“I have had the honour to submit to the General Commanding-in-Chief your letter of the 22nd instant with its enclosures, and am directed to acquaint you, that under the circumstances therein stated, his Lordship has been pleased to obtain his Majesty’s permission, that the EIGHTY-EIGHTH Regiment, or ‘CONNAUGHT RANGERS,’ may retain on its colours and appointments the HARP and CROWN, with the motto ‘_Quis separabit?_’ in addition to the badges and devices which it has been authorized to bear in commemoration of its distinguished services on various occasions. “I have, &c., “JOHN MACDONALD, A.G. “_Colonel O’Malley, Eighty-Eighth Regiment._” The EIGHTY-EIGHTH regiment having been omitted among the regiments authorised to bear, as an honorary distinction, the word “_Pyrenees_” on its Colours, the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel O’Malley, in the year 1830, made the most strenuous exertions to obtain this additional honour for the regiment, in commemoration of its services in the actions in the Pyrenees, as narrated at pages 52, &c.; and testimonials of its gallant conduct on the occasions in question, were furnished by Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, who commanded the brigade of which the EIGHTY-EIGHTH formed a part,—by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Stovin, who acted as Assistant-Adjutant-General to the third division,—and by Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell, who was Major of Brigade. This omission occurred in consequence of the officer who commanded the regiment on the occasion alluded to, not having received a medal for that service, perhaps owing to an accident, or clerical error at the time; but, as Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, who commanded the third division, fell in the battle of Waterloo, the requisite form of recommendation for honours of this description could not be procured, and the General Commanding-in-Chief did not feel himself justified in departing from the general rule which had been established, as the ground on which these distinctions should be submitted for the King’s approval. This honorary inscription is, consequently, not borne on the colours of the EIGHTY-EIGHTH regiment, for its services in the Pyrenees. [Sidenote: 1831] On the 20th October, 1831, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Campbell, K.C.B., was removed to the Twenty-Fifth regiment, and Major-General Sir John Alexander Wallace, Bart. and K.C.B., who had commanded the regiment in many of the arduous campaigns during the Peninsular war, was appointed to the Colonelcy of the CONNAUGHT RANGERS.