Star.
London, England, 1827-09-26 00:00:00

CHANGES.

Mr. De Cotner L'Alran, from Cowes, to Bean Desert, on a visit
to the klarquis of Anglesea ; Lord and Lady Dynevor and Family,
at Dynevor Curie, South Wales, from their seat, Barrington Park,
Oxfordshire ; Lord Lilford, from his seat in Northamptonshire, for
Lancashire.

EDINBURGH, Sum 24.
Arrived at Gibb's Hotel—The Most Noble the Marquis and
Marchioneu of Bute, the Right Hon. the Earl of Beasborough, the
Has. William Ponsonby and Lady Barbara Ponsonby, Charles
Prinsonby, Esq. and Miss Penumby, the Right Hon. Lord Conyng-
boa, Captain Leigh, R.N. John Cumming, Esq. Edward Bray,
.&q. Richard Ellson, Esq. and Lady.
Set off from the same plate—Lord Henry Russell, and Lord
Como Russell, Henry Scott, Esq. jun. of Harden, M.P. William
Scott, Esq. and Elliot Lockhart, Colonel Battik. and Lady, and
Colonel Jahn Bailile, M.P. Robert Kerr, Esq. Grenada, and R.
Kerr, Esq jun. Charles Shadwell, Esq. Russell-square, -London;
Colonel Moore, D. Cannan, Fag. and .1. Carman, Eaq. John Thor
burn, Esq. Dumfries, Edward Cairns, Esq. Captain Heise, Han
over, Captain Grzme, Inchbrakie, Dr. Eagles, M. Mandley, Esq.
Joseph Walker, Esq. Thomas Walker, Esq. and Edward Walker,
Esq. Ruth Seymour, Esq. Jamaica, W. White, Esq. L. G. Currie,
g'i. Liverpool, J. W. Fisher, Esq. Richard Caliwon, Esq. and
Ladll J. H.Jeule, Esq. Major Thompson, Burnhouse, Robert Rea,
RI. and Lady, Miss E. Prime, and Miss Sands, Captain Leigh,
R.N. Edward Parral, Esq. and Lady, Edward Fitsgerald, Esq.
ligbell Waters, Esq. Andrew Bruce, Esq. John Turner, Est
11- R. Dodswerth, Esq. Lincolnshire, W. N. Thompson, Esq.

Insane persons, on as average, eat twice as much as
was persons, and "bey absolutely require more food than people
fa wend mind and body.
A French physician, M. Volans, in a recent work on
/he tnotai and physical causes of insanity, noticing the influence of
prinenions in promoting this affliction, brings forward a curious
table from N. ESQUIROL, chewing the relative proportion of dif-
ferent professions in a mass of one hundred and sixty-four lunatics,
coder the care of that Professor. It runs thus—!' Merchants, ;
"I"'Y met+z:%; students, 25; adminlstrateurs et employes, 21
advocates, mattes, and men of business, 10 ; artists, 8 ; chemists,
4; medical practitioners, 4 ; farmers, 4 ; sailors, 3 ; engineers, 2.
—Total, 164."

Amnon OE SHERIBAN.—When this justly-cele-
brated Orator was at school, he chewed a remark-
able talent for that wit for which he was afterwards
fin much admired. A Gentleman arrived to see his
son, and when young SHERIDAN got a •iew of
him, he betted a schoolfellow sixpence, that the
visitor's face was n longer than his life." The Gen-
tleman heard the wager, and, being struck with its
comicality and apparent rudeness, required an explana-
tion, which was readily given by the young Tyro, that,•
as a " man's life was but a span, he was quite assured
the ►ength of his phiz was not within the scope of a
Patagonian's fist." We need not add, that a tip of half
a•crown was the consequence of his reply.
Tuesday last, a nest of young bulfinches was found
in the neighbourhood of Alnwick. A nest of unfledged
birds, at this late period of the year, is not a little extra
ordinary, the feathered tribes being now in their moult
log trason.--Neweastk Chronicle.