The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 28.
Her Majesty went out driving this morning in an
open carriage, accompanied by the Princess Royal
and Princess Alice.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out
deer-stalking.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred took their
usual exercise.

The dinner party this evening will include her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Baroness Spetb, and Sir George Couper.
The Earl of Aberdeen left Balmoral this morning.
OSBORNE, SEPT. 30.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, and the
Princesses Helena and Louisa, take their rides and
drives daily in the Park.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

JOHN MITCH.EL.

A young artist, named Dowling, who was trans-
ported from London in 1848 as an Irish confederate,
has written to his brother in Dublin, on the arrival
of John Mitchel at Hobart Town. The Nation pub-
lishes the subjoined extract from his letter :

On the 51 of April last the Neptune arrived here
with Jahn Mitchel. Ile was kept on board several
days, and no one was allowed to visit him. On
Tuesday, the 9th, I felt very anxious to get a peep at
him, and was going down to consult O'Donohoe on
the best means. I met O'Donohoe in Elizabeth-
street. The first words he said were, lam going
to see Mitchel ; if you hive time I'll take you to him.
I went with him to a stationer's shop, where, fur the
first time, my eye rested on this truly great man. I '
don't think I should have known him from the
portraits published of him ; for, although the
features are alike, they have not caught the
character of his face. O'Donohoe introduced me
to him. He shook my band cordially, and said he bad
heard about me. He asked my sentence; O'Donohoe said,
Only life.' Mitchel laughed indignantly and said.
You were very fortunate that you hadn't to mount
the hurdle, like Sir W. Wallace.' IVe walked about
half a mile, and he said, in the course of conversation
that the state of things at home was not to be borne,
that we had at least solemnly protested against it,
and that at all events we had cleared ourselves of all
share in the guilt of it. At another time he said he
felt a freer man here as a ticket of leave holder than
when he was dancing attendance day after day at the
Four Courts, Dublin. He was obliged to leave this in
a few hours, but he says in a letter to Mr. O'Donohoe
that Mr:Martin (with whom he is located in Both-
well, and who, it appears, has studied medicine) has
undertaken to be his doctor, and the first prescrip-
tion was a ride of 24 miles over the bush, with sleet
and snow beating in his face, followed by copious
draughts of hot tea, accompanied by an immense al-
lowance of mutton and damper,' a colonial cake
baked in wood ashes. He says, so successful has
been his leech, that he never enjoyed better health
than he does on this back of the earth.'"

