Glasgow Courier. — 1846-04-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DEATH OF MR. SHERIFF JAMESON OF FIFE. It is our painful task this week to have to announce the death of Andrew Jameson, Esq., Sheriff-Substitute of Fife. This melancholy event took place at his house in Cupar on the forenoon of the 10th instant, about 11 o'clock. Mr. Jameson had continued, till his short illness of three weeks' duration, in the assiduous and faithful discharge of his official duties. He had entered upon the 76th year of his life. He was only 30 years of age when he was appointed to his important office, which he has held during the regime of no fewer than five Sheriffs Principal—Mr. Fergusaon of Pitoully ; Mr. Monypenny, afterwards Lord Pitmilly ; Mr. Anstruther of Airdit ; Mr. Clephane ; and our present respected Sheriff, Mr. Monteith—by all of whom he was uniformly esteemed and respected, both for his gentlemanly deportment, and for the efficient manner in which he discharged his official functions, thereby materially lightening his superior's labours. The period of his official career has thus been nearly 45 years.—Fife Herald.  Grass Parks and Cattle Sales in the South.—ln various places in the south grass parks are letting at a considerable ailvance on the prices of former years. In the neighbourhood of Dundee prices are from seven to eight per cent. _higher than last year. In Perthahire, the average is from ten to twenty per cent. higher. At Clow, in the Ochils, a park of nearly twenty acres, well laid down and for the first time depastured, brought upwards of £BO, on Monday, 6th inst. At a sale of stock at the same place cattle fetched very high prices. Blackfaced three-year-old wedders brought from 235. to 265. a-head; ewes from 20s. to 255. 6d.; Cheviot hogs 20s. to 21s. The Dumfries Courier states that the far-famed Closeburn annual grass let, on the estate of Sir Charles Monteath, Bart., came off at Brownhill, on the 3d instant. Those upon the western side, or Shaw's estate, commanded upwards of 16 per cent, above the last year's let, while those on the eastern, or Hall side, were only a trifling shade below a similar per centage. The same respected proprietor and eminent agriculturist, on his estate of Mansfield Ayrshire, last week let his grazing fields at a rise of fully 19 per cent. above that of the pisseeding year.  Australia.—Advices from Hobart-Town to the beginning of December have been received. The weather was considered favourable to vegetation. The Romulus had arrived there from Loaded, with 233 rank and file of the 11th regiment, and detachments of the 58th, 96th, and 99th. By accounts from Adelaide it seems that the discovery of mineral treasures is daily on the increase. Tahiti.—Despatches have been received in Paris from Tahiti to December 16. Their contents have not transpired; but the Journal du Havre says, that from the information it has been able to collect, the state of distrust and secret hostility which has been so long existing between the French authorities, the natives in their entrenched camps, and Queen Pomare, who was still taking refuge in the Windward &lands, continued to subsist without any improvement. The French occupants, confined to a small* portion of the shore where works of communication and defence protected their position, were almost entirely without intercourse with the interior of the island, and each day their position was becoming more difficult. Execution of Yarham.—The execution of this wretched criminal, condemned at the last Norfolk Assizes for the murder of Mrs. Candler, at Yarmouth, in November, 1844, took place in front of the castle at Norwich, on Saturday. About 20,000 persons were present. Fatal Accideut.—Sunday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, an accident occurred off the new pier, Hungerford Bridge, by which two persons unfortunately lost their lives, and another (a female) was brought out of the water in an insensible state, but who happily has been since ;catered.