Star. — 1830-08-07 (London, England)

TILE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—During the absence of the late Duke of Kent at Brussels, in the year 1816, his Royal Highness's birth-day, November 2, was celebrated by a splendid public festival, for which the stewards obtained the use of Fishmongers' Hall, where Alderman Wood, then just about commencing his second mayoralty, presided u chief magistrate, and the Duke of Orleans, u a personal and warmly-attached friend of the Duks of Kent, wu one of the numerous guests. On giving the health of the Royal visitor, the Lord Mayor particularly congratulated hint on the circumstance of England being the birth-place of the heir to his title; when his Serene Highness rose and returned thanks in a brief but elegant address, delivered with peculiar fluency of force. He bad been engaged, he said, as was flatteringly observed by the Lord Mayor, in rearing his infant family in this country, and the best acknowledgment he could make in return for the many kind. nesses he had received here, wastthe assurance that, in his parental instructions, he should ever inculcate in the minds of his children the purest principles of the British Constitution, and an endearing attachment to its institutions and liberties.  DISEASE OF 'CBE SKIN COMMUNICATED BY Camett..—(From the Lancet.)—The following curious fact was related by 31. Biett in one of his lectures on diseases of the skin : Several years ago some camels were brought to the Jardin des Plantes, affected with an eruption which was speedily communicated to the persons under whose care they were placed. The disease was found to be of a psoric nature, but of great severity, and accompanied with a derangement of the digestive functions. The news of this affee. don made a great noise in the faubourg St. Alarceau • nobody tiered to approach the garden, which was, in the eyes of the people, a lazaretto with the plague. The rumour reached the ear of the sutho. rules, and the minister requested the professors to report on this new scourge. The answer was, that the disease was the itch, but of a more malignant character than usual, and the insect of which was also different from that of the common itch. M. Biett, who was extremely anxious to have a sight of this insect, applied to the professors, but could not get any satisfactory answer, and his impressions are, that none of them had seen it, but had only concluded that the supposed insect of the camel's itch must be different from that of common scabies, and that the inference had actually been given as the bet. However this may be, some of the animals died, and the =mot them were sent to the Veterinary School at Alfort, where 3J. Batt renewed his researches, but with as little success as before.— The person albesed with the camel's itch suffered for a long time Mm it, modem after their recovery remained subject to itching, so as to make them believe themselves to be affected with an incurable ler* ; and No of them being two years afterwards affected with prurigo, adonlly from despair committed suicide. Another patient, who was one of the keepers of the camels, and was admitted at St. Louis with prurigo, which he considers as a sequels of the camel's itch, is extremely low spirited, and seems also to have a great tenantry to suicide, a sort of monomania, which indeed is not at all unfrequent during the repeated relapses of the disease in question.