The Sun. — 1845-02-01 (London, England)

THE ALLEGED MURDER AT LAMBETH.  Yesterday afternoon Mr. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, renewed the inquiry into the death of Diana liemble, alias Campbell, who it may be remembered was found dead in the passage of her house in Fore street, on Sunday morning last, under very suspicious circumstances, which induced the police authorities to cause her son, at present in custody, to be charged with suspicion of having ill-used his mother, and thereby caused her death lay an act of violence. On Saturday night last, about 11 o'clock, the deceased was observed is a beastly gate of intoxication in Paradise-street ; after which her son, the prisoner John Campbell, alias Kensble, took her to the Ship public-house, and after • wards carried her into the house where she rented a room, and left her in the passage at half-past 11 o'clock. Police-constable Whitcomb stated, that about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning last he took the son of the deceased into custody on a charge of attempting to commit suicide. The prisoner rushed from his custody and ran towards Lambeth-stairs, with the intention of throwing himself into the river ; he caught hold of him, when the prisoner said, " I have been the cause of my poor old mother's death—l have lost my right hand, and my best and only friend, and I will now find a place of rest for myself in the water." The prisoner was then taken to the station-house.  Policeman 57 L deposed, that on Saturday night last he saw the deceased in Paradise-street exceedingly drunk, and saw her fall in the street. Her son (the prisoner) was with her, and the son struck at a man for offering to render her assistance, but did not see the son ill-use her.  John Le Groves proved that he assisted the prisoner home with his mother, and left her in the passage about half-past eleven on Saturday night, but no ill-usage took place ; on the contrary, the son behaved with the great est kindness towards the deceased.  David Hughes—Saw a man, who resembled the prisoner, and whom he believes to be the person in custody, in company with a woman on Saturday night, near the Feathers, in Lambeth. She was an elderly woman, and the man put his hand out and struck her. She then fell down, but the man immediately picked her up, and placed her against a doorway. After this the man said ho did not care for any man in Lambeth of his own weight and size. He did not hear any threatening language, but he seemed dreadfully cut of temper. The man seemed as if he struck the woman purposely. lie was very much in liquor. The evidence of Mr. Jeffree, the surgeon, went to show that the deceased died from the effect of a rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain, occasioned by a blow or fall, but he thought the latter was the most probable. The room was then cleared of strangers, and after half an-hour's consultation, the jury returned a verdict— " That the deceased died from the effects of the bursting of a blood-vessel in the brain, occasioned by a fall while in a state of intoxication."  The interior is fitted up on the same principle. There is nothing gay or gaudy ; on the contrary, it there be a fault in the arrangements, it is perhaps that they are too plain, hard, and cold (so to speak) for comfort and ease. For this reason the accommodation for forecabin passengers is nearly as good as that in the chief cabin. It would have been next to impossible to render them more plain. On the other hand, though ornament has been used perhaps too sparingly, every provision is made for the full accommodation of the passengers. The ladies have two sitting rooms, separate from the main room—a vast saloon, in which 300 persons can dine. The ladies' berths, too, are so situated as to give them the utmost light and air. There is a promenade deck immediately over the dining-room, and sheltered by the upper deck from the air. In fact, there is all that can be required by the most fastidious voyager, except that there is a total absence of that costly and luxurious ornament to which the public are now accus • tomed in large steamers. Visitors to the ship should not omit seeing the engineroom, containing all of the machinery that is not boxed in and hidden—the life and moving principle of this marine giantess. The engine is of stupendous magnitude; the great wheel (which works a smaller wheel that turns the screw) spans nearly the whole breadth of the vessel ; and there is stowage for 2,000 tons of coal. Lastly, though not least in importance, people must be prepared with their 3s. 6d. if they wish to see the interior of the ship ; but its magnitude may be quite as well judged of by going round it in a boat.—Times.  THE LATE MURDER and