Ensir.
Jenny Lind is again devoting her powers-which, it is said, remain unimpaired-to purposes of benevolence. On Friday last week, at Jenny Lind is again devoting her powers-which, it is said, remain unimpaired-to purposes of benevolence. On Friday last week, at Dublin, an address was presented to her by the Duke of Leinster, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the other Governors of Mercer's Hospital in that city, expressing their thanks for the munificent gift of her services on the occasion of the Handel Centenary. M. and Madame Goldschmidt have taken up their permanent abode in this country ; and the public may once more hope to enjoy the pleasure de-
rived from her transcendant talents on such occasions as the above. It was for the benefit of Mercer's Hospital that Handel gave the first per- formance of The Messiah, which, it is now ascertained, was performed at Dublin in 1742, before this greatest of all musical works had been heard in London.
Daring Mademoiselle Piccolomini's late visit to Dublin she was re- ceived with extraordinary enthusiasm by the warm-hearted amateurs of that city. A party of young gentlemen having sent her a superbly
bound copy of _Don Giovanni, to mark their delight from her performance of Zerlina, received from her a very graceful acknowledgment of the
present. " Should Heaven," she said in her letter of thanks, " accord
me the power to revisit the city of my sympathies, that dear Dublin, I hope to be able to express in words better than in these hasty lines my lively sense of gratitude towards those gentlemen who have conceived the
graceful idea of giving me so beautiful a present. I encourage myself with the flattering hope of assuring them in person hereafter how much
I prize their gift. I could wish that my dear Irish knew that I can never forget the proofs of kind sympathy they have given me, and that neither time nor distance can ever obliterate them from my recollection." The fair prima donna goes to Petersburg for the winter, but is re- engaged by Mr. Smith for next spring.
Mr. Smith has received a renewed lease of Drury Lane Theatre for seven years at a rent of 45001. per annum. At the meeting when this lease was granted the proprietors congratulated the lessee on his past successes, and on his having been able, during the last seven years, to pay above 30,0001. of rent, besides expending many thousand pounds in decorations and property for the theatre. At the Crystal Palace, on Saturday last, an admirable selection from the works of Bishop was performed by the London Glee and Madrigal Union. The programme consisted of a number of the finest quartets, quintets, and other concerted pieces, with a few songs, taken from the composer's operas ; and their effect was heightened by the orchestral accompaniments played by the excellent Crystal Palace band. The spa- cious ,concert hall was crowded to overflowing; and the performances excited a degree of enthusiasm which we have rarely witnessed. We rejoiced to see that the English public are still ready to " give honour due" to the greatest of English musicians.
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