Glasgow Courier. — 1850-02-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCOTLAND. lows, and corrected, when needful, by euitable punishment. I Launch of the Atia.—The steam-ship Asia, of u wards of have only to add that I have had occasion this month, as previous.p 2,000 tons and 700 horse-power was launched on Thursday ly, to be well satisfied with the diligence and general efficiency , , of the polio' force, and trust that they will long continue under rom the um ing-yar a messrs. Steel, in Greenock at ' their present able Superintendent, to merit the confidence of the f bldd , half-past two P.M. She belongs to the British and North *buy. zolamuuity. American Royal Mail Company, and is the largest of their At the conclusion of the address, Bailie Dieghorn, In the ah'6sßeet that has yet been built. Her consort, the Africa, is Bence of the Lord Provost, expressed his entire concuireace in riming built alongside of her, but will not be launched for all that had been said by Bailie Gihnour, and had no doubt that some time. Messrs. Barns, with a select party, including i the excellent statements which it contained would be productive some distinguished strangers now visiting Glasgow, were 1 of the mot beneficial results. present at the launch. The ship received her name from I Miss Hill. Although the weather was wet and uncomfortable, an iintbelbis concourse of spectators were present.  .toy to now in town. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas have left town, on a visit to the Duke of Duchess of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh° have arrived at the Clarendon from Floors Castle, Scotland. The Duke of Richmond has arrived in Portland Place from  Goodwood, The Fail of Eglinton has arrived in town from Eglinton Castle. Jenny Lind at Newcastic—lt appears from a statement made in the Newcastle District Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday last, in re Mr. Charles States, a bankrupt, formerly of the Royal Hotel, that Mr. Knowles and Mr. Lumley netted £906 13s. 4d. by the visit of Jenny Lind to this town. The agreement entered into with Mr. States was that these parties should receive the first £6OO from the receipts, and two-thirds of the residue, Mr. States undertaking, out of his one-third, to pay a part of the band, and all the printing, advertising, rent of theatre, and other local expenses. The receipts for tickets were £1,060, and the sum of £49 was railed in addition by Mr. States from the sale at a premium of tickets he had taken at his own risk. Mr. States's share thus amounted to £261 6e. 8d , and it is needless to say the printers' bills and other expenses are being discharged in the Court of Bankruptcy.—Newcastle JourtiaL Death of Mr. Westall, BA.—Mr. William Westall, the landscape painter, died on the 22d alt., in the 69th year of his age. Though little celebrated for his oil pictures, he had a pleasant feeling for landscape nature (lake scenery more especially). Mr. Westall was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1813, and was the senior Associate at the time of his death. Sudden Death and Singular Presentiment—We regret to announce the sudden death of William Burke, Esq., of Sidcry Street, Chorlton-upbn-Medlock, an old and muchrespected inhabitant of this city. The unfortunate gentleman had retired to bed in his usual health on Wednesday weds( Next morning, the servant not being to wake him, bee** alarmed, and sent for his medical attendant, Mr. Milk who was promptly in attendance, but only to discover that the deceased had "slept the sleep of death." Strange to say, that on the same night Mrs. Burke—then at Southport on account of her health—had a singular dream; considering it ominous of evil, she was impelled to return tho next morning, and on her arrival but too soon discovered the fatal reahsation of her presentiment of evil. The shock was so severe upon the bereaved lady that a fatal issue has been feared —Manchester Examiner and Times. The Pledmontese Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill for supped-song the privilege of exemption from taxation which fakers of twelve children enjoyed in the island of Sardinia by royal letters patent of 1846. The advises from Amsterdam state that Peruvian and Portuguese were the two securities attracting the chief attention, and that their quotations had farther advanced. Not much business was doing at Berlin, but prices were generally well maintained. The Hamburg letters mention flatness as the feature in the railway market; stocks, on the other hand, were steady, Mr. Potter, of the Jewish persuasion, a master tailor In London, having become insolvent, rather than meet his creditors, committed suicide by hanging, on Saturday morning