The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-27 00:00:00

Daring Burglary at Sheffield.

During Monday night a robbery of a very extensive cha-
racter was effected in the house of Mr Moss, at Tapton
Mount, Glossop-road, Sheffield. On Monday Mr Moss had
made arrangements to travel to Torquay, with his wife, and
in anticipation of their departure a largo quantity of silver
plate had been packed in the plate chest, aid would have
been removed to Mr Moss's bankers for security yesterday
morning. Nothing was heard during the night to attract
attention, but at 7 o'clock in the morning the servants found
the lower rooms ransacked. An entrance had been effected
through the window of the dining.room. The robbers had
broken a pane, and then with a large centrebit they bored
out one of the panels of the shutters. When they got into
the room they would find the door locked on the outside,
but they removed one of the panels and unlocked the door,
and then found themselves in the passage, at the foot of
the stairs, opposite to the door of the drawing-room. In
this room Mr Moss had left the plate chest, and the robbers
seem to have gone straight to the spot where this valuable
booty was deposited. On a table in the drawing. room was
a writing desk, locked, and this was carried with the plate
chest into the garden at the side of the house. They smashed
the desk, but in the latter there was nothing to reward
their search, The plate chest contained silver plate, and
Mrs. Moss's personal jewellery, to the value of £3OO, and
with this booty the burglars made off. The stolen property
cons'sts of the following articles :—Ten silver table and
dessert forks, eight dessert and table spoons, end two sauce
ladles; dozen fiddle pattern silver teaspoons, half a dozen
fancy do., three pair of sugar tongs, one pickle fork, ten
sugar and salt spoons, butter knife, three pair of silver
knives and forks, a richly chased fish knife and fork, two
corks, silver tops; two fancy gilt spoons, richly chased
marmalade and cover, gold English lever watch, heavy gold
Albert chain and hook, with gold dog, pencil and locket,
all gold ; two short brequets, four email gold seals and
gold heart, gold bracelet band, diamond and turquoise snap,
ditto onyx padlock, brooch, amethyst, and pearl, box pearl
brooch, emerald and pearl brooch, turquoise box-brooch,
small gold brooch with drops, mourning brooch, mourning
diamond ring, silver teapot, coffee pot, sugar basin, and
cream jug, richly chased with bird tops; filagree silver
sugar basket, basket work silver sugar basin, filagree silver
inkstand, oval silver tea caddy, two silver caddy shells,
the bottom of a silver cruet frame, four silver salt cellars,
oval, with four legs each; one chased large, and one plain
small muffineer ; waiter, round, beaded edge, and ditto
chased different; half-pint measure, fluted, and gilt in-
side; pierced oblong cake baskets, two chamber candle-
sticks, two taper stands, sauce boat, toast rack, pin tray,
engraved napkin rings, 11 fiddle pattern table forks, 10 do.
dessert do., 19 table and dessert spoons, and five ladles ;
shell pattern skewer, Indian ring and small hoop, 12 gold
buttons, 10 do. turquoise enamelled, pair gold wrist buckles
and bands, two hair bracelets with pearl snaps, one ditto
with engraved snap.

The famous swallow painted by Carl Vernet on
the ceiling on the Cafe Foy, Paris, is the cause of a
law-sait. The landlord opposed at a late bankruptcy sale
of the tenant's effects the right the latter claimed to sell it.
The tenant founded his claim on the fact that the swallow
was painted after the lease he holds was signed, and the
landlord contends that by being painted on the ceiling the
swallow has become a fixture. The affair has been provi-
sionally decided in favour of the plaintiff, who, should he
gain his suit, will not have much to beast of, for the ori-
ginal swallow has long since disappeared under at least 20
different coats of paint.
The fhip Seindis, a new iron vessel, making her
first voyage from Calcutta to London, under the
coahnand of Captain Carr, was abandoned on the 13th Sep-
tember, off the Cape, she being dismasted and in a sinkirg
condition— so leaky that Captain Carr did not think she
would float till morning. Two vessels—the Aminta, of
Liverpool, and the Alicia Annie, of Sunderland—subse-
quently fell in with the Scindia and towed her into Algoa
Bay. The prize is valued by competent authorities at not
less than £150,000, The salvors, having given her up to
the proper authorities and agreed to halve the salvage, pro.
ceeded on their respective voyages. The Scindia was of
about 1,000 tons, and her cargo is given as 5,040 bags rape-
seed, :i4,030 hides, 35,8401 b tea, 7,249 bags sugar, 1,381
bags saltpetre, 210 bales cotton, 210 bags lac dye, 195 bags
shellac, 2,000 bags jute, silk, indigo, 'So. She was amply
covered by insurance,