The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

middle or end of September
demand than for son

extent,

remains the

same as last steamer, there being

in rates of freight by steam-ship companies. Sight anu
days bills on London, 461 to 47 dis. ; sixty days, 47 to 47
ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN. -

By the United States mail steam-ship Franklin, Ca]
tain Wotton, which arrived at Southampton on Thursda;

The yellow fever continued to rage with great virulence
on the plantations, and in the various towns of Lou'_ •
Mississippi, &c., but the epidemic was rapidly deCreasin6
at New Orleans and Mobile.

Intelligence had been received of large discoveries of gold
on the Rio Mescala, which is on the route of the Mexican
Ocean Mail and Inland Company. Thousands of Mexicans
were flocking thither.

A terrible-encounter is reported to have taken place in
the mountains near El Paso, between a party of fourteen
Americans and some 200 Apaches, in which eleven of the
Americans were killed.
Commodore Vanderbilt's steam-yacht, the North Star,
arrived at New York on the 23d from her European trip.
Since leaving New York the North Star has steamed up-
wards of 15,000 miles, and a full description of all the
wonders Commodore Vanderbilt saw and did in Europe
during his tour is published in the New York Herald, in
the shape of a diary, which appears to have been kept on
board by some of the members of his pleasure party. The
Herald, in summing up the voyage, says : Since the
26th of August the Commodore and his friends touched
at points of Asia,. Africa, and Europe, and when they
landed-in America they accomplished the feat of visiting a
part of the four quarters of the globe in twenty-six days.
Durinc, her absence the North Star astonished John Bull,
was admired by the Russian Court, gazed at by the Sultan,
and frightened the Pope, which completes a series of inci-
dents unequalled in the history of even Yankee ships."

IRELAND

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THE QUEEN has appointed Sir John Young, Bart.,•w
visitor of Maynooth College, in the room of Sir W.
Somerville.

ROYAL EXPENDITURE.—IIer Majesty expended £B,OOO
during her recent visit, in the purchase of Irish fabrics.
THE EXTRAORDINARY CONSPIRACY was brought to a
conclusion on Friday, by the dismissal of the summons
and the discharge of the defendants, Mrs. Kelly and Messrs.
Maloree and Campion.
FURTHER ADVANCE IN WHIST.--The price of whisky
was on Monday fixed at 7s. Bd. to 7s. 9d. per gallon, at
Cork. There has also been a considerable advance in the
price of brandy within the last week, several sales having
been made at 9s. 6d. in bond.
TRIENNIALLY a custom is celebrated in the harbour of
Cork, analogous to the marriage of the Adriatic by the
Doge of Venice. The Mayor and Corporation sail to the
boundary of the harbour, and cast a silver arrow into the
sea, as a mark of their sovereignly. The ceremony has
just been performed by Mr. Maguire, the Mayor of the year.
TILE MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE in French-street, Dublin,
has been at last identified as that of a man named Macfar-
lane•, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Mein, wool-merchants,
in Jedburg, who absconded on the 25th of August last,
with £7OO belonging to his employers, leaving behind him
a wife and child. The body has been twice exhumed, and
disproved to be either that of the son of Forbes, the
lady so perseveringly believing in its identity,: or the
missing husband of another party. It has at last been
identified by a magistrate, who recognized the miniature
found with it.

THE AZTEC LILLIPUTIANS paid a visit to the Dublin
Exhibition on Tuesday, about eleven o'clock, and caused a
scene of most extraordinary excitement. Attired in grace-
ful golden-coloured tunics, and accompanied by their
guardians, they passed once round the great hall. An
endeavour was made to show them the fine arts court ;
but before they could reach the entrance their progress
was arrested by the dense multitude gathered around
them. But the eagerness of the spectators defeated the
aim of their curiosity.
AMUSEMENTS AT Coss.—The frolics of the sailors of
the fleet lying at Cork have afforded considerable amuse-
ment to the inhabitants. The other day a party of sailors,
on leave, came upon a vendor of stucco images, and in a
trice a bargain was' struck with him for the disposal of
the whole of his wares. This done, one of the party
mounted. on a wall, and put the images to auction to the
girls in the neighbourhood—the price to be paid, not in
the current coin of the realm, but in a coin current
through all lands, namely, in kisses tot him and the rest
of his companions. The whole scene of: the auction, the
number of kisses bid by the females, and the various de-
grees of coyness with which the price was paid by the
highest bidders, ludicrous in the extreme, was enjoyed
with exquisite zest not more by the sailors than by the
crowds who were attracted to this novasystem of bargain
and sale.

