Northern Times. — 1857-10-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIENDLY SOCIETE:B.—A small blue• book of 80 pages contains the report of the Registrar of Friendly Societies in England. There appears, in 1851 i, to have been in the whole of the United Kingdom, 9,046 depositors in Friendly societies, the amount of whose investments was £1,408,262, being an average of £155 for each depositor. Including the swings banks an..l charit thle s)ci:ttee, the uumb:r of depositors is raised to 1,341,672, and the amount of :deposits to £34,946,012, making, an average deposit of £26 for each pergola. There are 553 friendly scc.etiesfindirect account with the 'National Debt Commissioners; It is shown, by comparative tables, that- the number of depositors its sa;rings banks, is five times .more than the number of. persons entitled to divileeds on, the public-deht, and that is savings banks there Were 186,352 depc,sitor, whose average was 5s each, and that there were 619,208 depositors (nearly one nariety) whos.) investments Were under £lO earn, and that of the numb r of persons entitled to dividends 92 205 received under £lO each, 43,287 more than £lO, but under. £2O, and 89,601 more than £2O, but under £lOO, so-that out of 268,995 pers ins who received dividends 225,093. were under, .LlOO per annaw. Ls savings `banks the iiiimbefof dep6'sitors wh ise investments exceeded £2OO was only 1,519, and the number of persons receiving dividends exceeding £4,000 per annum only 227 Friendly societies of some kind or other appear to exist in most of the civilised countries of the c mtinent of E trope.  A DAY OF Bolctoss.—Several somewhat singular attempts at suicide was male on M.inday. An elderly man fl ing hinvelf head foremost from the roof of an omnibus in the Rue de l'Ecele de Medecine, acid severely injarail hinitielf; 'he was recognised as an inhabitant of the neighbourhood, and it appeared that he had attempted -Self destruction from a diyapplintrnent in love.—A fire was discovered is the garret of s home in the Roe gt. and. when some persOns went. to the spot they found the! door closed. A forcible entranee having been effected, the. occupier of the garret, a footman to a geed-Anil residing- •in the house, was seal lying in tha bed in the midst of 'the flames. The coeflagre..ion was promptly extinguished, and the man, who was dreadfully burne I, was take) ice the ehoipital. It appeared that he had conceived a violent passion for his mistress, hal made a declaration to her, and had been indignantly repelled; whereupbn he had determined to commit suicide, and after drinking until he was almost stupefied, had set fire to his bed. An artillery soldier, on "a visit to his. brother at Vangirard, having been rejected by a, young woman for.whain lie hal e nicely a passion, locked himself in his room with some pens of charcoal, and then threw himself on the bed to wait death. But he forgot to c'ose a hole in the door, and the air coming through it fanned the charcoal into a blaz e which set fire to the bed eurteins. _Tea sighta)f the flames dissipated the man's ideas of suicide, and itunpiug up he attempted to leave .the room ; but he had locked himself ii, and could not find the key. Ha shouted for help, the door was forced epee, and, he was rescued He wes only slightly burned, but the fire could not be ex inguishA wail it had done considerable damage, A teeter carrier, diving in the Fauboarg Montmartre, having learnt of -the bankruptcy .of a man to whom he had lent the savings of his life, was reduced to despair, and hs went to the fortifications at La Chapelle, and threw himself into the foss-. He was found by a passer-by lying id a deplorable state, and was con• veyed to the hoscial. fiz addition to these attempts at suicide, two cases of self.deet'enctioe occurred the same day —one Was of a Germanavorkmaia, who hanged himself in his lOrtglegs 'in the Rue du Tetieple the other was of a literary man, residing in the Rut: d'Enfer, who cut his throat in a delirium caused by Derma malady. Gatignani.