The Press. — 1854-08-05 (London, England)

TRIAL OF MRS. BROUGH, for the murder of her five children at Esher, is to take place on Monday 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 illegitimate 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 disturbances 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 steamboiler 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 accompanied their verdict with a recommendation that Government should be communicated with, and requested severely to censure Mr. Clayton, the Government 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 deserters. 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 Constantinople 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 estimated 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•