The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-02-19


The average number Of suicides annually cont
mitted in Paris is 800. II has been established by
authentic documents, collected by the Prefecture
of the Seine, that OF 5l1 ascert lined suicides 81
have been by means Of voluntary falls from great
heights, Go by stran gulaoD 10 by pointed AID cut
ting struments, IS by firearms, 81 by poison, Sc
by asphySls from charcoal vapor, 40 by drown
ing The causes leading to the sct are distributed
as follows loo from love or wounded affections;
! ~ from disease, disgust Of life, &c 90 from an
evil course Of life, loss at play; 100 from distress,
loss Ct employ ment, emharrassed affairs; ~ from
unknown motIyes.-Pars Jotuadi des De61ts.
TBE POPULATION or BRussELs. During the last
few years, the population OF Brussels has preserved
a ste ady increase, notwiths standing the great num-
Der OF deaths which have taken place oflaie years.
The population, on the 18Th OF October, 1916, when
The last general census was taken, was l2l 66S; in
January, 1917, 122 40; in 1919. l26 7Sl ia 1919,
III 9l7 ia 1850 1886 Dos, and in 1901, " 900 souls
The last amount is merely presumPtIve: bu. IL is
possible that the official return will exceed that
number This increase arises rather from the sur.
plus OF persons entering the town over those leav
ing IL, than from the surplus Of births over deaths,
the average OF the former being about 1000 annu-
ally and that Of the latter about SEQ only. The popu-
laton averages about ~ GOO persons for each sec
ton, the n oct densely inhabited of which are the
frsf, 50 cond ard third, which contain upwards OF
10000 each persoes, including the hospices within
their respective districts. The garrison, military col
lege, the gendarmere, the boats on the canal, and
prisons, furnish floating population of 900 persons,
10 whom must be added 1000 foreigners. The
NUMBER CT OiftnS. IN lSsf, rACteutu tnhL VI the
births OF 1919 bv =. The births IN 1870 exceeded
the deaths by I55, Notwithstanding the prevalence
Of the cholera; in 1850, the surplus was 49, The
number of desths, in 1919, amounted 10 ) sos ct
which 0l3 were from cholera; in 1850, the deaths
were 4 196 in number.
ThE ID, rcH NAVY According to official docu.
menis. the navy OF Holland comprised, on the rrst
Of January, 1851, two ~ gun chips, three 1is
lend three on the s'ocks), two COS, one ~, eight
AS, enc % gun ship (snd one on the stocks), two
2s's. two Dos (sBd one on the stocks), two ~ =,
20, eight Of 10 guns, two 81 IL, three OF II (snd
three on The stocks), Ave Of guns, six OF y, live
Of I, and five Of three guns. The seam navy con.
ssts Of thirteen stesmers, carving suas (and
three on the stocks), onf steamer of guns, and
three Of iron, carrying " guns toar transport
ships, four 9un-boats, each provided with mortar
and three pieces; twenty. hive large sized gun-bosts
and fourteen small ditto; total III vessels, carrying
I ,3Sa pieces Of cannon. The merchant navy con-
sists Of i13 sail, I'll 81 which belong 10 Amsterdam
| lis to Rotterdam, - 10 Dordrecht, 70 TO Middel
| hourq, 20 to Schiedam, IL 10 A,bla sserdam, 4
| Alkmaar, = 10 Delflhaven, 4 to Gronipgen, /. Y
s.! HsiliDgen, ito Kindefkyk. 9to Hague, Sto hlc
! rihzse, 2 to Batavia, 3 TO Nv ollie, and many othe
/ towns which have each their vessels. The small
craft consists of 9l9 bottoms 81 new ships, larg
and small, are now lying on the stocks
ThK SysAR DFsTRoYKR.-M Guenn, the entc
mologist, so celebrated for his discoveries, ma
| found out new destructive agent which has az
pesred smong the segars in the national msnuist
tory. Everybody has noted segars with holes
Them WHICH the .mekeT cannot use because o. :"