The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-12 00:00:00

DINNER TO MR. HUME.

Yesterday above one hundred and twenty Middlesex
electors, of the Edmonton hundred, celebrated the triumph-
ant return of Mr. Hume, by a dinner at the Angel Inn,
Edmonton, at which were present that Hon. Member, Sir
Samuel Whalley, M.P., Dr. Lushington, M.P., D. W.
Harvey, Esq., M.P., J. Humphreys, Esq., M.P., Captain
Ross, Messrs. Brackenbridge, Esdaile, Heraud, &c.
sal, Esq., took the chair.

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The cloth being removed, the King's health was drunk
with customary honours.

The CuAtzmAN then, in a very able speech, proposed
" The Sovereignty of the People," a toast which was drank
with enthusiasm

The next toast was " Civil and Religious Liberty al kh e
world over."—(lmmense cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN then, in an appropriate speech, gave-
" The health, and long and happy life, of Joseph Hume ;
and may he at all times find the electors ready at their
posts, ready to support him and the cause of liberty.'---
(Long-continued applause.)
Mr. HUME was received with loud cheers. He was most
proud of the honour they had just done him, not only on
his own personal account, but because it assured him that
the principles he had for many years advocated were re-
cognised and approved of by his constituents. It was not
necessary for him to enter into any exposition of his politi-
nl principles ; that the electors both know what they were.
cod approved of them, was apparent from the triumphant
manner in which they had a fourth time returned him as
their representative, which was moreover a full answer to
all the calumnies which his opponents had cast upon him
at their dinners. Mr. Wood said he was an anarchist,
who wished to destroy all the institutions of the country.
He indignantly repelled the imputation ; his great aim
was to preserve order and the institutions of the coun-
try, by purging them from their manifold abuses. He
was contemptuously designated a mere " pounds, shil-
lings, and pence politician ;" but he believed that his-
opponents were just as liable to the term, for their whole
aim consisted in keeping those pounds, shillings, and pence
—(A laugh.) After some farther observations, the Ho-
nourable Member concluded by proposing as a toast, " The
3,069 unbought and unbiassed votes which returned him aik
their member." The toast was drunk with immense cheering.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, who was most honourably received,
then rose to propose, " The greatest happiness of the
greatest number"—(Cheers)—a principle for which all go-
vernments were originally framed, and in proportion to their
departure from which were they traitors to their duty.
The Reformers were said to be aiming at revo'ution, but
what were revolutions ? In all cases they hall been the
result of oppression and despotism—C Cheers.) No set of
men while governed well, and kindly, were ever otherwise
than quiet and contented. The Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber, after expatiating on the necessity of education as a
means to render the people universally competent to the
aliAmportant and responsible duty of electing representa-
tives, concluded by proposing, " The greatest happiness of
the greatest number."
The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm ; as were
several othere, in proposing which, the Hon. Members pre-
sent respectively addressed the meeting. The convivialities
were continued to a late hour.

MOST DIABOLICAL MURDER.—"In the earlypart
of the present week, tlie body of a female who was very re.
spectably dressed, r is found in the river close to Dunmore, is
this county. The head (in which were some dreadful frac-
tures) was entirely severed from the body, as if by a hatchet
or some other blunt instrument, and was found nearly a hun.
dred yards from it. At present the body of the unfortunate
female has not been identified. No one knows her ; but it 1.3
supposed that she was thus brutally butchered for the sake a:
obtaining money.— Cbnnaught Journal.

THE SPANISH NUN AND MARSHAL

DUROC.

As soon as I was installed in my habitation above
described, the nuns came two by two and three by three
to talk to me, and, as they expressed it, to keep me in
good spirits. At first they amused me, but after a time
I found their visits tiresome. One of them, who was
exceedingly pretty, was less obtrusive than her compa-
nions, though she appeared very desirous to talk with
me. I asked her to come and pay me a visit in my I
apartment ; but when she came discovered that our
conversation was likely to be brief. The pretty sister
did not speak a word of French, and I knew only
enough of Spanish to give utterance to a few sentences,
At first she was very reserved ; but one evening when
she came to see me, she seemed to pluck up courage,
and she pronounced a name which almost made
me leap from my chair with astonishment ; I could
not guess by what chance that name happened to
be known in the interior of a convent. I looked
at the little nun, who was called Santa-Maria da
Gracia, a name which she truly deserved, for she was
a beautiful and graceful girl. When I fixed my eyes
on her, she was as red as a rose, and the blush was the
more becoming to her, inasmuch as she, like all the
Spanish women, was naturally pale. But still the blush,
pretty as it made her look, did not explain her question.
I thought I might have misunderstood her, and I asked
her what she said. She repeated it ; and this time
distinctly said :
" Donde esta ahora el General Duroc ?" (Where
is General Duroc ?)
" Why do you ask, sister ?" I exclaimed, not a
little surprised and amused at the question.
The nun put her finger on her lip, smiled, and
showed me thirty-two beautiful pearls. Then she said
in a whisper, and with a charming expression of confi-
dence which showed that she saw I had understood her:

