Conduct and character good, to a proverb; very
Behaves with strict propriety.
An honest, industrious man.
Perfectly regular and unexceptionable.
Sustains a fair character; steady and industrious
Manifest reformation.

Character good; industrious and thrifty.
Simple & ignorant, but his honesty not suspected
Has been idle and dissipated since his dis-
charge, for a time; but now appears to be
reformed and pious.
Intemperate: otherwise decent.
Continues intemperate.

An altered man; no bad habits.

Character good; steady and industrious.
Continues bad.

Decent, sober man, and a professor of religion.
More orderly; his neighbours speak well of him.
Have heard nothing against him.

Deranged in prison, and since. [some citizen.
Morals improved, and is a good and whole-
Not good now, but rather improved.
Exemplary in all respects.
Behaves much better.

A wholesome citizen of the second class.
A good citizen of the first class.
Behaves very well.

April 16, 1822.
April 25, 1820.
Sept. 1, 1819.
June 19, 1824.
Dec. 4, 1822.

Oct. 19, 1819. [never ret.
Sent to canal Feb. 1822, &
June 16, 1820.
June 28, 1822.
June 4, 1826.
Jan. 13, 1827.
May 18, 1826.

Sent to new prison, Ap1825
Sent to canal, and escaped,
Jan. 26, 1822. [never ret.
Dec. 4, 1820.
June 20, 1827.

INTELLIGENCE.

The Minister of Justice in France has just published a statement, containing details relative to the administration of justice in the civil tribunals, during the ten years between the 1st of September, 1820, and the 31st of August, 1831.

This is the first publication of the kind, but it will henceforth be annually continued. The statement is divided into three parts. The first consists of a report to the king, showing the principal advantages to be derived from this kind of statistical information; the other two parts are composed of a number of tables, presenting in two points of view, and in two different orders, the summary of the labours of the Cour de Cassation, the Cours Royales, and the tribunals of première instance, during the last ten years. The first series comprises, besides the proceedings of the Cour de Cassation, those of the Cours Royales, and of the tribunals of première instance, classed according to the divisions of the country over which the Cours Royales have jurisdiction. The effect of the first part is to show, in some degree, the relative spirit of litigation, or, in other words, the number of suits in proportion to the population of each division, and at the same time to show the degree of activity displayed by each of the Cours Royales, and communicated, in a certain degree, to the tribunals of each division within its jurisdiction. The second series presents exactly the same details, but classes the tribunals by the number of chambers (and consequently of judges) of which they consist. This second part is calculated to show on the one hand, whether the number of judges is in proportion to the number of causes brought before them; and on the other, whether the number of causes adjudicated upon is proportioned to the number of judges. Such are the general results of these statistical tables for the whole of France, and such the information they afford on many problems, which the legislature may speedily be called upon to solve.

The number of causes in arrear on the 31st of August, 1820, before the tribunals of première instance was 57,891; and before the Cours Royales 6,938. On the 31st of August, 1831, there were only in arrear before the tribunals of première instance 42,917 causes; but, on the contrary, before the Cours Royales the arrear had increased to 9,428.

The number of civil causes entered from the 1st of September, 1821, to the 31st of August, 1830, in all the tribunals of première instance throughout the kingdom is 1,152,665, exclusive of those commercial causes which are brought before the tribunals of première instance in those places where there is no tribunal of commerce.

The number of civil and commercial causes brought before the Cours Royales and courts of appeal, during the same period of time, is 180,083.