Glasgow Courier. — 1862-04-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MAJOR ADAIR AND THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—A general Court of the governors of this corporation was held last week--Lord Elcho, M.P., presiding. The report of the committee appointed to inquire into the deficiency of the accounts, stated that the defalcations of the secretary had in November last amounted to £3,119 Se 3d, of which £250 had been recovered. Regulations to prevent anything of the sort in future were recommended and agreed to on the motion of Lord Kinnaird. •  A Parliamentary paper shows the following some to have been paid to temporary, copying, or extra clerks in the Admiralty :-1856-7: temporary clerks, £10,408 2s 10d; law stationers' clerks, £54 11.. 1857.8: temporary clerks, £4,672 9s 7d; law stationers' clerks, £77 19s. 1858-9: temporary clerks, £2,7487e; law stationers' clerks, £123 ls. 1859-60: temporary clerks, £5,645 48 2d; law stationers' clerks, £779 is 2d. 1860-1 : temporary clerks, £7,909 63 10d; law stationers' clerks, £905 17e 9d. The War Office, in 1861, paid to temporary clerks, £19,915; and to copying clerks, £1,906. The Union confesses to being "bowed down with -A and hrunliation at the persual of the a.:count ^ at Sir Culling Eardley's, wherein we had the "u of London '  fraternising  The National Lifeboat Institution has safely received from a friend a Bank of England note for £'2oo. The third prosecution contemplated against the authors of Essays and Reviews, being the case of a Mr Pattison, has been abandoned. The Emigration Commissioners have taken up the ship Accrington, for Melbourne, at £l3 17s 6d for statute adults; and the Ariadne, for Queensland, at £l5 173 9d. A lady who recently died in this town has left to her spiritual adviser and her physician legacies of from £4,000 to £5,000 each. The Rev. Dr Brown and Dr Abercrombie are the fortunate legatees. Wilts Standard.  „ A marriage is arranged to take place between Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, son of the late Sir Edward Buxton and Lady Victoria Noel, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough. On Saturday morning, Joseph Isott, aged 30, was placed at the bar, charged with having, on the Ist of February last, at Rochdale, murdered his wife, Alice Isott. The prisoner was sentenced to penal servitude for life.  The accounts relating to the metropolitan police show that the total sums paid during the year 1861 amounted to £533,622 48 6d, leaving balances on the 31st December amounting to £59,591 13s 10d. The number of copper mines in the United Kingdom is 171, from which in the year 1869 were raised 236,789 tons of ore, which produced 15,770 tons of fine copper. The estimated value of the tine copper so produced amounted in 1859 to £4,734,700. The Queen has appointed commissioners to open the International Exhibition in her name. The persons selected include the Duke of Cambridge, the Prime Minister, and Lord Derby. The ceremony will be very simple. We believe the Government will offer no opposition to Mr Baillie Cochrane's motion for a select committee to inquire into the state of public buildings erected by Parliamentary grants within the last 20 years, and also of the houses rented for the public service, and to inquire whether, by adopting more comprehensive plans of building, greater public convenience, greater economy, and unity of design, may not be attained.  The Sheffield workmen are at length stung into urgent measures to wipe out the disgrace which the recent trades' union outrages have inflicted. At a recent meeting the workmen present resolved that it was the duty of the trade unionists of the town to organise a central committee, for the purpose of offering rewards for the apprehension and conviction of this class of offenders, and for otherwise taking steps for the suppression of such outrages.