Star.
London, England, 1831-07-18 00:00:00

STATISTICS OP SUICIDE.

, The French papers have lately informed us of
the existence of a club of suicides in Germany.
According to the reports made from time to time
by the secretary to this singular association, which,
strange to say, has not yet found even a place in
the voluminous list of English clubs, we are given
to understand that there are proportionably fewer
suicides in London than in Paris. In the former
city only two deaths in 1,000 occur every year.
At Copenhagen the number of suicides has nearlyy
.doubleilia the lesi SO yeasm 71s, awl
and explanatory details of the statistics of suicides
are those with respect to Prussia. In six weeks,
500 persons put an end to their existence for the
following motives:—
Suicide, in consequence d cadged honour ... 14
mental aberration •.• ... 61

.--- drunkenness and debenchary ...

fear of punishment
debt and pecuniary
love

. matrimonial disputes
- weariness of life
- sickness and pain
- ftligious enthusiasm
. unknown collie!

... 64
.. 32
... 18
... 12

.. 11

282

With respect to the. different modes of suicide,
the following is an account of the particular ex-
pedients adopted by 525 individuals :
Suicide by hanging ...
fire ATMs ...
draining ".
stabbiug

leaping from a window
cutting the throat ...
poison... ...
opening an artery ..

...166
.. 60
.. 20
.. 19
.. 17
.. 10

The Prussian suicides, like the English, give the
preference to hanging ; the French have a greater
penchant for throwing themselves from the top of
a house, the parapet of a bridge, or, with greater
gout (as more theatrical), from the top of a pillar
or monument. Suicide in all countries is more fre-
quent amongst males than females. There have
been only three instances of self-destruction by
fire—that of the philosopher Empedocles, who
threw himself into the crater of Mount /Etna ; that
of a Frenchman, who, in imitation of the former,
precipitated himself, in 1820, into the crater of
Vesuvius ; and that of an Englishman, who, about
20 years beck, jump into the furnace of a forge.
As far as the Mums of governments is con-
cerned, it appears that suicides are more frequent in
republics than under monarchical governments.—
They seldom occur in Russia. -

BEGZ

Registration made rate; era concise 'loafer a General'
Regieter of all instruments to be mode ninth, Land
in England, without regairing sots Out production of
any deed or instrument, by the simple additions of a
date and number S. every impression qf stamp duty._
By C. M. HANIfIXOTOS.
Mr. Hannington is an eminent solicitor at
Brighton, and well qualided to speak to the pur-
pose ona subject which Mr. Campbell is rendering so
operose and annoying. His plan is simple and
certain, and not involving the inconveniencies of
the plan now before Parliament. With this opi-
nion we hasten to lay before the public a tract
which he has actively circulated among the pro-
fession and members of both houses.

As the additions, says Mr. H. of a date and
number to every impression of Stamp Duty have
been long wanted to authenticate muniments of
title, and prevent the possibility of fraud by the
substitution of one deed, or part of a deed, or in-
strument for another; or of imposing any impro-
perly executed document, as to date or time, as
valid, which a distinguishing mark on the'Stamp
Duty, as to the time of its impression, would often
defeat, the Author has been induced to found his
System of Registration on such simple additions,
as best calculated to connect every instrument with
the memorial and copy thereof, without the neces-
sity of its being taken from the possession of the
party entitled to it ; the Stamp Office date and
number impressed on the original, and set forth in
the memorial and copy, being sufficient to prevent
any attempt at fraud by substitution, and rendering
any office mark on the original instrument un-
necessary.
Having thus stated the basis of the plan, it
may be necessary, for the purpose of inducing an
attentive perusal of the system proposed and its
claims to investigation, as suited to remove the
great existing objection to a general register,
namely. its tendency to injure the credit of persons
charging their estates, to ask why is a gown!
register xecessary? The answer to this question
is, because no safe dependence can be placed in
abstracts of title, owing to the possibility of omis-
sions of settlements, or other instruments of a

