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The Concert at Exeter Hall given by Mdlle.
Lind on Tuesday night, the 3d ult., was fully and
• fashionably attended. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert honored the performance with their pres
ence, and were most loyally received, the “na
tional anthem” being performed, Mdlle. Lind
singing the first verse simply and energetically.
In the reserved seats, the Duke of Wellington,
accompanied by the Marchioness of Douro and
Miss Burdett Coutts, was recognized and much
cheered. Benedict was the conductor, and had
collected a verv superb orchestra ol about one
hundred and thirty performers, with Sainton as
first violin, Bindley as first violincello, and How
ett as* first double bass; there were also Rousse
lot, Lucas, Phillips, Hausmann, Blagrove, Hill,
Hughes, Nadaud, Tolbecque, G. Cooke, Bau
mann, Prospere, Cioffi, Harper, Williams, Jarrett,
Platt, and other distinguished instrumentalists.
The choral strength was judiciously selected
from the professional bodies and the London Sa
cred Harmonic Society. Altogether, there was
an effective ensemble; and the execution of the
Coronation Anthem of Handel, “ Zadoc, the
Priest,” at once proved that there was quality as
well as quantity. This piece was followed by
Handel’s bravura song, from “Samson,” “Let the
bright seraphim,” cleverly sung by Mdlle. Lind,
with the trumpet accompaniment superbly played
by T. Harper, jr. But it was reserved for Haydn’s
“Creation ” to develop the great powers of Mdlle.
Lind in the sacred school, and, as in the “Elijah”
of Mendelsshon, she made a great impression on
her auditory. She sustained the whole of the
music allotted to the soprano in the “Creation
and she did this with untiring force, for at the
conclusion she sang with much more force than
at the commencement. Her first solo was “The
marvellous wish.” The air is admirably adapted
for her upper notes, and she ascended to the C.
in alt, and sustained it, beautifully in tune. Her
next display was in the air “With verdure clad,”
which she has sung at the concerts of Mdme.
Dulcken and Balfe. It is not so conveniently
noted for her register as the other portions of the
oratorio ; but she sang it with a delicate appre
ciation of the composer’s intentions. In the sec
ond part she had the air “On mighty pens,” and
a magnificent reading she gave of this elegant
inspiration. She introduced a novel effect, by
the holding note on the first sylable of the word
“ coo-ing ; ” nothing could be more captivating
than this new reading, with which Haydn himself
would have been enchanted. Her vocalism in
this aria illustrated the words, “ From every
bush and grove resound the nightingale’s delight
ed notes.” The remainder of the supreme part
is in the concerted pieces. It was in the two
duos in the concluding part, “By thee with bliss,”
and the “Graceful concert,” that Mddle. Lind
crowned her successful evening’s exertions by an
extraordinary achievment, especially in the last
mentioned duo, into which she imparted a warmth
and tenderness that won immense plaudits from
the auditory. Mddle. Lind has sung in this ora
torio at the Festival at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1846, of
which the late Mendelsshon was the conductor.—
Her pronunciation of the English, on this occa
sion, was excellent, and may serve as a model
even to our native singers.
The proceeds of this concert, after deducting
the expenses, it is calculated, will give upwards
of seven hundred pounds to the Royal Society of
Musicians, the Choral Fund, the Society of Fe
male Musicians, and the Coverness Institution ;
for it was for the benefit of those admirable insti
tutions that Mddle. Lind has afforded her gratui
tous services; and it must be highly gratifying to
find that the musical public has so liberally re
sponded to her charitable appeal. — London Paper.
LETTER FROM LONDON.
Loxdox, April 20, 1849.
Gentlemen . —London ! How much is comprised
in those two svlables —London! Not in the word
exactly, but in itself. A person mustsojourn here
months, aye, years, before he knows it or sees it
in all its phases. I saw a little book, published
for the benefit of tourists, entitled “ London seen
in Eight Days.” Eight days, indeed ! eight years
rather. It is sei down to devote three hours to
6eeing St. Paul’s. I tried it one fine morning. I
started to see this famous cathedral. I took an
omnibus from the West end at nine o’clock, when
I reached the portals of the great building it was
half-past nine. I occupied half an hour viewing
the exterior facades, which made it ten when I
crossed the spacious esplanade and entered the
shade oGits beautiful portico. “ Tup’ence to look
around,” demanded the verger at the entrance;
which fee I handed him, and entered into a chat
with him ; then roamed about the great first floor,
viewing the very fine mouuments in the nave and
transept. I did not stop hardly long enough be
fore each monument to give it a fair inspection.
