The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-02 00:00:00

A A G E.
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FALLING OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—On Friday
afternoon a bridge erected on the line of the Reading,
Guildford, ar,d Reigate Railway, at Earley, about two
miles from Reading, fell entirely in. At the time of the
occurrence a long train of waggons laden with earth
WP,:"3 descending an inclined plane, when, on arriving at
the bridge, all the foremost passed over safely, without
any danger being apprehended, but on the last wag-
gun crossing, being rnore heavily laden, the bridge
gave way, and, along with the fall of the waggon and
its contents, produced a most frightful crash. The hind
waggon became disengaged from the others by the
breaking of the connecting chains, or the whole train of
waggons must have been pulled in. The mass of earth
and other material was scattered in all directions, and
the waggon much shattered ; fortunately, no persons
were passing along the road at the time. A partial
stoppage of the works, causing a number of hands to be
thrown out of employment, has taken place in conse-
quence. The bridge had but recently been constructed,
and it is supposed that the heavy gale of wind and rain
during the previous day, with the ponderous weight of
earth running over it, probably weakened it.

PROVIDENTIAL PRESERVATION OF LIFE LAST
NIGHT.—About ton o'clock last night it was acciden-
tally discovered that an embankment between the Euxton
and Coppul stations, on the North Union line, about
eight miles from Preston, had given way. Before
eleven o'clock one end of the wooden bridge had sunk
considerably, and the embankment adjoining suddenly
fell in to the depth of about twenty feet, carrying with
it both lines of rail, and leaving a frightful chasm, into
which the express train from London, then coming up,
would, but for this discovery, have inevitably been
driven. The loss of life and demolition of property
might thus have been awful. Immediately on receiving
intelligence of the circumstance, a special train was
dispatched from Preston to bring the passengers and
luggage onwards. The traffic on the line must necesNa-
rily be impeded for some days by this mishap.—Preston
Guardian of Wednesday.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—The annual public suppers
at thin institution will commence on Sunday next and
terminate on Easter day, occupying a period, as usual,
of eight Sundays.

Lieutenant General Sir Edeard Bowater, Groom in
Waiting; Colonel Buckley, Equerry to the Queen;
Honourable Captain Alexander Gordon, Equerry to
Prince Albert; Lord James Murray, Equerry to the
Duchess of Kent; Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell (Scots
Fusilier Guards), Equerry to the Duchess of Gloucester;
Dr. Chambers, Physician to the Queen and to the Queen
Dowager; the Honourable Cherie Law, M.P., Recorder
of London, one of her Majesty's Counsel; Mr. Sheriff
Cubitt, Mr. Sheriff Hill, Rev. J. Vane, Deputy-Clerk of
the Closet in Waiting; Mr. Frederick Eliot, Assistant
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir G.
Hayter, M.A.S.L., Painter ot History and Portraits
and Principal Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty;
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., Sergeant Surgeon to
the Queen ; Mr. Lawrence, Surgeon Extraordi-
nary to her Majesty ; Major Stephens, in Wait-
ing on his Serene highness Prince Frederick
of Hesse ; Lord John Hay, Naval Aide d.-Camp
to the Queen; Colonels Wood, H. Bentinck, Parke, and
Clark Kennedy, Aides-de-Camp to the Queen; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Williams, 2d Life Guards, Silver Stick
in Waiting; Chevalier Hebeler, their Prussian and
Wurtemberg Majesties' Consul-General • Mr.
,Robert A.
Heath, Sardinian Vice-Consul; Capee4 'e*l3-el es
HonoraryFeneweemtehlettgaMekLateleabee tee ea& ou,..rWoul
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Lieutenant-Colonel Fitz
Maurice, K.H., Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeomen
Guard; Captain S. Sadler, Exon of the Yeoman Guard
in Waiting; Captain Bellairs, Exon of the Yeomen
Guard; Sir Benjamin Smith, C.S.; Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher to the Privy
Chamber in Waiting; Mr. Charles Heneage, Gentleman
Usher of the Privy Chamber; Mr. Arthur Blackwood,
Groom of the Privy Chamber; Captain the Honourable
Mortimer Sackville West, Gentleman Usher to her
Majesty in Waiting; Captain G. C. Blake, R.N., Gen-
tleman Usher to his Royal Highness Prince Albert in
Waiting; Mr. R. C. Mellish, Gentleman Usher to her
Majesty Queen Adelaide; the Pages of Honour; and
the following:—
Archbishop of York.
