Star.
London, England, 1830-08-25 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

The neighbourhood of Long-lane, Bermondsey, Southwark, was on
Sunday and Monday in a state of great excitement, in consequence of
its being generally accredited that a murder had been committed there.
Jane Lambert, a female 26 years of age, the wife of a man named Lam-
bert, in the employ of Mr. Longstaff, a leather.dresser, was seen going
about in her usual way on Sunday morning, till past ten o'clock, or
within a little of eleven. In the interim the man and wife were heard
engaged in a quarrel, and about eleven o'clock Jane Lambert died.
The circumstance of the deceased having been seen so very recently
in good health excited strong suspicion against the husband, and
these suspicions were increased from the circumstance of Lambert im.
mediately absconding. The officers of police were in search of him all
Sunday and Monday.
A Coroner's inquest was held on the body on Monday night, before
Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey,'and a respectable jury, at the house
of Mr. Vousley, the sign of Simon the Tanner, Long-lane' when a sur.
geon was examined, who attributed the death of the deceased to the
sudden effects of miscarriage. One of her neighbourr,:a married woman,
gave the same opinion.
While the inquest was engaged in deliberation, one of the Union-ball
officers succeeded in apprehending the husband, who acknowledged that
he had quarrelled with deceased; and in the heat of passion, that he had
struck her with his braces, after which she almost immediately expired
r In a fit.

The jury then returned a verdict— Died by the visitation of OOD ;"
but in consequence of some apparent prevarication in one of the wit.
nesses for the prisoner, the officers conveyed him to Horsemonger-lane
Prison to undergo examination before a Magistrate.
Deceased, with her husband, resided in Smith's-buildings, Long-lane.
She has left behind her three children.

THE NEW POLICE.—A few nights ago, as Mr. C. an
extensive sugar-baker, residing at the east end of the town, was return-
ing home, he perceived one of the new police shamefully ill-treating a
sailor in the Commercial-road. He remonstrated with the policeman
upon the impropriety of exercising his authority in so brutal a manner,
and advised that the sailor should be taken to the station-house, if he
had committed any offence. Instead, however, of following such ad-
vice, the policeman availed Mr. C. with a volley of abuse; upon which
that gentleman, fearful that, from the violence of the fellow's temper,
his own liberty might be in jeopardy, contented himself with taking the
policeman's number,with a view of having his conduct investigated before
his superiors. The following day Mr. C. wrote to Col. Rowan, informing
him of all the particulars of the treatment which the sailor had received
front this man. He received in reply a request to attend at the office in
Scotland-yard, and make good his charge in the presence of the police-
man...:..At the appointed time Mr. C. attended the Commissioners, and
the complaint was fully gone into, which ended in the discharge of the
policeman from the service. Colonel Rowan, upon dismissing the man
from hie situation, expressed his thanks to Mr. C. for following up the
complaint in the manner be had done, and by which he had rendered the
country a service. He (Colonel Rowan) was well aware that many
complaints were publicly made against the new police ; but they were
more owing to the refusal of the public to make their complaints known
to the Commissioners than to any thing else. The COmmissloners were
always glad to attend to any well-founded complaint against any of the
new police, and they would feel obliged by any person who whitened
any impropriety in the membered' that body suending at the oiEce, and
layincauchmisconduct before the COMlllifillOOM