Star. — 1820-01-11 (London, England)

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 water'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 impeded 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 attended 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 appeared 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 replied, " 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 having 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 !"