THE HIPPOPOTAMIIS.—Your correspondent " L."
(vol. ii., rage &)) says, "None of the Greek writers appear
to have seen a live hippopotamus :" and again, " The hippo-
potamus, being an inhabitant of the Upper Nile, was imper-
fectly known to the ancients." Herodotus says (ii. 171)
that this animal was held sacred by the Nomos of Papremis,
but not by the other Egyptians. The city of Papremis is
fixed by Bahr in the west of the Delta (ii. 163); and Man-
nest conjectured it to be the same as the later Xols, lying
between the Sebeneytic and Canopic branches, but nearer
to the former. Sir Gardner Wilkinson says several repre-
sentations of the hippopotamus were found at Thebes, one
of which he gives (Egyptians, vol. iii., pl. xv.) Herodotus's
way of speaking would seem to show that he was describing
from his own observation : he used Hecatseus, no doubt, but
did not blindly copy him. Hence, I think, we may infer
that Herodotus himself saw the hippopotamus, and that this
animal was found in his day even as far north as the Delta;
and also, that the species is gradually dying out, as the
aurochs is nearly gone, and the dodo quite. The crocodile is
no longer found in the Delta. - Notes and Queries.
EFFECTS OF THE BITE OF A MAD
July last a dog was taken in Kirkless Park by the " nawter"
at that place. It was given to a carter of the Low Moor
works, but when he got it to the Royd's Hall farm, he let
it loose, and it bit a horse and donkey by the nose. Both
went mad and died, in what the doctors called in declared to
be hydrophobia. Subsequently a large mastiff at Kirkless,
which had been fighting with this dog at the time he was
taken up, went mad also and was destroyed. Two ewe sheep
with lambs, which were in the park at the time, also mani-
fested symptoms of madness ant: were destroyed; and since
that time upwards of 20 deer,which have manifested similar
symptoms, have been destroyed. How the virus was com-
municated to the deer, except it was by the bitten sheep,
is not known. It is impossible to tell whether the contagion
is yet run out. Wourali poison has been tried with the
deer but has proved of no avail.—. Halifax Guardian.
Yesterday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at I
Kensington Workhouse, on the body cf a man, apparently
about twenty years of age, who was found suffocated on the
top of a burning brick-kiln, belonging to Mr. Earl, on the
bank of the Kensington canal, on Friday morning last. The
deceased was evidently a " navvy," out of work, and in a
destitute state, and the probability is that he went to lie
down on the kiln for warmth, when he was overtaken by the
sulphuretted hydrogen from the burning bricks which pro•
duced suffocation. He had no money, and the only things
found on him wore two pawnbrokers' duplicates, for a shawl
and gown, pledged in the name of 'Jaye, in St. Giles's. Ver-
dict— " Accidentally suffocated."
AMERICAN PRODUCE.—The American line-of•
packet ship Sir Robert Peel, from New York, has brought
15,942 bushels of wheat, 4,000 barrels of flour, and a general
cargo ; and the packet ship American Eagle arrived in the
docks on the same day from New York with 3,850 barrels of
flour, 602 casks of oilcake for cattle, and a general cargo of
American produce. The ship Patrick Ilenry brought 4,315
barrels of flour; the Atlantic, from New York, 880 packages
of cheese; the M. Wheeler, from New Orleans, EB3 barrels of
flour; and the Shenandoah, on the same day, from Phila-
delphia, 8,410 bushels of Indian corn, 269 boxes of cheese,
500 barre's f flour, and 100 packages of beef, the produce of
the United States.

A short brhnch railway is now in course of for-
mation from North Hetton Colliery Railway, to form a
junction with the Durham and Sunderland branch of the
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, at Moorsley. This
branch is intended to be used in leading coals trom the
North Helton Colliery, the property of the Earl of Durham
and the lietton Coal Company, to Sunderland Dock for
shipment.

JENNY LIND IN AMERICA.
THE CONCERT.
PninanEr.rnrA, SEPT. 1 l.—Unbounded enthusiasm
przysiled in New York on the evening of jenny'
Lind's first concert at Castle Garden.
~.,K, sii thou-
sand persons assembled on the interesting occasion in
the large saloon, •aud,the,applause on the entrance of
the Swedi,h Nightingale vas so tremendous and
overwhelming, that for some minutes her feelings
overcame her, and emotion wss evident in the singing
of her first piece, " Casta Diva." As the concert
progressed Jenny recovered her fall powers, and never
were her vocal sweetness, expression, and pathos
more triumphantly developed. The concert concludtd
by her singing the prize song, for which Mr. Barnum
had offered a premium of 200 dollars. Tbis was ad-
judged, by the committee appointed to decide, in
favour of Bayard Taylor. Thus :
" GREETING TO AMERICA.
WORDS BY BAYARD TAYLOR MU:IC BY JULES