" Esta Bien ?' (Is lie well ?)
" Ola ! muy Bien—muy lien," (Oh ! . very well, very
well,) replied I. And taking her hand, I added :
"Es my amigo el General Duroc." (General
Duroc is a friend of mine.)
The nun's pretty face was immediately lighted up
with a charming expression of joy. Her eyes became
more brilliant, and a bright smile played on her lips.
She clasped her hands, and, half raising them, came
and stood before me, as if to get a better view of me.
I was another being to her as soon as she learned I
was the friend of thii man she loved. And yet, for
aught she knew, I might have been her rival ; I might
have been Duroc's wife. But in the first moment of
her joy, no such thought occurred to the warm-hearted
Spaniard.
I learned no more fr'im the little nun, but one of her
companions afterwards informed me that he had made
her profession only two months previously. She be-
longed to a good family, in one of the provinces, and,
from her infancy, had been destined for the cloister.

On the following day, when I again saw the nun, I
asked whether she was aware that General Duroc was
married. She nodded her head affirmatively,and with-
out any appearanee of chagrin.
"Su flinger Espanola," (His wife is a Spanish
lady,) added I.
At this informatin she seemed very much surprised.
She several times rai'6ed her hands in token of asto-
nishment, but still without any sign of vexation. When
I left the convent, she gave me a little relic, which I
carefully conveyed to France, and delivered to the per-
son for whom it was intended.

When I mentionud this little adventure to Duroc, it
was a long time before he could understand it ; and no
wonder, for my Santa-Maria da Gracia, in her mo-
nastic habit, did nut bring to his recollection a pretty
little Spanish girl dressed in a fringed basquina, and a
pink bodice embroidered with silver. However, by
my description, and the mention of her native place,
he soon discovered her identity. I was much amused
at the embarrassment which this little affair caused
him. I promised him that I would be discreet, and I
kept my promise.
" It is not for my own sake, that I am afraid,"
said he.

" For whom, then ?" inquired I.
" I will not tell you," said he.
" Well, the►►, if you will not honestly tell me all, I
promise you that I will torment you about the little
nun whenever we meet."
" For Heaven s sake do not," he exclaimed, " I
will never forgive von,
" Then tell mc what I wish to know."
" I can not ; for it does not concern myself alone."
" Well, but since i have your secret, and have pro-
mised to keep it, surely I may be trusted with the secret
of another. To a woman two secrets are no heavier
than► one. When once the effort of discretion is ac-
complished one may carry it to any length."
He laughed, and bade me farewell. But I executed
my threat. Whenever we met, I whispered a word
and made a sign which reminded him of Maria da
Garcia. He was almost mad. At length he said to
me one day, " Madame Junot, how unmerciful you
are ! What have I done to deserve this persecution at
your hands ? But, tell me, did not Maria da Garcia
make ally inquiry about the Emperor ?"
"Ah at length I understand you." said I.
I suspect that the year 1811 was very fertile in
events of this kind. There was at Salamanca a cer-
tain convent of Augustine nuns, from whose nzirador
were received many signals of intelligence. There was
also another at Valladolid, near Campo-Grande.

