The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-10 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASUIBE.
COMIfif4STON BY TM: Id iti) LIErTENANT OF LAY-
cAnnam.—T. T. Parker, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.

THE TRANdATLANTIC STEAMER ACADIA, having
been purchased by the Belgian government, sailed from
Liverpool yesterday for Antwerp, wader the command of
Cap•atn Jackson.
CALIFORNIA.—Two vessels tailed from Liverpool
yesterday for San Francisco, namely, the Zealous and the
Athens. The former had a full complement of cabin pas-
sengers, including a company 01 miners from Cornwall, and
a cargo valued m 30,000/. The latter had also a few pas.
ampere.

NOTIINI

No Faaa oe FREE TRAD6.—A small house, with
four acres of grass land, standing in the town street of But-
tim Bennington, has been wild by Kr. B. 'tickling, at the
Boot Inn, Button Bonnington, for the sum of 6811. In an
adjoining parish a farm has been re•let at an advance of 10s.
per we.

—.—
BURGLARY AT GOSPIELD HALL, THE SEAT Or E. G.
BARNARD, ESQ., M.P.—On the night of the Gth of February
last, after all the family were in bed (Mr. Barnard being too
unwell to attend to his parliamentary duties in town, but the
thieves doubtless imagining him to be from home), the ser-
vants were alarmed by a anise down stairs, and upon going
to ascertain the cause, in the billiard-room they discovered
several men, who had effected an entrance there, and were
proceeding further, when they found they were discovered,
and immediately made their escape. In consequence of this
circumstance, Mr. Barnard caused a strict watch to be kept
in and 'Mut his premises, and on Tuesday last, about mid-
night, police-constable Downes, who was watching in the
house, went out to survey, and discovered a man looking in
at a window; he instantly seized him, and upon taking
him into the house, the servants, to their amaze-
ment, identified him as George Gearing, lately a
butler in their master's service. He had in his poesession a
loaded pistol, a long sharp pocket knife, a very formidable
weapon, some gunpowder, percussion cops, match-box and
matches, and a crape mask. The plantation near the house
was then searched, and another burglar being discovered,
after a long chase be was captured behind a tree. His name
is stated to be Samuel Cooper, of Hackney. Upon bins were
found, a carpet bag, containing a great number of house-
breaking implements, and six pistol balls, and a jemmy, or
crow-bar, was in his hand. It appears that the thieves came
down from L,ndon by the 3 o'clock train on Tuesday after-
noon, expecting, no doubt, to carry off a rich booty, as it was
generally thought that Mr. Barnard and bin family would be
in town. Gearing had recently left Mr. Barnard's service,
having been with him ten or twelve months.—Both pri-
soners were examined before 3. N. Brewster, Esq., on Wed-
nesday, and were remanded.

TTIE MURDER ATTlRlBTOLeorotter's inquest
was commenced on Thursday, on the body of Mies
Jefferies. at the Griffin Inn, St. Michael's, before J.
B. Grindor, Esq. Long te'ore the hour fixed for the
commencement of the proceedings the streets adjacent
to the inn were thronged by spectators, while the in-
quest room, despite the efforts of the police to prevent it,
was crowded to suffocation. The coroner haying ad
dressed the jury upon the nature of the inquiry upon
which they were about to enter, they proceeded to
the residence of the deceasedlady for the purpose
of viewing the body and making an- inspection of the
premises. The condition of the rooms bore evidence of the
house having been ransacked and plundered. Ihe skull of
deceased had been fractured over the left temple, and her
face and person were covered with blood. The bed and
bedding were likewise saturated with the fluid, which had
flowed on to the ground, where it lay in a considerable pool
From the position in which the turps was found it was
evident that the deceased bad made an r ffort to escape from
her nixed, ter, for her right leg was thrown out of bed and
her left leg bent under her, as if in the act of being
withdrawn from under the bedclothes. The jury
having returned to the inquest-room the puma.
nation of witnesses was proceeded with.—Mr. Henry
Jefferies, a retired surgeon, brother of the deceased, was
flirt called, and deposed to having searched the premises
with the police (as described yesterday), and diacevered the
body of his sitter lying on the bed quite dead, and covered
with blood. He
,also deposed to a tin case, in which she
usually kept title deeds and valuables, having been broken
open and plundered, as also to a small cabinet chest of
drawers, usually kept full of jewels, having been pilfered,
and some of the drawers and all the contents carried off. The
witness likewise identified some of the jewellery found in the
house where the prisoner wes captured, as having belonged
to his deceased lister. She valued it as family relics, and he
was sore would neither have given it away or 'old it.—Police
sergeant Corp, No. 2, de Ned to having assisted
in searching the how, and also to the apprehension of the
prisoner Sarah Thomas. When be applied at her father's
hease her mother denied that she was there, or that she had
seen her for two mouths ; but upon the house being *earthed
she was found secreted in a small coal-house under the stairs
partly; undressed. Among the coals were Pond several
bosilvlerbenspoersth
thlseelonpgrii.r.
the drawers belonging to the small cabinet. Isabella
gnetor'sthbeeddecialewere dilari"a k
oys rings a abaanat
Fry deposed that else was a tenant of the de-
ceased, and lived in the next house to her. On Saturday
morning last witness and her husband were roused from
skip by a Tay gnat noise in Kim Jefferies' lame. It was