TRH REVENUE OP lEELA.ND.—From a Parliamentary
paper it appears that the nett produce, of the revenue of
Irelaud paid into the Exchequer in they ear ended the sth
of January last was £4,286,514 12s. Bd. The nett public
income of Ireland in the same year was £5,061,953 10s. 9d.
and the expenditure £3,891,143 11a. 5d., leaving in the
Exchequer at the end of the year-£1,170;809 19s. 4d.
The gross duties of Excise in the year amounted to
£b,632,302 18s. 2d., and of the Customs, £2,080,469.
From Ireland to Great Britain in, the year, 197,644 oxen,
bulls, and cows, were exported, and, 3,826 calves ; while
of sheep the number was 158,020, and of swine, 151,895.
The wheat and wheat flour numbered 52,724 quarters,
and of oats and oatmeal 1,650,313 quarters. In addition
to the exportations to Great 'Britain, various commodities
were exported to foreign parts, including 12,719 quarters
of oats and oatmeal, and 21,981 gallons of Irish spirits, &c.

- EXTRAORDINARY ATTRALPT AT MURDER AND
SUlClDE.—Jonathan and Maria Owens, husband and
wife, middle-aged, comfortable looking persons, natives
of England, were brought up on Tuesday, at the Dublin
police-office, in custody, charged under the following cir-
cumstances :—Between two and three o'clock on Monday
afternoon the prisoners were observed walking along the
Custom-house-quay. On reaching opposite the ferry steps,.
the male prisoner threw his arms round his wife, when,
although she struggledviolently, he succeeded in dragging
her down the steps to the water's edge, and there threw
himself and her into the river. The current was running"
very strong at the time, and both were quickly drifted
out to the centre of the river, when a ferry boat, which
happened to be within a short distance, pulled over to
them, and rescued them. At the moment the boat
arrived to their assistance the party had sunk beneath the•
surface of the water, On being taken out, they were
conveyed to Sackville-place station-house, where it appeared
they manifested the strongest affection for each other. At
the time they were rescued it was stated that both were
under the influence of drink. The male prisoner was sent
for trial at the sessions on the double charge of attempted
murder and self-destruction. Owens, was described as a
farmer from Yorkshire, and stated that he and his wife
had gone over to see the exhibition.
A CANDIDATE MARTYR.—Mr. G. H. Moore's triumph
over ex-Chancellor Blackburne has encouraged him to
further and greater efforts to obtain the crown of political
martyrdom. At a gathering in the .Rotundo on Wed-
nesday, upon the sentiment of " Religious equality" being
proposed, Mr. Moore, in speaking to the toast, said that
they were in a position of inferiority in this country,' and
they wintla not ondnre the ignenninyana hour loncor than
their weakness and isolation compelled them. The events
of the hour were teeming with instruction to them and
warning to their rulers. Let England see an analogy
between the events which were now occurring in the
East and her treatment of this country. Another storm
than that before which she is now more rapidly than
honourably taking in her canvass, might arise from
another quarter. The sympathies of race were not less
vivid on one side of the Atlantic than upon the other.
Sympathies of faith were not less warm on the banks of
the Seine than on those of the. Olga. Ambition was not
confined to St. Petersburgh—there were other emperors
than the Autocrat of Russia ; and let her remember,
should those contingencies arise, they could find a guiding
light in her own great glorious' history. When her own
national faith was endangered, she did not disdain to look
for a deliverer in a Dutchman. (Laughter.) The people
of Ireland might be tempted to look over another sea
than that of the German Sea for sympathy and succour,
(Hear, hear.) He would not wish to be mistaken, if he
dwelt on such a contingency as that he had described. It
was not with hope or pleasure, but with apprehension and
sorrow, that he did so. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) If they
could find sympathy and assistance within the four seas

which girt Great Britain, they should not go beyond
them ; but equal rights and equal honour they would have
when and where they could. (Loud cheers.) They could

3rogress,

whether truth or treason was to be inscribed on their
banners—whether they had an army to go to the field
with, or only a rabble of place-beggars. All he could say
was, that they would hope and struggle, and continue in

independent Opposition to every En,
they saw the Irish people enjoying

•
glish parliament, until
the direction of their

own government—until the_
sceptre in her own hand—(vehement cheering)—her own
sword on her own thigh—(renewed cheering)—and, above
all, her own church, dedicated to her own God." (Loud
cheers.) Here is a fair challenge to Chancellor Brady—

iw Ireland with her own

will he accept it—or will Mr. More still cart
with " treason inscribed on it," under the Queen's com-
mission of Justice of the Peace.—Dublin Evening Mail.

THE GOLD REGIONS.—The new musical entertainment,
by Mr. H. Carter Lee, entitled " The Two Lands of Gold;
or, the Emigrant's Route to Australia and California," was
given with great success every night last week, at the Con-
cert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. The diorama was a most
instructive representation ; for while it was sufficiently at-
tractive to excite the attention, the artist had not sacrificed
truthful delineation as the necessary expedient to the pro.
duction of effect. The musical part of the entertinm_,,yent
was to the or wtiat the cliQrvana iva§ W the olot,