Star.
London, England, 1811-09-03 00:00:00

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The southern side of the Strand, between Arundel-
street and Essex-street, havinsbeenlately pulled down,
in pursuance of the plan for improvement of that part
of the parish of St. Clement Danes, workmen are now
actively employed in rebuilding the same, and several
of the new houses are already built as high as the first
floor. A few months will complete them, and the
western side of Temple-Bar will then present a noble
and splendid appearance.'
The ruins of the Savoy, now partly occupied as
a timber-yard, are to be removed along with the
various old buildings adjoining, and upon the stile
thereof is to be built an elegant square, extending from
the Savoy Prison west, to Somerset-house on the east,
and on the southern side of the banks of the Thames.
This work may be said to have already commenced,
as workmen have been for some days employed in
pulling down one of the old houses in the Strand, im-
mediately opposite Exeter 'Change, in order to open
the passage from the Strand into the new square.

By the return of population for Scotland, June,
1811, it appears that Glasgow now contains 108,830
inhabitants, and consequently is, in point of popula-
tion, the second city in Great Britain. Edinburgh,
the metropolis of Scotland, contains 103,143, and is
the third, after which comes Manchester and Liver-
pool, the former 911,573, and the latter 98,371. But
the rise in the population of Glasgow is most of all
extraordinary, being more than doubled within the
last forty years.
CatmoN.—We insert the following extract for the
information of Parochial Officers :—Extract from the
32d Geo. 111. c. 45. sec. 3. where it is enacted. that
if it shall be made appear to any two Justices that any
poor person shall not use proper means to get employ.
ment, or if he is able to work, by his neglect of work,
or by spending his money in an alehouse, or places of
• bad repute, or in any other improper manner, and
shall not apply a-proportion of the money earned by
him towards the support of his wife and family, by
which they or any of them shall become chargeable toi
their parish or township, he :ball be considered as an
idle and disorderly person, and be subject to such pu-
nishment as is directed for idle and disorderly persons
by the said Act."
Owing to the heavy rains, accompanied with hail,
which fell on Saturday and Sunday se'nnight, several
roads and bridges in the neighbourhood of Glasgow,
have been materially injured. A bridge near Dun-
glas was carried away.
Thursday last, Mr. LukeCade, a respectable trades-
man in Paradise-row, Chelsea, and who for nearly
thirty years had been a tax-gatherer, revered by his
superiors, and reap cted by the pooor end the dis.
tressed, met his death by falling into a wine-cooler,
full of hot wine. The deceased, on his return from
attending a vestry .mecting on Thursday, employed
himself in emptying a copper of boiling elder wine
into a cooler, after which, whilst wiping a copper, his
feet slipped from a tub on which he was standing,
and he fell backwards into the cooler of heated wine.
He was unable from his age (seventy-five) to extri-
cate himself, and he was rescued by three of his
daughters, who had been alarmed by their parent's
shrieks. In this horrible situation, in which he was
put to bed, he lingered until Sunday, when the hand
of death relieved the worthy man from his heart-
rending sufferings.
A Coroner's Inquest was held yesterday evening,
at the Middlesex Hospital, before Mr. Hodgson, on
the body of James Sparks, a plumber, working for
Mr. Hammond, No. 16, Tottenham-street. It ap-
peared, from the evidence, that the deceased was em-
ployed at one of the new houses in High Holborn, on
Thursday last, during the ascent of Mr. Sadler's bal-
loon. He was so intent on the sight that he missed
his footstep, and fell on his head into the area. James
P. Heath, Esq. the house-surgeon, who attended the
unfortunate man with the greatest care, stated, that
the deceased had received a dreadful fracture in his
scull, which extended completely across the head, al-
most from one ear to the other. Every attention
was paid to him, but he died on the following day.
Vekdict—Accidental Death.
Thursday an Inquest was taken at Yazor, Here-
fordshire. on John Verry, waggoner to Mr. Ridge.
way, of that place, who died in consequence of a
kick he received from his master's horse, whilst wan-
tonly beating it in a most barbarous manner—a prac-
tice much too frequent, and to which the deceased
was greatly addicted.—Verdict —Accidental Death.
Of the foolish and cruel practice of throwing stones
at domestic animals, a rather remarkable instance oc.
curred on Tuesday se'nnight, at Stonehouse. As a
calf was returning in the evening from a grass park,
gamboling, and enjoying its existence, a person took
up a large stone, and threw it with so much violence
at the harmless creature AS to occasion its instant death.
The value of Dr. FAINAIAN'S GUTTA SALUTAIII
has been so long proved, that nothing of the present
day can bear a competition with it, in all the diffe-
rent stages of a certain disease, which it effectually
cures and eradicates from the habit, without exciting
alike painful feelings and exposure that attends saliva-
' tion—without debilitating the constitution in any de-
.tree, or even requiring confinement from business or
restriction of diet. The radical virtues of these Ines.
doable Drops have proved their claim to public ap-
probation for more than 30 years. In all the debility
of both sexes they prove a never-failing restorative—
whether the debility is produced by too free use of
mercury, by illicit pleasares, or the effects of a warm
clhaate• To travellers and those going abroad, they
cannot be recommended too strongly, as they will re-
ceive a safe, speedy, and complete cure, in all olp
,stubborn ;sleets, and every weakness that affects the
bladder and organs of urine. By its efficacy many
women have become mothers, who for many years
had been deprived of that happiness.—Sold wholesale
and retail, at Mr. Butler's, No. 4, Cheapside, corner
of Paternoster-row ; and retail, by Belam and Sharp,
Portsmouth ; Hall and Johnson, Gosport ; Allnutt,
Weston, Mallory, and Jones, Portsea; Trewman,
Exeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert, and Hoz-
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'Cargill, Edinburgh ; Crutvrell, Bath ; Ross and Peck,
; Gregson and Billinge, Liverpool ; Stains and
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Lloyd, Birmingham ; Gregory, Brighton ; and most
Medicine Venders, 'fa bottles, at Zs. 9d. 44. fid. and
and ris. each.