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In the Press, and will be published in a few days,
FOUR LECTURES on the MORAL, SOCIAL,
and PROFESSIONAL DUTIES of ATTORNEYS and SO-
LICITORS, delivered in Trinity Term, 1848, before the INCOR-
PORATED LAW SOCIETY of the UNITED KINGDOM, by
SAMUEL W-ARREN,Esq.cF.R,S., Barrister-at-law. With I.Totea
and Additions.

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Benning and Co., London.

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cine on the Continent, parties travelling abroad aro requested to be
ontheir guard, and to purchase only of respectable merchants.
N.B. No chemist or druggist is authorised to sell Morison's me-
dicine.

A R R I A G E.
in One half the wend are desolately single, and the other
mpposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense et right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
titter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret tin-
foroprosing hurry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour andjusticedensaad that health should form au item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Header, if
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Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
Off PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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HANOVER-SQUARE Rooms. —Miss Steele and
Mr. Brinley Richards's concert was given on Friday
night. It was crowded with rank and fashion. Miss
ti
Steele was eticored in Dr. Arne's song, " Where the.
Bee sucks." Sims Reeves's interpretation of the scene
from Lucia, " Fra poco a me," ensured, as it always
does, a rapturous encore. John Parry, the funny, the
jocose, the laughter-exciter, 'was of course obliged to
sing again. Mr. Brinley Richards's performance of the
grand concerto by Mendelssohn was excellent in every
point. Giulio Regondi's fantasia on the concertina was
perfection itself.
THE GRAND CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS BALL.
—The committee of ladies patronesses met yesterday to
make their final arrangements for this annual costume
ball. It was positively determined by the ladies pa-
tronesses that no gentleman should be admitted to the
ball unless dressed in the Highland garb, uniform, or
fancy dress. Three fancy quadrilles, camsisting of the
first families, arranged by Lady Anne Mackenzie, are
already completed. The staircase is to be lined with
stalwart Highlanders,
armed with Lochaber axes and
bearing banners of the most distinguished clans. The
ladies patronesses are to meet at ten o'clock, to receive
the Royal Family and their distinguished foreign guests.
The company will be saluted on their entrance by the
pipers—viz., her Majesty's, the Duke of Argyll's, the
I)uke of Richmond's, and Captain Forbes'. The juvenile
band will play various airs previous to the ball com-
mencing. We are glad to hear that the applications for
vouchers are exceedingly numerous, and Wedneaday
being the last day of changing them, we recommend an
early application to those who are not already provided.
Mr. J. Lawford and Mr. W. Watson had an interview
with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.
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DREADFUL SUICIDE.

Saturday forenoon, Mr. Bedfordheld an inquiry at
the Cavalry Barracks, Knightsbridge, touching the
death of Henry Robert Pearcock, aged 23, a private in
the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, who destroyed himself
while under confinement in the black hole. The jury,
having been sworn, viewed the body, which lay in the
black hole, a place twelve feet by eight, and so ill venti-
lated, as to call forth remarks from the Coroner and the
Jury. The deceased was lying extended on his back,
on a kind of bench, which served him for a bed ; the
whole of the front of his shirt was burnt, and exposed a
pistol shot wound on the left breast, over the region of
the heart. The bullet had passed completely through
the body, and was found fixed in the wall behind the bed.
Charles Adkins, lance-corporal in the 2d Life
Guards, deposed that he was a private in the same regi-
ment. At ten o'clock on Tuesday night last, he
posted the deceased on sentry in the stable-yard. and it
was his duty to have remained there two hours ; but at
a quarter-past 11 it was discovered that deceased had
left, his post, and had broken out of barracks, which he
effected by scaling a wall. At a quarter past one the
following morning, deceased returned to barracks in a
state of excitement, when, acting according to regimental
order; he placed him under arrest, and confined him in
the black-hole, where he remained until six o'clock,
when he was removed to the guard-room, and a sentry
placed over him. At noon the same day deceased was
conveyed before the colonel, who sentenced him to be
confined in the black-hole for 168 hours, and to be after-
wards confined in barracks for three weeks. The de-
ceased was marched back to the black-hole, and his mat-
tress and bedding were brought to him, and before he
was left witness examined the whole of the piece, toge-
ther with his clothes and bedding, to see that deceased had
nothing improper in his possession; he even searched under
the mattress to see that ho had no lucifer matches con-
cealed; in case of accidents. He visited him again at a
quarter-past two, accompanied by Corporal Read, in
whose custody he left him. The deceased. did not ap,
pear at all depressed in spirits on account of the sentence,
which was an extremely mild one; there were no fire-
arms in his possession when he lett, nor could he at all
account for the way in which he got the pistol, as none
but non-commissicned officers and trumpeters. are al-
lowed that kiiid of arms. The pistol found in the
accused's place of confinement belonged to the trum-
peter of the troop to which deceased was attached, and
was kept in a rack in the barrack-room, accessible to
any one.