a noise of a female screeching or screaming, and proceeded
from the front barroom. Witness thought it wee Mies
Jefferies pettirg up her tenant, and that they were quarrel-
ing. A Ides. Ides! who resided in witness'. boos*,
knocked at the wall with a etick, and then the
noise ceased. At about seven o'clock, Miss Jef-
feria' servant knocked at wittien's dom., and said
Miss Jeffesies had sent her to say that she hoped
Mrs. Fry was not alarmed by the noise, bat that a cat
had jumped upon the bad and frightened her mistress. Mrs.
Rant, who answered the door, said "Oh it wee no cat—it
was you crying ; for I have heard
.you crying in the yard
before." To which the girl replied, " Yes, she is such a
rood-'or-nothing o retch that I cannot live with her.' Mils
Jefferies• house was kept closed after Saturday. On Tuee.
day !morning witnesn's sorvant locked up at the bed-
room window, and the blind wail up, so that
she could see the looking-glass, a time-piece, and
• portion of the bedstead; but, on looming again en
Wednesday morning, she saw that the blind had been pulled
down by some person who must have been in the house.
Mrs. Ham was celled, and confirmed this statement as to
hearing the noise on Saturday morning, and the prisoner
coming with the message, after which the inquest was ad-
journed.—The inquiry was resumed yesterday, when the in-
terest seemed rather to have increased, the room and ap-
proaches to it being more densely crowded than before.
fhe prisoner, who was present in custody, maintained
the ammo indifferent appearance until near the end of
the surgeon's evidence, when she burst into tear and wept
bitterly for tome t,me. The first evidence taken was that
of Mr. Bernard, surgeon, who depend to the post martens
appearances and csuse of death. On the head were nume-
rous wounds, from the effects of which the deceased must
have died. She had probably been dead for three or tour
days. The injuries were such as the unfortunate lady could
not have inflicted on herself, and they were, doubtless,
caused by sonic blunt instrument, but Lot a round
one. The cause of death was concussion sad
compressiem of the brain, produced by the in-
juries about the head. There wore also contusions of the
argon of the left band, tendering it clear diet after recede-
she first blow the unfortunate laey held up her battle to
chltust herself, and received • portion of the blows on them
which were inttvid,d for her he ad. At the close of the surgeon's
evidence, Mr. Jeferie4, th• brother of deceased, wished to
state some corroborative evidence, and else some now fact.
which had come to his knowledge, but the coroner stopped
him by stating that there were reascna why it wee deemed int-
prudent to enter upon any nem facts, or proceed further with
the inquiry to-day, and after a short conversation, the inquiry
was sojourned till Tuesday neat. It is stated that a stone
has been found in a fire-place in the bedroom which is
stained with blood, and has grey hairs adhering to it, and
which, upon being compared with the wouude, was found to
correspond precisely with one of those on the forehead.
The further adjournment of the inquest is understood to
to have been made at the request of the police.