The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-10-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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 Macfarlane•, 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 graceful 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 amusement 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 degrees 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 circumstances :—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