Glasgow Courier. — 1864-11-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NAVAL AND MILITARY.  General Todleben is to be in Liverpool on Thursday. The Gazette contains the -following:-:—Major-General Sir Henry Storks to be Governor of Malta. A number of military promotions are gazette& Daniel Mackellan, a Scotchman, a private in the 321 Regiment, stationed in Fulwood Barracks, Preston, committed suicide on Friday by cutting his throat. A Spanish royal decree has been issued, appointing Admiral Pareja to the command of the Pacific Squadron, in the place of Admiral Pinzon who has been recalled. One of the good results which have attended the visit of the Duke of Somerset to the Mediterranean is the abandonment on the part of the Government of the Malta dock scheme. The Army and Navy Gazette says that Colonel M`Murdo will be succeeded as Inspector-General of Volunteers by Colonel Erskine,who has for some time very efficiently discharged the duties of Deputy .Inspector. The Army and Navy Gazette says the difficulties of the Confederates are no doubt mainly caused by want of men, and they will become much aggravated by the fall of Wilmington, should the Federals secure that result and laud an army up Cape Fear River. General Lee has written to General Grant, stating that all free blacks enlisted in the Federal service will, when captured, be treated as prisoners of war; but that slaves who have absconded or been forced into Federal service will, when captured, be returned to their owners.  Capt. Cowper Coles, the designer of the Royal Sovereign, has addressed the papers, stating that he is most anxious for fair and competitive trials, and ads.ls that whatever is to be done let it be done quickly, and do not let us potter over the Royal Sovereign for another twelvemonths.  The Army and Navy Gazette says a very considerable number of officers of our army have now visited the American camps, North and South. No instance of affront or annoyance offered to them has ever reached us, and adds, that if any officer desires to see what is passing in the American camps, we believe he can accomplish his object by simply presenting himself in proper uniform to any superior officer. An accident happened on Thursday in the laboratory department of Woolwich Arsenal. The establis'ament was alarmed by the report of an explosion in the room used for filling precussion caps for ne service. It appears that James Watson, a man about 25 years of age, was performing this process when the composition exploded with a loud and terrifying report. Watson's hand and face were severely burnt, and he was taken to the local infirmary. On Thursday, Lord Albert S. Pelham Clinton, the third and youngest son of the late Duke of Newcastle, and midshipman in the navy, was tried by court-martial at Portsmouth on two charges of desertion. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the first charge, and admitted the facts contained in the second, but alleged in defence that there were extenuating circumstances. The Court, however, did not consider the defence satisfactory, and considering the charges admitted and proved, sentenced his Lordship to be dismissed from her Majesty's service. Sub-Lieut. Francis Main, serving on board the iron screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Captain Lord F. H. Kerr, was tried on Friday by court martial on board the flagship Royal Adelaide, in Hameaze, for being asleep in his hammock on the main deck of that ship on the 2d of Nov., in the first watch, when the ship was lying in the Sound, he being the officer of that watch. Captain. A. Phillirnore presided, and the charge being proved. Lieut. Main was dismissed the service. The sentence would have, perhaps, been less severe, but from the fact of his having been punished about 12 months since for a similar offence.  After a protracted illness,Admiral Sir Montagu Stopford, K.C.8., died at Edinburgh an Thursday last. He entered the Navy in 1810, on board the flagship of his uncle, the late Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, then the Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope, and the following year was present at the conquest of Java. After being employed in various ships, he joined the Alceste, Captain Murray Maxwell, which conveyed Lord Amherst on his embassy to China, and was wrecked in that ship on his passage home in 1817. The last command he held as captain was of the Pique, on the North American and West India station from 1842 until she was paid off in 1846. For nearly four years he was admiral-superintendent of Davenport dockyard; in January, 1855, he was appointed admiral-superintendent at Malta, and took part in the war against Russia in the Black Sea. In recognition of his service during the war he was nominated a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour by the Emperor of the French, and likewise received the Order of the Medjidie. The admiral's commissions bore date as follows:—Lieutenant, July 17, 1819; commander, June 29, 1822; captain, April 8, 1825; rear-admiral, December 5, 1853; vice-admiral, June 25, 1858; admiral, November 30, 1863. In February this year he was granted a service pension and was placed on the reserved half-pay. The late Sir Montagu was the forth son of Georga, third Earl of Courtown, by his marriage with the Lady Mary Scott, eldest daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch. He was born in 1793, and was twice married—first in August, 1827, to Caroline, second daughter of the late General Sir Henry Whitmore, K.C.H., which lady died in 1851; and, secondly, in September, 1853, to Lucy, youngest daughter of Mr John Kay, of the North Charlton, Northumberland. A