Glasgow Courier. — 1864-08-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ICH., died on the 26th ult. at the Albany, Piccadilly. Her Majesty paid a visit to the Royal Sovereign on Friday, and was shown over the vessel by Capt. Cowper Coles.  We are sorry to record the demise of Major Grove, which happened at Kincardine Castle on Tuesday morning. _  A private soldier of the Military Train at the Curragh camp committed suicide on Thursday morning by shooting himself. We hear it rumoured that Lord Clarence Paget is likely to retire from the secretaryship of the Admiralty. —Court Journal.  The second distribution of prize-money for the capture of Delhi is to commence on the 15th inst. Delhi was captured in 1857. The Army and Navy Gazette understands that Dublin is to be abandoned, and Shorncliffe substituted for it, as a regular Guards station.  The Artillery good service pension, vacant by the death of General Sir Robert W. Gardiner, G.C.8., as been conferred on Major-General Henry Palliser. The Right Hon. J. E. Denison, the Speaker of the House of Commons, has accepted the hon. colonelcy of the Ist battalion of Nottinghamshire Volunteers. The H.M.S. Jackal, which sunk in Messrs Caird & Co.'s basin, Greenock, while running in for safety from a leak that had sprung in her side, will be raised in a day or two by means of barrels. The fifth annual meeting of the Angus and Mearns Rifle Association was opened over Montrose Links on Tuesday. The Montrose Gathering is a much less important event than it was a few years ago. A general order has been received at Chatham from the Horse Guards, directing that, in future, a soldier convicted of habitual drunkenness, if again convicted within twelve months, shall suffer corporal punishment. The Army and Navy Gazette feels pretty certain that had the Confederates marched direct on Washington or Baltimore, with even 30,000 men, they must have taken either or both of these cities. It is evident they only contemplated plunder, and a centre coup to Grant, till the feebleness of the enemy grew upon them,and induced them to advance within a few miles of the capital itself. They lost a golden moment. _ _ _  Tfie Queeii has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on Samuel Mitchell, captain of the fore-top of her Majesty's ship Harrier, for his gallant conduct at the attack at Te Papa, Tauranga, on 29th April last, in entering the pah with Commander Hay, and when that officer was mortally wounded, bringing him out, although ordered by Commander Hay to leave him, and seek his own safety. The New Naval Discipline Bill, which has passed through Parliament, is a model of a bill, so far as its mechanism is concerned. All new clauses or new words altering the existing law are printed in italics; all words that are in the last act, but are omitted now, are printed with a line struck through them. If black and white would keep poor Jack moral the bill ought to be effectual. There is dismissal from her Majesty's service with disgrace, forfeiture of pay and imprisonment not exceeding two years, and with or without hard labour and corporal punishment, for "being guilty of any profane oath, cursing, execration, drunkenness, uncleanness, or other scandalous action in derogation of God's honour and corruption of good manners."