The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

MADAME PUZZTS COA CERT.

Madame Puzzi's concert is always one of the
best conducted and best attended of the musi-
cal fetes of the season, and the perform-
ances last Monday at the Hanover-square
Rooms fully maintained this character. The
concert takes place just in the order in which it is
set down in the programme, all delays are avoided
and repetitions generally discouraged. There were
many vocalists of great talent, prominent among
them being Madlle. Parepa, Madame Rieder,
Signor Gardoni, Signor Andreoli, and M. Ole Bull.
The re-appearance of M. and Mme. Gassier, after
an absence of two years, was also a conspicuous
feature. They were warmly applauded in the duet
" lota de los Toreros," which received one of the
few encores of the concert. Madame Rieder sang
the variations on the " Carnival de Venise"
with marvellous brilliancy and effect. Her
execution of the florid passages was wonderfully
correct, and was enthusiastically received. Mme.
Lemmens Sherrington, whose clear voice and care-
ful singing have obtained distinction in the con-
cert room, sang the famous Shadow Song from
Dinorah. Mdlle. Parepa gave an air from Auber
with taste and expression. There were many
other singers and several trios and quartetts
in which the chief vocalists joined. The celebrated
violinist, M. Ole Bull, played a fantaisie of his own
composition which delighted the audience, and Sig-
nor Andreoli, who is one of our first pianists, played
Thalberg's grand fantaisie on the " Sonambula"
with great power and brilliant effect. The concert
altogether was most successful, and the crowded
state of the rooms testified the satisfaction of the
audience.

S7A2VIORD'S NEW HAND MAP OF THE
UNITED STATES OF NORTH .dIifERICA.

This enterprising publisher has already furnished
the public some excellent charts and maps of our
various colonies, but for distinctness of delineation
and minuteness of detail the map of the United
States deserves particular notice. A very interest-
ing statistical table is furnished, in which th©
census of the various States is given in detail. We
find that the population has increased during the
past ten years among the free population from
twenty -three millions to thirty-one and a half, while
amongst the slaves the increase has been scarcely
worth mentioning. The map is bound in cloth, and
is of a convenient size to be carried without incon-
venience, thus rendering it doubly valuable.

RETURN OF THE COURT TO BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal High•
ness the Prince Consort left Osborne at three o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, in the Fairy, royal steam yacht, for
Gosport, and travelled by a special train on the South-
Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall, en
route for town.

The Countess of Malmesbury had a reception on
Saturday night at her ladyship's new mansion in Stratford-
place. Above 400 persons of rank and distinction graced
her saloons b) their presence.
The Earl and Countess De Grey and Ripon en-
tertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday even-
ing at their residence, Carlton Gardens.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary honoured his Excellency the
French Ambassador and the Countess de Flahault by their
company at dinner, on Saturday, at the French Embassy.
A. distinguished circle were invited to meet the Royal
guests.
ACCIDENT AT WESTON'S MUSIC HALL.—On
Friday night, one of the Lee family, while going through
his performance, unfortunately missed his hold, and fell
with great violence to the ground.
THE FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The prizes and
medals of the Female School of Art were awarded on Satur-
day, they being distributed to the successful students at the
Theatre of Practical Geology by Earl Granville. In the
speech which hislordship delivered at the close of the cere-
mony he remarked that it was now impossible to walk
through the streets of London, to look in the shops, to see the
productions of every art and manufacture, and to remember
what the same articles were some years ago, without feel-
ing convinced that these schools had done a great deal to
improve the taste of the producer and the purchaser. M.
Fould, whose taste and knowledge of art were great, after
being some weeks in this country, stated that we had re-
cently:2loe such progress in the arts of design and decora-
tion that Frenchmen would soon have to come to England
to receive instoretion in them.
SANITARY COYDITION OF THE JyDIAN ARMY.—
A meeting of the Royal mamission on the Sann':-.7 Stater
nof the Army in India was held at the War-office on 7.'"'tu.:
day last, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., in the chair.
The other Commissioners present were Sir Proby Cautley,
K.C.B. ; Colonel Greathoad, C.B. ; Sir Ranald Martin
Physician to the Council ; Dr. Gibson, C. 8., Director-
General, Army Medical Department; Dr. Sutherland, and
Dr, Farr, Kr, T, baker, the secretary, attended,