Glasgow Courier. — 1846-04-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  The Army.—The augmentation of the 10th Hussars has been completed, and the gallant regiinent will proceed to our Oriental dominions with a considerable additional strength. The sth Dragoons arrived at York on Wednesday, relieving the 10th Hussars, who proceeded to Canterbury en route to Gravesend, for embarkation. The 17th Lancers received the sth at Nottingham; and it is understood that the 11th Hussars, on their arrival in England, will move to the latter town when the 17th will proceed to Ireland. The Earl of Caledon on account of his late marriage, has retired from the doldstream Guards, which he joined in 1833. Lord Dunkellin, eldest son of the Marquis of Clanricarde, has joined this corps. He is but nineteen years of age. A son of Thomas Moore, the poet, who was serving in the French Foreign Legion in Africa, died lately in that country, to the universal regret of his regiment. —Globe. Foreign Service.-Some few years ago, the 14th. „Light Dragoons went to India 600 strong; in less than six years they returned to this country a skeleton of thirty-three men and three officers. The difference between railway scrip property at the present prices and at those of September last is a reduction m value of from fifty to sixty millions. Royal College of Surgeons of Eugland.—The Hon. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Wakley, M.P., have just had an interview with Sir James Graham, when they presented a memorial, signed by 850 fellows and members of this college, praying the Crown to grant a supplemental charter to the College of Surgeons. It is understood that the president and council have for some time past been in communication with the right hon. Baronet on the same subject, and it is generally expected that a fresh batch of fellows will be made—in fact, all members of the college, of eight years' standing, not keeping shops, will obtain the  Society of Antiquaries.—Lord Aberdeen has resigned the Presidency of this society, in consequence of the distracted state into which it has been thrown by the conduct of one or two of its officers. Mr. Hamilton, one of the vice-presidents, and, as it is understood, Mr. Way, the director, without previously informing the other officers And the council, passed through the council a series of resolutions appointing a new office, and an officer with a salary to fill it. These resolutions having come before the society at large, _were rejected, as disagreeable to the general body and an infraction of the fundamental charter of the society, the council having usurped a power which did notbelong to it. Lord Aberdeen, in his comlnunication to the society, regrets that his political occupations render it impossible for him to pay the necessary attention to the affairs of the society, and recommends the choice of some one who can give the personal attention requisite in the present posture of affairs.—Times. ' The cutter Espiegle stationed at Granville, seized and brought into port, a flew nights ago, six English smacks which were fishing within the French limits. William Spicer was executed at Reading, on Friday last, for the murder of his wife. There were about 5000 persons present, many of them with infants in their arms. Two Men Killed by Liyhtning.—On Thursday afternoon a severe thunder-storm visited the neighbourhood of Nottingham. Two men who had taken shelter in a barn at Ratcliffe were killed on the spot by the lightning; a cow in the adjoining field was also killed, but there were no other marks of the fluid. Fate/ Accident near lifolat.—On the afternoon of the 25th nit, while two of the workmen employed on the Caledonian Railway were engaged in dislodging several fragments of rock from the upper part of a "cut," on the farm of Greskiu, and immediately opposite Raeclench tollbar, Evan Water, the whole suddenly gave way, and before one of the workmen could escape, a large stone felled him to the ground. His fellow-workman, who was unhurt, instantly ran to his assistance, but, on lifting him up, we regret to say, life was extinct. The deceased was a young man, of 24 years of age, of the name George Waddington, a native of Ripon, Yorkshire.