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■ inaaiAßitg* ~ - JENNY LIND. 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. * *