The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-07 00:00:00

JENNY LIND.

Mr. Barnum, the proprietor oF the American:Mu-
seum at New York, has addressed the following cir-
cular to the American journals :
" American Museum, Feb. 19, 1850.

"In regard to the engagement of Mdlle. Jmny Lind
for America, I beg to state that I have this day rati-
fied the engagement made by my agent with this dis -
tinguished vocalist. It is true that in engaging Mdlle.
Lind, and the musical associates whom she -has
selected to accompany her, viz., the distinguished
compozer and pianist, M. Julius Benedict and Signor
Giovani Beletti, the celebrated and famous Italian
barytone of the Italian Opero, of London and Paris,
my agent, to secure such talent, went beyond the
amount I had anticipated paying, but after all, the
sums to be paid these persons, great as they
may appear, are not so much as Miss Lind
has been in the habit of receiving for her services
alone, nor do Messrs. Benedict and Beletti receive
from me more than their distinguished services are at
this moment commanding in London. Perhaps I may
not make any money by this affair; but I assure you
that if I knew I should not realise a farthing profit,
1 I would rat;fy the agreement, so anxious am 1 that
the United States should be visited by a lady
whoseextraordieary vocal powers have never been even
approached by any other human being, and Is ho-e cha-
racter is charity, simplicity, and goodness personified.
It is well known that Jenny Lind has never received
less than 4001. or 2,000 dolls. per night for her
own services, either in Manchester, Liverpool,
Dublin, Wasgow, or E linburgh ; in short, in
all the places she sang ; and that she fre-
quently received 6001., or 3,000 dolls. per night. My
agent saw an offer to her of 6,0001., or 30,000 dolls.,
to sing twelve nights in England, which she declined.
Also an enormous offer for the grand concerts at the
Imperial Court of Russia, an offer nearly double that
of my own, which she for reasons also declined; she
was offered 1,2001., or 6,000 dolls., to sing in one con-
cert, to be given at the Great World Convention of
Arts and Manufactures in Hyde-park, London, in
1851. It was further intimated to her from Queen
Victoria that her services would be desired in a con-
templated grand sacred festival, to be given about
the same period in Westminster Abbey, where the
tickets will be held from 25 dolls, to 100 dolls.
each, bosh of these last offers she was induced to de-
cline, in consequence of her desire to visit America,
as proposed by my agent. Miss Lind has numerous
better offers than the one she has accepted from me,
but she. has a great anxiety to visit America.
She speaks of this country and its institutions in
the highest terms of rapture and praise; and, as
money is by no means the greatest inducement that
can be laid before her, has determined to visit us. In
her engagements with me (which includes Havana as
well as the United States), she expressly reserves for
herself the right to sing for and give charitable con-
certs whenever she may think proper. Since her
debilt in England she has given to the poor,
from her own private Furse, more than the
whole amount which I have engaged to
give her, and the proceeds of concerts for chari-
table purposes in Great Britain, where she has sang
gratuitously, have realised more than ten times that
amount. During the last eight months she has
been singing entirely and gratuitously for chari-
table purposes, and is now founding a benevolent
institution in Stockholm, her native city, at a cost of
350,000 dolls. A visit from such a woman, who regards
her high artistic powers as a gift from Heaven, for
the amelioration of affliction and distress, and whose
every thought and deed is philanthropy, I feel per-
suaded will prove a blessing to America, as she has to
every country she has visited, and I feel every confi-
dence that my countrymen and women will join me
heartily in saying, God bless her 1' "

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY.