family or secret nature, being frequently kept
separate or part from the other title deeds of
estates, which may alter, reduce, and sometimes
defeat or destroy the interests of the persons mak-
ing or withholding them, or creating terms of
years or other iocumbrances which may affect the
estates to which ',they relate in the hands of per-
chasers, mortgagees; or other claimants; and if so,
and if such obstacles to title can be removed, and
the value of estates improved by the certainty of
the security; and if all incumbering acts of every
nature may he henceforth known by reference
to a general register, whereby the person searching
may be enabled to detect every omission of an in-1
strument essential to the abstract of title relating
to any estate included in such search ; and to call
for the production of it, by the bare information af-
forded by the register, that certain instrument& im-
pressed with stamps, bearing certain dates and
numbers had been made, affecting an estate therein
described by the indexed owner thereof, without
stating the amount of the Stamp Duties, the coma-
' tamer , to whom =tide, or the nature
.4 the (anisaatheaaine be a purchase

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mitred, to be made and filed,—or, if a contract,
a caveat entered. in an office or offices to be ap -
pointed for the several counties, and within a given
period, containing the particular► required to be
set forth in the columns of the memorial, of every
instrument to be made affecting lands in Eagland ;
also a certificate, cut off from the printed form at
the end of the memorial when filed, to be filled up
with the number and particulars of the entry of
the memorial in the index, to be delivered to the

person taking the memorial to be filed, that such
certificate may be annexed to the instrument to
chew the registry thereof, and the reference
thereto in the public index ; also, that every sub-
sequent memorial shall contain a reference to the

last memorial filed and number -thereof in the

index, if any instrument shall have been preciously
made affecting the estate, or any part thereof,
after the passing of the act ; if not, that the
memorial of *a Mort isetroment made, affect-
ing it, shall contain a statement to that
effect; also, that every mortgagee shall furnish
to the person or persons entitled to redeem the es-
tate, a schedule or abstract, as may be required of
all deeds in the possession of such mortgagee re-
lating to the property in mortgage, with the num-
bers and particulars of the certificates referring
to the general indexes, on being paid for the
same. And that an attested copy of every in-
strument shall be made bookwise, in which the
amount of the Stamp Duty impressed on each skin or
sheet, and the date and number of each stamp, shall
be set forth, and deposited at the time of filing the
memorial thereof ; to be kept under seal, and
opened only in cue of loss or destruction of the
original, or other sufficient cause shown, and then
only by the order of a court of law, or equity, or
of a judge at chambers. And, to complete the.
system, the act should direct, that in case of al-
lotments, or of divisions of lands for build-
ing purposes, where the deeds cannot be given
up, and the abstract of title shall exceed the num-
ber of

