The National Register. — 1819-07-12 (London, England)

DISGUSTING SUPSOIISTITION.—A siolation of the sacred rites of sepulture has recently been committed by an association of several individuals, linked together by a tuperstitim so vast, and for a porpme so horribly ridiculous, that it will scarcely be believed to have taken place in a loontry that boasts •superior civilisation to the rest ofnhe tuitions of the earth. The authors of this profanation, die: having introduced themselves by night.irto the cemetery of the Commune of Neyron (arrondissement of Trcvow', in the department ut• the Ain), opened the tomb of the •Sieur Antoine Quequet, late Mayor of that Commune. They then cut the head of the dend hotly, end boiled it for more 'than an hour in a pot, in the hope that, afto: this operation, the heittl would point out to them the good numbers in the l.ottery. The guilty persons -are all known, and have been indicted before the Correctional r.iLe at Trevou x.  The number of suicides attempted or executed in 'Paris during the months of January, February, March, and April lust, amounts to N. 1., of which 33 were ikv females. Among them were 64 unmarried, and 4io married men -or wotnen. The greater part terminated their lives by means of firearms, coal vapour, or by drowning ; among the latter there were 46. ef the ertire number 53 destroyed themselves from a disgust •of life ; the remainder in consequence of derangement in their tatirs, misconduct, play, and tit:bn:fiery. Comparing this period in the present year 'with the corresponding period of the last year, there appears an increase in the present year of 41 deaths. • It appears from the Scotch papers, that the 4.4011 Provost and several officers of the Corporation oF Ltlitiburgit have .been compelied to attend the Coln, mittee of the llense of Commons on the affairs of the Scotch borghs, in consequence of their barring discovered a previous order to transmit information on certain points connected with the pending inquiry. Deacon Gillespie protested .against thee determination of the Town Cumuli-to lliscfhey the -order alluded to, us likely to Iced to the sty since: taken by the Committee, sad thus to .ec:e.eion a great and unnecessary espenec whirls the Committee were anxious to prevent. Au extraordinary meeting of the Town Connell was held on the 2:tth ultimo, when the Provost informed them of the receipt of orders tbr the attendance forthwith bctbre the Committee, of 'himself, the • i)euti of Guild, the Convenor of the Trades, the Collector of Cess, the Cnriectur of Shore-dues at Leith, and the Treasurer •of 'Trinity,hospital, Beillie Smith It ova, • flat tht Treasurer be authorised to pay to the ?thcost reel. in advance, to puy the espences of three Members-of the Council to Lortlon ; Intl Ilsat they be authorized to draw from the funds of the ,good the sum of 3001. This resolution was streurously opeosed by Deacons Loivrie and Gillespie, but it was ultimately carried. One 6C-Ilie Edinbutglt papers, after stating that Provost `llViCes:zie has a salary of .1,0001. a year, and Convenor Deultobn only 5001. a year, says— " Must it not tend to lower the respectability and Magistracy of the capital of Scotland, that they should salt ccremonic consider it necessary to be supplied in advance with the burgh funds to pay, expenses incurred solely because they chose to oppose the retesonable ;Zealand of tlteir eitizens