The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-10-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RIME IN FRANCE.—The follow.nge e given from an official statistical return of the convicts at r was 6,908, on the Ist 6,908, of whom of January, 1842 :—The total numbe 156 be-271 were invalids. Their ages were, tween 16 31 , and 20. 1,861 between 21 and 30; 2,204 between 0 and 40 ; 1,663 between 41 and 50 ; 732 between 51 and 60; -85 between 61 and 69. There were 4,139 bachelors, 515 married men without children, 534 with onechild, 1,351 with several children, 117 widowers withoutchildren, 77 with only one child, and 175 with several children. 4,128 could neither read no write, 2,012 could read and write imperfectly, 650 could read and write well, and 114 had received superior primary education. The crimes of which they were convicted were, attempts to commit murder, 175 ; conspiracy, 1 72 ; fraudulent bankruptcy, 11 ; bigamy, 5 ; cutting and maiming, 109 ; rnalversation by public officers, 24 ; political, 3 ; desertion after pardon, 4 ; poisoning, 68 ; extortion of money by acts of violence, 15 ; forgery, 192 ; coining, 116 ; perjury, 6; arson, 139 ; resistance with violence to legal authorities, 13 ; obtaining money by threats, 3; murder, 867; parricide, 18 ; plunder in bands, 13 ; rebellion, 9 ; selling military accoutrements, 3 ; rapes, 314 ; robbeties, '6 : 4 54 accumulation of crimes, 183; duration of putits • h meat under5 years, 22 ; from 5 to 10 years, 3,097 ; from 11 to 20 years, 1,268 ; from 21 to 30 years, 570 ; from 31 to from 41 to 50 years, 26 ; from 51 to 60 4O years, 58 ; Yea 1,861. Among the various stations in life filled 6 ; for life, convicts previous to their condemnations, 12 by the were physicians, or surgeons, 50 veterinary anatomists, surgeons 30 hotel or innkeepers and masters or farriers, jewellers and goldsmiths, 26 makers of lodging-houses, 32 of 9 coffeehouse-keepers, 15 chaser lace and embroideries, s a 22 restaurateurs, sc., 220 domesticnd engravers, 1 comedian, herbalists, 5 ecclesiastics. 6 public servants, 7 druggists and and mathematical functionaries, 12 opticians instrument men of law, 27 schoolmastersmakers, 2 men of letters, 5 watchmakers and m s echanician and professors, 37 merchants, 7 notaries, , 105 military men, 7 musicians, 9 pendent property.-- all(' 39 proprietaires or men of indeeligitani's Messenger.  Vottrp.  LINES ON THE LAST PARTING OF A POOR BUT VIRTUOUS CHRISTIAN AND HIS FAMILY•  (For the Liverpool Standard.) The clay has yielded up its breath ; Its vital spark bath fled ; Why weep you round the bed of death ? Why mourn you for the dead? He is not here, but he has gone ; You saw his end was peace ;•--• Angels, from Heaven's all-gracious throne, Brought down his soul's release. Dry up the fountains of your eyes, Ye kindred now forlorn ; And hail God's message from the skies, Which bids you cease to mourn. No more he feels the cold—the blight That kept his spirit chained : His faith is lost in perfect sight, His highest hope obtained! The swift-winged seraphs watched this clay Throughout the noon of night, And, with the earliest dawn of day, Unveiled the world of light ; And when the eyeballs ceased to roam O'er those he.loved and blest, They took the pilgrim to his home, The weary to his rest.  He sleeps—no cares his slumbers bring, No dreams his rest annoy : He'll wake—when morning stars shall sing, And angels shout for joy ! Be not dejected, sad, and low, But raise your spirits higher; The Lord will be your father now, The living God your sire.  Wayfarer!! count each fleeting hour ; Scan all thy works with care : This dying bed displayed the power Of penitence and prayer ! Liuerpool, 15th October, 1842.