The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following district order has been promulgated on
the retirement of Lieut.• Colonel Dalgety from the ap-
pointment of Assistant•Quarterma-ter-General at Ports-
mouth :

" Adjutant-General's•ofce, Portsmouth, Oct. 30.
"Lieut.-Colonel Dalgety's present state of health, in-
jured through the heavy and incessant labour consequent
upon the embarkation of troops for the Crimea, being such
as to prevent his return to the district as Assistant-Quar-
termaster-General, the Major-General takes leave of him
with sincere regret at the loss of so able and zealous an
officer, of one by whom the duties of the department were
so thoroughly understood, and who continued at his post
even when urged by the Major-General himself to lay up
for a while.

" By order of the Major-General commanding.
A. A. NELSON, Major,
"Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General."
The following circular memorandum relative to the
Medical Staff Corps has been addressed to the officers
commanding regiments and depots of cavalry and in-
fantry at home and regiments serving in the Mediter-
ranean

"Horse Guards, Nov. 10.
" Commanding officers of regiments are hereby directed
to furnish returns to this department of men of their regi-
ments not over two years' service, who may ba considered
eligible for service in the Medical Staff Corps, and be will-
ing to be transferred thereto.
" They must be able to read and write well, and be of
regular steady habits, good temper, and possessed of a
kindly disposition. " By command.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
The annexed memorandum has been issued in a ge-
neral order :

" Horse Guards, Nov. '7.
" His Royal Highness the General Commanding•in-
Chief publishes, for the information of the officers of the
army, in reference to the Memorandum No. 624, dated
" Horse Guards, July 27, 1853,' the annexed copy of a
letter from the Colonial Department, by which it appears
that the mitt of of the waste lands in the Australian colo-
nies, and the power of making regulations for the disposal
of them ( with the exception of Western Australia and
New Zealand, as before notified), is now vested in the
local Legislatures.
" All applications, therefore, for grants of land from
officers resident in those colonies must henceforth be made
to the local authorities.

" By command of his Royal Highness the General
" Commanding-in• Chief.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."

" Downing-street, Sept. 18.

" Sir, —ln reply to your letter of the 10th inst., I am
direoted by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to request that you
will state to his Royal Highness the General Command-
ing-in-Chief, that in all the Australian colonies, with the
exception of Western Australia, the control of the waste
lands and the power of making regulations for the disposal
of them, is now vested in the local Legislatures, and that
in all requests from officers resident in the colonies the
Secretary of State can only suggest an application to the
local authoritios.—l have, dtc., " F. ELLIOT.
" Major-General Sir Charles Yorke, K.C.8., &c."
Her Majesty's ship Raleigh, 50, sailing frigate, Com-
modore the Hon. H. Keppel, C. 8., left Spithead yester•
day afternoon for the East India and China station.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Shannon, 51, Captain W.
Peel, C. 8., left Spithead yesterday afternoon for the
west ward.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Vulcan, Commander
Furneaux, left Spithead yesterday afternoon for the Cape
of Good Hope, with German Legionaries.
The Covenanter freight ship sailed from Spithead yes-
terday for the Cape of Good Rope with a body of the
British German Legion on board.
The Eastern Monarch Indianian sailed from Spithead
for Bombay yesterday.
Arrangements have been made to retain in the dock
until completed the Caledonia, seamen's hospital ship,
fitting out at Woolwich for the purpose of replacing the
Dreadnought, in consequence of the facility of access
which this arrangement affords to the numerous artisans
employed therein.