The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-23 00:00:00

de BROGLIE, and at the Hotel of Lord GRAN-
VILLE, the British Ambassador (who is still
unable to leave his room), on the affairs of Hol-
land.

The statement that Prussia had reduced her
army, proves to be incorrect; that Power will
not, it is positively announced, put herself on
the peace-establishment until the Dutch ques-
tion is finally settled.

Private letters have been received at Mar-
seilles from Constantinople, which state that the
SULTAN, finding himself so pressed by IBRA-
HIM PACHA, had applied to Russia for im-
mediate assistance, and that a private treaty had
been entered into between these tn•o Powers•
The troops of the SULTAN had been defeated,
and obliged to retire towards the capital.

Intelligence has been received from Oporto up
to the 10th instant, via Bayonne, and from Vigo
to the 14th. Don PEDRO was strongly for-
tified and well provisioned. Marshal SOLIGNAC
was to make a grand attack upon the enemy on
the 12. h or 13th with the greater part of the
forces. Admiral SARTORIUS had left Vigo,
for Oporto.

The last news from Spain up to the morning
of the 12th, represent Madrid to be in the greatest
state of agitation, as most serious disturbances
were expected.

An order has been issued by the police at
Paris to the leaders of the Italian Committee
that they must leave the capital. This order is
in consequence of Government having discovered
that they have taken a very active part in the in-
trigues against the present dynasty.
Paris continues tranquil.

It was*stated in an Evening Paper last night,
that the Germanic Diet had protested against
the annexation of Luxemburg to Belgium.
Nothing official has yet transpired on the subject.

In another part of our Paper will be found
reports of two separate public dinners, given,
one to Mr. HumE, at Staines, and the other to
Messrs. BRISCOE and BEAUCLERK at Wands-
worth. Both were well attended, and both
equally remarkable for the number of sound,
wholesome, spirit-stirring truths spoken. How
different is the case with the Tories ! While
the Reformers, like honest, hearty fellows,
are dining in all directions, the faction can
scarcely muster courage enough to get up one
Conservative dinner. To be sure, we have heard
of two or three tea-parties in the North, and a
thing called " a breakfast" in one of the Mid-
land counties ; moreover, we have a suspicion that
an attempt at a dinner was made a short time
since at Leicester and Norwich—but with
the exception of these sorry make-believes,
nothing worthy the name of a dinner,
nothing that even the most charitable
Alderman would not turn up his nose at, has yet
been given by the Conservatives. This is an
unanswerable proof of the decline of their
influence and confidence. Party triumphs always
develope themselves in England, whatever they
may do elsewhere, through the medium of ap-
peals to the gastric juice ; when, therefore, a
great political faction (hitherto remarkable for
the number and variety of its convivial meetings)
has so far degenerated in its notions of the fes-
tive, as to substitute thin bohea for the sparkling
juice of the grape, we appeal to all unbiassed
judgments, whether such a party may not be
fairly pronounced on its last legs. " Tea and
turn out" is now the (appropriate enough) em-
blem of Conservative festivities.
But to turn to a more grateful theme.
Mr. HUME'S speech at Staines was just what
we should have expected from him. It was
manly, pointed, and explicit. The Hon.
Member spoke in forcible terms of the neces-
sity of a Reform in the Church, which, though
he topic be hacknied, cannot be too often
dinned into the public ear ; and on the subject

of the ballot said, " he was proud in being the
first, five years ago, to bring the question of the
ballot regularly under the consideration of
Parliament. Lord ALTHORP then sup-
ported the ballot, and ascribed to it the
preservation of the liberties of Europe. He
said, that had it not been for the ballot in
France, M. VILLELE would have destroyed the
liberties of the people. What was there now to
prevent his Lordship entertaining the same
opinion ? We repeat the question. What is
there to prevent Lord ALTHORP holding the
same opinion on the ballot in 1833, that he held
in 1828 ? If it was necessary then, it is still
more necessary now; for the Conservatives, mad
with rage at their defeat and loss of place, have
been recurring of late to their old electioneering
manoeuvres with more perseverance and effron-

tery than ever. But, it may be urged, Reform
has been achieved since Lord ALTHORP de-
clared himself so warmly in favour of the ballot ;
the necessity, therefore, of such a measure, is in
a great degree done away with. On the con-
trary, we repeat, the necessity is more
pressing than ever. Reform, as it at present
stands, is incomplete—unfinished—a mere foun-
dation, in fact, of which the ballot and triennial
Parliaments form the indispensable materials—
the crowning glory of the superstructure.
What good architect would ever think of
stopping at the ground-work of a building ?
What would have been said of Mr. NASH
had he halted at the kitchens and cellars
of Regent-street, and left the other por-

(ions of the buildings to shift for them-
selves ? Yet Ministers seem just now work-
ing in this bungling spirit. They raise a goodly
foundation, and there they stop. They clear
away the rubbish of the old edifice, lay the
ground.work of a new, and then exclaim, " Our
work is accomplished ; come one and all and
admire it." Now this is language that no sterling
architect can, or will uphold. It smacks of
indolence, of prejudice, of self-complacency.
No good workman has a right to claim praise in
advance. He must go right through with his
duty, before he calls on the public to give him
credit for it. Ministers, we trust, will complete
the work of Reform in this spirit. Public opi-

nion runs strongly, and not more strongly than de-