brief sheets' ; a fair copy thereof shall be de-
posited in the Registry Office, for the benefit of
all parties entitled, with a numbered plan, if ne-
cessary; that such plan and each piece by number
maybe referred to in the memorial.
The memorial may be signed, as in the county
of Middlesex, by one of the grantors, or like the
memorial of an annuity, which it resembles, may
be filed without a signature, as an attested copy of
the instrument will be deposited with it ; and, if
allowed to pass unsigned, the expence of the
memorial, including the present ten-shilling
memorial aim" and copy of the deed, will
not exceed the sum usually charged for a
memorial and the affidavit of the execution
thereof in the county of Middlesex. As the
name of the grantor only will appear in the me-
morial, un!ese it be of a purchase deed, when
the grantee's name will be used, the reference
in the index to the entry of the memorial is
the register will be made clear and easy by let-
ting forth in columns ;—let, the number of the
grantor's name in the index ; —2nd, the 'lama and
description of the grantor taken from the memorial;
—3rd, a short description of the premises affected ;
—4th, a reference to the entry in the register; —and
sth, a blank column to be filled up; when the next
memorial relating to the same premises or any part
thereof shall be filed, with the number of such next
memorial in the index, as such memorial must con-
tain a reference to the last entry in the index and the
number thereof, by the insertion of which in the blank
eolumn will show the next (or if the memorial
be of a purchase deed) the last act of the
grantor, as the entry thereof in the index will
in case of a purchase deed, be in the name of
the grantee, and to such entry the number in-
serted in such column will refer, and thereby
give the name and description of the purchaser.
Thee the !lumbers referring to the entries in the
register will be continued through the indexes,
and the entries of, or references to, the n.emo-
nal., or from one memorial to another through
the registers, that the searches may be made
easy, and the premises sought for, without diffi-
culty, be found ; and if any search be made for
the purpose of comparing an abstract of title
with the entries in the register, the date and
number of the Stamp Duty, if set forth in the
margin of the abstract against each instrument,
must connect the entry of every memorial of
such instrument with the abstract thereof, iden-
tifying the premises thereleatected, without
error any possibility of or e ; and the re-
ference to every subsequently filed memorial, by
the filling up the blank columns in the indexes and
registers at the time of the filing thereof, will ena-
ble the party searching, by the antes and numbers
and other particulars set forth in the entry of the
memorials in the register, to note ill omissions, if
any, of instruments registered ; and even without
knowing bow the same may affect the premises, to
call for the production of them, and for their inser-
tion in the abstract, if found to be essential to the
title of the estate.
There are many other acts, matters, and things,
which may be brought within the provisions of a
general Registry Act, such as Wills, compelling
the proof of them within a given period, acts re-
lating to copyholde, annuities, judgments, &c. but
as public records thereof are already provided, the
Author doe, not feel himself called upon further
to notice them here, and will therefore close his
remarks by observing that, to perfect his System
of Registration, and for other purposes, he has
constructed and obtained a patent for an improved
stamping apparatus, which may be made to impress,
at every stroke, any form of stamp or die, perfect
and with certainty, in different colours if required ;
mid at the same time to produce a date and conse-
cutive number in each impression, without the pos-
sibility of taking two impressions bearing the same
date and amber; and whereby the exact number
of impreeeisaa made of each denomination may with
unvarying aaaoracy be daily or hourly ascertained ;
and, if adopted, by Govorossot, a new WOO of

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that rrt of the revenue, it may be almost said, im-
possible ; as the machine, producing a plain or co-
!'itired impression, not to be imitated by the hand
a common die, will, by its operation, and a sim-
it !..ritizement, chew the number and amount of
prt.st,ions taken ; and, consequently, the amount
'the monies paid at the Receiver's Office, includ-
i tbe discount, at the conclusion of the business
cry day.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
PARIS, JOLT 16.

Stn,—The affair of the 14th of July, so much'
talked of, and which for the last month has been
looked forward to with anxiety, has passed over ;
bi:t unhappily like all the tumults of late, not with-
t bloodshed. It had been proposed on that day,
amongst some of the decorated of July,— The amis
people,— and others, to erect a tree of liberty on
the site of the Bastile, and thus celebrate the an-
niversary of the destruction of that detestable
fortress. The French government, however,
fearful that tumult prejudicial to public order
would result from such a commemoration,
stated in the ordonnance for " three days,"
that the fete of the Bastile, would be
amalgamated with them, and would be marked
particularly by the King laying the first stellz., of a
national monument, commemorative of tlie com-
mencement and ending of the revolution—this nu)
'lament to be raised upon the former site of the
Bastile. The very circumstance of the government
taking the initiative, was quite sufficient to decide
the said parties to prosecute their original plan ;
consequently, on Wednesday last, a meeting took
place of all the " bold men and true," at the
Vauxhall of Paris. Upwards of 3,000 graced the
assembly, and it was unanimously agreed that the
said tree of liberty should be raised, because it
would be annoying to Messrs. Casimor Perier,
Vivien, and Co.
The Government, however, was on the alert.
As early as eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, the
police was on duty, and paraded Paris during the
whole night in strong detachments. About 15,000
of the National Guards were ordered on duty; and
as early as four o'clock on Thursday morning, the
drums were beating the rappel in all quarters of
Paris. Strong detachments were placed on the
Marcld des Pleura the Place du Chatele't, Place
du Greve, in the Place Royal, near the Bastile ;
and the site of the Bastile itself was completely
surrounded by National Guards and troops of the
line, who now fraternize upon all occasions. The
cavalry of the National Guard, and the artillery
wto were stationed outside the walls of Paris,
‘vith such a formidable force, it might be supposed
that the Government would have had little to fear,
against a few unarmed medical students, embryo I
I rwyers, and other mad-caps. But the govern-
uu was not satisfied, but took into its pay whole
troops of unwashed artisans, who were pleased to
insult every one displaying a tri-coloured riband,
er sporting a white hat—which were pointed out to
them as the rallying symbols of the Republicans !
At about five o'clock in the morning, a pole intended I
for a tree of liberty, was seized by the police,near
the Odeon, and the chosen band who were the
hearers and supporters of it, some 50 men and
boys, were put to flight, sword in hand. Thus
ended act the first. _

