SUICIDES IN PARIS.-Among ...
SUICIDES TN PAIts.-Among tne statistical researches earding the city of Paris, rerently published by order of Al. de Cbabrol, the following suicides will afford a fair opportunity of com- paring it vvlh those of Englanid. According to the estimate of the deaths during the years 1819) ard 1821, in which the distinction of age and sex was established, it was remarked that mortality amongst males up to the age of 25 years, is greater thaa amongst females, nd that fromz this age ux to 50, there die more women than men. It is reckoned that more women than men arrive at advanced age. In the year 1821, 3X8 suicides were effected or attempted; in 244 Df these cases death ensued: of this number 236 were men. The preaumed motives were.- Amorou s Passions. . . . Alienation of mind, domestic troubles, and patnful afflictions 126 DetLuchary, gambllng. and lottery . .43 liadlgcnce. loss of place, and derangement of aff,trs . 46 Fear of reproach and punishment .10 Unknown mattves . 88 33 had been efTected by severe voluntarv falls; 38 by strangulation; 25 by cutting instruments; 60 by fire-arms; 23 bv poison; 42 asphyxies by charcoal vapour; and 127 by drowning. It is seen by this scale how large a porilon of the whole nutmber is ascriSed to tffliction aod aliernationi of mnind. It ia also no less remarkable, that among the means by which this crimne has been effected, drowning has been adopted by nearly five times as many as. any of the others. We hear from good autthority, that tte Members for the counties of Suflolk and Norfolk are arrived in London, for the par- pse of conferring with the Board of Tiade on the subiect of the lat london retarns of barley; and it is said that the subject is al- ready before the Attorsey-Gencral. As a specimen of the frauds which have beets practlsed, we need only state one of the actS by which the average of the sixth wcek in the London market was made: 25,792 quarters, at. 4i;s. d. A. return was made of 2,400 quarters bought of Ford and fo., at 495. Mettssrs. Ford and Co. have made an affidavit that they have sold sts barley thie ~eeson, and have bough only1,000 quarters at 49s. B3at, In spite ofthese procccdings,Wtis confdently believed thc sorts i,ill not OpOTt.,-Esry POSt.