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AliMY INTELLIGENCE. 
V 
A FARMER CONVICTED OF STARVING HIS COWS. 
At the West Riding* Police-court, at Huddersfield, a few days since, 
John Holroyd, a fanner, owning* about four acres of land at Marsden, 
in Huddersfield, was charged by Mr. Superintendent Heaton, 
with cruelly and wantonly ill-treating* and abusing* three cows, his 
own property- On Tuesday last Mr. Heaton went to the defen¬ 
dant’s premises, where he found a cow slung up in the barn, a 
plank being placed under its belly and hinder part, and some sacking 
placed behind its fore legs and hips. It was living at the time, but in 
a most deplorable condition. The defendant refused to send for a 
veterinary surgeon, though urged to do so, saying he believed the 
animal would recover. It appeared that about a month since this cow 
had fallen a distance of about two yards, from a field into the road. At 
that time it was so weak as hardly to be able to stand, but it was got 
to the barn, where it was allowed to lie without attention or care. There 
were two other cows in a field described by a witness as resembling 
walking skeletons, and stated to be so weak that, though able to stand, 
they could be easily pushed down by a touch of the hand. This weak 
condition was said to result solely from the want of food. The defendant, 
an old man, was convicted; but the bench, merely wishing to give him 
a caution as to his future conduct, reduced the penalty to lOs. and the 
expenses, amounting in all to two guineas. 
ARMY INTELLIGENCE. 
The Secretary of War, acting upon the suggestion of a 
committee of officers appointed to consider the regulations of 
the yeomanry service, has decided, among other things, that 
a regiment have one lieutenant-colonel commandant, one 
lieutenant-colonel, two majors, one surgeon, and one veteri¬ 
nary surgeon; and that in future, when the yeomanry are 
called out for training or ordinary permanent duty, the pre¬ 
sent rates of pay and allowance shall cease, except in the 
case of the adjutant , surgeon , assistant surgeon , and veterinary 
surgeon , and that in lieu thereof an allowance of seven shillings 
a day shall be made to each officer. In the event of the yeo¬ 
manry being called out in aid of the civil power, or for extra¬ 
ordinary duty, the old rate of pay shall be given. The new 
regulations will come into force in the different corps when 
they are assembled for training this summer. 
