Glasgow Courier. — 1863-07-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NAVAL AND MILITARY.  The Admiralty have become more particular as to the stature and age of men admitted into the Royal Naval Reserve. The Duke of Cambridge intends, after the prorogation of Parliament, to leave town for a tour in Germany. His Royal Highness will not be absent beyond a month. An unfortunate sergeant named Casey, of the 87th Regiment, fell dead while advancing with his regiment to take up their allotted ground at the Aldeishott review. Field-Marshal Lord Clyde lies alarmingly ill at the residence of General Eyre, at Chatham. and his medical attendants give no hope whatever of his recovery. His disease is atrophy. H.M.S. Edinburgh left her moorings at St. Margaret's Hope on Sunday morning, and proceeded down the Firth, probably with the intention of meeting the Channel Fleet, as on the occasion of their last visit. Lieutenant Tragett, of the 57th Infantry, who was murdered by the Maories of New Zealand in their recent outbreak in the Taranaki district, was the son of the Rev. Mr Tragett, of A wbridge, near Rotnsey, in Hants. A deserter from the 26th Regiment was being removed by railway from London to Gosport, when, though handcuffed, he succeeded in opening the door, and springing out of the carriage. The result was that his head was fearfully cut, and his leg smashed to pieces. General Cameron, in whom every confidence may be felt, will be able to count on not much less than 5000 bayonets, and with proper aid on the part of the colonists, and the facilities afforded by the newly made roads, there should be no uneasiness about the result of any attempt on the part of the Maories. The Victoria Cross is to be conferred on Captain R. H. M. Aitken for his many acts of gallantry during the defence of the Lucknow Residency ; and on Lieutenant C. A. Goodfellow, of the Bombay Engineers, for carrying off the body of a wounded soldier under a sharp fire of matchlocks from beneath the walls of the Fort of Bey t on the 6th of October, D 459. The National Ride Association has achieved a splendid success at Wimbledon, and there is not the slightest particle of exaggeration or vanity in saying that there has never been seen anything at all comparable with the shooting of this year • and we may say with With that in England there is a larger body of first-rate shots than in any country in the world. The officers on the staff whose batt diens are about to embark for India have been treated rather sharply, if not, indeed, with actual injustice by the authorities, in being suddenly ordered to join their regiments. Most of them are Staff College men and all obtained their appointments with the underst;inding that, unless their corps were ordered on active service in the field, they would be left in the staff for five years. --Army and Navy Gazette.  Lieutenant Colonel James M'Grigor was drowned at Aden on the 28th of Tune. This officer belonged to the Bombay Native Infantry, and served in one of its regiments throughout the campaign of Seimle, under Sir Charles Napier, on which occasion he was favourably noticed by his great commander. His other services were also meritorious. During the Indian mutiny his conduct was such that the Secretary of State for War attributed the suppression of an outbreak in the Bombay Presidency to the prompt and vigorous measures of Major M'Grigor. The other day a garrison court-martial was held in Perth Barracks, for tho trial of three privates belonging :0 the 74th Regiment, presently stationed there, on a charge of desertion. One of them had deserted no fewer than three times, and, besides, he was charged with the theft of several articles. He was sentenced to receive 50 lashes, and to be imprisoneil for 60 days, and at the close of his term of imprisonment to be dismissed from the service. On Friday morning at six o'clock, the troops in garrison paraded in the square, from whence they were marched to the Riding School, where the flogging was inflicted. The ether prisoners tried at the court-inertial have not yet received their punishment.