Glasgow Courier. — 1850-07-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JENNY LAND'S TRANSATLANTIC VISIT.  - The final arrangements have keen completed for the departure of Jenny -Lind, by the Atlantic steamer, which sails from Liverpool for New-York, on the 21st of August. The gentleman to whom the important mission of completing the arrangement has been confided, and who will officiate as Mad'lle. Lind's secretary during her American tour, has received from Messrs. Barings w letter, stating their perfect satisfaction with the securities deposited with them for the fulfilment of the engagement, and be has left England for Germany, to receive the Nightingale's final instructions. She will arrive in England early in the ensuing month; and previous to her departure from this port she is engaged to sing at two grand farewell concerts, for which she is to receive a thousandguineas. In Madlle. Lind's American engagement it is specially agreed that she is not to sing in operas, but simply in concerts, for two hundred of which she is engaged, at two hundred and fifty pounds each concert, with additional profits, after the receipt of a certain sum by the manager; all her travelling expenses, by sea and land, are to be paid, as well as those of her household, servants, carriages, horses, &c. Belletti, from her Majesty's Theatre, has also been engaged to sing at the same concerts, on the most liberal terms, and Signor Benedict is to receive five thousaud guineas to tooduet the series% Barnum is buildtng a Monstre Concert Hall in New-York expressly for the occasion, and so great is the furore her anticipated arrival has created that tickets for Mdlle. Lind's concert are already at a premium, and it is expected to realise the enormous sum of twenty-five thousand dollars! Preparations are also making to give her a triumphal reception on landing, where she will be greeted with a procession, in which forty young ladies of the first families in New-York will appear dressed in white, and she will be conveyed to her hotel in an elegant carriage, drawn by four milk-white steeds. Nor is the excitement in this town less intense; nearly every berth has been engaged in "The Jenny Lind boat," so eager is the desire of the Americans, who are returning home to be her travelling companions.— Times.  Isle of Man—Trial of Corlett the Murderer.—On Tuesday last Thomas Corlett, who murdered the boy Stephen, at Baßaugh, in May last, was tried at the court, Castletown. The circumstances of the murder, which was one of a most horrifying character, were given in our paper at the time of the occurrence. The prisoner was known in the village of Ballaugh by the name of Tom Dick, and his victim was the son of Mr. J. Stephens of Glaik House. The boy was sent to the prisoner's house to borrow a gorse back, when Corlett, without the least provocation, seized the weapon and thrust it through his eyes. He then drew out the weapon, and repeated the blow, fracturing the boy's skull, and killing him on the spot. The prisoner surrendered himself immediately after the commission of the crime,, and showed no signs of alarm. When in prison he exhibited symptoms of monomania, saying he had no enmity against the boy, but be longed to be bung, and appeared pleased at the fate which awaited him. He intimated that he would make an ascent from the scaffold to heaven, where be would share, amongst the glorified, the rewards of the righteous. The trial lasted the whole of the day, and the court *as much crowded. The jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and he will, consequently, be imprisoned during the remaining period of his life. Serious Damage by Lighining.—On Tuesday during the thunder storm, the electric fluid struck the beautiful spire of the parish church of Davenham. The injury sustained I is so serious that it is greatly to be feared that it will be I necessary to take down and rebuild the spire. A similar accident, but not to so great an extent, occurred about 20 years since.—Chosior Courant.  seized