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MISOELLANEOUS NEWS. I

... recently dined together in large numbers at Birmingham; and, desirous to mark the festival with peculiar 4clat, offered Jenny Lind £300 in order to induce her to :sing before them. The fair, Swede decliped, in a courteous letter. CLOSING AND~ Courcrslltr ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 11168 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ROYALTY AND ART

... cholera, or the railway mania, has 'been that esthetic epidemic which mn1aybe styled LI:iiolatry. The strange passion for Jenny Lind's singing is, howuver, only the climax of the fashion- able rupt~ure for Italian hnusic performed by Itaiiin' Itcompanies ...

GLEANINGS

... seen or heard of, there is not one that was not once new. Whatever is now establish- Ment was once innovation. A-Bentham. JENNY LIND'S MARRIAGE;-F. M. the Duke of Wel- lington presents his compliments to Mr. Harris, and w ill feel it the proudest moment ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1847 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BANKRUPTS IN LANCASHIRE

... -The Irish department of the ordnance is to be altogether suppressed, or incorporated with the London Board. MUNvFaCENT.-Jenny Lind has given a donation of £200 to the local charities of Norwich. STAnEVYRIDOa.-A committee, composed of persons of every ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

LECTURE ON THE FINE ARTS

... imply thattheirfaceswerelike apig's.-s(Laughter,) Therre was a lady who was mentioned la*ely as coming forward- te eclipse Jenny Lind.-(Laughter,) . It wassaid she had' n superior voice; but because her beauty woulj not stand the test she wouldn't do.-(Laughter ...

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... expce n that a dotachment of tile Austrian tros hc a on w ordered to the spot, would succeed in quelling the tumult. an JENNY LiND.-It is currently. reported that Jenny Lid hay will bestow her hand on the Rev. Mr. Grote, with whose Ile[ family the ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5499 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... against death punishment, and that some of the bishops had also spoken against the advisability of-public strangulation. JENNY LIND.-Among the most recent news of Mdlle Jenny Liand's motions, are tidings from Frankfort: Ihere she assured those who had ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6860 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... proposed alterations in the chapel of the prison were submitted and ap- proved, the expenditure incurred not to exceed £700. JENNY LIND.-We are informed that the nego- tiations which, for the last week or two, have been pending for a visit of the Nightingale ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7791 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... %Barrnum thuis corrects (in the, New tork 'Herald)1the erroneous statemhents of his recenrt' offer to;Janney, Lid. 1 st. Jenny.Lind-had sent no agent to Amriea hut haveent tio tohier, one of.whom're4~ ''dedt r'eturned' fromin'anitaervlew with ?? Immad'now ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6518 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... most of the stone fruit being destroyed, and the leaves shrivelled up and covered with inserts. 1o1W SINOERS ARE PAID.-Jenny Lind, the great Swedish songstress, is engaged at the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburgh, at the rate of £2,240 per month, ex- ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1846
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8659 | Page: 7 | Tags: News