Glasgow Courier. — 1848-08-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ANECDOTE OF DEAN KIRWAN.  Dean Kirwan possessed a mind of extraordinary sensibility. When twenty years of age he returned in disgust from the West F Indies, and the following incident occurred on his journey homewards through Ireland :—As he was passing through the town of Galway on horseback, in company with some friends, he and his party found themselves, unexpectedly, in a crowd, assembling to witness the execution of a man convicted of murder; and before they well could ascertain the cause of the concourse, it grew so dense that retirement became impracticable, and he was compelled to be a spectator of the revolting scene which ensued. The culprit bellowed and blasphemed with outrageous violence, to the dismay and consternation of two affrighted ecclesiastics by whom he was attended, and who seemed to give up their task in mute despair; and, in this fearful condition, the wretched man was about to be hurried into eternity. The swelling heart of the future preacher almost burst its narrow bounds. His melting eye and quivering frame bespoke the intensity of the excitement by which he was agitated. He sprang from his horse, rushed through the guards, and before his friends could recover from their amazement, he was beside the murderer upon the scaffold, who looked upon him with a strange bewilderment, and seemed to regard, as a messenger from the other world, the apparition by whom he was accosted, and who, in words and tones which mode themselves be heard, warned him of judgment to come. "Idiot! madman !" he exclaimed,seizing the astonished convict by the ears, "Hear!" "See there!" said he, pointing to heaven, towards which the eyes of the fascinated convict almost mechanically followed his directing hand; and he then gave impassioned utterance to the first burst of that burning eloquence which, In after years, wrought such miracles upon his hearers. Ancient Land Tenure.—ln the early history of the north of Scotland, about 1380, the Thane of Sutherland made over _ _  , was, "a. long as a rock." The estate Macleods till 1768, Sutherland.  The hopes yet that & return of n- e weather N. _..at preserve a large quantity. A party writing from Norfolk, under date of Saturday, states, that "harvest progresses slowly, but this day has been fine. The corn has taken no harm yet: and if we were to get fine weather until this day week,: three-fourths of the wheat would be secured in this county." The quotations of all grain are higher, wheat having advanced full 3s. per quarter on last Monday's rates, although there is a fair supply. Some samples of new wheat from Essex and Kent, about 200 quarters, have been sold at 60s. to 62.5. Flour has alscr risen.—Globe of Monday. Made. Jenny Lind.—On Friday evening a you elaborate and massive silver salver was presented to Mdlle. Jenny Lind, by the Committee of the Hospital for Consumption, as an expression of the high sense of gratitude entertained by them for her generosity in giving a concert for the benefit of the Institution. The plate bore the following appropriate inscription:—. In the name of the sufferers relieved by her bounty, this humble memorial of one of her noble actions is presented to Jenny Lind, by the Committee of Management of the Hospital for Consumption, at Brompton, London, as a slight token of their esteem and gratitude and in commemoration of the concert given by her on the 31st day of July,