death on the 19th of February, in England, of Major-General Daniel Burr, a very old and distinguished officer, who had commenced his military career, and long served in the Madras European Regiment. General Burr joined the 1st European battalion as an ensign in 1767; he served with it at the reduction of the Ramnadporam and Shevagunga Pollams, at the storming of Ramnad and capture of Callacoil, and the reduction of the Tanjore country. As a captain, General Burr served in the campaigns of 1781, 1782 and 1783, and commanded a company of grenadiers of the Regiment at Cuddalore. In 1800, as colonel, he commanded the regiment and troops in the expedition to the Moluccas, and in 1801 captured the island of Ternate.

On the 6th of November, Captain Benjamin Hooper died at Masulipatam; he had been long with the regiment, and was present on all active service with it to the eastward, and throughout the Mahratta and Burmese wars.

On the 15th of December, 1829, the 1st European Regiment marched out of Masulipatam, en route via Hyderabad to Kamptee. On the 1st of January, 1830, the 1st and 2d European Regiments were ordered to be joined into one regiment, and designated the "Madras European Regiment," to consist of two flank and six battalion companies, the 1st European Regiment forming the right wing, the 2d European Regiment the left wing. The facings

of the corps were at the same time changed from French grey to white. On the arrival of the right wing at Kamptee, on the 5th of March, 1830, it relieved the head-quarters and left, which marched for Masulipatam, under command of Major Kyd, viá Hyderabad, to within sixty-three miles of which city it had arrived on the 26th of April, when a despatch was received at about three P.M., requiring it to move on Hyderabad with the utmost expedition. The thermometer at the time, in the coolest tents, was 105°. In less than two hours the ground was cleared, the wing marched all night, rested during the excessive heat of the following day, continued its march most part of the night, and arrived under the walls of Hyderabad at seven o'clock on the following morning, without leaving behind a single man. Sixty-three miles, including all stoppages, in thirty-eight hours, was a wonderful and almost unparalleled performance for Europeans in India, during the hottest season of the year.

The regiment remained encamped under the walls of the city for seven days, in hourly expectation of the force being ordered to attack it, but much to the disappointment of every one, the Hyderabad people gave in, and the regiment continued its march. Shortly after it left Hyderabad, the camp was attacked with cholera, and upwards of 300 soldiers and camp-followers died before they reached Baizwarra, forty miles from Masulipatam, where the

disease left them. The regiment reached its destination in May.

On the breaking out of the Naning war, the head-quarters and left wing of the regiment were ordered to Malacca. On the 27th June, 1832, the detachment and light companies under command of Captain Puget of the corps, embarked on board H. M.'s ship " Alligator," and on the 11th July, the remaining two companies, under Captain French, on board H. M.'s ship "Imogen." Captain Puget's detachment landed at Malacca on the 13th July, and continued encamped on Baker's Plain until the 5th August, when, on peace being concluded, they re-embarked, and were landed at Masulipatam on the 23rd September. Captain French's detachment arrived at their destination after the peace, and were not disembarked, but returned in the "Imogen" to Masulipatam, where they landed on the 21st August.

On the 23rd October the left wing marched to Secunderabad, where it arrived on the 19th November, having on the march lost a number of men and camp-followers from cholera. It remained at Secunderabad until the 10th May, 1833, when it again marched under command of Captain Puget to join the head quarters and right wing at Kamptee. On the 20th May, Captain Puget died, and on the 15th June, after a particularly distressing march during the hottest season of the year, it arrived at Kamptee.

In 1832, Dr. William Geddes, the surgeon of the regiment at Kamptee, was particularly complimented by His Excellency the Commander-in-chief Sir G. T. Walker, for the excellent management of his hospital and the success of his treatment, shewing, compared with the other European corps in India, so particularly small a proportion of sick and casualties. Shortly afterwards, Dr. Geddes returned to Europe, and retired from the service; on his leaving the regiment his brother officers presented him with a handsome gold watch as a mark of their regard and esteem. During the time he was attached to the regiment, Dr. Geddes, by his extreme kindness and attention to the sick, and the very great interest and trouble he took in every thing that related to the welfare and comfort of all ranks, made himself universally beloved, and few officers have left any regiment whose departure has been so sincerely regretted.

The late Lieutenant-Colonel Elderton had, some months previous to the junction of the left wing at Kamptee, assumed command of the head-quarters of the regiment there. On the arrival of the left wing, the whole of the regiment, both men and officers, were immediately mixed and re-formed into different companies, no one of which but was composed of both men and officers of different wings, and by this and other means the distinction of 1st and 2nd regiments, or right and left wings, were as much as possible abolished, and in a very short time

a uniform system of discipline and interior economy was introduced throughout the Madras European regiments. The hardship upon the junior commissioned and non-commissioned staff of the corps, who, on the reorganization of the regiment, were deprived of their appointments, was considerably lessened by their shortly being reappointed on the promotion of the seniors. Lieutenants Neill and Nicolay, who had been deprived of their appointments as staff of the right wing, were shortly afterwards reinstated by the promotion of Captains Duke and Hawes the adjutant and quarter-master of the regiment; and the promotion of Messrs. Dick and Duncan to the rank of warrant officers of the ordnance, allowed the two next seniors, Sergeant-major Williamson and Quarter-master Sergeant Gavin, to succeed them in the non-commissioned staff of the regiment.

In July, 1833, intelligence was received in India of the death, in England, on the 30th of May, of Sir John Malcolm. This distinguished officer joined the Madras European Regiment, as a cadet, in 1781, and was appointed an ensign in the corps, in October of the same year; and eventually rose to the rank of captain in it. He served at Seringawas noticed by Lord

patam, in 1792, where he Cornwallis. He returned to England in 1794, and the following year served at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope, under Sir Alured Clarke, and procured 400 recruits for the corps, from the German