Glasgow Courier. — 1861-10-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GAZETTE APPOINTMENTS.  3d Caithness Artillery Volunteer Corps Robert Macalaster to be Captain; George Bain to be First Lieutenant; John M'lCity Sutherland to be Second Lieutenant. Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, sth Company Lieutenant Richard Turnbull to be Captain, vice Matthew Clark, resigned; Ensign John Joseph Turnbull to be Lieutenant, vice Richard Turnbull, promoted. Ist (Grangemouth) Company of the Stirlingshire Volunteer Artillery --James Donald Watson to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. inh Company of Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers- Henry Hay None to be Lieutenant, vice Wilson, resigned. 3d Elginshire Rifle Volunteers (Elgin)—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by Ensign Charles Cumming in the above corps.—London Gazette.  Messrs Scott & Co., Cartsdyke, launched on Monday a finely-modelled screw steamer, of 1,000 tons, named the Askalon by Miss Murray, West Stewart Street. 'l'be Askalon will be supplied with engines of 150 horse-power, by the Greenock Foundry Company. She is the property of a Liverpool firm, and is for the West India trade as a consort to the screw steamers Plantagenet and Talisman, built and engiued by the same firms. In connection with the anniversary of the Glasgow West Circuit Branch Wesleyan Missionary Society, the Rev. G. T. Perks, of Bristol, preached on Sab• bath last in John Street Wesleyan Church in the forenoon, and the Rev. Win. L. Thornton, of London, in the evening. The annual public meeting. was held on Monday night in the same church—Councillor Young in the chair. The Chairman, in a few remarks, urged the importance of these missions as entitling them to the support of Christians in Scotland. The annual report was read by Mr Mearns, after which the meeting was addressed by Mr Thornton and several of the other gentlemen on the platform. _  At the annual meeting of the Glasgow Faculty of Medicine, hold in the Faculty Hall, St. Andrew Street, on Friday the 4th inst., the following gentle. men were elected office-bearers for the year 1861-2: —Wm. Young, M.D., President; James Scanlan, M.D., Vice-President; John M'Canon, Treasurer; Robert Cowan, Secretary; Thos. Lapraik, M.D., Librarian ; David M'Lean, Seal-Keeper; John Coats, M.D., Vaccinator. Directors; Andrew M'Farlan, Alex. Robertson, Jas. Dick, M.D., Thos. Christie, John Leitch, Wm. Chalmers. W. E. C. Clark, Factor; John Mitchell, Officer. On Friday evening, in the City Hall, the employes of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway held their twelfth annual social festival. About 1,600 were present, including the wives and sweethearts of the officers. Peter Blackburn, Esq., of Killearn, M.P., presided; supported on the right by Mr Dan. Reid, and on the left by Mr J. B. Thomson, who have taken an active interest in the volunteer movement, more particularly in the 48th Company, belonging to the 2d Glasgow Regiment, which company—num• bering about 80 effective men—is entirely compoled, we believe, of the servants of this line. Previous to the musical department of the programme, and after a weloome service of tea and cake, the Chairman, in a few sentences, congratulated the meeting on the gay occasion on which they had met on common ground as employes of a great company; urged upon his auditors the immense importance, in their especial calling's, of attention to duty; and mentioned, as had been done on the preceding occasion, the pleasing fact that there had been no serious accident (luring the bygone year, which fact, he said, was greatly to the credit of all concerned. This being the only address of the evening, the rest of the time was taken up by vocal and instrumental music. The usual ball succeeded the concert; and the hall from the galleries presented a very animated spectacle to numerous spectators. The American consul has received the usual warrant from the Foreign Office for the hearing of the charge against Hawkins, the steward, for the murder of Capt. Adams, the master of the Lammergier, and the removal of the acbused to the United States for trial.  An association has been formed in Hull, under the auspices of the clergy and ministers of various denominations. and of leading gentlemenin the town and neighbourhood. for "obtaining a legislative enactment to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors between the hours of eleven on Saturday night and six on Monday morning." Lieut.-Col. Sir fr. M. Havelock, son of the Gen., has arrived at Aldershott and enterel on his duties as Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General of the division, in the room of Major Nugent, who has been appointed Assistant-Quartermaster-General in Nova Scotia. Sir Henry Havelock, who entered the army in 1846, is in his 33d year.