“I have the honor to enclose an extract of a letter from the Adjutant-General of the Forces, that the same may be entered in your regimental order book, and read to the regiment; and moreover, to express the infinite satisfaction Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney feels in the good opinion, therein expressed, of the General Commanding in Chief, for your zeal and exertions in the command of the NINETY-SECOND regiment (Highlanders), and to congratulate the regiment on having so well merited this testimony. “I have, &c. (Signed) “CHARLES FITZROY, _Lieut.-Colonel_, “_Assistant Adjutant-General_. “Lieut.-Colonel McDonald, Commanding NINETY-SECOND Highlanders.” Extract from a letter, dated 9th of February, 1831 (before alluded to), addressed by the Adjutant-General, to the Lieut.-General commanding in Ireland:— “_9th February, 1831._ “The Report on the NINETY-SECOND regiment, so creditable throughout to the zeal and successful exertions of Lieut.-Colonel McDonald in the management of his command, is very satisfactory to His Lordship the General Commanding in Chief.” (Signed) “JOHN MACDONALD, “_Adjutant-General_.” The company which had been detached in the county of Meath returned to its quarters on the 22nd of March, and on the following day a letter was received, expressive of the entire approbation of the Lord Lieutenant of the services performed in the disturbed district by the troops employed. The regiment was removed from the Royal Barracks on the 19th of April: the head-quarters, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel McDonald, consisting of four companies, with the recruits, were stationed in the New Barracks, and six companies, under Major Winchester, at George-street. Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.B., inspected the regiment on the 3rd of May, in the Phœnix Park, in the presence of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and a great concourse of spectators, on which occasion its movements and appearance drew forth the admiration of its military superiors. The head-quarters and four companies from the New Barracks, and four companies from George-street, marched, on the 18th of May, to Richmond Barracks, leaving two companies stationed in George-street, under the command of Major Hugh Henry Rose. Lieut.-General Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, Bart., (afterwards the Earl of Stair) was appointed by His Majesty King William IV., to be Colonel of the NINETY-SECOND on the 20th of July, in succession to Lieut.-General the Honorable Alexander Duff, removed to the thirty-seventh regiment.