The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

Ornerat ißtOrellany.

The Marquis of Westminster has reduced his tenants'
rents ten per cent.
Considerable quantities of gooseberries, cucumbers, and
melons, have recently been imported into London from
Rotterdam. _

On the mornings of Saturday and Sunday week ice, was
found on the fells at Coniston, the thickness of a quarter
of an inch. _

The case of the Tracy Peerage is considered as dis-
posed of; shutting out the claim of the son of the late
claimant, deceased.
The house of Mr. William Bryson, smith, Darvel, Ayr-
shire, was destroyed by fire on Saturday last, and two
young men, who were in the house, lost their lives.
Mark Jeffery, a convict under sentence of transporta-
tion for fifteen years, has had his sentence extended to
transportation for life, for an assault on one of the offi-
cers at the dock yard.

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The trial of William Hamilton, for shooting at the
Queen, took place on Thursday, at the Criminal Court.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to seven
years' transportation.
The loss of the ship Maria, from Limerick, Ireland, is
confirmed ; three of the crew and nine out of the one
hundred and eleven passengers arrived at Quebec, in, the
barque Roslin Castle.
Such immense quantities of mackerel were caught last
week on the coast of Sussex, that the highest price ob-
tained for them at Hastings was only 4s. a hundred, and
a considerable quantity was sold for manure.
On Tuesday morning week lightning descended upon
the dwelling of Mr. Thomas Drury, at Conisholme, Lin-
colnshire, and struck a young man, his son, as he lay in
bed, so severely as. to deprive him of his sight.
In University College llospital, London, a juggler, 22
years of age, died last week from " tremendous pericar-
ditis," caused by passing an iron sword down the oeso-
phagus, and thence to the pericardium, after exhibition.
A company established in the metropolis, entitled
"The Company of Window Cleaners," are now cleansing
house windows for nothing, to demonstrate their abilities.
An act has been hurried through parliament in a couple
of days to legalise the transportation of the Irish state
prisoners. What a hubbub would have been raised N a
Tory government had resorted to such a step.
In addition to £BO,OOO in gold received from Russia a
few days back, and a like sum which is to arrive imme-
diately, a further amount of about £750,000 is, we under-
stand, expected in the course of the next few months.
A vessel has recently arrived in the port of London
containing a quantity of prepared beef from Australia,
but the authorities at the Custom-house have decided
that such importations came under the denomination of a
manufactured article.
Lord William Beresford, brother to the Marquis of
Waterford, anchored a few days ago off the Grimsby out-
fall, in his yacht the ',Coral Queen," on his way with
several other gentlemen to Norway on a fishing and
shooting excursion.
On Friday, in the London Bankruptcy Court, a divi-
dend was made on an estate, under a fiat issued in 1799,
fifty years ago. The bankrupts were Messrs. Persent and
Bodicker, who failed in upwards of half a million. There
is scarcely a single creditor surviving.
On Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, an elderly
man was seen deliberately to approach a coal-pit at Brad.
ford, and commit self-destruction by leaping down it.
The depth was between 200 and 300 feet ; and, of course,
I immediate death was the consequence of such an act of
I insanity.