Glasgow Courier. — 1862-12-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MILITARY.  NAVAL AND  The Duke of Somerset has appointed a special coin. mittee to report on the Whitworth gun. Mr Bullion', engineer of H.M.S. Psyche, has been murdered at Marseilles; and Mr Gray, another engineer of the same ship, also severely wounded. Captain John Moore, C. 8., formerly of H.M.S. Hogue, has resigned the office of private secretary to the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiraltynipd will be succeeded by Captain A. P. Ryder. Captaffi Moore, it is believed, will be promoted. 911, Major-General Lord Paget, ('TI.. havi 'proceeded on leave of abs 2 nce, the cornman4l of the by brigade at Aldershott has devolved upon Major- eral Brook Taylor. It is stated in the Dublin papers thothe health of the venerable Lord Chief justice Lpfroy is such as to occasion considerable alarm to 11Thfamily and  -friends. The Admiralty have published a large blue book containing the detailed as of the cost of the various articles produced in the workshops of her Majesty's dockyards and steam factories. This is the first time such amounts have been printed for the information of the public. The Army and Navy Gazette says that Burnside's change of baps to Aquia Creek gives it but little confidence in the plans of the Federal leaders. Strategy will be their ruin. Decent fighing would answer better; but it is not credible that the Confederate Generals of the Shenandoah Valley will permit this movement to be effected without making an effort to produce a powerful diversion. A question has arisen, whether the Duke of Cambridge, being on the Staff, should go on receiving a General's pay or that of a Field Marshal, which is fixed on the supposition that it is for active service in the field at the head of • great army. Forage is allowed for 20 horses. General Commanding in Chief, about £4OOO a year; while a Field Marshal would cost little less than £7OOO. The Army and Navy Gasette recommends 4:5000 a year for the Commander-in-Chief. Rear-Admiral Symonds has been appointed Superintendent of Deeonport Dockyard. The Canada Gazette contains a militia general order for the active force, directing the issue of arms and accoutrements hereafter, 55 stand for each company. Another for the sedentary force directs that in future all appointments and promotions shall be made only from officers deemed efficient. Colonel Wiley had returned from his tour of inspection, and reports verbally that great seal was shown by the volunteers, and that the state of the force was very encouraging. The Government had a ;plied to the Imperial authorities for the loan of 25,111 stand of arms. Arms and greatcoats had been despatched to several western companies. The appointment of Brigade Majors was promised speedily. PRACTICAL JOKING IN THE 18TH IIII&SARIL —The authorities at the Horse Guards have appointed a Board of Inquiry to investigate certain practical jokes, alleged to have been perpetrated by the junior members of the 18th Hussars. These youngsters, it is reported, after having bothered a young cornet nearly out of his wits, have turned their delicate attentions to one of their surgeons. If all be true that is asserted there is no sort of these somewhat obsolete pleasantries that they have not revived in his favour. At one time they are said to have turned a whole menagerie—namely, a donkey, a pig, dog, cat, monkey, and sundry crows—intohis room! At another they went on precisely the reverse tack, and in his absence, and having got rid of his servant by a judicious message, they stripped his room of every atom of its content*, so that when he returned to his quarters he found only four bare walls. Their last feat, however, has been attended with an unfortunate result, which has brought the authorities down upon them. They actually persuaded their unfortunate victim that it was necessary he should learn to ride with his bead to his uorse's tail! Having got him into this ridiculous position, they informed him that a proficiericy with the leaping bar was also requisite. In attaining this, he naturally got a fall, and the fall unluckily resulted in a concussion of the brain. Little brain must there have been to undergo the process. The Conirnander-in-Chief is resolved to put a stop to all such disgraceful proceedings, sad it seems very probable, from all I hear, that next month's Army List, or that for Jan., will exhibit a remarkable variation from its present list of the 18th Humara--Oorreepondent of Saunders' Newsletter.