In these quarters the KING'S OWN remained until the spring of 1828, when the British troops were withdrawn from Portugal; the six companies having received the expressions of the approbation of Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney in brigade orders, for their exemplary conduct, embarked from Belem stairs on the 31st of March, and on their arrival at Portsmouth, they were ordered to proceed to Scotland: they landed at Leith on the 26th and 29th of April, and proceeded to Edinburgh Castle, where the remainder of the regiment had previously arrived. The regiment marched in July to Glasgow, where it received a new pair of splendid regimental colours, which cost £150, with belts which cost £21, and a richly-mounted staff, &c., for the drum-major; which were presented by the colonel, General the Earl of Chatham. [Sidenote: 1829] From Glasgow, the regiment embarked, in July, 1829, in steam-vessels for Ireland, and after landing at Belfast in the early part of August, marched to Newry, with detached companies at Cavan and Clones. [Sidenote: 1830] In June, 1830, the regiment marched to Dublin, and occupied Richmond-barracks; in September it embarked from Dublin, and having landed at Liverpool, the two flank companies remained there a short time to attend on the occasion of the opening of the railroad from that town to Manchester, while the battalion companies proceeded to Stockport, Bolton, and Oldham; the flank companies arrived at Stockport on the 18th of September. [Sidenote: 1831] In January, 1831, the head-quarters were at Ashton-under-Lyne; in March at Northampton; and in April at Chatham. Part of the regiment embarked in this year for New South Wales, in detachments, as guards to convict-ships. [Sidenote: 1832] The head-quarters, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel M'Kenzie, embarked for the same destination at Deptford, on board the Clyde, on the 14th of April, 1832, and arrived on the 30th of August. [Sidenote: 1833] [Sidenote: 1834] The regiment remained at New South Wales five years; its head-quarters being established at Paramatta until June, 1833, when they were removed to Sydney; but returned to Paramatta in June, 1834; where they remained upwards of twenty months. [Sidenote: 1835] On the decease of General the Earl of Chatham the colonelcy of the KING'S OWN was conferred on Lieut.-General John Hodgson, by commission dated the 30th of September, 1835. [Sidenote: 1836] [Sidenote: 1837] In March, 1836, the head-quarters were again removed to Sydney; and in August of the following year two divisions embarked for the East Indies. One division landed at Madras on the 30th of September, 1837; the head-quarters arrived on the 7th of October, and were stationed at Fort St. George. [Sidenote: 1838] The third and last division embarked from New South Wales on the 26th of December, 1837, and arrived at Madras on the 9th of April, 1838. [Sidenote: 1839]