BENEDICT.
" I gree', with full heart, the land f the west,
Who..e Banner of Stars o'er a world is unrel'el;
Whose empire o'srshadows Atlantic's wide breast,
And opes to the sun-et its gateway of Iola!
The land of the mountain, the land of the lake,
And rivers that roll in magnific,nt tide—
Where the souls of the mighty fr m slumb. r awake.
And hallow the soil for whose freed 'm they died!
"Thou Cradle of Empire! though wide be the foam
That severs the land of my fathers and thee,
I hear, from thy bosom, the welcome of home,
For Song has a home in the hearts of the Fret !
And loug as thy waters shall gleam in the sun,
And long as thy heroes remember their .cars,
Bo the hands of thy children united as one,
And Peace shed her I ghts cn the Banner of Stars!'
"It is somewhat singular, however, that the com-
mittee are said to have arrived at their decision not
so much from the intrinsic merits of the song as
because Mr. Benedict said that it could be better set
to music than any of the others. Othensise, it is
understood that a majority of the committee favoured
the following, from the pen of Mr. Epes Sargent,
editor of the Boston Transcript :
"SALUTATION TO AMERICA.
" Land of the beautiful, land of the free,
Often my heart had turned, longing, to thee;
Often had mountain, lake, torrent, and stream
Gleam'd on my waking thought, crowded my dream;
Now thou receivest me from the broad sea,
Land of the beautiful, land of the free.
" Fair to the eye, in thy grandeur, thou art;
O doubly fair, doubly dear to the heart!
For to the exiled, the trodden, the poor,
Through the wide world, thou hest open'd thy door:
Millions crowd in, and are welcomed by thee—
Land of the beautiful, land of the free.
"Land of the future. Here Art shall repair—
Kinder thy gale than her own Grecian air,
Since her true votaries ever have found
Lofty desert by America erown'd.
Where, in her pride, should she dwell but in thee ?
Land of the beautiful, land of the free.
"Sculpture for thee shall imortalixe Form,
Painting illumine, and roetry warm;
Music devote all her fervors divine
To a heart-service at Liberty's shrine—
Till all thy gifts doubly precious shall be,
Land of the beautiful, land of the free.
" Hail, then, Republic of Washington, hail !
Never may star of thy Union wax pale;
Hope of the world, may each omen of il
Fade in the light of thy destiny still—
Time bring but increase and honour to thee,
Land of the beautiful, land of the free."
But if Jenny Lind's wonderful vocalisation asto-
nished and delighted, bow much higher did the en-
thusiasm rise when Mr. Barnum anounced her noble
munificence to the charities and other public insti-
tutions of New York. At the conclusion of the
concert Mr. Barnum came forward, brushing heaps
of bouquets before him, for the platform was literally
covered with these floral tributes, and spoke as
follows :
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—l have but one favour to
ask of you, and that is, that in tie presence of that
angel (pointing to the door wbere Jenny had just
passed out) I may be allowed to sink where I really
belong—into utter insignificance. If there has ever
been a moment when I aspired to have the question
generally Where. is Barnum ?' that time has
passed by for ever. I acknowledge frankly, that after
such a display as we have had to-night, Barnum is
nowhere. But, my friends, I beg to tell you where
Jenny Lind is. I shall not speak of her musical ta-
lents—you know what they are better than I can tell
you ; you have shown by your ungovernable applause
to-night that you appreciate her incomprehensible and
indescribable vocal abilities ; but I must announce a
circumstance regarding her which I cannot allow you
to leave without knowing—she begged me not to do
it. On ordinary occasions I would obey her every
wish, but I feel it is due to you to state the fact I
allude to. Under the contract between Jenny Lind
and myself, she is entitled to one-half the net pro-
ceeds of every concert given under our agreement.
On this occasion, the expenses being more for the first
concert than will usually be the case, her portion of
the profits will be in the neighbourhood of 10,000
dollars. I received a message from her this morning,
in which she declared that she would not receive one
penny of the proceeds of this concert, but will devote
every farthing of it to-morrow morning for charitable
purposes. It will be disposed of as follows :
Dollars.
To the Fire Department Fund

Musical Fund Society
Rome for the Friendless
Society for the Relief of Indigent Females 500
Dramatic Fund Association .. 500
Home for Coloured and Aged Persons 5OO
Coloured and Orphan Asylum 5OO
Lying-in Asylum for Destitute Females 5OO
New York Orphan Asylum 5OO

Protestant Half Orphan Asylum .
Roman Catholic Half Orphan Asylum
Old Ladies' Asylum

