The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

THE KING OF HOLLAND.

We have great pleasure in announcing that the Queen'
through the Duke of Wellington, as Commander-in-Chief,
has appointed the King of Holland a Field Marshal in the
British army, an honour conferred on a brave and liberal
monarch, who had in his younger days fought and bled
under our national flag against a powerful and common
enemy. It is an act in every respect becoming to the nation,
and one which will give the greatest satisfaction to the
army. The;King, as is no doubt known to the majority of
our readers, is a general in the army, being next in
senority to General Sir George Nugent. 'Bart., G.C.8., and
by five years senior to General Thomas Grosvenor and Gene-
ral the Marquis of Anglesey. His commission in the British
service is dated as follows :—Lieutenant-Colonel, the 11th
of June, 1811 ; Colonel, the 17th of October, 1811 ; Major-
General, the 13th of December, 1813; Lieutenant-General,
the Bth of July, 1814; and General, the 25th ofJuly, 1814.
Tuesday fore,mon, previously to his Majesty holding his
diplomatic levee, the Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Culling
Smith had the honour 'of an audience with the King, at his
apartments at Mivart's.

GREAT CENTRAL SARDINIAN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Duke diLante di Montrefeltro having summoned a
full Board yesterday morning, stated that in consequence
of an official interview he had on Tuesday with the Count
de Revel (who, in the absence from London of his Ex-
cellency Count Potion, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sar-
dinia, acting as Charge d'Affaires), he was happy to be
enabled to inform the Directors that the Sardinian Go-
vernment has seen with satisfaction the forming of this
Company for the laying down of a railway through the
Island of Sardinia. And that so sO,:n as the deputation,
shall be prepared to start for Turin for tile purpose of re-
ceiving the final and exclusive concession of this line (the
only one in the Sardinian States which will be grantee
by that Government to a Foreign Company), the Em-
bassy of his Sardinian Majesty in London, will, with
pleasure, provide the deputation with I.•tters for the au-
thorities at Turin. The Noble Duke further communi-
cated to the Provisional Committee that Count de Revel
had heard that his Excellency the Marquis di Villama-
rine, Viceroy of Sardinia, had arrived at Turin from
Cagliari, and from what the Duke di Lante could under-
stand personally to express to the Superior Government
at Turin the anxiety manifested by the inhabitants o
the Island for the speedy construction of this important
railway.

M. THIERS' HISTORY OF TIIE CONSULATE APill
EMPIRE excites increased interest as it proceeds. When
statesmen who have figured in high official stations turn histo-
rians, their works very naturally command more attention than
those of authors by profession, however highly qualified. To
the English reader, the fourth volume of Mr. Campbell's au-
thorized translation, which has just made its appearance, must
possess peculiar interest, being occupied with the events leading
to the rupture of the Peace of Amiens, and with those immense
preparations for invasion made immediately afterwards by our
implacable foe, with the avowed design of crushing the Briiish
power. The conspiracy of Georges, and the murder of the
Duke D'Enghien, form the concluding portions of this striking
volume.

THE GREAT BRITAIN —On Sunday morning,
about six o'clock, this leviathan of the deep was seen off Belfast
Lough by the Fleetwood steamer Prince of Wales. She had ell
her canvass set, and was apparently sailing very fast.
SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—Mr. Hudson entered
the town on Monday, and addressed the electors. He announced
himse.f as a supporter of the present corn-laws. On other points
his speech was a tissue of vague generalities. His speech has
disappointed the people, and several who were awaiting his arrival
to make up their minds, joined the free.traders on Tuesday. The
Tories will probably have recourse to their old trick, but they are
narrowly watched, and the League have offered HAL reward for
satisfactory proof of any ease of bribery, and without bribery the
Tories have no chance of beating Col. Thompson.
MARRIAGE IN.—Tuesday, the mar-
riage of Lady Frances Howard, third daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Wicklow, and the Hon. Colin Lindsay, youngest son
of the Earl and Countess of Balcarres, was solemnised at All Souls'
Church, Portland.place. After a sumptuous dejcune the bride and
bridegroom started for Anglesea-ville, near Gosport, to pass the
lioneymeon.

DUNST ABLE RAILWAY CONPANY.—A meeting of
this Company vi as summoned for yesterday, at the London and
Birmingham station at Eaton-square, at one o'clock; but the
number necessary to constitute a meeting not having attended
up to two o'clock, the meeting was adjourned to the 29th
August.