The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

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Arrangements had been made and announced, that
Mr. Keogh, the Solicitor-General, should go as second
presiding judge on the Connaught circuit, on the ap-
proaching assizes. The commission was, indeed, ac.
tually drawn out, when a discovery was made, the effect
of which was the immediate cancelling of the hon. and
learned gentleman's temporary promotion to the judi-
cial bench. At the eleventh hour it was recollected that
no member of the House of Commons was competent
to discharge the duties of a going judge of assize
without having first taken the disagreeable preliminary
step of resigning his seat, as the sine Dui non for his
acceptance of the office.
The news of a fatal and very melancholy shipwreck
off this coast was received in Dublin on Saturday.
The Will-o'-the-Wisp, a steamer, 400 tons burden,
employed in the coal trade, and chartered by the Irish
railway company to convey coals from Maryport to
Dublin, went on shore on Lambay Island, and was
discovered a total wreck, the accounts stating that the
captain and all hands were lost.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.—The army estimates for
the financial year ending the 31st of March, 1858,
amount to 13,721,1581., being an increase of
6,553,072/. upon the estimates for the present year.
There being a decrease of 35,0001. in non effective
services, the increase under the head of effective is
6,589,0011. The effective services will cost
11,704,9211., of which 7,310,0001. is for the main-
tenance of the army (deducting the troops in India),
314,0001. for staff-officers, 153,0001. for public de-
partments, 17,7951. for the Royal Military College,
23,0001. for the Royal Military Asylum and }fiber.
bian School, 88,0001. for volunteer corps, and
3,813,0001. for the militia. The army for the ensu-
ing year, exclusive of artillery, engineers, and of the
troops in India, will consist of 0,947 officers, 13,643
non commissioned officers, trumpeters, and drum-
mers, and 173,005 rank and file, making 193,595
individuals of all ranks. Of these 178,645 will be
British troops; and as the number this year amounts
to 142,776, it will be seen ,that the army will be in-
creased by 35,809 men.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has bought 20,000
measures of barley at Trieste. Surprise has often
been expressed that more use has not been made of
the Italian ports as sources of supply. Sheep to
almost any desired amount may be obtained from
the island of Sardinia. Hay is worth about 41. a ton
at Genoa. Charcoal can be shipped in the largest
quantities, and at very reasonable prices, at Leghorn,
the produce of the Maremma ; and about 2,000
mules, well fitted for transport service, might be
bought in Piedmont without difficulty, although the
French Government have taken a good many already.
THE ancient subterranean church of St.. Peter's in
Rome witnessed, on the Bth inst., the unwonted
spectacle of a marriage, and that marriage an English
one. Miss Eaton, daughter of the authoress of
" Rome in the Nineteenth Century," was the bride,
and in consideration of her recent conversion to
Catholicism Pio Nono granted the special dispensation
by which she and fifteen other ladies were authorised
to penetrate into the venerable crypt for so joyous a
purpose. Mr. Lamb was the bridegroom. Captain
Lamb, of the 7th Dragoons, had left Rome just before,
being unable to wait for his brother's marriage, on
account of his being ordered to the Crimea. Mon-
signor Talbot performed the nuptual ceremony.
THREE bum PEERAGES being now
.extinct, Lord
Palmerston has the power of conferring one., Mr.
Mr.
Henry Herbert, of Muckross, is spoken of as (du y
to be the person selected for the honour.
A SMART SHOCX or EARTHQUARX was felt at Trieste
en the 9th Mat., at 4 a.m.