500
500
500

Total O•• .
In case the money coming to her shall exceed this
sum, she will hereafter designate the charity to which
it shall he appropriated."
The deafening shouts that followed the above
speeches were absolutely indescribable—many, even
among the male portion of, the audience, weeping
with emotion—and at midnight J:.nny Lind was
again serenaded by the New York Musical Fund
Society. The entire amount received for tickets to
the fiat concert is not exactly known, but is said to
he somewhere from 30,000 dolls. to 40,000 dolls.
The extravagant price of 225 dolla. given for a ticket
by Genin, the hatter, was partly perhaps by way of
an advertisement, and some persons fancy from friend-
ship to Barnum, whose tenant he is.
The following epigram upon the subject is from
the New York Evening Post
Fair Jenny came across the sea
Republicans to flatter,
Gave up the smiles of royalty
To advertise a batter!"

Jenny Lind's second concert took place on Friday
evening, and it was quite as well attended as the first.
The mayor and other authorities of New York, the
Turkish envoy, who has just arrived, and many other
distingues were present ; and at both there were
crowds of citizens from Philadelphia and Boston.
The tickets for the second concert sold at from 3
dolls. to 6 dolls. each, and the amount received must
have exceeded 20,000 dolls. Jenny Lind says that
she intends devoting the profits of her visit to America
to the foundation of schools in her native country
Sweden. At her request, Mr. Barnum will in future
charge 0n1y,2 dolls. each for tickets to the seats in the
saloon, and 1 doll. each for what are called promenade
tickets.

The New York journals devote many columns to
critiques upon the vocal performance of the Swedish
Nightingale ; suffice it to say, they are all favourable.
The following extracts, however, will be read with
interest, as speciments of transatlantic furore:—
(From the New York Herald)
THE SECOND CONCERT.

On Friday night, Jenny Lied's second concert took
place at Castle Garden. During the day there was
even more excitement in the public mind, and more
applications for tickets, than on the day of the first
concert. By eight o'clock the vast area of Castle
Garden was completely filled, and every effort was
made on the part of the management to give perfect
satisfaction to the immense mass assembled to hear
the great cantatrice. Not less than six thousand
persons were present. A vast sea of heads swayed
to and fro, sparkling beneath the starry lights in the
firmament of song, here and there thickly sprinkled
with the form of beauty, anxiously expecting the
Aphrodite of music to rise amid the waves, with the
Tritons, with their horns and sonorous shells, in
awkward groups, hung around the scene immedi-
ately to be graced by her advent. The introductory
music having been performed, she appeared, while
every wave of humanity trembled with excitement,
and the great sea heaved with delight and " clapped
hands for joy." The goddess of the people stood
before them.
TICKET AUCTION TO THE SECOND CONCERT.
At the Castle Garden on Thursday, at half-pa 4
ten o'clock A.M , the ticket auction to Jenny Lied's
second concert, was proceeded with by Leeds and Co.
There
were not the same numbers, nor the great ex-
citement of the two preceding auctions, but there was
a steady demand for the tickets, and they sold well.
There were 6,000 disposed of, at an average of 4 dolls.,
and there were about 500 promenade tickets sold and
disposed of at 2 dolls. each, thus making the proceeds
of the sale amount to 26,000 dolls.
Genin's 225 dolls. seat was purchased by Hall and
Sons at 5 dolls. The private box of Jenny Lind, con-
taining four seats, was purchased at 55 dolls. per seat,
and the corresponding box at the other side of the
stage at the same price. It- will te recollected that
Jenny Lied's private box sold for 140 dolls., or 35 dolls.
each seat, at the first auction.

The highest price of.tickets•Wal3 9 dolls., that sum
being paid by the' Irving house for forty-two, and 7i
for eiglit. With these exceptions the tickets sold at
"from sidolls, to 3 dolls ; and Hall purchased 2,000
at the lager price.