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT

TOM PATTEN'S EXPLOIT.—About the middle of
January when the Grenadiers, the Twenty-eighth, were
on this duty, a daring fellow, an Irishman, named Tom
Patten, performed a singular feat. At the barrier
there was a rivulet, along which our line of sentries
was posted. To the right was a thick, low wood, and
during the cessation of hostilities our officers had again
become intimate with those of the French, and the sol-
diers had actually established a traffic in tobacco and
trandy, in the following ingenious manner. A large
stone was placed in that part of the rivulet screened by
the wood, opposite to a French sentry, on which
our people used to put a canteen with a quarter-
dollar, for which it was- very soon filled with brandy.
One afternoon, about dusk, Patten had put down
his canteen with the usual money in it, and re-
tired ; but though he returned several times, no
canteen was there. He waited till the moon
rose, but still he found nothing on the stone, When
it was near morning, Tom thought he saw the same
sentry there who was there when he put his canteen
down ; so he sprang across the stream, seized the un-
fortunate Frenchman, wrested his firelock from him,
and actually shaking him out of his accoutrements, re-
crossed, vowing he would keep them until he got his
canteen of brandy, and brought them to the picquet-
house. Two or three hours afterwards, just as we
were about to fall in, an hour before day-break, the
sergeant came to me to say that a flag of truce was at
the barrier. I instantly went down, when I found the
officer of the French picquet in a state of great alarm,
saying that a most extraordinary circumstance had
occurred (relating the adventure), and stating that, if
the sentry's arms and accoutrements were not given
back, his own commission would be forfeited, as well
as the life of the poor sent-ry. A serjeant was in-
stantly sent to see if t},-,ey were in the picquet-house,
when Patten came up, scratching his head, saying,
" He had them in pawn for a canteen of brandy
and a quartcr-dollar, and told us the story in his
own way, 'whereupon the things were immediately given
over to the French captain, who, stepping behind, put
two five-franc pieces into Patten's band. Tom, how-
ever, was not to be bribed by an enemy ; but generously
handed the money to his officer, requesting that
he would insist on the French Captain taking the
money back. Tha Frenchman was delighted to get the
firelock and accoutrements back : and the joy of the
poor fellow who was stripped of them may be con-
ceived, as, if it had been reported, he would certainly
have been shot by sentence of court-martial in less than
forty-eight hours. Patten, however, was confined, and
reported to Sir Rowland, and in a few days after he
was tried, and sentenced by a court martial to
ceive three hundred lashes. The British reg:- re-
the division were, collected at the al- o.ments of
Tom was brought out and his Kntence read, arid Sir
—am-post, when
Rowland in an excellent;speech addresd th
and regiments as.sembicti 013
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THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 15135.

It is truly amusing to observe the miserable shifts
to which the Tories are reduced in their factious at-
tempt to palm Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON
on the new House of Commons as its Speaker. Their
stock of arguments, (if we may use that word in such
a sense, without abusing it,) was soon exhausted
—web after web of sophistry have they woven,
only to be destroyed. After all their dirty work,
they now find that they are further from their purpose
than when they began. All their efforts have ended
in satisfying the country that the chair of the House
of Commons ought not to be filled by Sir C. M. SUT-
TON. This is very far from the result which they an-
ticipated. They are, of course, dreadfully disappointed,
sorely vexed and galled at the unsuccessful upshot of their
(as they fancied) well-laid scheme to entrap the Repre-
sentatives of the people into a tacit approval of the pre-
sent administration audits unconstitutional proceedings.
So deeply does vexation seem to have preyed upon
some of the more sanguine of the Ministerial advo-
cates, that their mental faculties have evidently been
impaired by the shock. How else shall we (chari-
tably) account for the antipodal contrast which ap-
pears between the opinions uttered yesterday and those
promulgated to-day by a " leading" journalist ? This
thick-and-thin supporter of the " backbone" Adminis-
tration told its readers yesterday that the Whigs were
nothing wiser than " shallow greenhorns" if they sup-
posed that Mr. ABERCROMBY'S elevation to the
Chair, or even a " dozen" such votes, would have the
least effect upon the position of the present Ministry.
But how altered the tone to-day We are this
morning gravely informed that the welfare of the
empire depends upon Mr. ABERCROMBY'S defeat—

that if an Anti-reformer be not seated in the Chair o
a House of Commons, the majority of whose members
are Reformers, we may bid good bye to the integrity
of the British Empire. The terrific O'CoNNELL, with
one sweep of his tail will sever Ireland from England !
Is not this something like blowing hot and cold with the
same breath ? We are glad set.,
t
it—it shows the
streights to which the,
party are reduced, and thelhope.
lessness with wh;-'
..;t1 they look upon
their own cause. Le
these eire-
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