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

THE ARMY.

Major-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 Mallevelly, siege of Se-
ringapatam, action with Doondin, and storming of the
Fort of Turnioul, where he volunteered to lead the
assault with fifty dismounted Dragoons. He was
employed in Sicily, and returned to India; he was
subsequently engaged in the Peninsula, and took
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 H. B. Wynyard, late Brigade• Major el
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.

NA VAL INTELLIGENCES

APPOINTMENTS.

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

Cleik in Charge—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 Cadets—Arthur F. Tighe to the Lily ;
11. Monsell Carre, to the Victory, flag-ship at Ports-
mouth ; G. B. Vivian, to the Fisgard, flag-ship at
Woolwich.

We have heard that Captain Horatio T. Austin,
C.B , the chief of the new North-West Passage ex-
pedition to proceed in search of Sir John Franklin,
will receive the honour of knighthood previously to
leaving England.
Commander Featherstone has remitted to Dr.
APTernan, of Greenwich Hospital, the sum of 381.,
ccEected by him at Ripon for the six destitute or-
phsns 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 cf her full complement, and appears
likely to he 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.
The Shearwater, 3, steam• vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Tumour, is at Queenstown.

A letter of thanks ha,; 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 fur
the Superb.

The'Lvely, lighter, 1 fc P.rtsmouth on Monday
for Woolwich.

The Driver steam-sloop, Commander Johnson, left
Valparaiso the 29th of November, for Cabaya, Arica,
and Nay, full of provisions for the herald, it being
then the admiral's intention that she should reach
Callao by the Ist cf January, to proceed on to Pa-
nama for the next mail, to convey the same to the
Sandwich Nandi, when she would find the Asis, but
afar 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 23d December. Ile 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. Mr. Sullivan wanted to call him
out, but he was advised to resign first, and he has
written home in consequence.

Tne provisions destined for the Herald on board
the Asia and Driver bad been put on board a mer-
et ant 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
Islands.

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 li.nne 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'
and as all the places hare already been secured,
n entente 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 nearly 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 and
elegance of her person. What then was the astonish-
,
merit of all, and especially of the elder dilettanti,
when, instead of the rather elderly and passee per-
sonage whom they expected, they saw a lady appa-
rently in the prime of life and beauty—in short,
Mdlle. Sontag, pretty much as she was when. she. left
them. One of the most lively of the
Paris critics,
in
,' describing her, exclaims in an ecatacy of delight—
,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
pearl wanting in the scale of that voice, which
is always sweet, always admirable for its expression,
its charm, and its marvellous agility. The women
who flourished five and twenty years ago have all
undergone some metamorphosis ; time has touched
them all more or less with the point of his wings or
the marks of his nails. By what prodigy, then, has
Madame Sontag alone escaped from these inevitable
attacks ?'

" Madame Sontag opened with a charming air from
the Sonnanibula, in which she was rapturously ap-
plauded. She afterwards sung a Swiss air, accom-
panied by a chorus, and her success was equally great.
In the second part she sung a scene and nir
in German, from Dcr Frcischut:, after which she was
recalled twice. Bat the great success of the evening
was Rode's variations on the air of Al dolce in-
canto,' which she had sung at her first concert,
and which she now repeated twice. The
evening's entertainment closed with Madame
S 'Wag being brought forward twice to re-
ceive the congratulations of the company, and
the invariable shower of bouquets. Mdlle. Ida
Bertrand sung the duo from Sentiramidc with
Madame Sontag, and came in fors large eharof
Applause."

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• THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. JAMES ANDERSON.
10-MORROW EVENING,
wrn be presented, by her Majesty's Servants,
The Comedy of THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Characters by
Messrs. Angel, Poker, Didti3or, Cooper, Vandenhoff ; Miss Phillips,
and Miss L. Addison.
To Anemia with the Play of THE SLAVE.
private home, V. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., U. 25., IL lb. 6d., and U. Is.
Stalls, ss. each.
s. d. s. d.
FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE.
Boxes - 4 0 Boxes - 2 0
Pit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - I 0
Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6
Upper Gallery -0 6 INo half-price to Upper Gallery.
Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAIMABKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sete i.essee And ',tanager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed AS lOU LIKE IT. Jaques, Mr. C. Kean ;
Rosalind, Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with THE PRISONER OF WAR. Captain Chan-
nel, Mr. Webs'.er; Lieutenant Basil Fircbrace, Mr. C. Kean ; Mr.
Peter Mr. Keeley ; Clarioa Channel, Mrs. C. Kean; Polly
Pall-mall, Mrs. Keeley.
the Box-ottlee is tinder the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

TILL ATRIC ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direttion of Madame Celeste..
TIIIS EVENING,
Will be pertenned a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW
CCR„SE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Btd-
btd, 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woo?gar.
After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs.
Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews.
Ts conclude with SLASHER AND CRASHER.

- PRINCESS'S THEATII.E.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
WV be nerfOrmed DON GIOVANNI.
Alter which ROT AND COLD.
To be followed by the Ballet of TIIE THREE STATUES.
To conclude with MT WIFE SHAN'T ACT.

NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM.
To conoMle with THE DREAM_ AT SEA•

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
TRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COMIQIIIS.
• Laar.-Week but Two of the Operatic Performances.
Wt. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French
rertennances at the St. James's Theatre will commence
•

THIS EVENING.
At Half-past Seven, when will be performed
LA PERRINUIERE DE MEUDON.
After which
LE3 DIAMANS DE LA COURONNE.

Le Comte de Campo Mayor, M. Chateanfort ; Don Nenrigne do
Sandoval, M. Lac ; La Catarina, Madlie. Charton.
_. ....

The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till
Fly..
Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
str eet.

AGYAL LYCEUM THEATKE.
Under the Management of Madame Verais.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed A LADY IN DIFFICULTIES.
After which TIIE ISLAND OF JEWELS.
To conclude with TWO IN TILE MORNING.
Dress Boles s ; Upper Ruxei, 4s. ; YU, is. ; Gallery, Is. No
half—price to any part of the house.
All applications for rriTate Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15
N ew Bond-street.

ASTLE Y's ROYAL AMPLUTREATRIL.
eroprieter, Mr. W. Batty.
An entire change in the Scenes of the Arena.
• NeW Grand. Spectacle.
Continued success of the Dames of the Fox-hunting Chase, by Eight
principal Eluestrian Ladles of the Establishment.
Madlles. Gardoni and Amilie on the Dcuble Tight Eves in a petite
Ballet entitled The Hungarian Wood cutters.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven. with a
new Grand Spectacle of TILE CORSE DE LEON ; or, the Brigand
of Savoy.
To be toilowed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of
the:Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish-
ment. , •

To conclude with THE DIISERTED MILL ; or, The Soldier's
Widow.

Box-Once open from Eleven till Four.

thud vvA•Mii. AT LONDON BRUNIE.

Tau DAy *ming, G min. After 7 Eve g, 33 min. after 7
To- Ifoaaon )rnalg, 2 min. after 8 f Evening, 42 min. after 8

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THERXOYIETER, Lowest, ; 30 Highest, 45, Noon 49.

BADOMETEIt, 30'63.
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