Col. Phipps has received the commands of Her Majesty, the Queen, to forward to Miss Greenfield the accompanying check for twenty pounds, as a remuneration for singing before Her Majesty this day. Buckingham Palace, May 20, 1854. In May, 1854, she received an invitation through the Rev. Mr. Geary, to sing at a concert to be given for the benefit of the distressed Needlewomen's Society; but declined being advised not to sing at public concerts until her return to the United States. She, therefore, sang only at private parties until July 1854, when that same noble benefactress, the Duchess of Sutherland, secured for her two places in the Indiana Steamer Packet for New York, and sent a note through her Secretary, Mr. Jackson, requesting that the account which was then due for her lodgings, up to the time of her leaving, should be made out to await his call. With a warm invitation to revisit England at some future period, she embarked at Southampton to return to America. THE END. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: jeoparded his success=> jeopardized his success {pg 4} countess of Wilton=> Countess of Wilton {pg 60} End of Project Gutenberg's The Black Swan at Home and Abroad, by Anonymous