NoRTHADIPTONSIIInig STAKES.-6 to 1 agst Harriott
(t), 13 to 2 agat Osterley, 13 to 1 agst Fvrnhill, 15 to 1
agat Belus (t), 15 t 1 agst Velox, 20 to 1 agst Pt iestesg.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-5 to 1 agst Cheerful,
16 to 1 agst Snowstorm, 16 to 1 agst DJugh, 25 to 1
agst Testator, 25 to 1 agst Inheritress.
CHESTER CUP.-13 to 1 agst Glauca, 100 to 6 agst
Miss Ann, 18 to 1 agst Ellerdale, 18 to 1 agat Peep-;'-
Day Boy, 20 to 1 agat Roland, 20 to 1 agat Fugleman,
23 to 1 agst Whim colt, 25 to 1 agst Cossack, 300 to 10
agst John Cosser (t and af:erwards offered), 40 to 1 agst
The Flea, 40 to 1 apt Woodlark, 45 to 1 agst Harriott.
DERBY.-7 to 1 agat Ghillie Callum, 7to 1 agst Bo-
lingbroke, 13 to 1 a4st The Nigger, 14 to 1 agst Vol
tigeur, 16 0 1 agst Falian, 25 to 1 agst Mildew (t), 25
to 1 agst Cyprus (t), 40 to 1 agst Penang. Very little
betting.
BRIDGNORTH STEEPLE CHASES.—TUESDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. emit, 10 ft, with 50
waded; the second to save his stake. Four mild
(10 Subs., 4 of a hom pay 5 soya. each.)
Mr. Oiliver's Trust-me-Not, aged, lOst 121 b (Mason) 1
Mr.Hughes'sMissCollingwood, aged, lOstlolb(Hughes) 2
Lord Lurgan's Sobriety, aged, 10st 81b (Magee) 3
Mr. Vevers's Verigeance, aged, lOst 31b (Waller) 4
Free Handicap (Hurdle Race) of 5 toys. each, and 40
added; the second to save his stake. Two miler.
Mr. Phillips's Tallyho, aged, 10st G,b...(Braddeley) 1
Mr. Dabbs's Lucy Neal, aged, 10st slb (Taylor) 2
Mr. Oakes's Small Beer, aged, lOst 5113 (R. Sly, jun.) 3
Mr. C. Hughes's Rebecca, 5 vrg, lOtt 6lb (Hughe ) tell.
The fallowing also ran:—Mr. Lister's WI artdale
Maid, aged, lOst 91b--Mr. Vevers's Volatile, 5 yrs, lOst
3lb (Walker)—Mr. Edwards's Mind-y cur-own-busincs.,
aged, 103 t (Frisby)—and Mr. Lawrence's Amelia, 3
yrs, Bst (Lawrence).
. _

The Hunt Steeple Chase Stakes of 3 sous. each, and 20
added. Three miles.

Mr. Page's fby Jereed, 5 yrs, Ilst 1 llb ...(lluges) 1
Mr. Braithwaite's Middleton, 5 yrs, list 1 llb (Owner) 2
Mr. Rye's Tom Bowling, aged, 12st 71b (Davenport) fell.

CROXTON PARK, 1850.
Acceptances for the Granby Handicap. .
Age. st. lb.' Age. at. lb.
Wits
Ballinsfad
Joe o' Sot
Lady Hylda
Gisolle. a 11 4 Norman by
Rathmines
Alp
Mrs. Taft
Backbiter

Acceptances for the Gold Cup.
Age. sr. lb.' Age. at. lb.
Ballinafad
Lady Hylda ...... 6 11 4 Lansquinet a 10 6
Alp
1 4 10 3
Rlthtnines
Backbiter
Mn.r Taft

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE
NATIVES OF BORNEO.

In the piratical district of the Itsj ing, and that part
inhabited by the Sari bas, Faliarran, an l Kanowit pirates,
we find villages cf singular construction. The houses
are erected on piles forty fret in height: they are framed
with strong timbers, flanked at the sides with bamboo,
and thatched with a'ap, or the leaves of a certaln tree.
A broad balcony runs round each dwelling, and in this
the inmates sit in the cool of evening to enjoy the soft
air. The supporting piles are strong and thick, so that
when one of these villages was attacked by the pirates,
it took them several hours to hack through their, until
at length the weight of the supsrincumbent mass of
building brought the whole down with a tremendous
crash. But this class of dwellings is not common. In
other districts a village consists t f one huge house, with
many entrances, erected cn short piles, with a platform
running along the whole front. To this the means of
ascent is by notched poles, passing up through .N.eniugs
in the elevated stage, and drawn up at night. The ex-
terior has the appearance of a street of old English farm •
sheds, half ruined; but in the in'erior we find much
neatness and comfort. In other parts of Borneo we find
the savages dwelling in small circular edifices, built
among the branches of trees; in others, inhabiting little
low huts, forming a cluster, buried in some deep woody
hollow; in others, swarming in vast buildings lying along
the banks of rivers and consisting of piles of connected
timbers without plan or regularity, erected one against
the other as the tribe swells its numbers; but notwith •
standing its outward rude aspect, evincing that taste for
animal comfort for which most savages are remarkable.
Some of the Sarawak chit fi possess dwellings cf ex-
treme neatness and be misty, erected with no little skill,
on low piles, ascended to by ladders, well thatched, and
surrounded by palisades. In a few of them may be
traced a resemblance to the primitive Swiss cottage,
with its broad eaves overhanging the verandah. The
Lundi Dyaks dwell in houses which the English ecttager
would admire, and, indeed, closely resembling, in every-
thing but their elevation from the ground, the halita•
Lions of our peasantry. The houses possessed by the
fierce and formidable pirate tribes of Borneo present
every appearance of comfort, and many of them are re-
markable for the skilful joining of the timbers and planks,
considering that few nails are used, and very rude t )ols
employed. The general materials used in the construc-
tion of the houses of the Indian islanders are bamboos,
rattans, the palmetto lee, atap, and wild grass. The
supporting posts arc of timber or bamboo, the walls of
p.ai'ed bamboo flattened, the roofs of grass or palmetto
leaves, the first most commonly used among the rural
tribes, the second among the coast dwellers.—Builder.

