About eighteen years since, Mr. Ayton, landlord of the Dog
Inn, Falkenham, left the Swan Inn, Woodbridge, where he had been at market, at ten o'clock at night. Shortly 'afterwards, he was found dead on the road, near Mr. Hayward's farm-house, about half a mile from the .Market-hill. Strong suspicion fell on a man named Samuel alias Stumpy Brown, a rateatcher and notorious poacher. A Coroner's in- quest sat two days, and eleven witnesses were examined ; but suffi- cient evidence could not be obtained to prove that be had met with an unfair end, and the Jury returned of " Accidental death." It now op- pears, from the confession of a felon under sentence of transportation for life, named James Green, that Brown actually murdered Ayton ; and that Green himself, being secreted for an unlawful purpose, saw him strike the fatal blow. In consequence of this confession, Brown has been apprehended, and undergone several examinations before the Ma- gistrates of the 1Voodbridge division.—Suffolk Chronicle.
Yesterday week, a fire broke out in the west wing of Knowsley Ball, the seat of Lord Derby. By great exertions the flames were subdued in about half an hour, but not before the roof of the wing fell in.
A fire occurred on the Manchester Railway on Wednesday week. As the Swiftsure, locomotive engine, with a train of five waggons laden with cotton goods, was descending the Whiston incline, near Itninhill, on its way to Liverpool, some of the workmen on the road made signals to the fireman to put on the brake, and thereby stop the engine. Owing to the increased speed acquired in going down the declivity, the fireman could not stop the engine until the train had gone about half a mile; and he then discovered that what hind led the workmen to make the signal was the fact, that the second waggon of the five was on fire. The flames, of course fanned and increased by the rapid progress of the train, soon spread so rapidly as not only to destroy all chance of saving any of the goods in that waggon, but also extended to the first and third waggons. The inflammable nature of the goods, the want of water, and the extent of the flames, in all three waggons, at the time of the engine being stopped, precluded efficient exertions : all that tbidd he done was to done was to detach the engine and tends tende7In front, and the fourth and fifth waggons from the rear, and leave the flames to ravage over every part of the three waggons, till they were, with the exception of the iron-work, wholly consumed. It is not known how the tire originated.—Manchester Guardian.
The Defiance London and Manchester coach was upset on Friday last ; by which event Mr. Holbrook, a gentleman residing near Sand.. bach, lost his life, and several other individuals were also seriously injured. The coach had just changed horses at the town of Brails- ford, between Ashbourne and Derby, when the horses, very spirited; ones, took fright at a white gate at the road-side, and the leaders sud- denly swerving to the opposite of the road, threw the coach off its perpendicular, and it instantly upset.—Macclesfield Courier.
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