The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1864-05-24 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ZNALLND.— Gentlemen who live at home at seas—who, over their toffee or their wine, sip in critically the gossip or the stirring narratives communicated by the correspondents of the newspapers at the seat of war in New Zealand, have little idea, probably, of the hardships undergone, to as, nothing of the dangers encountered by the writers in question. Some slight idea, however, of what the prove correspondents have had to encounter may be gathered from the following extract from • private letter from "our own correspondent "—"Upi to the present time I have not been able to procure • horse. You are not allowed to purchase one from the natives until the commissariat has refused it, and all that Mil be obtained are snapped up by that department. I applied to the Deputy Quartermaster-General, and he said it was no use my getting one, no he could not tat me draw forage while the colonels of regiments had to trap on foot. Without. a horse the work is very heavy, much heavier, lam afraid, than you have any idea of. Since I have been liese, two of the Aackland correapondenu have knceked up under it. In each instanoe dysentery was fo.logred by fever, and in the one the man became delirious and in the second Sui supervened. Living now under blankets andnow under canvas, sleeping on wet fern, and obtaining only the roughest fare, are apt to try men ; and I know that the fatigue experienced sometimes quite unfits me for corresponding. For some time past now, all the kit the cairreepoodents have had—stationery, clothes, blankets, crockery utensils, km —has jut been what they could carry with them. For a fortnight, too, owing to the "light duty man," who used to devote a few hours • day to them, being inn behind they had to cut their own wood, draw eater, cook rations, ke., and it is only by granting me • man as a pilf.ooa favour that this dliaoreseble work has been avoicied."—Yelbostrae Argots, March 24. - • • • • • • ••  received n ic I?. IL—byA. thbigehAc.ly stied: palhoper.a..was from Y. Legoyt, director of the office of statistics of France, on the number of suicide. in Europe. From this 'shorans work it appears that suicides increase in • more rapid ratio than the population and mortality in general in Bavaria, Denmark, Frank, Hanover, Meck lenburg, Prussia, the kingdom of Saxony, and Sweden. Suitsides ars moat frequent in Northern Glirmanv,and in the varioua parte of Denmisk. Sweden and Norway, though belonging to tbe same rsce, are rroportionally inferior to Denmark in that respect. Contrary to a gessrally adopted opinion, Fenglend stands nearly at the bottom of the kale ; and no do Belgium, Austria, and Spin. Franoe hid Is an intermediate position; she could rank with tic three last.nameal countries, were it portage to eliminate the suicides of Paris, which are ape-seventh of the total member in France. Generally for every 100 suicidee of men there are from 29 to 30 of women. The number of suicides ineresoes with these. of iodividuals, at leak until the age of 60. The number of suicides is generally lowest in January, and Chariot in July. As to the canoes, insanity and physical suffer. lug are &boat Le active in producing suicide among men aa among women; en to the rest, the latter yield more to grief occasioned by moral CatlM• than men, who are chiefly 'Melted by material affliction, such as lame of property, bankruptcy, Bs. Drunkennem and debauchery only form an insignificant item among the cense. Jaipelbar women to suicide. In Denmark, Spain, end Saxony, the only countries when it has been possible to obtain reliable information on the subject, married People ars kaiit subject to commit suicide, sod widowers on the contrary are mod liable to it; but suicides occur meet frequently anion.; married people that hays been divorced or separated. In Prussia, in the course of two years, there were 163 suicides of Prot...stank per million, 61 of Drake's, end only 47 of Catholice per million of each. Suicides are mach more numerous in capital cities than in the oonotry. The g-neral result of all these investigati,ins shows • univerkl and rapid inmate of sulcidea The author ii of opinion that this in ateritsdabis to unlimited competition, to the kn. moderato thirst alter wealth, to the progress al nubile inidruelion which excites ambition, to politio&I agitation, and to speculation.