The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

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On Friday night the second concert took place, and
there was, if possible, still more excitement and more ap-
plications for tickets than on the first occasion. Not less
than six thousand persons were present, and the specta-
tors .e described as " a vast sea swaying to and fro,
beneath the starry lights in the firmament of
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beauty, anxiously expecting the Aphrodite of music to rise
amid the waves, while the Tritons, with their horns and

Ils, in awkward groups, hung around the
scene immediately to be graced by her advent. The in-
troductory music having been performed, she appeared,
while every wave of humanity trembled with excitement,
and the great sea heaved with delight, and clapped its
lands for joy.' The goddess of the people stood before
them."

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The following from the Herald may be true, though we
are inclined to doubt it :

" In compliance with the earnest desire of Madlle. Jenny
Lind, Mr. Barnum has come to the determination of abandon-
ing the sale of tickets by auction in future, at least while the
concerts are given in Castle Garden, and to reduce the prices
25 per cent on the average, while one class of seats will be re.
duced to 2 dots., and promenade tickets to 1 dol. There will be
only four concerts more given in Castle Garden before Jenny
-Lind sings in Boston. It was stated before Jenny Lind came
to this country, that she determined to devote the entire
150,000 dots., to which she is entitled by her first contract with
Mr. Barnum, to the endowment of schools in her narive country.
She adheres to this determination, and every cent of that sum
will be applied to the noble purposes of education. Some of
her friends remonstrated with her against this extreme of libe-
rality. Her reply to them was, that she had made provision for
her parents, had secured a sufficient income for herself (36,000
per annum,) and that as she knew not how soon she might lose
her voice, she ought to do her duty to her country when she
had the power. Who can wonder that, independent of her
matchless singing, Jenny Lind is the most popular woman in
the world.

On Saturday the Nightingale visited Brady's daguerro-
type gallery, and a great crowd surrounded her, as indeed is
the case on all occasions when the people have an op-
portunity ; there was a general rush to Barnum's for
tickets for the next concert. In Philadelphia a subscrip-
tion of ten dollars per-ticket has been got up in order to
induce the Nightingale to go there. On Sunday Miss
Lind remained in close retirement. On Monday the
third rehearsal took place, and the Nightingale was much
annoyed at finding the hall half filled with spectators.
At first she refused positively to sing, but at length con-
sented. The third concert was expected to be even more
uuraerously attended.

EST INDIA MAI
The royal mail W
s team-ship Severn arrived at Southamp-
ton on Sunday, bringing advices from Jamaica to the 7th
September. As an extra ship, she came by the old route,
and has therefore brought no mails from Demerara, Tri-
nidad, Barbadoes, or the Gulf of Mexico.

The rains, noticed in our previous advices, seemed to
have continued up to the day of the packet's departure.
Such heavy and continuous rains have not been known
for some time. The roads are very much destroyed, and
the corporation of Kingston have "voted £lOO for the re-
pair of Kingston streets, which are represented to be in a
most dangerous condition.

The Kingston Daily Advertiser notices an extraordi-
mary case of longevity. A coloured woman, named Moss,
died in Kingston, on the Ist of September, at the extra-
ordinary age of 150 years. She was until within a short
time of her dissolution in the enjoyment of all her facul-
ties, and had not known a day's sickness during the last
40 years of her existence.

The hundredth anniversary of the erection of the
Spanish and Portuguese synagogue took place in Kingston
also on the Ist of September. The woman alluded to
above had a perfect recollection of its erection.
The frequent arrivals of the American steamers at Ja-
maica excited less interest than formerly, as the alteration
in the routes of the royal mail company's ships placed the
island in possession of English dates in less time (with one
or two exceptions) than the service has been performed
by the American vessels.

The commission appointed last session to consolidate
into two volumes the several laws of the islands were pro-
gressing with their labours, which, it was thought, would
be brought to a close by the time of the meeting of the
next session of the Legislature.

There had been some cases of sickness reported, but
none of them were of a dangerous description.
The island remained quiet.
On the subject of cotton cultivation we extract the fol-
lowing from the Colonial Standard:— _

"A "St. Elizabeth correspondent writes us that he has a fine
field of five acres, planted at an elevation of 1,700, from which
he expects a fine crop.
"A gentleman in Metcalfe states that he never saw finer
than are exhibited in the small fiield which he had established.
They are of the Sea Island sort, of not more than four months'
growth, upwards of six feet high, and covered with bolls and
blossoms.

" A Clarendon friend tells us that his field, adjoining the
property offered by Mr. Andrew Drummond to thecotton com-
pany, is very promising, and that he proposes to extend it.
"Indeed, we have a large correspondence on the subject of
cotton, and although attempts at present are all on a small
scale, we have no doubt that they will be very largely extended
before long.. But we quite approve of cotton growers feeling
their way in.respect of labour. It would be perfectly ruinous
to put in in some districts a large cotton field without knowing
how the crop wag to be taken off."

The mission of M. Pinelli from Rome to Piedmont, has 1
altogether failed. The Pope refuses to hear one word on
the subject of the differences existing between him and
the court of Victor Emanuel, as long as the Archbishop
of Turin is detained in confinement.

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