The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

M jor-General James Grant, C. 8., has been p'aced
upon the list of officers receiving rewards for dis-
tinguished service. He served long in India, and
was present at the battle of Mallavelly, siege of Se-
ringapatam, action with Doondin, and storming of the
Fort of Turnioul, where he volunteered to lead the
assault with fifty dismounted Dregoons. He was
employed in Sicily, and returned to India; he was
subsequently engaged in the Peninsula, and tock
part in the campaigns of 1813-14, including the
action of the bridge of Croix d'Orade and the battle
of Toulouse. He was also present at the battle of
Waterloo.

Captain IL B. Wynyard, late Brigade• Major at
York, will succeed the late Major Canch as Fort-
Major at Edinburgh Castle. Captain Wynyard's
situation at York was included in the late reductions

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—John Frederick 111.-_,cham (1849),
to the Assistance, active service; John E. Parish
(1846) to the ConfEct, screw-sloop, at Devonport.
Surgeon—W. B. Fegen (1847), to the Lily, 12,
fitting at Portsmouth.

Clerk in Cbarge—E. N. Harrison (1844), to the
Assistance.

Midshipmen—Sir Greville 'Temple, to the Lily;
T. L. Pearson, additional to th • Centaur, flag steam-
frigate, for service on the coast of Africa.

Naval Cade's—Arthur P. Tighe to the Lily;
H. nmsell Cam, to the Victory, ilig-ship at Ports-
mouth ; G. B. Vivian, to the Fisgard, tlag-chip at
Wcohy jet].

We have heard that Captain Horatio T. Austir,
C.B , the chiff of the new North-West Passage ex.
pedition to proceed in search of Sir John Franklir,
will receive the honour of knighthood previously to
leaving England.

Commander Featherstone has remitted to Dr.
M'Ternan, of Greenwich Hospital, the sum of 381.,
c.llected by him at Ripon fur the six destitut3 or-
phans of the late Lieutenant C. Mackenzie.
Among the benefactors are the Earl de Grey, his
Countess, and other members of his Lordship's
family.
The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, at Queenstown,
is still short of her full complement, and appears
likely to be se, notwithstanding that she has
been so many months endeavouring to procure
a couple of hundred A.B.'s. Landsmen and boys are
plentiful everywhere, but not seamen.
Tue Shear water, 3, steam• vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Turnour, is at Queenstown.

A letter of thanks has been received at the Ad-
miralty from the Minister of Marine, on the
part of the French Government, for the service
rendered to a French vessel in distress by the Shear-
water.

The Trident, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Risk, is at Kingstown, raising men for
the Superb.

The Lively, lighter, 1 fc Patsmouth on Monday
for Woolwich.

The Driver steam-sloop, Commander Johnson, left
Valparaiso the 29th of November, for Cabaya, Arica,
and Hay, full of provisions for the Herald, it being
then the admiral's intention that she should reach
Callao by the Ist of January, to proceed on to Pa-
nama for the next mail, to convey the same to the
Sandwich Islands, when she would find the Asi., but
after remaining at Arica ten days, the mail steamer
arrived with orders for the Driver to proceed to
Callao, and embark Mr. Sullivan, Charge d'Affaires
and Consul General for Valparaiso, where he arrived
on the 231 December. He came in the mail-steamer
from Panama, with an American minister, whose
wife took possession of the rooms ordered by Mr.
Sullivan some time before. We cannot say what
was the cause of the quarrel between these gentlemen,
but the American struck Mr. Sullivan over the
nose with a stick. M. Sullivan wanted to call him
out, but he was advised to resign first, and he has
written home in consequence.
The provisions destined for the Herald on board
the Asia and Driver had been put on board a mer-
chant vessel, to go to the Sandwich Islands, a?, in
consequence (it is said) of the Tigre Island business,
the admiral had put off his visit to the Sandwich
I,lands.

MADAME SONTAG'S THIRD CONCERT

IN PARIS.

Madame Sontag's third concert took place in Paris
on Saturday evening, and excited even greater furore
than her two preceding performances. It is thus de•
scribed by one who was present :
" Madame Sontag is certainly the musical litonne of
Paris for the present season. She has put both
French and Italian operas out of fashion, and there
is a perfect furore to be present at her perform-
ances. She last night gave her third concert, and
the struggle for places was, if possible, greater than
at the first two. Every corner of the Conservatoire
was filled, and such large extra prices were readily
paid for boxes and stalls that the speculators on
public curiosity and public taste must have secured
a richer harvest than even the entrepreneur himself.
Madame Sontag is only to give three more concerts,
a❑d as all the places have already been secured,
to emeute of a new kind may be expected, if the
number be not extended.

Nothing has surprised the Parisans so much as the
slight
,inroads made by time either on Madame
Sontag 's voice or person. It is just twenty-four
years since she first appeared before tbe Pa-
risian public, and neatly twenty-one since she bade
it what was supposed to be an eternal adieu. It
has been the pride of the dilettanti of that
period to dwell on the sweetness of her voice, the
brilliancy of her execution, and the grace andh
elegance of her person. What thet
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in describing her, exclaims in an ecs y
" • She has to this day the same grace, the same
freshness. The figure remains svelte, and the regard
limpid. Not a wrinkle appears on that sweet face,
not a hair the less on that pure forehead ; not a
dimple has deserted that smile; there is not a
pearl wanting in the scale of that voice, which
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" Madame Sontag opened with a charming air from
the Sonnambula, in which she was rapturously ap-
plauded. She after wards sung a Swiss air, accom-
panied by a chorus, and her success was equally great.
In the second part she sung a scene and air
in German, from Der Freischutz, after which she was
recalled twice. But the great success cf the evening
was Rode s vat iAtions on the air of Al Joke in-
cant,,,' which she had sung at her first concert,
and which she now repeated twice. The
evening's entertainment closed with Madame
S :nag being brought funs ard twice to re-
ceive the congratulations of the company, and
the invariable shower of bouquets. Mdlle. Ida
Bertrand sung the duo from Seiniramide with
Madatne Sontag, ard came in for a large share
applause."