Corporal Sweedy deposed that at one o'clock at noon
on Friday, he accompanied the orderly officer. to the
blackhole, and on opening the door looked in, and seeing
the deceased lying on the bed, be remarked, " All right
—he is asleep," and left. In about five minutes after-
wards the person who entered with the deceased's dinner
exclaimed, "That he had cut his throat." Witness went
in immediately, and saw him in the position he was seen
by his officer. He had a pistol shot wound on his left
breast. Mr. M'Cullogh, the assistant-surgeon, was sent
fur immediately, who, on his arrival, pronounced him
dead. He could not account for the way iu which the
pistol got there, nor had ho or any of the guard which
was on the spot heard the report of the pistol.
After some further evidence had been given, but with-
out elucidating any fresh facts,
The CORONER summed up the case, and
The jury returned the following verdict:—" That the
deceased died from a pistol . shot wound, inflicted ty him-
self whilst in a state of temporary insanity."

LECTIURES atrthe POLYTECHNIC

INSTITUTION.
BY ISHAM BAGGS.
Yesterday the first of a series of important and very
remarkable lectures, illustrative of the "Phenomena of
Thunder Storms, and the Cause of Lightning," was
delivered at the Polytechnic Institution, by Mr. Isham
Baggs," a gentleman already well known to the scientific
world by his discoveries in electro-printing. Both in his
manner as a lecturer, and his skill in the manipulation of
an experiment, Mr. Beggs evinced his capacity to
arrest the attention of an audience, and convey
abstruse facts to their comprehension in the
clearest manner possible. After entering at consider-
able length into the subject of. atmospheric electricity,
after observing that a certain amount of electricity is in
every instance developed by friction (insomuch that the
Arabian fiction was to a certain degree realised, the
Genius of Electricity being evoked when the
lamp was rubbed by Aladdin), the lecturer de-
tailed the causes of the falling stars, the aurora
borealis, &c., &c., by a number of ingenious
and appropriate experiments. In a former article,.
published. several weeks since in the . columns of
The Sun, we explained as simply as we could
the circumstances and character of the discoveriesin •
electricity then submitted •to the Council and Fellows
of the S Royal
gentle-
man now lecturing at the Polytechnic Institution. The
lecture delivered by him yesterday afternoon demon-
strated by experiment what was there expresed
Further .i
theory. —°--etY, by Mr. Isham Diggs, the
details upon the series will be given
by us as it progresses; but, at present, wo cannot refrain
from observing that it has commenced admirably, and
appears likely to be attractive and popluar.

