[Sidenote: 1844] Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Kelsall retired on full pay on the 23rd February, 1844, and was succeeded by Major Edward James White, who was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In October, 1844, the regiment returned to Manchester, where it remained till April following. [Sidenote: 1845] In April, 1845, the regiment proceeded to Ireland and was stationed at Newry, from whence it marched in September to Dublin. On the 30th December, 1845, Lieut.-Colonel E. J. White retired on full pay, and Major Thomas Reed was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regiment. [Sidenote: 1846] The regiment was removed from Dublin to Templemore in August, 1846. [Sidenote: 1847] On the 1st April, 1847, the regiment was augmented to an establishment of 57 serjeants, 21 drummers, and one thousand rank and file. Major William Matthew Bigge was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel on the 23rd April, 1847, on the retirement of Lieut.-Colonel Reed. [Sidenote: 1848] Events in the East Indies having rendered reinforcements necessary, the sixty-fourth, SEVENTIETH, and eighty-third regiments have been selected for embarkation for India,--the SEVENTIETH being ordered to proceed to the Bengal Presidency, where the regiment may probably have an opportunity of distinguishing itself in a more signal, though not less useful, manner than a long tour of Colonial Service has afforded. * * * * * The foregoing statement of the services of the SEVENTIETH regiment shows the long, and unavoidable, detention of the corps on West India service, and that such was the cause of its not having had an opportunity of sharing in the splendid victories obtained by other regiments which were engaged in the Continental wars:--While the regiment was employed in an apparently inactive state on Colonial duty, the Government, and the Commander-in-Chief, were enabled to send other disposable regiments to combat the enemy in the Peninsula, and on various expeditions in Europe; the conquered Islands in the West Indies were consequently entrusted to a few corps, of which the SEVENTIETH regiment was one, and on which full reliance could be placed by the Sovereign, and by the Country. 1848. [Illustration: SEVENTIETH REGIMENT (Colours and Costume)] SUCCESSION OF COLONELS OF THE SEVENTIETH, OR THE SURREY REGIMENT OF FOOT. JOHN PARSLOW, _Appointed 28th April, 1758_. JOHN PARSLOW was many years an officer in the First Regiment of Foot Guards, in which corps he rose to the rank of captain and lieut.-colonel on the 18th of May, 1747. In 1758 King George II. conferred upon him the colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH regiment, from which he was removed, in 1760, to the Fifty-fourth regiment. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1761, to that of lieut.-general in 1770, and of general in 1782. He was removed to the Thirtieth regiment in April, 1770. He died at Bath on the 15th of November, 1786. CYRUS TRAPAUD,