The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-05 00:00:00

Mr. STEVENS returned thanks on behalf of the Commit-
tee. They were delighted with the result of their exertions,
because they had returned a man every way worthy of the
choice of the electors.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BRANDON preposcd " The health of Mrs. Hawes and
the ladies of Lamheth."—(Drunk with great applause.)
Mr. HAWES ret urned thanks.

Several other toasts were drunk, and speeches made ;
after which the mz:eting broke up.

FRENCH PAPERS.

The Constitutionnelsays," We have learned from a Fource
on which we can place reliance that the Embassy to Lon-
don, before being given to Count Pozzo di Borgo, had been
successively, offered to Count Woronzow and Count Orloff,
both of whom declined it."
The Lausanne Gazette of the 30th ult. says—" The an-
swer of the Directory to the notes of the Foreign Powers
appears to have obtained the assent of the greater number
of the Cantonal Governments. Some of them promise a
cordial co-operation, in case new annoyances should be pre-
sented to the Directory. Others, approving the manner in
which Berne has repelled the pretensions of Foreign Mi-
nisters, would bave nevertheless desired a firmer tone, but
generally speaking, it cannot be doubted that the first
diplomatic act of the Berne Directory has procured for it
the confidence of the other cantons."
The Augsburg Gazette of the 30th ult. has the follow-
ing from Constantinople of the Bth :--" The conduct of
Lord Ponsonby is an enigma. He manifested the greatest
energy in defending the rights of the Sultan against Me-
hemet Ali, in order to force the latter to renounce his
hostile progress, and is now dissatisfied with the Porte, and
seems to have repented of the part he had taken. He has,
however, sent an express to Smyrna, with orders for the
English squadron to take up its winter quarters at Malta.
The continual sojourn of the fleet in the Archipelago
bad excited great distrnst in Constantinople, and Lord
Ponsonby in vain attempted to dissipate it. No answer
has been sent to the last note of the Reis Effendi with
with respect to the free passage of Russian vessels through
the Dardanelles. The Ambassador is, it is supposed, wait-
ing for new instructions from London, because the accession
of the Tories to power might produce, if not a change, at
least modifications in the political system of England with
respect to Turkey. The Sultan has received very circum-
stantial accounts relative to the measures taken by Mehe-
met Ali in London and Paris, in order to obtain the recog-
nition of his independence. His Highness, after having
read these papers, was indignant with the ingratitude of his
Pasha. The tranquillity of Syria is almost restored, and
Orfa is to be immediately evacuated." The same jerurnal
has the following from Vienna of the 25th :—" For some
days past it has been confidently stated that considerable
reduction in the Austrian troops is in contemplation. The
army in Italy is to be put upon the peace esicablishment."
The Armoricain of Brest states that a report is current
that the long lost ship, the Lilloise, has been discovered
blocked up in the ice.

The Cormier de Lyons has the following article on the
iron trade :—" The suspension of work at the foundries and
forges of Alais in the course of December begins to produce
its consequences. The forges established upon the English
principle in the department of the Loire, which, from ap.
prehending a powerful opposition to the sale of their pro-
duce in the South, had lowered their prices on the forges
of Alais coming into activity, have just raised them 40f.
a-ton for cast and wrought iron of every description. A
speculator, anticipating no doubt a still greater rise, has
purchased all the iron which remained in the magazines at
Lyons belonging to Messrs. Creuzot and Co., whose iron
has, for about a twelvemonth, been exclusively sent to Paris
and the North of France. This augmentation of prices is
a great injury both to the manufacturers and the farmers.
How long shall we he obliged to pay 36f. or 40f. a ton for
iron which we could obtain from England at from 18f. to
20f. a ton ?"

PARIS, FEB. 3.--Just as we were goiug toi.pre:os the
reports of a change in the Ministry is spread in ,:di places of
public resort. We learn from good autho,-;ty that M. de
Rigny has tendered his -resignation, an-. 1 what is more sin-
gular, that M. Thiers having anr..,unced the pretention to
take his place, the proposal -,gas very ill received by his
colleagues. The discus7..len, it is said, was so very warm as
to occasion the ret':eat of the Cabinet in a body.—Bon
Sens.

Persons w'nose assertions often gain credit on account of
their habitual intercourse with the department of Foreign
Affairs, have spread to-day a report, on 'Change, of a con-
siderable modification of the Ministry. The measure is said
to have been decided on this very day, (the 2d) and three
Members of the present Cabinet are to retire.—Temps.
With these acco!mts before us, and with all that we learn
to-day of the state of disorganisation into which the war de-
partment has fallen, it is curious to read in the Moniteur
this morning—
" The Minister of President of the Council, will
have public (lays on Thursday next, and the succeeding
Thursdays."
The Spanish Government is redoubling its activity to
hasten the termination of the civil war. It is affirmed that
on the Ist of March on army of reserve, of '20,000 men,
will be assembled Et Burgos, which will be of immense ad-
vantage. The levy of 23,000 men, lately ordered, is carry..
ing into effect.