DUKES—Leeds, Bedford, Wellington.
MARQUISES—Exeter, Clanricarde, Anglesey, Granby,
Kildare.
EARLS—Verulam, Ellenborough, Ripon, Clare, Den-
bigh, Liverpool, Sheffield, Morley, Lincoln, Mulgrave,
Zetland, St. Germans, Radnor, Delawarr, De Grey,
Rosebery, Charlemont, Fit zwilliam, Orkney.
VISCOUNTS—Newry, Maynard, Villiers, Strangford,
Ebrington, Falkland, Duncan, M.P., Jocelyn.
Bisuors—Oxtord, Wincheeter, Manchesxr.
LORDS—Ernest Bruce, Glenelg, Stanley, Campbell,
Kinnaird, Eliot, Langdale, James Murray, Rivers, Btr-
riedale, Dalmeny, Crofton, Anson, D. Ros, Brooke,
Mahon, George Lennox, Colville, Camoys, William
Lennox, Colborne.
RIGHT HONOURABLES—Sir Robert Peel, Sir Stratford
Canning, G.C.B . H. Labouchere, W. E. Gladstone, Sir
George Grey, Henry Goulburn, J. Stuart Wortley, W.
M.F., Sir George Clerk, Sir James Graham,
G. Hayter,
Sir W. Somerville, Sir W. Fremantle, R. Vernon Smith,
M.P. R. L. Sheil, J. N. Fitzpatrick, M.P.
HONOURABLES—W. Temple, Charles Law, M.P.,
Beilby R. Lawley, George Waldegrave, Thomas Ed•
ward Stoner, Edmund Phipps, Mr. Stafford Jerningham,
Rev. Richard Boyle, Rev. Augustus
G. S. Jerningharn,
Phipps, Rev. Reginald Sackville West, G. H. Cavendish,
M.P., C. W. Wentworth Fitzwilliam, George Went-
worth Fitzwilliam, Francis Charteris, Otway Graham
Toler, F. Leveson Gower, Frederick hichester, Charles
Edward Pepys, John Fortescue, Augustus H. Vernon,
Edward Gage, Edward Mostyn, M.P., Rev. Edward
Moore, Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, Spencer
Lyttelton, Lieut.-Col. Hood, Frederick Byng, General
Upton.
BARONETS—Benjamin C. Brodie, Moses Montefiore,
John Trollope, M.George Philips,
P., J. Hadley d'Oy, ley,
Charles Lemon, Thomas Dyke Ackland, John Walsh,
Edmund Antrobns, Robert H. Inglis, James J. Re Mac-
kenzie, Robert Price, M.P., Frederick Hamilton, John
Hall, John B. Boileau, Robert Barclay, Willoughby
Jones, M.P., J. Lister Kaye.
SlRS—Fitzroy
Owen, Kelly, Thomas Cartwright, Henry
Willock John
M.P., Robert Schomburgh, E.
,
Pine Coffin, Lucius O'Brien, Hedworth Williamson,
M.P., Richard Jenkine, Henry Do La Beche, Edmund
Head.
The Lord Mayor
Hill
Sheriffs—Cubitt, M.P.,
Baron de Teissier
Queen's Counsel—George Turner, Spencer Walpole,
Teed, Tinney.
Deans—Manchester, Westminster
Jelf, Russell
Rev. Doctors—Wesley, ,Lenny, Symons,
Parish, Bowles, Ilawtrey
Reverends—John Jackson, Richard Hooper, William
Cureton, J. Scott Whiting,
Wm. James Jenkins, Joseph
Sikes, LL.B., Henry Boyce, S. Reed Cattley, E. Har-
topp Grove, C. Whitworth Pitt, Evan Nepean, Richard
Burgess, Count J. De La Feld, Richard Harvey, Richard
Burgh Byam, William StraceY, James Brogden
Alderman Moon
Doctors—Chambers, K.C.U, Forbes
Ferguson,s, B. F. Outram,
Maddock, Granville, Wm. Lloyd, C. Paget
Blake, Wm Marsden, Holland, Winslow
biIESSIEURS—CuIIing Smith, David James Harmer,
Mathew Wyatt, Charles Mills, Baillie, Lawrence,
Tufnell, M.P., Henry Roberts, Hoare, Kay Shuttleworth,Henry
Adolphus Brandt, Wm. Chichely Plowden, M. P., Ca-
vendish Taylor, Perry, Henry Milbank, Disraeli, M.P.,
G. W. Anderson, Williamson, Loch, MT., Greene, M.P.,
Coles Child, R. Brinsley Sheridan, Cartwright, Rich,
M.P., Courtland Shaw, Laurie, Charles Alliston, George
Alliston, James Tulloch, F.U.S., Arthur Walford,
Frederic: A. ' Lushington, P. Champion Toker, C. E.
