23RD REGIMENT OF FOOT. Col.-Sergt. Jonathan Thomas. D., at the Union Workhouse, Swansea, in Dec., 1867, aged 85. ------------------ 27TH REGIMENT OF FOOT. Private Thos. Kerrigan. One of the few of this regt. who escaped being blown to pieces when standing in square on the Charleroi road, 18th June, 1815. D., at Calky, near Enniskillen, 3rd Dec., 1862. Is said to have attained the great age of 108. ------------------ 33RD REGIMENT OF FOOT. Private John Riches. Was at the storming of Seringapatam, and is said to have been present at both Quatre Bras and Ligny on 16th June, 1815. Aftds. a Chelsea Hospital pensioner. D., at Attleburgh, in June, 1860. ------------------ 40TH REGIMENT OF FOOT. Sergt. Wm. Lawrence. Born at Bryant’s Piddle, co. Dorset, 1791. Enlisted in the 40th Foot at age of fifteen. Served with the 1st Batt. in the expedition to Monte Video, and throughout the Par. War. Wounded at Badajoz, where he was one of the forlorn hope, and kept six weeks in hospital at Estremos. Soon after made corporal. Earned Lord Wellington’s praise for the gallant manner in which he captured three French cannon, and drove off a score of French artillerymen with only six men of his own regt. Promoted sergt. Narrowly escaped being killed at Waterloo by a French shell, which exploded near Lawrence, “hurling him two yards into the air.” About 4 o’clock P.M. on Waterloo day was ordered to the colours, in defending which an officer and fourteen sergts. had already lost their lives that terrible day. M., when at St. Germains, a Frenchwoman named Marie Louise Claire, who, under Napoleon’s _régime_, had, in common with all other “Marie Louises,” been obliged to change their Christian names, so that the Empress might be the only one of that name in France! Pensioned on 9_d._ a day in 1819. D., at Studland, co. Dorset, 1867. ------------------ 42ND REGIMENT OF FOOT. Private Donald Davidson, W.