At the Derby Assizes ' on Thursday last week, William Wild,
only fourteen years old, was found guilty of the wilful murder of two fe
rarde children, aged four and two years, the daughters of the boy's master, by drowning them in a pond. A point is reserved for the consideration of the Judges ; and his execution will be delayed. At the Assizes at Bury St. Edmund's, yesterday week, Samuel Brown, aged eighty, was indicted for the murder of James Ayton, in the year 1817. He was found guilty of "manslaughter,"—much to the surprise of those who were present at the trial ; the only question, apparently, being, whether he struck the blow at all by which Ayton was wounded. The principal witness against him was a man of bad character.
A fire broke out, on Saturday night, on a farm occupied by Mr. Unwin, near Coggeshall, in Essex. Property worth 500/. was destroyed. It is not known bow the fire originated. Robert Ridsdale, son of a gentleman residing at Murtin Hall, near York, was accidentally killed on Monday. He was out shooting ; and in passing through a hedge, incautiously allowed the muzzle of the gun to be placed under the cuff of his coat, whilst he dragged it after him. A branch of the hedge unfortunately caught the trigger, and the contents entered about his wrist, and passing out near the elbow, shattered the arm most dreadfully. He only survived till the next day.
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