The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

,3tribtuts anb• Ofinuts.

A YOUNG GIRL, about seventeen years of age,
named Agnes Deane, who lived at Bootle, near
Liverpool, was discovered suspended in an out-
building, formerly used as a schoolroom, belonging
to her uncle, a Mr. Veckness. The suicide appears
to have been of a most determined character. The
means of destruction was a child's swinging-rope
which hung in the schoolroom. To reach and cut
this she had got upon a table, on which she placed
a chair, and, having fastened a rope, had then
kicked the chair from beneath her feet. tio possible
motive could be assigned for the rash deed. The
inquest was held on Monday last. Verdict, " Tempo-
rary insanity."
ON Saturday night a fire, attended with a con-
siderable destruction of property, broke out upon an
extensive range of manufacturing promises belong-
ing to Mr. Jones, paekingcase maker, which extend
from Wood-street, London-wall, as far as Curriers'
Hall-court. The building was several floors high,
and at the time of the disaster was filled with a vast
amount of stock. Owing to the combustible nature
of the contents, the fire spread with amazing rapidity,
and several adjacent Manchester and silk warehouses
containing two or three millions' worth of property
were placed in imminent peril. By great exertions
on the part of the firemen, however, the destruction
was limited almost entirely to the building in welch
the fire commenced, and where the loss sustained
amounts to several thousand pounds in value.
Sons straw caught fire in an ice-vault belonging
to Mr. Littlejohn, an Edinburgh confectioner, on
Thursday in last week. The firemen attended when
summoned, and threw water on the flames, which
filled the vault with vapour to such extent that two
of them, brothers, named John and Daniel Ander-
son, were suffocated before they could escape.

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CAPTAIN HowE, of the Reporter, arrived in the
Mersey from New Orleans, reports having been
struck by lightning in the Gulf Stream, which split
skysail and royal masts, raised fore hatch and
budding of foremast, split several planks on the
deck, knocked down three men forward, and para-
lysed, for a short time, several men aft..
ACCORDING to accounts received in Antwerp front
Batavia, of the 7th of June, the Hefter, Victor, front
Sydney to that place, had been lost on the Kerm
Rocks.
ACCOUNTS from New York state that the cashier of
Mr. Belmont, Rothschild's agent in that city, had ah.
stracted about 3,0001. in bank-notes from an iron safe
in the banking-house.
AN INQUEST has been held upon the death of the
two men killed on the London and North-Western
Railway last week. The jury have returned a verdict
of manslaughter against Walker, the pointsman oa
duty, whose neglect in shifting the " points " caused
the collision.
Tim TRIAL OF MRS. BROUGH, for the murder of
her five children at Esher, is to take place on Mon-
day next. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson will conduct
the prosecution, Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., being ape.
cially retained for the prisoner. The defence to be
set up is that of insanity.
A MAN named Burke has attempted, in conjunction
with a woman with whom he travelled and cohabited,
to murder a child by burying it alive in a field near
St. Albans. They dug a hole, and had commenced.
throwing in the earth, when the screams of the child
alarmed some labourers in the vicinity, and the
couple took to flight, leaving the child, who was at
once extricated. An active pursuit was then cum,
menced of the parties implicated. Burke is described
as a haymaker, a native of Mayo. The child whom
they attempted to murder, it is believed, is the ille-
gitimate offspring of the female.
RIOTS of rather a serious nature took place in Kelso
at the end of last week, in consequence, it is alleged,
of the toll levied on the bridge having been kept up
longer than was thought necessary. On Thursday a
mob tore down the gates of the bridge, and dragged
them to the Town-hall, and on Friday the distur-
bances were renewed and special constables sworn in.
On Saturday night the gates and posts were again
destroyed and thrown into the river. The Riot Act
was read. One policeman was carried off the ground
considerably injured.
THEFORONEHS[INQUIRY into the cause of the steam-
boiler explosion on the Ribble has terminated in a
verdict of" Manslaughter" against Robert Jackson, the
maker of the boiler. The surveyor to the Board of
Trade was examined during the inquiry, and gave it as
his opinion that the iron of which the flues were made
was not capable of standing the strain of bending to
so sharp a corner as the flues bad. The jury accom-
panied their verdict with a recommendation that Go-
vernment should be communicated with, and re-
quested severely to censure Mr. Clayton, the Govern-
ment surveyor of steam-vessels and marine-engines
for she port of Preston, for neglect of duty.

Yesterday's Moniteur states, tinder date Bucharest,
July 29 :—" The complete evacuation of Bucharest
will take place the day after to-morrow. Officers and
soldiers that remain behind will be treated as de-
serters. Baron Budberg leaves to morrow for
Fokschan. Russian troops are concentrating on
the Sereth. The evacuation of Moldavia is not
spoken of."
According to the Cologne Gazette, the Austrian
Cabinet sent to its Ambassador at St- Petersburg
instructions to express to the Russian Cabinet its
regret that the propositions of Russia were of a
nature which it could not accept without engaging in
a war with the Western powers, which it was resolved
to avoid.
Telegraphic despatches of the 27th nit. from Con-
stantinople say that the cholera was increasing in
violence. General Tarbuccoit and Captain Pessedonse
had died of the disease.
A division of the fleets with Generals Canrobert
and Brown bad left Varna to reconnoitre the Crimean
coast. The third French division left Varna on the
27th for Kustasube and Silistria.
The project for a railway to Cintra, along the
banks of the Tagus, has been submitted to the
Cortes by the Minister of Public Works., It is esti-
mated that it will cost SOO,OOO/., and the projectors
calculate chiefly upon the dock and other buildings
on the water side from the Quay do Sodre to Belepi
to obtain the interest of the capital.

A collision took place on Thursday on the new
railroad to Orsey, which is a prolongation of the
Paris and &eau' Railroad. A locomotive, dragging
some waggons for the works, ran into a passenger
train. Ten of the passengers were more or less in •
jured, but it was hoped that none would die.

The Billingsgate oyster season opened yesterday
with the usual observances, partly ceremonial, but
principally business-like in character•