At 10 o'clock, I proceeded with two medical
students, who had promised me rare sights, to the
Place du Chatelet. There the troops were in
formidable array, and the crowd which was assem-
bled tolerably quiet, excepting when any of the
said worthy artisans made a dead set at a republi-
can hat or a tri-coloured cockade. This generally
ended in a scuffle, followed by an arrest or two.
I had neither cockade nor white hat, but my com-
panions both displayed cockades, which they after.
wards prudently put in their pockets. From the
Place du Chatelet, we proceeded to the school of
medicine, where, at 12 o'clock, there was to be a
formidable muster ; but, alas! twelve o'clock came,
and one o'clock followed, and the assembly
did not exceed two hundred ; some of these weary
of waiting proceeded to the Place du Chatelet,
others to the Bastile. I went with the latter party
—but on our arrival at the Bastile, the immense
number of troops, and the peaceable demeanour of
the multitude, sadly disappointed the men of law
and physic, who murmured at the want of spirit
of those who the night before had vowed such
de«!s. Natters, however, did not pass off so
sm,f-tbly in other parte of Paris. In the
Elyst'es, a party of about four hundred
cut down one of the trees, and were proceeding
to plant it upon the Place de la Revolution ;
nmongst these were some National Guards, and
inany wearing the decoration of July, at the time
they were about to plant it. The National Guards,
supported by the dragoons., flew to the spot, and
putting thini to the route, pursued them with fury
IL to the Chumps-Elysees,a here many of them were
seriously wounded; and the bulk of those who took
refuge in the little cafes, situated there, were ar-
rested. Here the National Guards acted with pas-
sion and malignity. I saw several inoffensive per-
sons wounded, who like myself were mere spec-
tator-S. A trumpeter of the dragoons de CLartres
pursued a young man, and actually severed his arm
from the holy at the shoulder, with his sabre. Seve-
ral were pierced by the bayonets of the National
Guards, and lrere afterwards trampled upon by
the horse:, of the dragoons. Young Desirabode, the
ron of the dentist of that name, was very seriously
v.-minded, and was reported dead ye nerday. It was
stated that be was wounded whilst attempting to
discharge a pistol ; but this is false : he had no fire
arms, and his father has this morning published
a letter stating so, in the Constitutionnel ; adding
that in answer to the numerous inquiries respecting
his son, that although still in great danger, he is
not a Wino hopes of saving his life. The unfortu-
tat, and uncalled for scene in the Champs Ely-
sirs was the last act of this tumult, which the
Maniteur, as usual says, will positively be the last.
We shall -4ee. France is far from being in a settled
state: it is divided into many parties, but unless
I hi re be a foreign war to unite them, there will be
vim tirmally these collisions; and from the manner
the National Guards, with arms in their
Lands, taunted, as well as wounded the ribband-
men, it is easy to perceive that a spirit of
taneonr will prevail amongst them. A young man
in the Rue Saint Antoine, who had his cockade
turned out of his hat, and was told that it was a
rallying sign, asked General Pajol, who happened
to stop near the spot, whether it was not also a

