Glasgow Courier. — 1855-06-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MILITARY APPOINTMICNTS.—The three vacant colonelcies have been filled up. Lieutenant-General Lautour, a distinguished cavalry officer, 51 years in the army, and who served with the 11th and 23d dragoons in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, succeeds Lord Charles Manners as colonel of the 3d light dragoons. Lieut.-General Rainey, C. 8., another distinguished Peninsula veteran, gets the 23d fusiHers, vice Sir G. C. D'Auguilar. Lieutenant-Genera! John M'Donald, C. 8., removes from the 53d to the 92d Highlanders, with which regiment so much of his former services were associated ; while Lieutenant-General Sutherland, formerly of the sth fusiliers, and lately commanding the troops at the Mauritius, obtains the eolonelcy of the 53d Regiment. The deaths of three generals—Lord C. Manners, Sir G. C. D'Auguilar, and Sir W. Macbeau—do not cause a promotion to the rank of general officer, Major-General Scarlett being merely transferred from the temporary to the fixed establishment.  Tha Italian actress, Madams Ristorl (who, It appears, speaks French like a native), has received an oiler of an engagement at the Theatre Francais, with a salary of 80,090 f. year, and two months' vacation. The lady, It is said, requires four months' vacation, and that at pre‘ent is the sole obstacle to a contract. Rachel must look to her laurels.  DETENTION OP A RUSSIAN VESSEL AT LIVERPOOL A vessel of 500 tons, called the Ilelsingfors, which formerly belonged t 3 the Russian service, has been detained in the Victoria Dock, Liverpool, and her papers seized. It is stated that she has been transferred to a Danish proprietor. The papers have been forwarded to the Admiralty for examination.  The Sardinian governmPrit is about to order the construction of two or three more screw steamers in England of the class of the Charles Albert (400 horse power and 51 guns), which has been found to answer so well. It is is contemplation to increase all infantry regiments by one battalion, and the light cavalry regiments by one squadron each, so that the army in that country will be equal to its strength before the expedition was formed.  The Invatide Rene publishes the following : ' The Military Governor-General of St. Petersburg has just announced to the inhabitants of that capital that General do Dela], acting as Military Governor of Crom.tadt, has notified that on Sunday,lsth (27th) May, the enemy's fleet, consisting of 13 screw line of battle ships, 1 corvette, 2 steamers, and 7 gun-boats, cast anchor below Cape Dolgoinoss, near KrasnaisGorka, on the western coast of the Gull of Finland. Everything was in a satisfactory con•lition at Cronstadt.  FRENCH GeIANA.—A long report has been received from the Governor of French Guiana, on the state of the penitentiary establishments in that colony. After announcing the arrival of a new detachment of convicts, the report says that the sanitary condition of the colony was on the whole satisfactory, there having been in the month of March, oat of 3.065 convicts, only 26 deaths, and on an average 261 sick ; whilst in the corresponding month of last year there were 267 sick. and 17 deaths, out of 2,304 convicts. The state of discipline was generally good, and there were only three escapes and two suicides in the course of the month. The different works on which the convicts are engaged were going on well; but the men continued to display repugnance to agriculLurai labour.  Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge, of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, has been appointed Director-General of Army Clothing under the new orginisation of the War Departments. The duties of the Assistant Director-General are of a purely civil nature, and while the appointment of Director-General will always be held by an officer in the army, that of Assistant Director-General will be occupied by a civilian—its duties mainly consisting of the conduct of the correspondence with the contractors and the other departments. Mr. Ramsay, who has been appointed Assistant Director-General, has been in the War-office for nine years, and for nearly six years filled the office of Private Secretary to different Secretaries at War. Ha was also Secretary to the Army Promotion Commission last year. Major-General Cater retains the office of Director-General of A rtillery.— Globe.