“The number of suicides that really happen in Paris must exceed, no man can say how much, those that are actually known. The bodies exposed at _La Morgue_ are most of them brought from _St. Cloud_; the distance to which by water must be above three, perhaps four miles. At the bridge of _St. Cloud_ the fishermen nightly spread their nets; and in the morning, with the fish, these bodies are drawn up; but as an old inhabitant of _St. Cloud_, whom I strictly questioned on the subject, assured me the nets were only suffered to be down a stated number of hours, according to the season, certainly not upon an average half a day; and in proof of what he said, he observed to me that this regulation must take place, or the navigation of the river would be impeded. Hence, by the most moderate calculation, the number of bodies that escape the nets must at least equal the number of those that are caught. “I was told that the government had lately refused the accustomed fee to the fishermen for each corpse they brought, and that they would not continue to drag up the dead bodies, affirming that the money they had before received was insufficient to pay the damage their nets had sustained.” The following statistical facts with reference to suicide in Geneva may be relied upon:— By the laws of the canton, each case of violent death is investigated by a police magistrate, and the documents are sent to the “Procureur-Generale,” and carefully preserved. M. Prevost has examined these documents, collected between 1825 and 1834 inclusively, with a view to investigating the causes of suicide, and of diminishing them if possible. The following are the most important results:— 1.—_Age._ Ages. No. of Cases in 10 years. Men. Women. From 50 to 60 34 25 9 20 to 30 30 22 8 60 to 70 19 10 9 30 to 40 18 15 3 40 to 50 15 13 2 70 to 80 9 6 3 10 to 20 5 3 2 80 to 90 3 1 2 From this table it appears that suicides are most frequent between 50 and 60 years of age. The age when the passions are the strongest (from 20 to 30) is, as might be expected, high in the scale; that of youth and old age low, from the young being strangers to the cares of life, and the old few in number when compared with the population. 2.—_Sex, and State of Marriage or Celibacy._