Star.
London, England, 1820-01-11 00:00:00

THE SERPENTINE TITER.

The piercing North-easterly wind, yesterday, and
the drilling ~now, were not very favourable for the
twers of the healthltil amusement of skating. The
ice was but thinly arze:s.ied, except by a few of the
leaders, and but fev.- cmiag.es graced the ring. The
ice begins to iose n'any of its qnalitles, for the cracks
exeno is evc:.y direction, particularly near the wa-
ter's edge. The quadrille tignre was again attempted,
by eight persons, and failed ;
it 1.6 not possible for
more than four to effect i:. The velocipede was
a,ain introduced, and with the same success as on
the preceding day. Many very gcod skaters tried
the Caind, in Ken,ington-gardens, wherein the ice
was found to be execlient, but the snow greatly im-
peded the movemeat. There were son.e perscas oa
Dutch skates, who made protligiou way in the /au
roil. The East and South banks were but thinly at-
tended by
the day was fine, the Park was not so well attended
as in the preceding week.

Excellent Recipe for a Cold and *Cough.--One
drachm sweet spirits of nitre, one drachtu of elixir.of
vitriol, sixty drops of laudanum, three tea spoons full
of honey—tbilty.drops of the mixture to be taken
three tines a day.
Slturday se'nnight, an Inquest was held. at South
Weald, in Essex, befo:-e C. G. P.% 1%K1:11, Esq. Coroner,
on view.of the body of James Mingay, whtn it ap-
peared in evidcnce, that the deceased, not being a
person qualified to carry a gun, for the purpose of
killing game, wets, about five o'clock in the afternoon
of the 29th of last month, in Dag Wood, in the parish
Doddinghurst, with a gun, which he had fired off,
when Edward Looker, the gamekeeper of Colonel
HAMILTON, came by the side of the wood, within a
eod and half, or two rods, and said, " Hallo l'tis you
is it ? What are you doing there ?" The deceased re-
plied, " Damn you, keep off, or I'll shoot you ;" and
so soon as he had so said, Looker put up his gun to
his shoulder, and fired both barrels at the deceased ;
when a bullet, with which one of the barrels was
loaded, passed almost through his body, and some
small shot struck his hand and arm. Mingay lingered'
until the following day, and then died. Verdict
As/ilk/de Homicide! Looker has been committed

to Chelmsford Jail, to take his trial for the offence.
Saturday last, no less than five Inquests were held,
on persons who had net their deaths by their clothes
catching fire :—namely, on the bodies of Frances
Hussey, aged eight ; opt Harriet White, on Clara
Hughes, and Harriet Ford, aged six ; and on Wm.
Pelham, aged six years. li, all these lamentable cases,
• verdicts of—Accidental Death were returned.
An Inquest was held at Chipping Norton, last week,
on the body of Eliza Petterway, an infant, who hav-
ing been left with her sister, three years old, tied in
a small chair, the sister, in drawing it near the fire,
threw the infant into the flames, and it was burnt to
death. Verdict, Accidental Death.
A. person crossing over the Severn, at the New
Passage, was asking the master of the boat whether
there were ever any people lost in the passage ?
" No, Sir," answered the Monmouthshire tar, " never:
my brother was drowned' here last week, but we
found him again next day !"