This took me an hour and a half. I then descended
into the crypts to see the sarcophagus of Cardi
nal Woolsey, in which now repose the remains of
England’s greatest naval hero, Nelson. I paused
over the tqmb-of my countrymen, Benjamin West,
which is side by side with several other tombs of
Royal Academicians. I examined the remains
of th old monnments from the ruins of the an
cient St. Paul’s, and when J returned to the nave
above, I found it well nigh high noon, and as I as-
cended to the library, the immense clock tolled
the hour of twelve ! The day half gone, and I
had only examined but a very small portion of
this immense edifice. So I hurried up to the whis
pering-gallery, hurried through the trophy-room
—where there are no Am erica a trophies—clam
bered up the towering dome, pausing occasionally
to take breath ; at length reaching the lantern, I
looked down from the giddy height upon the tiled
roofs and smoking chimneys. Then leaving my
hat and coat, I tied a handkerchief over my head,
in lieu of a hat, and commenced ascending the
steep ladder of the lantern to reach the great
gilded ball, which I accomplished after some
trouble. I then seized the iron bars that support
the ball, clambered up them, and squeezed my
self into the cavity of the sphere. This ball is
copper, semewhat larger than a sugar hogshead,
and, when viewed from the street below, appears
the size of an ordinary hat! I now hastened to
descend, and when I fairly reached the main floor
of the cathedral my dinner hour had passed, the
sun was near down, and I had not finished my
observations ; which I now resolved to do at some
future day. See London sights, thought I in “ eight
days ! ” Here I have taken one whole day, and
have only seen one halt ot the “ Meeting-house.”
PARISIAN GOSSIP.
Mysterious band of Amazons. —This year, as in
several preceding years, the Carnival Masked
Balls at Paris have been signalized by the pres
ence of a band of Amazonian belles—just twelve
in number, and each one strong enough to stran
gle a lion in her embrace. There is prodigious
curiosity to know who they are. Alike young,
of perfect shape, teeth that would raise envy in
a band of tigers, and of exactly equal height,
though all much above the ordinary size of wo
man, they form a magnificent spectacle. Like
bees they have a Queen, and are dressed pre
cisely alike—a hat of flowered velvet gaily rib
boned, white perreque curled round the head,
arms and shoulders bare, short white gloves,
chemisets of batiste with small plaits, pantaloons
of red silk and lace, white silk stocking and shoes
with diamond buckles* The Amazons are, evi
dently, but from eighteen to twenty years of age,
and of course, their band must be perpetually re
newed, since they have appeared, now, at every
carnival for five or six years. As they are always
masked, and accept no invitation to sup after the
ball, the inquisitive are nonplussed. They have
always their pockets full of money, and,
when they retire, three black carriages take
them away, on the panels of which are no crests
or armorials. They have been known to take
distinguished men to sup with them, but it is al
ways as a guest.
Losses by Age and Hymen. —The musical world
of Paris has lately mourned over the loss (by
marriage) of the chief favorites of the day. Mad
ome Sabatier, a young, beautiful and charming
widow, who has been the fortune and delight of
concerts, was (as the French writer expresses it)
“confiscated by Hymen,” in the first week of
April. The church of Notre-Dame-de-lorette
was decked out, on the occasion, as for one of its
grand ceremonies. An immense crowd was as
sembled in the body of the church. All the ele
gant world of Paris was present, and particularly,
all the musical artists. Madame Sabatier, dress
ed with almost incomparable taste, presented her
self at the altar in the usual head-dress of a wid
ow who marries a second time, viz:—a white
bonnet, She prDnounced the fatal “oul,” with
her most melodious cadence. Thenceforward
there was to be no more a Madame Sabatier, the
idol of Paris, but a Madame Gaveaux, who has
given up public concerts and will sing only for
particular friends.
Another somewhat similar event came off, a
day or two after at the Theatre Francais —the for
mal retirement from the stage, of the celebrated
Mademoiselle Anais. She made her last appear
ance on the first Thursday of April, after thirty
years occupancy of the scene. The most select
audience of critics and amateurs crowded the
house. On this occasion, Mademoiselle Anais
appeared precisely as she did at her first appear
ance, under the reign of Louis XVIII. It was, to
all appearance, exactly the same aged person,
now as then, the same form of supple elegance,
the same vivid and sympathetic look, the same
pearly smile, the same fresh and velveted voice.
