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

JENNY LIND.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCEIESTER.—TUESDAY.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.-6 to 1 agst llsrriott
(t), 13 to 2 agst Osterley, 13 to 1 agst Fernhill, 15 to 1
agst Bolus (t), 15 t )1 agst Velox, 20 to 1 asst Pt iestess.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-5 to 1 agst CirJetful,
16 to 1 apt Snowstorm, 16 to 1 agst Dough, 25 to 1
agst Testator, 25 to 1 agst Inheritress.
CHESTER Cur —l3 to 1 a;st Glauca, 100 to 6 agst
Miss Ann, 18 to I agit Eilerdalo, 18 to 1 agst Peep-)'-
Day Boy, 20 to 1 agst Boland, 20 to 1 agst Fogleman,
23 to 1 agst Whim colt, 25 to 1 agst Cossack, 300 to 10
agst John Cosset. (t and at' erwards offered), 40 to 1 agst
The Flea, 40 to 1 asst Woodlark, 45 to 1 agst Harriett.
.DERBY.-7 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum, 7to 1 agst Bo-
lingbroke, 13 to 1 agst Th© Nigger, 14 to 1 agst Vol-
tigeur, 16 to 1 sgst Palau, 25 to 1 agst Mildew (t), 25
to 1 agst Cyprus (t), 40 to 1 agst Penang. Very lit le
betting.

BRIDGNORTII STEEPLE CHASES. —TUESDAY.
Handicap Sw, e?stakes of 15 sous. emb, ,10 ft, with 50
guided; the second to s7.ve his stake. Four miles
(10 Subs., 4 of whom pay 5 sous. each.)
Mr. °Myer's Trust-me-Nor, aged, lOst 121 b (Mason) 1
Mr.Hughes'sMissCollingwood, aged, lOst101b( Hughes) 2
Lord Lurgan's Sobriety, aged, lOst 81b (Magee) 3
Mr. Vevers's Vengeance, aged, 10st 31h (Waller) 4
Free handicap (Hurdle Race) of
.5 soya. each, and 40
added; the second to save his stake. Two mile'.
Mr. Phillips's Tallyho, aged, lOst 15,b...(Braddeley) 1
Mr. atbbs's Lucy Neal, aced, lOst 51b (Taylor) 2
Mr. Oskes's Small Beer, aged, 10'3 51b (H Sly, jun.) 3
Mr. C. Hughes's Rebecca, 5 vrs, lOst 6lb (Hughe ) fell.
The f illowiog also ran:—Mr. Lister's Wbarfdale
aged, lOst 91b—Mr. Vevers's Volatile, 5 yrs, lOst
31b ( Walker)— Mr. Edwards's Mind-y•iur-own-business,
aged, 103 t (Frisby)—and Mr. Lawrence's Amelia, 3
yrs, Bst (Lawrence).
The Hunt Stcep'e Chase Stakes of 3 sovs, each, and 20
added. Three miles.
Mr. fby Jereed, 5 yrs, list I Ilb (Hugel) 1
Mr. Braithwaite's Middleton, .5 yrs, llst 111 b (Owner) 2
Mr. Rae's Tom Bowling, aged, 12st 7lb (Davenport) fell..
cßoxroN PARK, 1850.
Acceptances for the Granby Handicap.
Age, at. lb.; Age. s'. lb.
Ve to
Ballinafad
Joe o' Sot
Lady Hylda
Giselle' a 11 4 Normanby
Rithmines
Alp
Mrs. Taft
Backbiter

Acceptances for the Gold Cup.
Age. st. lb.' Age. st. lb.
BAllinafad
Lady Hylda
a 10 6
Alp
Rathmines
Backbiter
Mrs. Taft

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE
NATIVES OF BORNEO.
In the piratical district of the &jape., and that part
inhabited by the Sarebas, Sakarran, and Kanowit pirates,
we find villages of singular construction. The houses
are erected on piles forty feet in height: they are framed
with strong timbers, fl Inked at the sides with bamboo,
and thatched with a'ap, or the leaves of a certain tree.
A broad balcony runs round each dwelling, and in this
the inmates sit in the cool of evening to enjoy the soft
air. Tho supporting piles are strong arid thick, so that
when one of these villages was attacked by the pirates,
it took them several hours to hack through them, until
at length the weight of the superincumbent ma,s of
building brought the whole down with a tremendous
crash. But this class of dwellings is not common. In
other districts a village consists of one huge house, with
many entrances, erected on short piles, with a platform
running along the whole front. To this the means of
ascent is by notched poles, passing up through orenings
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 interior 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; bat notwith •
standing its outward rude aspect, evincing that taste for
animal comfort for which most savages are remarkable.
Some of the Sarawak chiefs possess dwellings of ex-
treme neatness and btanty, 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 Dyeks dwell in houses which the English cottager
would admire, and, indeed, closely resembling, in every-
thing but their elevation from the ground, the habita-
tions of our peasantry. The homes possessed by the
fierce and formidable pirate tribes of Borneo present
every appearance of comfort, and many of them aro re-
markable for the skilful joining of the timbers and planks,
considering that few nails are used, and very rude bola
employed. The general materials used in tho construc-
tion of the houses of the Indian islanders are bamboos,
rattans, the palmetto leer, atap, and wild grass. The
supporting posts are of timber or bamboo, the walls of
p'aited bamboo flattened, the roofs of grays or palmetto
leaves, the first most commonly used among the rural
tribes, the second among the coast dwellers.—Builder.

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his harp ; but WWI haling murdrre:d his brother
Teige, and being deposed by his nephew, retired to
Row, and carried with him the crown, harp, and other
regalia of his father. These regalia were kept in the
Vatican till Pore Clement sent the Harp to Henry
VIII., but kept the crown, which was massive gold.
henry gave the harp to the first Earl of Clanricarde in
whose family it remained until the beginning cf the
eigteenth century, when it came by a lady of the De-
Burgh family into that of M'Mahon of Glenagh, in the
clunty of Clare, aft,er whose death it passel into the
polsession of Counsellor Maenan3ara of Limerick. In

1782 it was presented to the Right lion. William
Conyngham, who deposited it in Trinity College
Museum, where it now is. It is 32 inches high, and of
good workmanship ; the sounding board is of cak ; the
arms of red :ally ; the extremity of the uppermost arm
in uart is capped with silver, well wrought and chiselled.
It contains a large cry st..l set in silver, and under it was
another ssGne, now lost --Tipperary Free Press,

Mr. Barnum, the proprietor or 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 Mllle. Jenny 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 Mdile.
Lind, and the musical associates whom she has
selected to accompany her, viz., the distinguished
compo4er and pianist, M. Julius Benedict and Signor
Gievani Beletti, the celebrated and famous Fallen
bary tone of the Italian Opera, 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 net realise a farthing profit,
I would ratify the agreement, so anxious am 1 that
the United States should be visited by a lily
whose extraordinary vocal powersh tve never been even
approached by any other human being, and who,e ch:l-
- 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,
G!asgow, or E linburgh ; in short, in
all the places she sang ; and that she fre-
quently received 600/., or 3,000 dulls. per night. My
agent saw an offer to her of 6,000/., or 30,000 dolls.,
to sing twelve nights in England, which she declined.
Also an enormous offer fur 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, both 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
debiit in England she has given to the poor,
from her own private curse, 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, fur
the amelioration of affliction and distress, and ;hose
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