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Suicidal Statistics.-A very curious statement and calculation has been published in Paris by M. Pairet, a medical professor, relative to the number of suicides committed in France for thirty years.

From the records of the police, it appears that the total number of suicides attempted to be committed were 6,782, and three-fourths of the individuals were unmarried. We subjoin the figures furnished to him by the police, showing the relative numbers of male and female suicides. Crossed in love, 97 males, 157 females; jealousy, 39 males, 52 females; mortified pride, 27 males, 27 females; calumny and loss of reputation, 97 males, 28 females; remorse, 87 males, 12 females; disappointed ambition, 110 males, 12 females; reverse of fortune, 283 males, 39 females; gaming, 141 males, 14 females; other species of misconduct, 208 males, 79 females; domestic chagrins, 524 males, 260 females; misery, 5 males, 57 females, fanaticism, 1 male, 13 females.

It would, therefore, seem to follow that somewhere about five women died from love for three men; that the ladies have considerably the advantage, or rather the disadvantage, in jealousy; that in pride they are on a par with the lords of creation; that in calamity and loss of reputation they bear with three times the fortitude that men evince; that they feel only about one-third the remorse which the other sex experience; and that to the sorrows which flow from disappointed ambition, reverse of fortune, and gaming, they are exposed in a very slight degree in comparison with their yoke-fellows.-This calculation, it will be remembered, applies but to French ladies. In what light a similar calculation would exhibit our own country-women, we presume not to conjecture.