The illusion was complete, and no stranger, unac
customed to the theatre, would have believed that
the performer was one taking leave of her-career,
after thirty years of success. Nothing better pre
serves youth than happiness and attainment of
purpose. Devoted to her art, ardent in the la
bors of the scene, always ready to play old parts
or new ones, never losing an inch of the ground
nor a line of the character she was to perform,
Mademoiselle Anais has fed a most laborious and
indefatigable life, yet arrives at the close as fresh
and and young as at the start. She may say, as
another celebrated lady said who was asked the
secret of her prolonged youth—
“l have always been too busy to find time to
grow old I ”
Collection for the poor , on Horseback. —An eques
trian procession, masqueraded in the dress of the
cavaliers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centu
ries, lately made the tour of Bordeaux. Each
horseman carried an open purse at the. end of a
long staff, which he raised to windows and bal
conies as he passed, or handed around among the
crowd ; and the money received slid down along
passage to a box carried behind. The whole pop
ulation of Borbeaux seemed drawn out to be
hold the singular sight, and the collection is said
to have been unusually large.
Ball of Doctors. —A placard bearing this in
scription in large letters, lately astonished the Par
isians. They could not imagine why the Doctors
should rejoice, except at some new epidemic. —
It was explained in the papers, however, that the
physicians of Paris, tired of seeing statues and
monuments raised to poets and orators, statesmen
and navigators, painters and philosophers —to
every kind of distinction except medical skill —
were about to raise funds, by a subscription ball,
for a monument to Doctor Eorden, a celebrated
man some time since dead and forgotten. The
ball was attended by three hundred physicians,
and it was {says the French paper) an evening of
relief for the sick and of great pain for the statue.
GEN. LEE AND DR. CUTTING.
John B. Cutting was a surgeon in the Army of
the Revolution, and coming to Philadelphia,
lodged in a house where Gen . Lee was then
boarding. The Doctor was a personable man not
indifferent to dress. The General suddenly en
tering the sitting room, found the Doctor before
the glass carefully adjusting his cravat*
‘ Cutting,’ Lee‘ ‘ you must be the happiest
man in creation.’
The former turned round, with a smile of self
complaicency—‘And why, General?’ says he.
‘Why!’ replied Lee “ because you are in love
with yourself, and have not a rival on earth.’
Ephraim Maxham. —The following anecdote
is none the worse for being authentic. We. get
the story from an intelligent friend, who had it
from the “ victim” himself:
“ Epraim Maxham,” some years ago the edi
tor of the “ People’s Press,” at Middleburg, Vt.,
a journal since merged in the “Northern Galaxy”
—having grown a-weary of single blessedness at
an early age, got married. The Sunday follow
ing the nuptials, which had made considerable
stir in the village where the bridgegroom resided,
the “happy pair” attended the Congregational
church, and were walking up the broad aisle, un
der a sharp fire from several hundred curious
eyes, w hen the parson, announcing his text, ex
claimed in a loud voice—“ Ephraim is joined to his
idols—let him alone!” To be “singled out”
in so public and unceremoniously a manner so soon
after he had been lawfully “ doubled,” was terri
bly vex-atious to poor “Ephraim,” while it utterly
ruined the “ devotions ” of all the “young men
and maidens,” whose risibility grew none the
less as the parson went on repeating jhe unlucky
text, at frequent intervals, to the end of his dis
course.
Intemperance and Honor. —A poor fellow r , who
had spent hundreds of dollars at the bar of a
certain grocery, being one day out of change,
asked the landlord to trust him with a glass of
liquor. “No,” was the surly reply, “ I never
make a practice of doing such things.*.’ The
poor fellow turned to a gentleman who was sitting
by, and whom he had know n in better days, say
ing, “ Sir, will you lend me a sixpence ?” “ Cer
tainly,” w r as the reply. The landlord with alac
rity placed the decanter and glass before him.—
He took a pretty good horn, and having swallowed
it and replaced the glass with evident satisfaction
he turned to the man who lent him the sixpence,
and said, “ Here sir, is the sixpence I owe you ;
I make it a point, degraded as lam, always to
pay borrowed money before I pay my grog bill!”
The Cincinnati Times asserts that during a sin
gle trip to. Sandusky from that city, a young gen
tleman of New York, become so enamored of a
young Spanish lady, also a passenger, and press
ed his suit with so much ardor and eloquence, that
her consent was finally obtained. Amor vincit
omnia —including the Senoritas. The conductor
of the train stopped the cars at one of the w r ay
stations; a minister was called in ; and the cere
mony being performed, the united pair returned
in the car and winded their way to Sandusky at
the same locomotive speed almost they had prac
tised in their journey of matrimony.
