The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

AUGUST 23, 1867.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(Rsurra's nu.scsAms.)
SPAIN.

PARIS, Aucmirr 23.

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" According
to a telegram from Madrid dated the 21st inst., the
insurrectionary bands in Catalonia and Aragon
have been everywhere dispersed without offering
any serious resistance. The Spanish government
does not appear to have any fears as to the issue of
the movement, which it looks upon as suppressed."

MADRID, AtGuar 23.

The Official Gazette of to-day announces that the
insurgents in Catalonia and Aragon have been
routed and are now retreating towards the French
frontiers rusued by the troops.

THE IMPERIAL MEETING.
SALZBURG, AuconT 23.

To-day the Emperor Napoleon gave an audience
to Herr Schindler, a member of the Lower House
of the Reiclisrath, and conversed with him upon
the position of affairs in Austria.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has received the
French editor, M. Arnould. In addressing him,
his Majesty expressed the assurance that the meet-
ing between the two Emperors would greatly
cement the good relation existing between Austria
and France.

Large numbers of orders have been conferred
upon the members of both suites. The sovereigns
leave Salzburg to-day.

MEXICO.

PARIS, AUGUST 23.

Official advices received here by mail from Mexico
to July 20, confirm the telegraphic intelligence
published by the Moniteur of the 11th inst., respect-
ing the position of the French minister and the
probability of Ms speedy departure. The Austrian
ChargiS d'Affaires had loft for the coast, intending
to return by way of Tampico. The Belgian and
Italian representatives remained in the capital.
Juarez entered the city of Mexico on the 15th of
July, and immediately issued a proclamation to
the inhabitants, which was couched in moderate
language. No important arrest had been effected
since the execution of Vidaurri.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Arcuer 23.

Signor Corti, at present Italian Minister Pleni-
potentiary at Stockholm, has been appointed
Minister at Madrid. Signor Artom has been ap-
pointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen.

AMERICA.
QtTEENSTOWN, AMUR? 23.

The royal mail steam-ship Chins, from Boston,
arrived here at 2.15 a.m. to-day, with 127 cabin
passengers and 14,024 dole. in specie. She landed
all the mails except those for Liverpool and a por-
tion of the Scotch and two passengers. She pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 2.30 a.m. All well.

QUEENSTOWN, AUGUST 22.

The National Steamship Company's steamer
Virginia arrived here from Liverpool at 9 p.m.
yesterday. Embarked passengers and proceeded
for New York this morning. All well.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

M.AELS.

GALLE, Avousr 17.

The Ottawa, from China, arrived on the 15th
inst., and the Avoca, from Australia, to-day. The
Nubia leaves to-day for Suez.

OUTWARD MAIL OF MAY 20-27.

The Bombay arrived at Melbourne on the 10th,
and Sydney on the 12th July.

OUTWARD MAILS OF JULY 4-10.
The Golconda reached Calle on August 2.

