The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-02 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. Grey,
rode on horseback yesterday morning.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon.
Mrs. Stonor, took a carriage drive.
Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Lieut.-Col.
Du Plat, arrived at Marlborough House in the
afternoon, on a visit to the Prince of Wales, from
Osborne, Isle of Wight.

The Prince and Princess of Wales took a drive
in an open carriage in the afternoon.
Major Teesdale has succeeded Captain Grey in
his duties as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of
Wales.

We have reason to believe that there is no foun-
dation for the report which has appeared in some foreign
journals, and has been copied into the English papers, of
an intended visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to
the Emperor of the French at Fontainebleau.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur attained his
13th year yesterday. The event was celebrated in London
by the display of flags on some of the public offices, and by
the ringing of bells at many of the churches. At Windsor
also there vas the customary display of flags, and a royal
salute was fired.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
give a grand dinner and evening party on Friday next, the
Bth inst., to meet their Royal Highnesses the Prance and
Princess of Wales.

The Duke of Hamilton has arrived at the Hotel
Bristol, Paris, to join the Duchess. Lady Emily Peel has
alighted at the same hotel.

Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt.

Last evening St. James's Hall was crammed through-
out. For there was then and there to be performed,
appropriately enough on May-day, Handel's exquisite
cantata L'Allegro ed it Pen seroso"—the words, rather
let us say the delicious poetry, Milton's I Phis was not
the attraction of the night, however. Any more than
it was the circumstance of a Concert being
given there in behalf of the Putney Hospital for
Incurables I Two hundred and fifty performers,
band and chorus, were to be there, it is true, with Mr.
Lindsay Sloper at the piano, and Mr. E. Hopkins at the
grand organ ; and among the leading vocalists Madame
Lernmens Shirrington, Miss Lascelles, Mr. Montem Smith
and Mr. Weiss. All which was very alluring, as a matter of
course, but all which was however not all. Mr. 0. Goldsmidt
was to wield the baton as conductor, and—beyond all other
attractions the attraction of the night—his rarely gifted and
amiable wife, world- famous before their marriage as
Jenny Lind, was there again to make her reappearance and
sing I Her reception immediately she dice make her ap-
pearance, was worthy of her fame, and worthy, let us say,
of the gratitude of the English public for the delight that
wonderful songstress had so often yielded them.
At first, we will confess, we listened to her marvel-
lous voice rather anxiously and doubtingly—until
at last she fairly conquered all doubt, and indicated anew
her right to her old title, as the Swedish Nightingale, by
literally singing as a nightingale, namely, in the bird song
" Sweet Bird," in L'Allegro, with a flute obligato deli-
ciously played by Mr. S. Pratten. The other performers
sang each of them really to admiration. But the heroine
of the night, as every one could but have wished and ex-
pected, was Madame Lind Goldschmidt.