rallying sign when the citizens marched with him
to Rambouillet. The General proceeded on his
way, without making any reply.
The King was in Paris during the whole of Thurs-
day ; his horses were kept ready saddled, and in
case of any serious tumult taking place, be had
determined to take a part. This effort was not re-
quired. In the evening, when he left Paris, the
National Guards had the bad taste to applaud the
King vociferously, and, at the same time, sneered
at the patriots, as they termed them. All this
petty spirit rankles, and must, some day, have vent.
The news from Poland is very contradictory;
but, on the whole, it appears favourable to the cause
of liberty. The trials of the patriots who took part
in the Italian revolution are terminated, and the
sentences pronounced. All the emigrants are con-
demned to death. There are, besides, 800 other
condemnations, more or less serious, pronounced
against those who remained in the States of the
Pope. I inclose you the Journals, which are
curious, from their different views of the same
subject ; and I remain, yours, &c. &c.

EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS.

J. L.

General Belliard has just left to receive Prince
Leopald.—Journal des Debats.
The Globe makes thus a summary of the new
elections :
Opposition (properly speaking) .. .. 135
Against the hereditary succession of Peers, and 289
thus leagued to the Opposition .. ... 154
Doubtful .. 112
For the Succession ... „. 56

Total 486

If this table be correct, the opposition may be
regarded as being mistress of the chamber, by the
single fact that it has the majority to decide the
decisive question of the succession.—La Quoti-
dienne.

M. Casimir Perier was promenading yesterday
morning about eight o'clock, upon the Pont-Neuf,
carrying a large tri-coloured riband at his button-
hole. We cannot say whether the President of the
Council sported n white hat. But if, two hours
later, he had the idea of taking the air on the
Place du Chatelet, his riband would have been
sufficient to fix the attention of the knock-down
gentry at three francs per day, and the Minister
would have been able to judge himself whether
the service was energetically performed.—Revo-
lution.

" It is unquestioned, that the Police had paid
the numerous bands of workmen. The fact has
been guaranteed to us by persons worthy of credit.
These are the men who, under the conduct of the
City sergeants, made the greatest part of the ar-
rests, and made them without discernment and with
brutality. Many inoffensive persons were seized
by them upon the sole motive that they had a white
hat, or a tri-coloured riband at their button hole.
The National Guard conducted itself, upon most
points, in a manner not to justify the reproaches
which were addressed to it on the occasion of the
troubles of the month passed.—Le Globe.
The National asserts the same fact of workmen
being hired by the Government.
On Wednesday last, the officers of the 10th
legion paid a visit in a body to General Lobau.l
After the customary compliments—" Well, gen- I
tlemen," said the Commander in-Chief of the Na-
tional Guard, " to-morrow for recreation." " What
do you mean, General ?" said M. V. L. one of the
captains. " Yes, to-morrow, the Republicans wish
to plant a tree of liberty, and we shall set them to
rights." " General," replied M. V. L. " that does
not appear to me a recreation : every good citizen
must regard it as a day of mourning, when they are
called to exercise rigorous measures against their
brothers, against fellow-citizens, against patriots."
La Revolution.

Departure of M. Pozzo di Borgo. " We have an-
nounced the departure of M. Pozzo di Borgo for
London. The general report is that he will return
at the end of the month or the beginning of Au-
gust ; that the object of his journey is to present
his duties to the Princess Helena. We believe that
the ambassador bas another aim in going to London.
If it were solely to present respects to the sister-in-
law of his sovereign, to the daughter of Prince
Paul, the Ambassador at London could have ful-
filled that mission as well as M. Pozzodi Borgo. In
the present complicated circumstances, of the Rus-
sian legation, with that multiplicity of reports which
exist at this moment, it is difficult to believe that
the ambassador, of the Czar would quit a post so
important to fulfil a vain ceremony; and that
even supposing the Princess Helena exercised
the immense influence over the Emperor
Nicholas which is attributed to her. It must
then be believed that another motive directs the
Russian Ambassador. The moment approaches
when will be pronounced the speech from the
Crown of France. It appears that M. Pozzo is
not ignorant that the state of Poland will be en-
quired into in a significant manner; it is said even
that he had that assurance in his last interview
with his Majesty. Thus, he would at once escape
from the effect produced by the speech, and know
himself the opinion of the English Cabinet, in
order to judge of the exact position of the alliance
between France and England. In consequence of
these informations, M. Pozzo di Borgo, who was
always for the moderate and conciliating parties,
will see the Princess Helena. Knowing
her ascendancy with the Emperor Nicholas, he will
perhaps council her to employ it with the Emperor
to bring about an arrangment, and avoid a bloody
and general war. Such are, if we be well-informed,
some of the intentions of M. Pozzo; he fears war
more than any person ; accustomed to the life of
Paris, to that opulent and convenient civilization,
he would be mortified if a aar with Russia was to
force him to quit France. Many persons are
satisfied that he would even prefer giving in the
resignation of his high position, in case of war,
rather than make so violent a change to his tastes
and habits. To studyi the true intentions of
England and some proceedngs with the Princess
Heleni, to bring about a conciliation, are the points
which will be attempted, it is said, by M. Pozzo.—
He has not demanded his passports, as was said;'
his project is to return to France, after the discourse
from the Crown, and the days of July.—Courrier'
de Francais.