Don Juan Alpuente, formerly Deputy in the Cortes, and
chief of the pArty.,called " Camisados," during the time of

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then have seen what was the exact nature of those great
political measures which they intended to bring forward.
The subject of the adjustment of tithes in Ireland was one
which could not be evaded, and they would see what the
course was which his Majesty's present Government in-
tended to adopt respecting it. No other measure than
substantially the same as that proposed by Lord grey's
Ministry would ever satisfy the country, and ;!: they did
bring forward a similar measure, what in surja a case would
be said of the violent and bitter opposition they had offered
to that measure when brought for:vard by Earl Grey's Go-
vernment ?—(Loud cheers.) After some further observa-
tions Mr. Crawford sat de",vn amidst loud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN piT,imsed the health of Mr. Clay, Mem-
ber for the Towe7 Hamlets, whose conduct in Parliament
tie warmly eulogised.
Mr. CIAY returned thanks. The compliment was en-
nanced by the very cordial manner in which the toast had
been drunk. It was to him a most gratifying recollection
:tat if he had faithfully served his own Constituents he
had in some degree promoted the interests of the Consti-
tuents of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hawes). That gentle-
man's Constituents had that day paid him the highest ho,
nour which it was in their power to pay him, and never
was there a Representative more deserving such an honour
from his Constituents.—(Loud cheers.) Here Mr. Clay
highly eulogised the intelligence, the political principles.
And the Parliamentary conduct of Mr. Hawes. When he
(Mr. Clay) had the misfortune to differ from him, that cir-
cumstance had always had the effect of making him re-
consider his opinions, and he always voted with greater
pleasure on any important question when he knew that Mr.
Hawes was to vote on the same side with him.—(Cheers.)
They were both Reformers, because they conceived that to
reform was to preFerve the institutions of the country.—
(Loud cheers.) 1L; begged, before sitting down, to pro-
pose the health of the electors of Lambeth. He knew
no more respectable, no more intelligent, no more honest
Constituency ; and be knew •no more friendly wish he
could express towar(!s them than that their connection with
their Representative, Mr. Hawes, might be continued for
very many years to come.--(Loud and continued cheering.)
Mr. WESTON, in the name of the 17,000 electors of
the borough, begged to return thanks. A report was in
circulation that, in the event of the Duke and Sir Ro-
bert Peel being defeated, they intended again to dissolve
Parliament in March. In that case they could not do
better than again and again to return their worthy Re-
presentative, Mr. Hawes. Before he concluded be had
to propose a toao., which he did with great pleasure and
pain—he meant the health of Mr. Briscoe, late Member
for East Surrey.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Weston then re-
ferred to the great exertions which Mr. Briscoe had made
on behalf of the people when in Parliament, and regretted
that the electors of East Surrey had not again returned him.
Drunk with deafening applause.
Mr. BRISCOE felt the highest gratification at the honour .
which had been done him, both for the toast itself, and
the cordial, he might say enthusiastic, manner in which
it had been drunl,. With regard to the late election for
East Surrey, be must. bow to the will of the electors as
a defeatrd candi 'late. Mr. Briscoe then proceeded to .
eulogise the Parliementary conduct of Mr. Hawes. He
(Mr. Briscoe) could speak as an eye-witness, and he could
say that he was to be found at Hs post early and late,
and had snatched an hour from needful repose, and
spent it in the service of his constituents and his country.
—(Loud cheers.) -He (Mr. Briscoe) assured the gentle-
men present that he felt roost sensibly the honour which
bad been done him, an:l begged to remind them that he
had only the me,:imp of words to express the sincerity
of his feelings.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BERNAL proposed the health of their worthy Chair-
man.—Drunk iv;lh three times three.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He had great plea-
sure in reflecting thzt he had co-operated with the gentlemen
present in returning to Parliament, as the representative of
Lambeth, an, honest man and honest politician. It was to
him the source of mach happiness, in his retirement, to re-
collect that when the sand-glass of his life had run, there
would be thousands of honest men in Lambeth who would
perpetuate the independence of the borough .—(Loud cheers.)
BRISCOE rosy to propose a toast which had been
seine time before put into his hands, and which, he regret-
ted, had not fallen into abler hands. The toast would, he
was sure, be drunk with cordial approbation—it was, " The
health of the Committee who conducted the election of Mr.
Hawes."