Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1848-03-30

a4ATtE ST 9NTELLaGENCE.-1 fOl
lowing proclamation has seen posted.
at the BoUrse:-
Orders have been given TO cease f.
ring everywhere.
We have just been charged by the
King to form ministry.
The Chamber will lie dissolved land
an appeal made to the country.
General Lamoriciere has been APP
pei,bted coanmamant of the National
Guards.
THEIRS,
OD1LLoN BARRor,
DUyERG1ER DE HAURANNE,
LAMORIClERE.
All the Ministers have quilted their
hotels.
The Bourse is closed.
PARIS, Friday, 9 o'clock A. NJ
A Repsbic has been proclailned.-
The King and hts family are gone to-
En-.
The provisional government already
appointed has been confirmed. The
following are ministers: Dupont de
PEure, President; Lamar,ine, Foreign
Affairs; Arrago, Marine; I.edru Rolin,
interior; Marie, Public Works; Cannot;
Public Instruction; Belmont, Com
merce; Lamortcaere, War; Gerr,ier Pa
Ses, confirmed as Mayor of Paris; Ca
vaignac, Governor of Algiers; Decou-
rias, Commandant OF the National
Guard.
All communication by railway and
diligence is suspended. The station
of the Northern Railway has been
burnt. 1t is impossible TO get cut of
Paris by that line. All was tranquil
IN the the quarter Of the Tuilleries.
Half-past nine O clock The follow
ing notice has gust been published:
In the Name Of the Sovereign People:
Citizens.-The Provisional Govern
ment has just been installed; it is COM
posed, by the will Of the people, of the
citizens, Frederick Arago, Louis
Blanc, Marie, Lamartine, Flocon, Lee
bru RoIlin, Recur, Marast, Albert-to
watch over the execution of the meas
ures which will be taken by Govern
ment. The will of the people has
chosen for delegates in the department
Of the police, the citizens Coussidere
and Sobrier. The same sovereign
will of,he people has designated the
citizen Et Arago, to the Direction
General of the Post office.
AS FIRST execution of the orders Civ
en- by the Provisional Government, a,
is advised that the bakers, or furnish
ers ofprovisions of Paris, keep their
shops open to all who may have occa-
saon for them.
1t is expressly recommended to the
people not to quit their arms, their po-
si'ions, or their revolutionary attitude.
They have often been deceived by
treason, itis impostant that they should
nc: give opportunities 20 attacks as
criminal as they are terrible.
The following order has also Just
been issued:
In the name Of the French people.
1t is interdicied to the members of
the Elk Chamber of Peers to meet.
Paris, Oath February.
Dupont (de PEure.)
AD CREMIEUx.
LEDRU RoLlN.
LAMARTINE.
ARACo.
MARIE.
lex Chamber OF Peers is rather sig
nifcant.}
Paris this morning is perfectly quiet,
bot the shops are closed, and the
streets are banmaded as before.
The people crowd the streets, and
are preparing to go to attack the Cas-
tie Of Vincennes.
Pllnce Louis Napoleon Bonapar,e
set out for Paris from London on Sat-
urday morning.
Mn. EDITOR: Permit me, through you pa
per, to inform the author OF the essay on lead
pipes, published in the Sentinel of the Valley,
last week. that his theory eoacerning the man
ner in which water becomes poisonous by pas
sing through leaden pipes, is erroneous.
That wafer becomes poisonous in some in
stances by passing throagh leadeu pipes, is
unquestionable but it is not owing to the ar
senic in the lead. Iflead is placed under water.
there will be no change, But If lead, water
and air come in contact, a carbonate of the
protoxide oflead, for white lead } will be form
ed. and iftaken into tie system, will cause a
very deleterious effect.
Did the author Of the essay alluded to above
discover that white lead contains arsenic, BY
chemical tests Tor did he come to the conclu-
sion, that because white lead was a poison,
therefore it must contain arsenic? If by the
latter, (Which am inclined to think he has,
We might with equal propriety say that prus-