(From the .A'ett, Fork Tribune.)
THE Truer. Cor.cenT.—To-night the third con-
cert of Jenny Lind will take place at Castle Garden.
The programme, as we have already noticed, is even
superior to that of last week's concerts, which have
charmed thousands, and made certain her success in
America. The rush for seats, yesterday and on Sa-
turday, was constant, and the tickets were sold at
little less than the former auction prices.
We are glad to learn that in compliance with re-
quests which have been sent in from ell sides, Ma-
demoiselle Lind will sing the " Herdsman's Mountain
Song," in addition to the pieces already mentioned in
the programme. No one who has heard this wild
Swedish melody once will he satisfied without hearing
it again. Its frank, joyous " ha! ha !" is the most
electrical musical ntence we have ever heard ;it it
more woi:derful in its Effect than the marvellous
echoes of the sot.g.
The rehearsal for the third concert took place
yesterday.

- Before the rehearsal commenced, Mr. George Loder,
on behalf of the Musical Fund Society, presented to
Mademoiselle Lind the resolutions adop-ted at a special
meeting of the society, thanking her fur her generous
donation, and making her an liJnorary life ine:nber.
The resolutions were engrossed upin vellum,
in a
style equal to copperplate engraving, by Mr. Dickson.
The following embodies the substance of them :

"Resolved,—That in the munificent appropriation
by Mdlle. Jenny Lind of the sum of two thowiand
dollars, towards the increase of the fund of this so-
ciety, the bestovrer has added - to the splendid
triumphs attained by her genius that yet more signal
triumph, the vindication of her title to the character
of a philanthropist; in the devotion of her unrivalled
talents to the cause of humanity, and in the display of
a rare example of devotion to that divine art of which
she is so illustrious a professor; thus proving that she
holds those talents as having been bestowed upon her
by the Giver of all good gifts,' not alone for the
purpose of attaining the. highest estimation of man-
kind, but asn sacred trust, assigned to her for the pro-
motion of the happiness, the improvement, and the
welfare of others ; and that, in the promptness with
which, on her first landing upon these shores, she has
sought to render art serviceable to the holy cause of
charity, she has nobly illustrated the sentiment of the
greatest English poet—
' The quality of Mercy is not strained;
It droppeth like the gentle dew from Heaven,
Upon the place bewail).
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest, and becomes
The throned monarch better than the throne.'"

After Mdlle. Lind had received them and expressed
her acknowledgments, the same ceremony then took
place hetweed Mr. Loder and Mr. Benedict, at close
of which Mr. Benedict returned thanks for Mdlle.
Lind and himself for the honour done them, and took
the occasion to say that when he returned to Europe
he should have it in his power to say, and be should
say it with the utmost pleasure, that he found here an
orchestra second to none in the Old World.

On Saturday last Mdlle. Lind visited Mr. Brady's
well-known Daguerrean Gallery, where she sat for
her portrait. The news of her arrival at once spread,
and so great a crowd was collected about the place
that it was impossible for her to obtain egress without
a great deal of difficulty. By the management of
Mr. Brady, therefore, her carriage was brought into
Fulton-street. The crowd followed, and even after
she was seated the driver could scarcely force his way
through the excited ranks.
Mdlle. Lind is living in a quiet, secluded manner,
at the New York Hotel. She rides out every morn-
ing, in company with her cousin and secretary. Invi-
tations of all kinds are constantly sent her, but she is
obliged to decline the most of them, now that the con-
cert season is fairly under way.
SERENADE TO JENNY LiND.—September 12th the
German Liederkranz marched in procession to the
New York Hotel, where they sang a number of me-
lodies as a serenade to Jenny Lind. The following ,
was the order of the performance :-Ist, " Wilkom-
men" (Welcome), composed by Kunst, and dedicated
to the Swedish songstress; 2d, " Horst du den Ton
der deinen Namenfeiert ?" (Hear'at thou the sound
that celebrates thy name), by Kalliwooda; 3d, Pot-
pourri chorus, from La Fille du Regiment. These
pieces were admirably performed, and great credit
is due to the leader of the company, M. Agriol Paur.
When the Liederkranz arrived they were invited
into Miss Lind's parlour. After the performance of
the first piece, " Welcome," a committee, consisting
of Dr. Ludwig, the president, and Mr. Windmuller,
the vice•president, were introduced to Miss Lind by
Mr. Eisfield, upon which Dr. Ludwig addressed her
in the following manner :
" Fraulein—Among the many and splendid proofs
of homage and admiration which as everywhere have
also been tendered to you here, the German Lieder-
kranz of New York appear before you and bail you
with a hearty welcome to our shores.
" We are well aware that, compared with what has
been said already in your praise, with the gifts of
art and science, of spiritual and material happiness,
which have been bestowed on you, we are unable to
offer to you anything new or valuable. We are only
plain men, who after uninterrupted and often hard
labour, meet once in the week to rejoice and elevate
ourselves with song. But we are assured that what
is done with sincerity and comes from the heart, will
also find its path to the heart. We therefore pray
you, whom in this land, where no Queen is known,
we venerate unanimously as the Queen of Song, to
accept kindly our welcome in the sounds of music, as
well as in the writing we hereby offer to you." The
Vice-President then handed to Miss Lind a copy of
the three songs.
_

