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considered, and you must be 'lroned up spin on
Monday morning, and you will then be informed
of the amount."
Bamford...." Wr have a number of friends here
whir are going into oar respective neighbourhoods,
who could provide bail by Tuesday next, if your
Lord.hip would now inform us of the amount re. •
ziti:red."
The COURT--" Ymt mind each of you be bound
in .2001. and two siireties 111 Inn/. each."
Socton--4. 41.1 y Lord, there are many of us who
••-e very poor, and whose ft lends me in the same
•it station ; a hard w; user is coming 0000 and it is very
143:41 Co, curio-at men to 1.4 y Isere upon Ili false
eimrV! of our merciless prosecutors."
CollitT:—" At present we know nothing but
what the indictment charges you with. It is a very
great crime. I cannot alter the amount of the bail."
!holey MI V Lord, I reside within a quarter
of a mile only from Yorkshire ; all my friends live
in Yorkshire ; will your Liirdship permit me to
bring bail from that county ?"
The COURT—" Certisitily, from any where."
Mr. /farmer and Mr. Pearson, both from Lon-
don. attended nu behalf of the Prisoners.
The Grand Jury cat two hilla preferred by Hunt
against Reath and Derbyshire (two of the witnesses
against Gant *keit he was cotumitted), charging
them with perjury.
Illunt and btr C. Walseley have just left Lancas-
ter foregoer, in s ve.•
IMO:past Fiat. p. Vt. •••.the Grand Jury have
this moment eta four indictments against different
members of Coe rlincliester yeomanry, which
charged tbeiin with attacks upon different indi-
viduals.

INDIAN HORSES.
:From the Calcutta Journal of the 23d March, 1819.]

Gti ZgEwortiC.—The following observations on
country horses, made by a correspondent in tra-
velling through the Ghazeepore district, will, we
hope, he interesting to some of our readers; we
give them in the writer's own words:—
" Having lately passed through the Ghazeepore district,
throughout which the Government stallions are permitted to
serve the mares uf lemindars, I was induced to make some
oheervations regarding the produce that is likely to be de-
rived from the sy.tem now adopted fur the improvement of
the tweed of horse.. I was highly pleased at having paid
a visit to the depot at Ghaseepore, at which place nearly
400 horses for the cavalry and horse artillery are .toeing this
month to be presented to a committee for admission into
the service. The thoroughbred horses that are to he sent
to Calcutta fur sale, attracted my particular attention—
they are a fine stweiniett of what kind of horses may be bred
un this side of India, puoisessing size and substance for any
purpose, combined with much fashion and elegance in their
appearance.
" The horses intended for the army are strong useful
colts, and if not ton severely worked until they are in full
power, or about six years old, they will he found much
more valuable than any country homes that can be proceved,
fur even double the sum that is allowed by the Government.
It may uut lie amiss to remark, that the stud-bred horses
are longer in coming to their foil size and strength, than
either Arab or country horses. I have even seen very many
instatires of cults at the age of three or four years old bent,
pr 11111111 l iced by good judges to be weak and washy horses,
which, at the age of six or seven, displayed a tine vigorous
appearance, and were will filled out. I will therefore ven-
ture to advise all those who have ally thing to do with young
stud bones, not to be too severe with them until they have
done growing; if they are so, they will find them wanting
in that fine round form, which at the age of six years they

will otherwise possess.
" The coedit' of the horses at the depot is highly ere.
Jilable to the officers of that department. and the manner
in which they are broken in, has given them a very superior
carriage, without making their months at all hard, or in the
slightest degree atieeting their disposition. Generally
speaking, they are quiet and tractable. In passing through
the Gliazeepore district, I was induced to lake a look •t the
foals which have not yet been brought up by the stud
officers; I was gratified to see the circle mares and stal-
lions in good order, and their foals at the age of eleven or
twelve months looking remarkably dean and healthy, and,
generally speaking, they hail attained the height of shout
thirteeu hands, without the slightest appearance of sores or
disease of any kind.
" The Zemindare mares not being so good as the circle
mares, it can hardly be expected their foals should be so large
as the others ; though somewhat smaller, they appear re-
mrikably well and very promising. The stud officers, I be-
lieve, have now authority to bay op all colts and fillies that
are likely to attain any tolerable size; there can be no doubt
that those which may not be considered eligible fur the ser-
vice will (if properly broken in for buggies and saddle horses)
sell for much more than they can have cost tlw Government.
The plan that is now adopted, of allowing colts of the same
age to run loose in padducks, is productive of the most be-
neficial consequences, they soon become accustomed to each
other, and when grown up, shew oo disposition to fight, as
the country horses generally do, which ariex from their be-
ing kept separate from each other; it has another and still
greater advantage, it itel'vents their becoming thick in the
shoulders and over chested, which the country horses com-
monly are, and which defects are caused by the manner in
which they are picketted, and their being obliged to eat off
the ground, without ever (while in the stable) having an op-
portunity of elevating the tread to its natural height.
" I was excessively pleased to observe the fine condition
of the horses at Captain Hunter's depot; I attribute it to
their being fed ou dry food. The oats and oat-straw is a
must exrelletit food for horses, infinitely superior to wet
gram and grass-cutters grass, which, generally speaking, has
the effect of a mild laxative, whereas the former food acts
quite the contrary. It appears to me that the cultivation
of oats might be adopted very generally with great success,
more particularly where alluvial laml can tie obtained, on
which they flourish surprisingly. From what I have seen.
I ran safely assert, that three and a half sees, of oats and
five adroit( oat-straw per day, will keep a horse in finer
condition, and enable him to go through harder work, than
five seers of grant and seven or right seers of grass-cutters
gratin will do.
" During the hot weather 1 would advise moist grass be-
int substituted fur the oat-straw, it would be a remarkably
good alterative, and tend mach to keep horses in good
health. I have for a long time fed my horses MI parched
barley instead of gram, mud find it a far better food, and,
whenever I could, I have avoided giving green grass. I
tried flu-experiment during the late war upon two horses
which at the commencement of the campaign a ere in equally
good condition, and I found at the eireclusion that the
horse which was fed on patched barley, with any kinda
dry jungle or the dry stalks of the bugnah and wan,
was in very good order, whereas the horse that was fed uu
moist gram and grass-cutters grass was a skeleton, like
moat of the horses its the division to whirl' I was attached;
■s to the gelding', fur such work, they appeared unable to
stand the cold, or rather the great change which in this
country takes place in the twenty-fours. I have one which
in the hot weather is always in very fine condition, and is
I know as good a horse as is generally to be met with, brit
during the cold weather he is always disreputable to be
seen open, mid unable to perform a hard day's work.
"nlwulJ These UhlerltatittllS Meet the eve of any person
who can account for gelding, where hard worked, being
in
such miserable condition as ninety-due out of • hundred
are, in the cold weather, I shall feel much obliged by the
s►cret being commarocated through the medium of your
valuable Jouriral. The staithbreil horses I ant cony:hied,
fur general porpoises, are the best horses in India, nod I
Ihope ere long to see • sufficient 'lumber of them to Roper-
**de the necessity of importing any but the fiats( Arabs."