BRIAN BOROIIIME'S HARP.—It is well known that
the great monarch Brian Boroihme was killed at the
battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1012. lle left hia son Donah
his harp ; but Dorah having murdered his brother
Teige, and being deposed by his nephew, retired to
Rome, and carried with him the crown, harp, and other
regalia of his frther. Tnese regalta were kept in the
Vatican till Pore Clement sent the Harp to Henry
but kept the crown, which was massive gold.
Henry gave the harp to the first Elrl of Clanricare e, in
whose Lmily it remained until the beginning of the
eigteenth century, when it came by a lady of the De-
Burgh family into that of 11I'Alalion of Glenagh, in the
emery a Clare, after whose death it passel into the
po-session of Ccuusellor Maceauara of Limerick. In
1782 it was presented to the Right llon. William
Conynghatn, who deposited it in Trinity College
Bluseum, where it now is. It is 32 inches high, and of
good workmanship ; the sounding board is of cak ; the
arms of red tally ; the extremity of the uppermost arm
in at is capped with silver, well wrought and chisellel
It contains a large cry Al set in silver, and under it was
another etpne, now 194 —7ipperary Free Pros.

OAS-LIGHT AND CO.

Name of Company.

British •• •• •• •• •• •• ..

Dividend
per

Ditto ProTineial....
Brighton •• •• •• •• ••
City of London •• ••
Continental Consolidat.
Equitable ........ ...
Imperial ...... •• •• ••
Inc'ependent ....... ••
Lcudon.• ............

Do., Parl. Preference
Phoenix . ............
Etatcliff •• •• • .. • • •• • •
United General ..
Westminster Chartered
Ditto, Now

Annum.

It. 85.
5/. per cent.
10i.
925. pr share
50s. pr share
Si. per cent.
61. per cent.

61. per cent.
4%1. per ct.
bl.
is. 6d.
31.
12s.

X. s. d.
40 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
75 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
40 0 11
50 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0

A. i. d.
18 0 0
20 0 0

150 • 0
31 5 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
40 0 0
50 • •
50 • 0
2 10 0
49 • 0
90 0 0
50 0 0