Travelyan, George Lowth, Hume, M.P., O'Lloore,
Warrender, Walker Heneage, Stanley, Card well, Tre-
lawny, M.P., Digby, Joseph Cowdin, Stanford, John
Wood, Clerk, 'Charles Morris, Judd, Brainston, MX.,
Alfred Seymour, Grey, William Cavendish, Cavendish,
Mandeville, Fitzhardinge Drummond, Bateson,
Evelyn Denison, M.P., Charles Long, Philip Bennet,
M.P., Beckett, M.P., Edward Rice, M.P., O'Moore,
Charles Morris, James N. Merriman, Wm. Aitchison,
John Neeld. M.)'., Henry W. Addington, Stephenson,
Charles Buller, Sackville Lane `Fox, Wm. Turner,
Thomas Rowe, Tenison, M.P., Samuel Platt, Merriman,
Haggitt, M.P., J. Clarmont Whiteman, Charles E. Kirk,
Baring Wall, George l!epton' Dodd, MX, J. M. Gil-
bertson, Brodie of Brodie, White Cooper, Sanders,
Roundell Palmer, M.P., Augustus Smith, Milnes M.P.,
Wyvili, M.P., Grenville Berkeley, Neeld, Fitz
Roy, Godfrey Rhodes.

broke
Mr. Laurie, on his appointment of Deputy-Lieutenant
for Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salisbury
Mr. Joseph Cowdin, American Consul at Glasgow, by
the American Minister
The Rev. William Cureton, upon his appointment to be
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, by the Lord
Chamberlain
The Rev. Evan Nepean, on his appointment as Chaplain
in Ordinary to the Queen, by the 'Lord Chamberlain
The Rev. Richard Harvey, on his appointment as
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, by the Lord
Chamberlain
The Honourable and Rev. Augustus Phipps, on his ap-
pointment as one of her Majesty's Chaplains in
Ordinary, by Lieut.-Colonel the Honourable Charles
Phipps
Sir George Phillips, on succeeding to a Baronetcy, by
Viscount Duncan
The Honourable and Rev. Richard Boyle, on his ap-
pointment as Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, by
the Lord Chamberlain
The Honourable Otway Graham Taylor, by Lord Camp-
boll
Mr. Wyvill, M.P.. on his marriage, by Mr. Milnes,

Mr. Charles Buller, on his appointment :as Poor Law
Commissioner, by Sir George Grey
The Rev. Henry Boyce, by Colonel Thomas Wood
Mr. Haggitt, M.P., upon his appointment as a Deputy-
Lieutenant of the county of Hereford, by Captain Sir
Thomas Hastings, R.N.
Mr. Cavendish Taylor, by Viscount Dancan
Mr. Henry Milbank, by Sir John Walsh
Mr. G. W. Anderson, by the Earl of Clare
Mr. Coles Child, upon his appointment as Deputy.
Lieutenant for Kent, by Earl Cowper
Mr. Cartwright, by the Marquis of Anglesey
The Rev. William Curetoa, upon his appointment to be
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, by the Lord
Chamberlain
Commissary-General Sir Edward Pine Coffin, Royal
Mint Commission, by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer
Mr. Roundell Palmer, M.P., by Earl Waldegrave
Viscount Falkland, on his appointment to Bombay, by
Sir John Hobhouse
Lord Eliot, Ist Life Guards, by Earl of St. Germans
Hon. George Waldegrave, by his father, Earl Walde-
grave
Hon. Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, by his
father, Earl Fitzwilliam
The lion. Augustus Henry Vernon, by Colonel Berke-
ley Drummond
Sir John Hadley d'Oyly, Bart., on return from India,
and accession to the title, by Viscount Combermere
Rev. Edward Hartopp Grove, on his preferment, by
Lord John Russell
Mr. Alfred Seymour, by Lieutenant Colonel Sir James
J. Hamilton, Bart.
Mr. Thomas Rowe, Paymaster and Purser, Royal Navy,
on his return from foreign service, by the Right Hon.