Miss Lind listened attentively to the performance,
and expressed her sincere thanks for the attention
paid to her. She conversed in a friendly manner with
the gentlemen, and said, among others, " 0 Germany,
how beautiful, how charming it is, but where is its
liberty ? Surely, gentlemen,, you all wish to return
soon to your sweet fatherland, the land of music and
poetry No, never," was' the unanimous answer,
" here we feel happy and free, here we vi ill become
good citizens." " Without poesy ?" she asked, "0,
iiulein, you will find poesy here also." She finally
expressed her desire to see the " Liederkranz" per-
form a chorus in one of her concerts, to which the gen-
tlemen readily assented. Mr. Benedict said that he
was delighted with the performance, and would com-
pose a souvenir for the society. She shook hands
with M. Paur, the leader, and thanked the society,
who then withdrew.

TWIONyTRBEOLLDIATIRGIEENNNIACL. E.
LL'S —YESTERDAY.
SPORTING
NEWMARKETTATERs A
7 to 4 agst Lord Enfield's Hernandez—taken
7 to 2 agst Lord Caledon's Aaron Smith—taken
6 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Pnlegra—taken
10 to 1 agat Mr. Etwall's Antigone—taken
Payment is said to be amiss.
NEWMARKET THREE YRS OLD TRIENNIAL
Even on Lord Enfield's William the Conqueror—taken
4 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hardinge
8 to 1 agst Baron Rothschild's Exotic filly—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Oakea's Sisyphus—taken
NEWMARKET FOUR YRS OLD TRIENNIAL.
6 to 4 on Str J. Havvley's Vatican—taken
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Landgrave—take 9 to 1
10 to 1 agst Mr. Edwards na Bolingbroke—taken
and afterwards offered
15 to 1 egst Mr. Mangan's Russborough—taken
15 to 1 agat Mr. Pilling's Lady
Eden—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Combo's TrOUßCet—taken
15 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Wanota—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey
25 to 1 agst Mr. Forster's Musician—taken
30 to 1 aget Sir R. Pigott's Essedarius—taken
The above, which were the closing prices, vary in
rimeiseysAtatiknen
several instances from previous quotations, 20 to 1 each
haviug been laid agst Russborough, Wanota, Lady
Eden, and Trouncer. The last three were in great de-
mand in good quarters. Backbiter was not in favour.
13 to 2 agst Mr. MeLklam's The Italian—take 7to 1
Ann—taken and
15 to 1 agstcLAmorßdßieDlGlfEdseßn:oll:oa STAKES.
dston e
10 to 1 agst Lord J. Scott's Turnus—taken
20 to 1 aget Mr. GAltel's Sisyphus—taken
and after-
wards2o to 1 agst Mr. Merry 's
afterwards offered
offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's II
25 to 1 apt Captain Archdalra Rhesus—taken and
afterwards offered
25 to 1 agat Mr. Taunton's Landseer—taken
Turnus, Sisyphus, and Lendseer severally in force, a
good that of money having been laid out on the first at
10 and 12 to 1, and on the next two at various price?,
commencing at 35 to 1.