TRINITY MONDAY.—Yesterday, according to cus-
tom on Trinity Monday, the Duke of Wellington, with
the Wardens and Brothers of the Corporation of the
Trinity House, went from the Tower to Deptford. The
procession having attended Divine service in the old
church of St. Nicholas, moved up Church-street, to the
Hospital called the Trinity House of Deptford Strond.
They also visited the other Institution called Trinity
Hospital, and entered the great hall or chapel, for the
usual routine of business connected with their annual
visit. After the procession the Duke of Wellington re-
turned in his carnage to town. Trinity Fair was held,
according to custom, in a field at the north end of
Church- street.
RETIREMENT. OF DR. CHAMBERS.--This aCCOM.
plished physician, who has so long held the leading
position among the practising physicians of the metro-
polis, and monopolised the chief practice in the fashion-
able world, has, we regret to learn, been obliged to
retire into the country on account of health ; and we
are informed that it is extremely improbable that he will
ever be able to take an active part in the arduous
labours of a physician of his rank in practice.
A DESERTED SHlP.—Under date Hamburgh, June
14th, we have the following:—" The brig Ferdinand,
Captain Groot, arrived at Port-au-Prince from Liver-
pool, states that, in latitude 36.t4, and longitude 21.40,
she fell in with an abandoned ship, named the Mary, of
Liverpool, painted green, and so covered with barnacles
that she must have'been long deserted ; but, owing to
the roughness of the weather, it was impossible to board
her."—Liverpooi Albion.
Count and Countess Troili left London yesterday
for Rome.

, COLLISION BETWEEN TDB POLICE AND THE Popu-
LACE.--NORWICH, SATtIRDAY EVENlNG.—Yesterday, a
rather serious encounter took place in this city between
a party of the police and a imatterous mob, who, with
stones and broken bottles, kept up a furious attack on
the former during their passage through several streets
frog► the polica-otlice to the gaol, 83 an escort to some
paupers who had refused (alter a former imprisonment
for a similar refusal) to be separated in the workhouse

from their wiyee. The police were compglled at length
to turn in their own defence, and having made several
charges with their staves, effectually dispersed the
rioters, but not until numbers were severely hurt on
both sides. The tumult was not quelled till about one
o'clock this morning.

THE LATE. CONFLAGRATION IN WOOD-STEET,
CHEAPSlDE.—Yesterday evening, Mr. William Payne,
the City Coroner, and u respectable jury assembled at
the Bell-inn, Wood-street, Cheapside, for the purpose of
inquiring into the circumstances connected with the fire
which occurred on Sunday morning upon the premises
belonging to Messrs. Barford, straw-bonnet manufac-
turers, and Messrs. Scowin and Co., No. 95, Wood-
street, Cheapside. The most important evidence pro-
duced on the occasion was that of the policeman who
gave the alarm of fire, and who stated that at the time
he first saw the appearance of a fire through a window
in the second floor, he perceived a man leaving the
house. The man, when asked by the policeman, said
there was a fire in the house, and he was running for
the engines, hut....he did net return. It appeared from
the evidence that fir. Barford, the proprietor, had left
for the country on Friday last, and that no person slept
on the premises. The inquiry was adjourned to obtain
the attendance of other witnesses.

THE WESTMINSTER REFORM SOClETY.—Yesterday
evening an influential meeting of the members of the
Westminster Reform Society was held at the York
Hotel, Upper Wellington-street, Strand, "to consider
the propriety of petitioning Parliament in support of
Mr. llama's motion for a reform in the representation
of the people," and to receive the report of the committee
appointed to revise the principles and rules of the society.
—Mr. Geesin having been called to the chair, read the
principles, as recommended by the committee, and which
were as follow:—" The extension of the suffrage to all
persons paying a rental for a house, or any part of a
hotise, and having been resident there fora period not
less than six months previous to registration; the vote
by ballot; a more equal apportionment of members to
the population; and triennial parliaments." On the re-
port being received and adopted, together with a peti-
tion to the House of Commons, it was further agreed
that it should be signed by the chairman on behalf of
the meeting; that Mr. Lushingtoa should present it; and
that General Sir De Lacy Evans should be requested to
give it his support. _ _ .

