The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

CATHERINE HAYES IN BOSTON.

The concert last evening was fully attended by at very
brilliant and fashionable audience. We have net time
to give the particulars of this magnificent musical enter-
tainment i❑ this edition, but will merely state that Miss
Hayes was received most cordially, and enthusiastically
applauded throughout, while the platform was several
times covered with bouquets and fluwers. It was a oom-
plete triumph from beginning to end, and we are free
to confess that we were more than pleased with the sweet
and sympathetic voice of the charming songstress. Her
singing seems the heart-tones of melody.—Rostsn Bee,
Oct. 15.

Beautifully indeed as she sung the first morsel from
Meyerbeer's opera of the Prophete, it was not of that
music which lends a charm to such an impulsive and
passionate nature when it phrases its feelings into melody.
While in the " Savourneen Deelish" there was something
wanting, admirably as it was rendered, to place it beside
that of her grand rendering of the " Casta Diva ;" and in
classing this as the highest triumph we have yet heard
accomplished by her, we at once place her first in that
class of operatic artists who feel the vivid inspiration of
tragic passion. That her triumph was among the most
startling and complete ever witnessed in Boston, we be-
lieve none who were present can doubt.—Roston Times,
Oct. 15.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
;he week ending November 1, 1851:
Passengers (20,309), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £3,762 9 9
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr, and
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle Railways £2,925 0 7
Glasgow, November 3.

BONDING PRIVILEGES.—The revenue authorities
have directed that spermaceti be added to the list of articles
allowed to be landed at Hibernia•wharf, and have caused
the proper officers to be apprised of the privilege for their
future government in the matter.

NEW COMET.—Mr. Hind, of Mr. Bishop's Obser-
vatory, Regent's Park, says :—"A new and bright comet
was discovered on the 22d of last month at the Observa-
tory of Baron fa•enttenberg, in Bavaria, by Mr. Brorsen. It
is stated to have a btilliant nucleus and a conspicuous double
tail, one branch being turned towards the sun, which is a
rather unusual direction. Mr. Brorsen compares its appear-
ance to that of the bright comet which I discovered in the
spring of 1847, and hence I conclude it was visible without
the telescope. At five o'clock on the morning of October
23 the new comet was in the right ascension 13h. 42m. and
north declination 32 deg. 50m. The right ascension increases
6m. 17s. daily, and the comet approaches the North Pole at
the rate of 114 deg. in the same interval. Supposing its
movement to have been equable during the past ten days, it
will now be circumpolar, or constantly above the horizon of
London. Oa Monday next (Nov. 3) it may be souk* in
the northern part of the constellation Bootes, above the star
Beta, and unless its brightness has very much diminished
since the day of discovery, an ordinary night-glass will pro-
bably suffice to show it without difficulty."
ANIMAL MAGNETISM. HUNGERFORD HALL.—
The extraordinary experiments in the above very obscure
science by Mons. Lassaigne have, as was anticipated, proved
extremely attractive. The room is crowded every evening
with people eager to detect and expose what they consider
a gross imposture, but they generally leave with altered
notions, and not a little bewildered. Having already men-
tioned in these columns some of the remarkable phenomena
brought about by the magic " passes" of Mona. Lassaigne, it
is needless to do so again That there is no collusion between
the Professor and Mme. Prudence may be confidently as-
serted; certainly none that the most sceptical could detect,
'though sometimes on the stage watching every movement
most narrowly, and ready to seize on the most trivial thing
that savoured of their acting in concert. Whatever the
power may be which Mons. Lassaigne calls to his aid, it is
certainly not the result of any ingenious collection of secret
springs, nor can it be produced by any known dumb alpha-
bet. No combination of springs or private telegraphing
could enable a person to play dearte blindfolded, and always
with success, as is done by Mme. Prudence. Sceptics should
visit these soirdes; should they not have their ideas revolu-
tionised they cannot fail in being astoni►hed.

BlLmaups.—The long expected match at billiards
between Lord Eglinton and Captain Mundy, the best of
eleven games, was played at EAlinton Castle on Monday,
and terminated in the former winning six games to the
latter's three.— Glasgow Courier.

MONUMENTAL FOUNTAIN AT GOLSPIE.—The monu-
ment in memory of the late Duchess-Countess of Sutherland,
erected by tenantry and others connected with the county,
at a cost of about Mi., has just been completed.
AN IRISH FAST.—Bishop Hughes, in a sermon to
his parishioners, repeated the quotation, "that all flesh is
grass." The season was Lent, and a few days afterwards
he encL mitered Terence O'Collins, who appeared to have
something on his mind. " The top o' the morning to your
rivirence," said Terence. " Did 1 fairly understand your
rivirence to say all flesh is grass' last Sunday?" "To be
sure you did, and you're a heretic if you doubt it." "Oh
divil a bit do I doubt anything your rivirence says," said
the Nrily Terence ; " but if your rivirence plazes, I wish to
know whether, in this Lent time, as all flesh' is grass'' I
could not be afther haying a mad piece of bate 11 7107 91 4
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