Progress of the Mormons. —A late number of
the St. Louis Organ thus notices the progress of
this remarkoble sect :
“ There is in this city and neighborhood a body
of them, which, though constantly sending off
detachments on their wuy to the “ Promised
Land,” is still rapidly increasing. The number
in St. Louis and vicinity is estimated at 3000. —
In Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and lowa, (in
cluding Kanesville on the Missouri River,) they
are computed to be 25,000. In the great Basin
and Western California, there are probably 12,-
000 more. The Mormons scattered elsewhere
over the United States may swell the total Mor
mon streagth in the United States to nearly 50,-
000. To this aggregate, which, allowing the mis
haps of this “Church,” must be considered a
heavy one, should be added the large number of
converts in England, Scotland and Wales—all of
whom are either now preparing for removal to
the United States, or are looking forward to some
future and no distant day, for that to them happy
and much desired consummation.
iAIWABBBi,
A true laborer earns that he eats, gets that he
wears, owes no man hate, envies no man’s hap
piness, glad of other men’s good, content under
his own privations; and his chief pride is in the
modest comfort of his own condition.
Singular Problem. —There was a singular prob
lem among the Stoics, which ran to this purpose:
“When a man says, “I lie,” does he lie or does
lie not ? If he lies he speaks the truth ;if he
speaks the truth he lies.” Many were the books
written upon this wonderful problem. Chrysip
pusfavored the world w r ithno less than six; and
Philetus studied himself to death in his vain en
deavors to solve it.
The great leading distinction between writing
and speaking is that more time is allowed for the
one than the other; hence, different faculties are
required for, and different objects obtained by
each. He is probably the best speaker who can
collect together the greatest number of apposite
ideas at a moment’s warning; he is probably the
best writer who can give utterance to the great
est quantity of valuable knowledge in the whole
course of his life.
Progress of Troy. —A railway to Rutland is
granted, and as the people on the route are deter
mined to make it, it will be done beyond doubt.
Another railway from Troy to Boston via
Greenfield, is also going ahead, and will no doubt
be accomplished.
A plank road to the East is also going for
ward, and another leading from Troy to Fort Ed
ward. — Troy Budget.
Ingenious. —E. H. Howard, late postmaster at
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has started for Calafor
nia, in a boat waggon of his own construction.
The box of the wagon is a boat, set on steel
springs, the whole of which is covered with oil
cloth; making a very comfortable house. The
establishment is so arranged that, upon reaching
a river, the running gears of the wagon can be
unshipped in a few minutes, and taken aboard
the boat while crossing the stream. This is de
cidedly the best overland outfit we have noticed.
Important Decision. —The important case of the
Commonwealth vs. the Delaware and Hudson Ca
nal Company, in which $54,000 were in issue,
has been decided, as we learn by a letter from
Harrisburg in the Pennsylvanian. A verdict was
rendered for the defendants agreeable to instruc
tions from the presiding officer, Judge Pearson.
The grounds assumed by the defence were, that
the State of Pennsylvania had not the power to
tax dividends declared by a company incorpora
ted by a sister State —although a portion of the
works may be located in the State so taxing, as
that Avould be an infringement of a compact be
tween the States.— Phil. Bui.
The first trip of the Fast Train. —The first run
of the fast train to Buffalo, left the depot at 9
o’clock Tuesday morning. It reached
Syracuse at 1 o’clock, Rochester at G o’clock, and
Buffalo at 9 —making the trip inprecisely sched
ule time.
The train from the West on the same day,
reached here at S£, having left Buffalo at 5J —
schedule time, accomplishing the distance, 325
miles, in 15 hours—about 22 miles an hour, inclu
ding stoppages.
Last evening the train was in at the moment,
and the passengers took the Empire for New
York, making the trip from Buffalo to New York
in 24 hours. Quick enough! — Alb. Eve. Jour. %
Thursday.
Depredations on the Public Lands in Mississippi- —
A correspondent of the Mississipian, calls the at
tention of the proper authorities “to the long
continued depredations that have for years past
been committed upon the lands belonging to the
State and General Government, embraced in the
region of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.”—
These depredations, says the Vicksburg Sentinel,
are of the most agravated and outrageous charac
ter, but it will be next to impossible to stop them.
Nothing short of a strong armed guard of at least
200 men, can protect the State and United States
timber from the raftsmen.
A Noble Boy.— A boy Avas once tempted by
some of his companions to pluck ripe cherries
from a tree which his father had forbidden him to
touch. “ You need not be afraid,” said one of
his companions, “ for if your father should find
out that you had taken them, he is so kind he
would not hurt you.” “ That is the very reasonre
plied the boy, “why I would not touch them. —
It is true, my father would not hurt me ; yet my
disobedience I know would hurt my father, and
that would be worse to me than anything else.”
A boy who grows up with such principles would
be a man in the best sense of the word. It be
trays a regard for rectitude that would render
him trustworthy under every trial.
Those who outlive their incomes by splendor
in and equipage, resemble a town on fire,
which shines by that which destroys it.
There are moments when the soul expands, as
if it wanted elbow room in the little house it in
habits ; and it is then that a man feels surprised
—amazed at his ever having committed a mean or
cruel action. * *