the Earl of Auckland
Mr. Charles Alliston, on his appointment as one of
her Maj 2sty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the
city of London, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
Mr. George Alliston, on his appointment as one of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the city
of. London, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
Mr. Charles Morris, on his appointment to the Royal
Horse Artillery, by the Hon. Frederick Byng
Mr. W. Aitchison, by Colonel Berkeley Drummond
Mr James Tulloch, F.R.S., on his appointment as one of
her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the
city of London, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
Mr. Arthur Walford, on, his appointment as one of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the city
of London, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
Mr. Charles E. Kirk, on his appointment to the 68th
Light Infantry, by the Marquis of Donegal
Mr. Hugh Fitzhardinge Drummond, by Col. Berkeley
Drummond
Mr. Perry, 11.8. M., Consul, Panama, by Lord Palmer-
ston
Mr. Williamson, on his appointment as Attach 6 to St.
Petersburgh, by Viscount Palmerston
Mr. Philip Champion Toker, on his appointment as one
of her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy for
the city of London, by the Right lion. the Lo
Hd Mayor
Mr. Frederick A. Lushington, by the Right OD. S.
Lushington, Judge of the Admiralty
Mr. Godfrey Rhodes, 60th Rifles by his loyal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge
R.N.,L?nßlhaikse,reitt.uNrn. from fe-
Dr. Charles Paget Blake,
reign service, by Captain G. .
The Rev. William James Jenkins, by the Earl of Car-
digan
The Rev. William Stracey, by Lieutenant-General
Clitheroa-, K.C.
The Rev. Dr. Leant', by the Earl of Cardigan
Hon. Lieutenrint-Colonel Hood, Sects Fusilier Guards,
on promotion, by,Colonel Berkeley Drummond
Right Eon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, 04 being sum

Captain George Grenville Malet, 3d Bombay Light
Cavalry, on his return from Sinde, by the Earl of
Ellenborough
Major Trevelyan, Bombay Artillery, on his return from
India, by Mr. C. 11. Trevelyan
Lieutenant C. A. Rice, Royal Engineers, by the In-
spector-General of Fortifications
Lieutenant Lennox, on promotion and appointment to
tha Pa ‘, a 1 A «#;11.--.• - u
Lancers, by the Earl of Clare
Lieutenants Orr, Vandeleur, and Sanderson, Royal
Artillery, on commission, by the Master-General of
the Ordnance
Lieutenant M'Donald, 92d Highlanders, on his appoint-
ment as Aide-de-camp to Major-General M'Donald,
by his father, Major-General M'Donald
Lieutenant Place, Royal Artillery, on commission, by
the Master-General of the Ordnance
Lieutenant J. H. Biggs, on promotion, by Colonel Reid,
M.P.
Lieutenants 11. R. Luard and E. Bridge, Royal Engi-
neers, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications
Ensigns J. G. Midley, F. S. Trevor, and W. Henderson,
East India Company's Engineers, by Colonel Sir
Frederick Smith.
Ensign Lutyens, 20th Regiment, by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge
Ensign Platt, 49th Regiment, by Lieutenant-General Sir
Edward Bowater
Lieutenant Aitchison, on appointment, Scots Fusilier
Guards, by Colonel Berkeley Drummond.
Ensign E. Dyne Fenton, 53d Regiment, by Lord Fitzroy
Somerset
Colonel G. B. Gowan, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp, Bengal
Artillery, by the Right Hon. Sir J. C. llobhouse
Lieutenant-Colonel Mills, 3d West India Regiment, on
promotion, by Lieutenant-General Sir C. W. Maxwell,
C. 8,, K.C.H.
Commander J . G. Mackenzie, R.N., on promotion, by
the Er.rl of Auckland
Lieutenant-Colonel Ebrington, Coldstream Guards, on
promotion, by Colonel Chaplain
Commander Thomas Miller, R.N., on promotion and
return from foreign service, and Commander James
Aylmer Punter, RN., on his return from foreign
service, by the Earl of Auckland
Rear-Admiral Pasco, en his promotion, by the Earl of
Auckland
Major-General Hunter Blair on promotion, by Field-
Marshal the Duke of Wellington
Lieutenant Card, R.N., by the Earl of Auckland
Rear-Admirals Harvey and Douglas, on promotion, by
the Earl of Auckland
Captain Sir William Hoste, R.N., on return from foreign
service and promotion, by Earl Howe
Captain Henry Smith, C. 8., R.N., on appointment to
her Majesty's ship Ganges, by the Earl of Auckland
Captain George Mansel, R.N., on return from foreign
service, by Rear-Admiral the Earl of Waldegrave
Rear-Admiral Manley H. Dixon, on promotion, and
paying off the Caledonia, by the Earl of Auckland
Lieutenant-Colonel Brough, on appointment as Assistant
Adjutant-General on the staff of the army in Ireland,
by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington
Lieutenant Colonel English, Royal Engineers, by the
Master-General of the Ordnance
Lieutenant-Colonel Darby, by the Master-General of
the Ordnance
Major James Scott, Bombay Army, by the Earl of
Clare
Major George Balfour, of the Madras Artillery, on
promotion to Major, by Sir John Hobhouso
Major Singleton, 11th Regiment, by Lieut.-General Sir
John Wilson
Brevet Major Caldwell, 92d Highlanders, by Major-
General Macdonald, C.B.
