Star.
London, England, 1825-04-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL 11.

A number of convictions took place this day for tit-
tering counterfeit coin.
Thomas Mills, John Williams, and Margaret Laas-
down, were indicted for removing and carrying away a
dead body from the Church-yard of Northall, in this
county.—lt appeared from the evidence, that the body
of a man, named King, had been interred on Palm
Sunday, in the above place of burial. On Tuesday the
body was removed from the grave, and in consequence
of diligent search being made by the relations of the
deceased, they traced the parties who carried off the
body to a place in Kensington, and there they found
the three defendants in a cart, which also contained the
body, wrapped up in a sack.
Mills declared he had been hired as a carter, and
knew noting of the matter.
The woman stated, that she had been invited by Wil-
liams to take a ride in his cart, and she did not know
anything of the contents of the sack.
Her Husband, who was in Court, exclaimed, that she
was as innocent as the babe unborn, and that he was
sure, had she known what was in the cart, it would
have made her jump out of her skin—(A laugh).
Williams acknowledged that he had removed the
body. He did not dig it up, but went to a place where
he got information it was lying, and fetched it away in
the cart. Neither Mills nor the woman were acquainted
with his purpose.
Mills obtained an excellent character from several persons.
The Jury acquitted the woman, but found the other two Guilty

We are happy to state, that Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH
is so much recovered from the severe indisposttiln with
which he was attacked, on Monday last, that he was
able to be present at the Inauguration of Mr.Bnocon AM,
on Wednesday, at Glasgow, and arrived in town yes-
terday afternoon.—lidinburgh Star.
There has been considerable mortality amongst the
Yeomen of the King's Guard lately. Four are stated
to have died within the last month. The last who died
was Mr. SKELTON, aged upwards of 76 years; he died
on Sunday. He had also been many years one cf the
House of Commons Messengers. His iast illness was
brought on by an accident that happened to him a
month ago, in falling down the gallery stairs of the
House of Commons, by which fall he broke four ribs,
and otherwise much injured himself.
An advertisement in the Gazetteer, April 18, 1769,
classes together for sale, " At the Bull and Gate Inn,
Holborn, a chesnut gelding, a tim whisky, and a well-
made, good-tempered black boy." A Liverpool news:
paper of October 15, 1779, contained the following
advertisement:—" To be sold by auction, at George
Dunbar's office, on Thursday next, the 21st instant, at
one o'clock, a black boy, about 14 years old, and a
large mountain tiger cat:"
The following entry is said to exist in the Church-
warden's accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster, for
the year 1476:—" Also, paid to Roger Fylpott, learned
in the law, for his counsel giving, 3s. Sd. with 4d. for
his dinner:*

DISGRACES TO THE METROPOLIS.—Exeter 'Change
ought to be removed entirely, not only for the sake of
widening that part of the Strand, but to be in keeping
with Waterloo Bridge. Every one entering London
from the bridge must be struck with the miserable ap-
pearance the Strand at that point presents.--Saint
Paul's Church. An opportunity of throwing open this
stupendous building on the east side has just been lost
by the erection of the New School; two fine ohjec.s are
now huddled together, and the beauties of both are
effectually obscured. A project of throwing open our
great National Cathedral, by the removal of all the
buildings round it to a considerable distance, would be
worthy of the age; it should, especially, be open to
the River.—Lincolit's Inn-fields. There is not a single
good carriage entrance into this magnificent square;
two, at least, might easily, and with comparatively a
trifling expence, be made at the small openings now
called Great Turnstile and Whetstone Park ; at the
latter is a narrow zig-zag court leading into Holborn.
Instead of the petty opening intended at New Bank
Buildings, a street should at once be run from the
Bank to Moorgate—it world be worthy of the Bank
Corporation, with th-ir immense capital, to carry a
plan of this kind into effect, and thereby not only make
a grand improvement in that part of the town, but
what is so much wanted, a good entrance into the city,
via the New Road. There is not a single good approach
to the metropolis in that quarter, the amazing increase
of traffic along the New and City Roads from Padding-
ton within the last few years, and the great number of
new buildings in that line, render an opening of the
kind absolutely necessary.
On Sabbath evening, the Sd instant, the neighbours
to a house in Saltcoats, near the salt-works of Messrs.
WARNER and CUNNINGHAMII, became rather alarmed
on observing that the doors had not been opened
through the whole course of the day, and that no noise
or motion could be heard in the house within ; they re-
solved, therefore, on seeing the cause. The outer door
was forced open, and on entering the house, the whole
inmates, who were an old man and woman, the occu-
piers, and another old man, a lodger, were found dead
in their beds, suffocated by the sulphur and dust which
had found their way into their uncomfortable dwelling,
from the hot ashes of the salt-works which are thrown
over upon the rocks at the back of the house which the
sufferers occupied, and allowed to lie till washed away
by a very high tide. Every attempt to restore anima-
tion was ineffectual. The cat, which was lying upon
the floor, was quite lifeless.