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, JUNE 19.—The Danish
ship Burgemeister Jensen, Captain Matthieson, from
Valparaiso, bound to Hamburgh, and the Bremen brig
Gazelle, Captain Bunge, from Arica for Hamburgh,
arrived in Cowes-roads yesterday for protection, in
consequence of the Danish war.
The funeral of William Woodhouse, late warder
in the House of Correction, Ccldbatb-fields, took place
yesterday, the melancholy circumstances of whose death
have already been stated in The Sun. The deceased
was highly respected by the Governor and the whole of
the officers of the above prison, and by a numerous circle
of private friends, who assembled on this occasion to pay
their last tribute of respect to his remains.
• BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—Last evening a
public meeting of electors of the borough of Marylebone
took place at the Victoria Tavern, Mornington-road,
for the purpose of considering the questions of the re-
duction of taxation and promoting a better representa-
tion of the people. Mr. Thomas, a commissioner' of the
Southampton Pavings Trust, presided, and the following
resolution was
passed : That this meeting most
cordially approves of the motion given notice of by Mr.
Hume in favour of the ballot, extension of the suffrage to
—"
householders, the return to the just and wholesome re-
gulation of triennial Parliaments, with a fair revision of
electoral districts." A petition founded on the resolu-
tion was carried nem. con., with a request that Lord I).
Stuart and Sir 13. Hall be requested to support the same.
The meeting then separated.
A CHARTIST LEADER —Mr. John Briggs, a
member of the town council of Sheffield, and lately a
delegate from that town to the Chartist Convention,
held in the Lecture-hall, John-street, exhibited last
Sunday afternoon such unmistakeable symptoms of in-
sanity that it was found necessary to convey him to the
insane ward at the Sheffield workhouse, where he now
is, awaiting the order of the justices for his removal to
the West Riding Lunatic Asylum. at Wakefield.
THE POISONING CASES AT BRISTOL,----yesterday
inquest upon the body of Mrs. Michael was resumed
at Bris.ol. It was proved by Mr. Herttpath that there
was no arsenic in her remains, but there was mercury:
whether it was administered as corrosive sublimate or
as calomel it was impossible at this distance of time to
say. A very few grains of corrosive sublimate would
have caused death. It was shown, upon the testimony
of a surgeon, that she bad taken calomel in her last ill-
ness; and there being no further_ound—e evidence to throw
.
subject,3lst the jury found—" `hat the de-
ceasedof October, 1844, but from what
light upondi
ed the
o li
the
cause is to the jurors unknown.' —The inquest on the
little boy, John Hill, was then resumed, and the sister
of Mr. Hill was called to show that after the death of
the infant no one' remained in the house but Mr. Hill
and the children, except for a few hours in the day
time. Mr. Hill cooked all the victuals, and prepared
every.meal, and gave the children their food himself.
He also made their gruel
an.. arrowroot, and gave little
John his medicine. Witness was not in the house when
the death took place, but she was told that it took place
at ten o'clock in the morning, and not at night, as
stated to Mr. Iltimpage. A druggist named Reed
proved that Mr. Hill had purchased corrosive subli
mate and opium of him, but never arsenic. The jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict—'" That
deceased died from the effects of arsenic administered
by his father;" which is, in short, a verdict of wilful
murder.
HAMMERSMITH SUBSCRIPTION REGATTA.—Nine
landsmen contended yesterday, in four heats, at Ham-
mersmith, for various prizes subscribed by the residents.
The races were exceedingly well contested, the distance
extending
• from the Red Lion up to Hammersmith-
terrace, down to a boat off the Queen's, and back to the
starting place. First heat—T. Gibbs (yellow) 1, Samuel
Weddick (blue) 2; blue held the lead for a short dis-
tance, and
was then passed by the winner. Second heat
—Thomas Hoare (red) 1, James Holder (blue) 2; the
winner went away with the lead, and kept it. Third
heat--Thomas Mitchley (blue) 1, Joseph Goodrick (red)
2; Goodrick held the lead for the first half way. Fourth
heat—Thomas Gibbs 1, Thomas Hoare 2; it was a
fairly rowed heat, and won by half a length only.
We understand it is intended to erect batteries at
the mouth of Weymouth Harbour, and also on the
Nothe, the necessary surveys having been made.—
Salisbury and Wilts Herald.