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Wald has 55 ; Landshut has 640 ; Tubingen has 698 ; Berhn 

 has 942 ; Leipsic has 911; Jena has 634 ; Vienna has 957 ; and 

 Prague has 880. The whole number is 8,421 in the sixteen 

 principal Universities of Germany. 



4. Swedish Universities. — The Universities of Sweden are in a 

 very flourishing state. In the first quarter of this year the number 

 of Students at Upsal amounted to 1,197, and those of Lund to 

 600. The whole of the establishments of the kingdom professing 

 to communicate classical education, contained 3,485 scholars. 

 These establishments cost the state annually about £60,000 ; of 

 which £4,000 is employed in the maintenance of youth during 

 the course of their studies, in cases where such assistance is 

 wanted. 



5. Suicides in Paris.— The number of suicides committed and 

 attempted in Paris and its environs in the four months of January, 

 February, March, and A'pril, amounted to 124. Of these per- 

 sons 33 were women ; 64 of them were single, and 60 had been 

 married. The greater number destroyed life by the use of fire 

 arms, the vapour of charcoal, or by drowning : 46 resorted to 

 the last method. This period of the first four months of this year, 

 compared with the same period of the last year, offers an ex- 

 cess of 41 suicides. 



By the end of June the number amounted to 199, of which 137 

 were committed by men, and 62 by women : 102 of these were 

 married, and 97 were unmarried. These have been arranged in 

 a sort of scale according to the causes, thus — for love, 17 ; 

 illness, distaste of life, insanity, domestic trouble, 65 ; bad con- 

 duct, gaming, lottery, 28 ; misery, poverty, deranged affairs, 47 ; 

 fear of reproaches and puiiishment, 6 ; unknown motives, 36 ; 

 in the whole 199, of which 53 were unsuccessful attempts, and 

 146 were completed. 



6. Search of the Tiber and Pompeia. — The search of the Tiber 

 has commenced at Rome, but it is said with bu.t little success. 