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN LAMBETH.
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A terrible tragedy took place in Lambeth last
night—vim, the murder of two children by their mother,
and the suicide of the hapless woman. She wee the wife
of Mr. Charles Roberts, a master plumber and painter,
living at 51, Chester-street, Kennington-road. They had
three children—Charles, aged 12 ; Annie, aged 10 ; and
Frederick, aged 7; and it is the youngeelltwo who have met
so tragic a fate. About 20 minutes to five o'clock yester-
day afternoon, Mrs. Hill, a neighbour, heard loud cries of
murder, and proceeded at once to the garden in front
of Mr. Roberts's house. She there met the boy
Charles, who, in a frightened and excited state, said,
Oh, Mrs. Hill, mother has killedithe two,land will kill
me." Mrs. Hill at once hastened into:theihouseby the front
door, and found both parlours empty. She then pro-
ceeded to the basement floor, where in one of the rooms
she found Mrs. Roberta lying near the doorway leading to
the back yard, in a pool of blood, and bleeding from a
frightful gash on the left arm, just above the elbow. She
said, " Oh, Mrs. Roberta, what have you clone r The un-
fortunate woman had become so weak from the loss of
blood that she could scarcely articulate, but was under-
stood to make some mention of her children. The dying
woman bad in her right hand • white-handled table knife.
Mn. Hill called in a neighbour, with whose assistance the
almost inanimate body was removed to the hearth rug.
The alarm having been given, and medical eminence called
in, it was found that the poor woman had inflicted a deep
puncture in the left arm, by which the most important mac-
des had been divided. She was then dead. Several medical
gentlemen soon arrived upon the spot. The rumour having
got abroad, a large crowd assembled in the neighbourhood,
and Chester-street was so besieged by idlers that it required
• large body of police to keep the thoroughfare clear.
The police and the medical gentlemen were induced from
the expression made use of by the boy Charles to make
their way upstairs. On phasing through the back bedroom
over the kitchen, into a small lumber-room opening out
of it, the lifeless body of Frederick was found. He was
lying on his left side, with his hands clenched and covered
with blood. The poor boy's throat was cut from ear to ear,
and there was little evidence of any struggle having taken
place. In the first floor front bedroom, lying on the floor
upon her left side, was the corpse of the poor child Annie,
whose bead, neck, and bosom, were besmeared with
blood. She was lying outstretched between the bed
and the washstand. Her right arm was extended and
her left hand just visible from beneath the body was tightly
clenched. The coverlet of the bed was stained with blood,
as also the washstand. Here evidently • struggle had
taken place between the poor child and her mother, who
had, as in the case of the boy, inflicted • severe gash on the
girl's throat. The eldest boy Charles, who first gave the
alarm to Mrs. Hill, was afterwards taken to her house,
where, on being questioned, he made the following state-
ment :—" I was playing in the garden with Fred. between 4
and 5 o'clock this afternoon, when mother come down and
said, ' Fred., I want you.' I went with her upstairs and
then beard a bump. I then ran upstairs to the back room
over the kitchen, and there saw Freddy 'lining in the
child's chair. Mother was then in the act of sawing'
hie neck with the knife. She then threw him off
the chair down upon the floor, and the blood
spurted all over the place. I then rushed down-
stairs followed by mother. I said, What's the
matter with Freddy?' She said ' He's very ill.' Mother
then ran upstairs again to the front bedroom, where sister
Annie was lying on the bed suffering from a pain in the
cheat. Mother took hold of her. Annie said, Oh, mother,
for goodness' sake, what are you going to do r Mother
said, ' I will stab you,' and then drew the knife back-
wards and forwards across Annie's throat. I was in the
doorway and saw this. I was frightened, and ran away
downstairs, through the front and back kitchen into the
garden, and cried ' Murder,' and ' Mother
stopped in the doorway of the kitchen, and I said, ' Oh,
mother, what are you going to do?' and she answered,
' I'll stab myself.' I then saw her thrust the knife into
her arm, and then the blood spirted out all over the
place." Mr. Roberts came home from a contract he was
carrying out in the Borough, pushed his way through the
crowd, and soon learned the fatal news. Up to midnight
the street was thronged.
Another account says :—Between four and five o'clock
Mrs. Roberta sent a messenger to Mr. Hargrave, grocer and
tea dealer, of Chester-street, where her eldest son was
employed, stating that she wanted to see hint immediately.
Her son at once left the shop, and he was seen to enter has
mother's house. Upon going upstairs be was horrified at
seeing a large pool of blood upon the floor of the sitting
room. His mother was standing at the side of the door
way of the room. She was very pale, and there was • wild
expression about her eye. She trembled very much, while she
grasped in her right hand a large long-bladed knife. She
was fully dressed. She gave • load shriek when she saw
her son, and, flourishing the knife about in the air she
rushed after him. He then saw th►t she intended to kill
him, and he ran, or rather leaped towards the stairs, and
when he got two steps from the top his fright became so
great that be fell, and rolled towards the bottom of the
flight. His mother rushed after him, and caught hold of
him by his clothes. She grasped them tightly, but the
fact of his falling caused them to tear, and he was en-
abled to escape. He jumped up and ran out of the house,
and hastened to the shop of his employer, who at
once ran to the house. A neighbour states he saw the
miserable woman rash round the back garden after her
son, but not seeing the knife in her hand at the time he
had no idea that she contemplated murder. He saw the
boy run towards • low wall and leap over it, and when he
did so he ran down the road. It is said the boy had
noticed that his mother had been low and desponding for
some time past.