IRELAND.
Baron Pcnnefather has been seriously indisposed, but is now so far recovered as to express a hope that he shall go the North-west circuit at the ensuing Assizes.
Reports having been circulated that Government intends to transfer the heads of the Irish Post-office to London, and reduce the establishment to that of a provincial post-office, Mr. Grogan and Mr. Vance, Members for Dublin, have written a letter to their constituents, denouncing the project as a fresh attempt at centralization.
The Committee of the Dargan memorial met on Monday ; Lord West- meath in the chair. They resolved that a suitable building for the re- ception and exhibition of works of fine art and their application to industry shall be erected, and called the " Dargan Institute," as the best mode of commemorating the Exhibition of 1853, and its " generous and patriotic founder Mr. Dargan."
The steamer Yorkshireman, a trader between Morecambe and Belfast, was lost during a snow-storm last week. In the thickness at night, the Donag- hedee pier-light was mistaken for the Copeland light, and the vessel was run on to a bed of rocks, where she broke up. The crew escaped in the boats.
On the 20th of last month, the brig Agnes was wrecked at Benhead, near Balbriggan. Two of the crew and a boy were drowned. The master and two seamen lashed themselves to the foremast cross-trees ; they were seen from the shore ; the sea was terrific. A message was sent to Dublin for a life-boat, and it arrived next day. Mr. H. A. Hamilton, of Rochford House, a Magistrate for the counties of Dublin and Meath, with a crew of five vo- lunteers, put off in the boat ; and after two failures, at eight o'clock at night, succeeded in rescuing the mariners.
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