Captain Wilson, 50th Regiment, on return from India,
by General Sir John Gardiner, K.C.B.
Captain Shubrick, on his return from India, by Major-
General Shubrick
Captain R. W. O'Grady, 34th Re invent g Madras Light
Infantry, on his return to India, by the Duke of Wel-
lington
Lieutenant E. N. Heygate, of the 'Royal Engineers, by
the Inspector-General of Fortifications
Captain C. C. M. Walker, 30th Rigiment Madras Na-
tive Infantry, on his return to India, by Major-Gen.
J. Briggs
Captain Rudston Read, 9th Lancers, by Lieutenant-
General Sleigh
Captain Henry Green Wilkinson, Scots Fusilier
Guards, on promotion, by Colonel Berkeley Drum-
mond
Lieutenant J. Baddeley, Royal Artillery, on return from
the West Indies, by the Marquis of Anglesey
Major Aldrich, Royal Engineers, on return from China,
by the Master-General of the Ordnance
Lieutenant Bainbrigge, Royal Engineers, by the In-
spector-General of Fortifications
Lieutenant E. 0. Leggett, 35th Regiment, Madras
Native Infantry, by Lieutenant-General Sir J. Law
Lushington
Lieutenant A. B. Fyers, of the Royal Engineers, by the
Inspector-General of Fortifications
Lieutenant G. 11. Tod, 23d Regiment Bengal Native In-
fantry, on his return from India, by Sir John M'Grigor,
Bart., M.D.
Lieutenant Charles D'Oyly, 58th Regiment Bengal In-
fantry, on his return from India, by Viscount Com-
bermere
Colonel Downey, Bengal Artillery, by the Earl of Ellen-
borough
Lieutenant R. H. Stotherd, of the Royal Engineers, by
the Inspector-General of Fortifications
Lieutenant Wingfield, 2d Life Guards, by Colonel Wil-

limns
Lieutenant IL C. Elphinstone, of the Royal Engineers,
by the Inspector-General a Fortifications

THE NEW FRENCH PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
An useful and interesting brochure (published in
Paris), entitled " Biographie des Deputes (de
France), precedee d'une Histoire de la Legislature
de 1842 a 1846," and compiled by two " jour-
nalists," and which forms a sort of French " Par-
liamentary Pocket Companion," enables us to lay
before our readers the following particulars of the
political positions respectively occupied by the mem-
bers of the new French Provisional Government
which has succeeded the fallen dynasty of the Bour-
bons. It must be observed that the " journalists"
are both of them ardent Republicans.
M. Dupont (de L'Eure), the new President of the
Council (deputy for Evreux), is highly esteemed for
his virtues by the French people. At the elections of
1842, M. Dupont, indignant at seeing the Deputies
of the Eure servilely voting in favour of the execrated
Guizot Ministry, contested four colleges of that de•
partment simultaneously; he was elected in all four,
and chose Evreux. The votes of M. Dupont need
not be pointed out; he invariably voted against the
corrupt and dishonest Administration which has fallen
1 with the King, its protector.
M. Cremieux, the Provisional Minister of Justiee
(deputy for Chinon), was a formidable opponent of
the late Ministry. He exposed all• its vices and its
weaknesses. He demanded, on the discussion of the
game law (originated in the Peers), the suppression
of the article which exempts the Crown Lands from
the severe provisions of that enactment ; but, although
successful in the Deputies, the Upper Chamber
restored the obnoxious clause. M. Cremieux's Par-
iitiu istnrwArron..-F .1.4....; 111 OLIVL Li ne was a leadiug
member of the Opposition.
