Glasgow Courier. — 1863-08-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NAVAL AND MILITARY.  Be the death of Lord Clyde the Coloneley of the 93d (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, has become vacant.  We have the melancholy duty of chronicling the death of Admiral 0. V. Harcourt, of Swinton Park, near Masharn, which took place on Friday last. The garrison boat from Hurst Castle, with 11 artillerymen. in crossing on Tuesday afternoon from Cliff End, capsized in a heavy sea, when tour of them were drowned; two were picked up, and two are missing. The Milwall Iron Works and Ship Building Company have received orders from the Admiralty to construct within one month a target on the design of Mr Weed, the recently-appointed Chief Constructor of the Navy. The price decided upon is £1567: The Armourer-Sergeant, 4th Dragoon Guards, at the Curragh of Kildare, committed suicide on Friday last. He loaded a carbine in his shop, and deliberately fired it into his mouth, mutilating himself in a shocking manner. No reason can be assigned for the act. During the four years that H.M.S. Ardent, Captain Parish, has been in commission, not a single case of , corporal punishment has occurred. On the ship being paid off at Woolwich, last week, the captain and the whole of the crew were assembled in one of the workshops in the dockyard, and photographed as "The Happy Family." On Saturday evening last the Fourth City of London Volunteer Corps was inspected in Tower Ditch by Col. C. Morris, C. 8., Assistant lnspector-General. At the close Col. Morris expressed his regret that he could not compliment the company on having made any progress in their drill since last year. Be had never seen any corps of Volunteers so backward either this or last year. Two more vacancies (says the Army and Navy Gazette) on the flag-list will bring Captain Edward Gennys Fanshawe, Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, to the top of the list of captains, and already speculation in naval circles is busy in reference to his successor. The names of Captain Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., and Captain William Houston Stewart, C. 8., have been mentioned, in connection with this very desirable appointment. By last advices from Japan the squadron under Admiral Kuper were disposed as under-mentioned, viz. :—Her Majesty's ships Euryalus Pearl, Encounter, Centaur, Coromandel, Swallow, Coquette, and Racehorse, with the gunboats Hesper, Havoc, Bouncer, and Kestrel, at Yokohama; her Majesty's ships Rattler and Ringdove. at Nagasaki ; her Majesty's ship Argus, at /Ikeda ; her Majesty's ships Vulcan and Cormorant, at Shanghai. The French admiral's ship Semiramis was also at Yokohama, and the American corvette Wyrimin and Dutch frigate Medusa. The iron-cased ship Prince-Consort has been examined. The bottom is covered with some prepared metal containing copper, and it is found that in several places where it approaches the after plates, galvanic action had conunenced. All of the many anti-fouling niixtures which have hitherto been introduced to the Board of Admiralty have been more or less failures, nose of them possessing, in anything like a complete degree, the two main essentials in an invention of the kind—namely, the property of preventing the growth of niarine incrustations and other accumulations on iron ships' bottoms, and of preserving the iron itself from the destructive chemical action of the water and marine animalculie.