Y4•4'687 (Friday) tiff. was. repot in
town to the else: tha,. in the accounts of a gentleman who
holds a responsible official position there has been found an
errs to the clam. cif 15,01 W It am farther added that
hie furniture aid same beam pomerty which he posiasotal
have been seined with the view of reducing the lose if any
is likely to occur. It is to bs hoped that the mar may sot
tars out so tail an it hot been reported, and that a careful
eraminaLiim of the accounts will remove any doubt, which
may exist as to the conduct of the official. —Linerpoof
Nereid rp.
LIBiIIATID AFRICAN SLAVitt. —The numbers of
lihess.arl African Waves who were introducsd into Jamaica
during the !mini (non 1643 to 1:-.50 were, according (41 a re.
turn pubh.6..l yesterday, 5,557. Thom introduced inn
Snoop :until& were 31991 ; into 81. Vlaamt, 10115 ; into
Trinidad. 17.166; St. Ism* 1,674; uw Grenada,
2,1131; into Anshan, 1,21.1 ; into Tobago. 562 and into Flt.
Kitt'., $ no toed number the introduced into the
Wait ladies automata to WA CO. During the saute time
170.1179 w. le introduced IC* the Maaritius.
Pitm:Liow or ram Nocrazas Etuns-uron
Pram mem: of the works 4 the
NorUler• HOD-level &weir, kat Old Ford and &boa the
line, wit are aide ha state that fully three-fcerths of the
eustract work ere coutpleted, au.' there will be
in [tattling the sctLia • al about two
menthe after the time originally —>.ikler.