§ DR. MACGREGORI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will state the relative amount of foreign service performed by Surgeon Major General Wade and Surgeon Major General Paterson up to that date respectively; and whether he will state if Surgeon Major General Paterson will be permitted to return to England when he shall have completed a total of five years abroad, or whether he is to be considered as now entering on a fresh tour of foreign service in his present rank?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL - BANNERMAN,) Stirling, &c.Surgeon Major General Wade has had 24 years and eight months foreign service, and Surgeon Major Paterson 23 years and three months. The last-named officer will be relieved at Malta on completing five years from the time he embarked for duty at Hong Kong.