10 0 0

Price

CANALS.
I Do 1
..; Dividend
Names of v Dividend' Price. Names of 0
... 1 .-. I per
CompanieS. A per Companies. Is !Annum. Price.
cc Annum. c
-...
AshOt & Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfeld • 100' 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.... 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 1001 16/. 340
1
Llrlink&Abrg 150 St. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 1001 20/. 185
Birmingham 40 41. 89 Peak Forest. 78 1 31. 18e. 70
Coventry... . 100, 251. 210 Regent's •• • • 33 1 1/. 23. 18
Derby ••• •• 'lOO 61. 1 63 Rochdale.. • • 35 41. 50%
Ellsrnre&Chs 133; 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71.103. 130
GrandJunetn 100; N. 85 Do.Lklrd St 12 161. p. c. -
Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 30 Stffrd& Wore 1401 28/. 400
Grand Union 100 11. 103. 24 Shrewsbury.. 1251 151. -
Grantham .. 150 - - Stourbridge.. 1451 201. 300
Kennt & Avn 39 7s. Ed. 5 Severn andl , ~.,. v ,s 5.
..._
Lancaster . 120 2/. 32% Wye Rail. 26 .
Leeds& Ltvrp' 100 301. 317% Warwick& }
100 41. 63
Leicester .... 100 51. 63% Birming.
Letestr &Nth 831 41. 46 Warwick& }
len 31. 43
Loughboroghil42 701. 510 Napton.
Monmouthsh , 100, 81. - Worcstr &1 is 31. 42
Mntgemryslllloo - - Birming. '
MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 9
LIST or SCOTTISEI COIIP.A.NXES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. price,
Annum. Share.
_____.---- --- -
X s. d. .-C- s. d
Rank of Scotland
British Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 190
Caledonian Bank •• •• 8 per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 3!„ 17s
City of Glasgow rank. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Clydesdale Bank -• •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 43%
Commercial Bank •• . • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 1100 0 0 172%
Eastern Bank.- •• •• 6/. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 0 9
Edinb.SeGlasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5/. 16s
Exehangerlnk of Scot 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 14%
Isle of Man. Company 7/. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15%
Northof Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3%
North British Bank - - _ -
Itoyalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135
Union Bank of Scotland , 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 91
Western Bank .... •• • • 171. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Fire and Life 8%1.pr cent 10 0 0 10 (I 0 20
B. Accord. Lite and Fli e - 20 0 0 0 10 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17J 3d
Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. pet cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Co'onial Life ... - 50 0 0 1 0 0 it. Os.
Cite of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 123
Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 20U
East 01 Scotland Life - 10 0 0 0 15 0 -
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
Hercules Insurance Ce. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Acstlnd•• SI. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. lOs
Mercantile Life .. •.. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 ss. Od.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d
North British Incur s%l.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 .4%
North & West of Scot 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar - 20 0 0 0 11 0 -
Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 ' -
Scottish Union Insrncs. 6141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 242.6 d
Stan lard Life •..... • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 b 0 ' 9%
United Dep. Assurance M. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17s Od
PZISCEI.I.ANEOITS.
Dividend Amount 1
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share. ,
1
-----. -
X. s. d. X. s. d.
Auction Mart •• • • .... 21. ss. 50 0 0 - 25
Australian Agriculturl 1/. 100 0 01 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 104. 10 0 0,1 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 1 210 0
Canada ...........
Uppr Canada Bonds 61 per
1:
per
cent.cent. -
100 0 0 32 10 0 25
5
1 - 89
fifty Navigation .... - - 1 - 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.lkbs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 94
Equitable Reversienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 105
Gen.SteamNavigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0, 14 0 0 2714
London Institution ... - - '7B 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - '26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 5O 0 0 79%
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 92
Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18. 4. p. c. 100 0 01 60 0 0 50
South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Van Diemiufa Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 -
STEEPLE RACING.-A meeting was held on Thurs-

STEEPLE RACING.—A mee,
day last, in Maidstone, at wln
tered into for a repetition of th
Hills, which proved ao attracti'
Journal.
FOREIGN ARMS.—An importation having recently
taken place, from one of the ports ( f France, of a quan-
tity
the appearance and character of
couteaux de chasse, they were de-
of articlesand termed having
swords,ned by the officers of the revenue as coming under the
general term of arms, and therefore an illegal importa-
tion. It appears that these couteaux de chasse had been
packed and sent to this country for transhipment to an-
other foreign str.te, and not for introduction here in con-
travention of the law, and it was therefore requested
that they might be allowed to le sent with the goods by
which they were accompanied to the foreign port of
destination, but on consideration of the matter by the
authorities ( f the revenue, they were considered to he
arms, and RS such were prohibited to be imported, and
we'r e.strictly liable to forlciture.; ;Aid that the only relief
which cc:uld be granted in the matter was that they
should be allowed to be returned to th'! port from which
they had been imported into this country.
EADVERTISEMENT.J—Twenty Ulcers on the Legs
cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a letter
from 0. B. Kneeler, dated Mount Gambia, South Australia,
July 7, 1849. To Professor Holloway. Sir,—A case has
just come under my observation in which the efficacy of your
Ointment and Pills has been fully pr.oved. A man of the
name of Joshua Smith had upwards of twenty ulcers on his
shins, which were so difficult to cure that almost every remedy
had been applied without any good effect. Your Pills and
Ointment were then resorted te, and iu about six weeks lie
was completely cured, and scarcely a mark is now to be seen.—
Sold by all druggists, and at Proicasof Holloway's itablieh.
anti 244 Stroud, Zomba.

ing was held on Thurs-
ich resolutions were en-
e racing on tho Debtling
co lust 3-elm-Itlaidstone