M. Arago is one of the first sarans in France,
and his reputation as an orator is scarcely less
brilliant. lie was born in 1786, and is perpetual
secretary of the Academy of Sciences, member of
the office of longitudes, and the most illustrious
scientific man of the age. In politics, M. Arago
is an excellent patriot, a sworn enemy of privileges
and monopoly, and an ardent defender of the rights of
the people. He voted against the Pritchard indem-
nity bill, and has ever supported all the measures of
the Gauche, although he goes much further, and be-
longs to the extreme Gauche. lie is now provisional
Minister of Marine.
M. de Lamartine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
is as famous in the republic of letters as his colleague,
M. Arago, in the department of science. He repre-
sents Macon, and his political opinions have been
freely and copiously expressed in his newspaper, Le
Bien Public, published in that town. He is every-
where a poet, even at the tribune. Like all poets,
however, he is rather fiokle and inconstant, but the
elevation of his soul secures him against the greatest
dangers of versatility. M. de Lamartine for a length
of time occupied a very undecided position in the
Chamber, but he eventually ranged himself on the
side of the Opposition. The day on which he an-
nounced his intention of joining the camp of the
Gauche was as gloomy an one for the Ministry as the
memorable desertion of the Treasury bench of the
English House of Commons by the great Burke.
From that period M. de Lamartine took a decided
part in favour of progressive reform, and ridiculed the
Guizot Cabinet as the Ministry of " limitations." He
voted against the Pritchard indemnity, and was prized
by the Opposition as an invaluable acquisition.
M. Ledru Rollin, the provisional Minister of the
Interior, was elected for Mans vice the late M. Gar-
nier Pages. His speech to the electors subjected him
to a prosecution on the part of the Government, and
the trial of the case produced a great sensation. M.
Rollin represents the ultra-Radical interest ; and has
often attacked not only M. Guizot, but also the policy
of such men as Thiers and Odilon Barrot. He sits on
the extreme Left, and has defended at the tribune,
with vigour and talent, the opinions advocated by La
Refornze newspaper.
M. Carnot, the new Minister of Public Instruction
(including the administration of religious affairs), was
born in 1801, and is a son of the famous convention-
alist of that name. He is a devoted partisan of
democratic ideas, and belongs to the extreme Left.
' He voted against the Pritchard indemnity bill, and
for M. Remusat's project of parliamentary reform;
"he would," say the authors of the work, writing in
1846, " support a large and complete reform which
would have the effect of restoring sincerity to the
Government, and all their rights to the citizens."
The other members of the Provisional Government
are not included in the list of Deputies.

The announcement of the poem of " King Arthur,"
by the author of "The Now Timon," has lately been the
subject of frequent conversation. The author of " The
New Timon," undoubtedly, possesses an imagination of
a very high order, and it has been generally admitted
in literary circles that a new legendary epic from his
pen, combining the best qualities of the verse of the 19th
century with that of the middle ages, would be likely to
be attended with much success. Every persons of taste
feels interested in the experiment, although the name
of the author has not been suffered to transpire.
THE COPPER DUTIES.—BIRMINGHADIt Fan. 29.---
In accordance with a requisition from Alderman Smith,
a meeting of the manufacturers of Birmingham, con-
sumers of copper, was held in the committee-room of
the Towu-hall yesterday, to consider the propriety of
taking steps to obtain a reduction of the duties on cop.
per. There was a numerous attendance, amongst whom.
were Ma. Charles Geach, the Mayor ; Aldermen Smith
and Martineau ; Councillor Clifford ; Messrs. W. C.
Alston, T. Pemberton, David Malins, Brooke Smith, T.
C. Salt, J. Cartland, S. Whitfield, Blews, S. Tonks, J.
jm. Pumphrey, W. Barwell, R.
Iloaton, and any Collins,ol
ayolitnhser gentlemen connected with the
trade. Mr. W. R. Lloyd and Mr. Fleetwood, connected
with the smelting interest, were also present. The
Mayor, having been called to the chair, addressed the
meeting in a long slieech, in which he declared the in-
justice of the present duties, and concluded by moving
a resolution in accordance with the general tenour of
his speech. This resolution was adopted unanimously,
and the meeting separated.
DEATH OF BEETHOVEN'S BEOTHER.—A brother
of this great German composer died a few days since at
Vienna. Ho had commenced business as a chemist, but
afterwards became a Government contractor, sad en-
riched himself by some fortunate speculations, particu-
larly in contracts for the supply of fire-arms for the
service of the Imperial Government. He latterly kept
his coach and four. His brother died in great distress ;
but, then, one was a lucky speculator—the other only
" a man of genius."