All yesterday conspired to maintain order in all
ranks of the population, as in the month of July
last, all was raised to protect liberty. Thus the
men who boast of having alone made the revolu-
tion would see that it was not possible for them to
unmake it when unsupported by those whom they
accuse of having in nothing contributed to it.—
Here is then the secret of July 1830, and of July

1831. The success is then as assured as was that
of last year.—Moniteur.
We have already seen that the Ministry affects
always to confound the opposition with the tumults.
This bad faith is very great, and it received to-day
a brilliant contradiction, which it bad already given
before-hand
by the language which the Journals
have held every time time that the public tran-
quillity was threatened. The attitude of the Na-
tional Guard, and the excellent public spirit which
reigns at Paris, have powerfully, without doubt,
contributed to remove the troubles with which we
wore threatened this day; but the press may take'
to itself a part of that honour. We do not fear to
say, that without it, that without the unanimity of
journals of the opposition, it would be difficult to
avoid a conflict between the public force and the
unsettled masses who did not think that they
would be prevented from celebrating, after their
own manner, the annivercary of the 14th July.
POLAND.

Private letters from Warsaw announce that the
Emperor Nicholas has just granted to Field Mar-
shal P.aakewitsch the title of Viceroy of Poland.—
Quotidienne.

We read, in the official Gazette of Berlin of the
9th,-..." Authentic news from Warsaw announces
that en the 4th the Polish army retook the offen
sive, under the orders of the Generalissimo, and
marched against the Russians. General Sierawsky
commanded the reserve at Praga. Several pieces
of large artillery, arrived from Zamosc, will defend
the positions. Gen. Chlapowsky is named Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Lithuanian army."
JULY 2.—The journals paint as very miserable
the position of the Polish troops sent into Lithu
ania, and speak of defeats which Gen. Gielgtid
has experienced. Nevertheless an adjutant of that
General, who quitted him on the 27th, has arrived
at Warsaw with the news that hi General had
united to him the greatest part of the regular
troops dispersed in Lithuania, and that in spite of
some combats rather disadvantageous, he hoped to
force Wilna to surrender. They complain bitterly
at Warsaw of the authorities of the Prussian fron-
tiers, who furnish to the Russians provisions and
ammunition, whilst the Poles are repulsed with
harshness.— Gazette d'Augsbourg.
WAas A w, JULY 4.—The Russians are re
tiring upon all points in order to proceed towards
Lithuania, where the insurrection is general. The
central provisionary government in Lithuania has
for President The former General of the Polish
army, Senator Castellan Tyszkiewicz ; he occu-
pies himself particularly with the organisation of
the military forces. The cavalry regularly organised
amounts to from 15 to 16.000 men. We are as-
sured, in a positive manner, that Polangen is in the
power of the patriots. All the Lithuanian troops
have put them themselves under the general com-
mandant of the Gen. Skrzynecki. Wilna was not
taken at the departure of the last news ; but it was
hoped that city would not be long in capitulating.
—Gazette de Prune.