_Suicide encouraged in Marseilles._--In the _Lancet_ of Nov. 30, 1839, it
is stated by De Stone that anciently, in Marseilles, persons having
satisfactory reasons for committing suicide were supplied with poison at
the public expense. What authority is there for this? I should also like to
be informed what was the occasion on which a suicidal propensity in the
Milesian ladies was corrected by an appeal to their posthumous modesty?