THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1859. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. —Cicero. 
NEW ARMY WARRANT FOR INCREASING THE PAY, etc., 
OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
It affords us considerable gratification to be able to an¬ 
nounce on the best authority that the new army warrant 
respecting the increase of pay, and earlier promotion of 
Veterinary Surgeons in Her Majesty’s service, has received 
the sanction of the authorities at the War Office. In our 
next number we hope to give the details in full of this 
important document. 
THE LATE MEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
In accordance with annual custom, we lay before our 
readers the award of the prizes of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, at its late meeting in the time-honoured town of 
Warwick. We had hoped to have been able to have done 
this in our last number, but our disappointment in this 
respect is the less to be regretted, since it is not so much our 
province to give early information on a subject of this kind 
as to record the facts for future reference. The meeting in 
every way may be said to have done honour to our great 
national society, and to have been fully equal in importance 
to any which had preceded it. Nay, in one thing alone did 
it fail even to surpass all those which had gone before it, 
namely , in the gross number of the visitors to the exhibition. 
According to the official returns, 1,689 persons w T ere 
admitted to the implement-yard on Tuesday, Juty 12th, at 
2 8. 6d. each, making the receipts for the day £210 17,?. 6d. 
On Wednesday 5,154 persons entered the same yard, 
and 3,386 the cattle-yard, the former paying 25. 6d. and the 
latter 5s ., the money received from the two sources being 
£1,489 25. 6d. 
On Thursday, the day on which both yards w r ere thrown 
open on the payment of one sum, 19,902 persons paid for 
admission £2,487 1 85. 6d .; and on Friday, when the entrance 
fee was reduced lo 15., the visitors were 25,446, and the 
