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annual income, from that source alone, is about $22,- 

 000. She has given away in charity about £84,000 ; 

 $400,000, as nearly as can be estimated. <£ 27,000 

 of this was given in England ; ^SjOOO in Edinburgh. 

 The entire amount of her European wealth is esti- 

 mated at $1,000,000. The Rev. George Scott, 

 Methodist minister, who for several years was sta- 

 tioned at Stockholm, says : — 



" Strange as it may appear, it is nevertheless true, 

 that Jenny Lind has contributed not a little to 

 increase the present religious excitement. We know 

 that this celebrated cantatrice had not been received 

 in the capital of her country with the enthusiasm 

 which might have been expected ; the reasons are 

 before me, though I am not at liberty to make them 

 all public ; — thus much is, however, known, that the 

 amiable songstress not only positively refused to 

 appear on the stage as an actress, but on many occa- 

 sions openly declared that the ungodliness of her 

 fatherland filled her with alarm, and in her regular 

 attendance on public worship selected those churches 

 the pastors of which were known to be spiritually 

 minded. The fire now broke loose ; all the papers, 

 with the exception of two, boiled over with the 

 bitterest invectives against the pietists, who not only 



