The Sun. — 1867-08-24 (London, England)

REFORM FETE AND BANQUET.—A. fully attended meeting of the general committee for piomoting this fete in celebration of the passing of the Reform'llill was held last night for the purpose of receiving a report from the ;.. ;Uorrens, M.P., Mr. Thomas sub-committee as to the time and place for holding it. The Hughes,secretll mre.apd.,lejstitre.rs J. S. 111). M General Thompson, and other gentlemen, approving of the proposed fete and promising their.co-operation. From the arrangements made it appears probable that the banquet will be held at the Crystal Palace on Monday, Sept. 30. It was also reported that several of the " leading Liberal members of the Common Council and other influential middle-class reformers" bad accepted invitations. It was resolved that a great beating-up should take place to induce a full attoutlauce.  The Lamentable Tragedy at Lambeth.  An inquest was held yesterday on the bodies of Mu. Roberts and the two children whom she had killed previous to taking her own life, when some evidence was given showing that domestic differences existed, and that the wife had left her home on Sunday last and did not return till next day, having remained at the house of a relative. The jury deliberated for an hour, and then returned a verdict that the deceased woman had " destroyed her own life while in a state of unsound mind." It is stated by a neighbour that when the mother, intent upon committing a third murder, found her son leaping over some flow/21-s, and getting out of her way by climbing over the fence, she threw the knife which she had in her right lond after him, and it narrowly missed striking him in the back. Iris mother when she caught hold of him by the shirt, which fortunately tore, tried to plunge the knife into his abdomen. The boy struggled, his clothe?, tore, and he eluded her grasp a second time, and then a race between the mother and the son took place. A Horse Sus:.ended in a Sewer.  This morning between 9 and 10 o'clock an accident, which might have been attended with serious if not fatal consequences to three persons, took place in the Waterloo-road, opposite the entrance to the Windsor arrival platform of the South Western Railway Station. A large sewer is in course of construction at this part of the road, and shortly after the arrival of one of the trains several cabs were leaving the station. One, a hansom, in which were two gentlemen, came down the hill somewhat unsteadily, the horse curveting and kicking in such a manner as to alarm the passengers, and on getting to the bottom of the hill he made a plunge, and the next instant was suspended in the sewer, the cab being saved only by a plank of wood which fortunately lay in the road in the embankment. The two gentlemen who had seen the danger immediately sprang from their scats, as did also the cabman, and measures were at once taken to prevent the cab falling over into the sewer, and to extricate the horse. Some considerable time was consumed in adjusting ropes round the animal and in bringing him to the surface, but this was eventually effected without injury to the horse. The sewer at this part is about 20 feet deep, and there can be little doubt that, but for the block occasioned by the plank of wood, the cabman and his fare must have been precipitated headlong into it. It appears that there was a similar accident at 10 o'clock last night in another part of the sewer, and this suggests the desirability of greater precaution being observed by the contractors in preventing the possibility of such mishaps.