Glasgow Courier. — 1862-11-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13.  GARIBALDI, at his own request, has been removed to Pisa. at which place he arrived in a satisfactory state of health.  ANOTHER assassination is reported from Poland. M. Felkner, head of the secret police at, Warsaw, was found stabbed to death in his own house, his ears were cut off, indicating that the deed was no common murder, but a barbarous political assassination.  DEMONSTRATTONB have taken place at Corfu and Zanti in favour of the English protestorate, and a number of the Indian municipalities have forwarded addresses sympathising with the Greek provisionai Government.  THE extraordinary Smethurst case was brought before the Court of Probate and Divorce on Tuesday, when the court ordered probate of will to be issued, whereby Dr Smethurst will inherit the disposable property of the late Isabella Banks.  THE National Assembly of Greece meets for the reoonstitution of regular government on the 22d of December. The Senate is to be dissolved. Several of the ex-Ministers have been ordered to leave the country, and other note-worthy persons have been arrested. Nearly all the prefects who held office under the former Government have been dismissed.  AN extraordinary edition of the London Gazette was issued on Monday, announcing that her Majesty had been graciously pleased, on the occasion of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales coming of age, to order a limber of promotions in the higher ranks of the army and navy, and of appointments as Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath. The list of promotions will be found in another column.  BY the arrival of the mail from the west coast of Africa, on Tuesday, we learn that the King of Dahomey is making horrible preparations for a sacrifice of human life on a much greater scale than has hitherto been witnessed in his dominions. The interests of humanity imperatively demand that all civilised nations should combine to stop these atroci• ous manifestations.  RUSSIA has commenced once more her schemes for Asiatic dominion. Under the guise of assistance to Persia against the Affgham, who on threatening Herat, she is hastening to the aid of of the former power. Her Caspian fleet is now concentrated at Astrakan, near the mouth of the Volga. The official journal of St Petersburg, however, denies that Russia is ambitious to extend the fronties, and maintain that she is the most Conservative State in Europe.  Tax Spanish journals express a hope that the disputed question with the Federal Government of America, originating in the seizure and destruction of a vessel in Spanish waters, will be satisfactorily Additional men-of-war have been deo reinforce those already at Cuba. The Minister at Madrid has been instructed by '9 that the conduct of the that he would be pun. would be rendered to King dislocated his he is progressing  according to their usual tactics. It is evident that Generals Lee and Jackson were in strong force, and would not hesitate to accept battle when theythought prudent to do 80. The city of Yorktown is likely to be the scene of new struggles, the Confederate General Wise being about to attack it with 20,000 men. The Federals are reported to have had some trifling advantages in Texas and Tennessee. An unsuccessful seaboard attack was made by a Federal force landed from fifteen transport and gunboats upon the railway between Charleston and Savannah. They drove the Confederates from their different positions, but the latter being reinforced they, in their turn, compelled the Fedorals to retreat with heavy loss. The Democrats have carried the elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Kangaroo brings two days' later news, but it is not of very great importance, being composed of rumours respecting the position and movements of the combating parties.