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riage, sadlery and harness saloons, has 
been doubled; the sadlery room, itself, 
extending to the length of 154 feet. 
The carriage-rooms have space suffi- 
cient to contain five hundred carriages 
of all descriptions. These saloons pre- 
sent a striking and brilliant coup-d’ cil. 
The saddle-room, on the ground floor, 
is an interesting spectacle; not only 
sadlery and harness, but horse-cloths, 
whips, spurs, curry-combs, brushes, even 
to the lowest stable requisite, are there 
displayed for sale. Not the least cu- 
riosity, in this room, is a weighing ma- 
chine, in which any gentleman or lady 
may sit most commodiously, and have 
their content in solidity determined, at 
the moderate price of a tester, ready 
cash, that being a first and universal 
principle at the Bazaar. There is an 
additional suite of rooms, including the 
grand subscription room, coftee-room, 
three billiard-rooms, and a refectory 
for the various usual forenoon refresh- 
ments, liquors and a variety of fruits, 
from the pine to the common apple. 
The length of the great room is 113 
feet by 47, and the height 44 feet, with 
a dome or cupola above ; it is, per- 
haps, one of the most capacious rooms 
in the metropolis, This Mr. Young 
proposes to let to private musical or 
convivial parties. As a subscription 
room, in course, non-subscribers can- 
not be admitted, with the exception of 
ladies, who are introduced to view the 
establishment, and lady visitors are fre- 
quent. The annual subscription is a 
sovereign. The number of subscribers 
already amount to between three and 
four hundred, among whom, the esta- 
blishment has the honour to reckon 
his Grace the Duke of Northumber- 
land, with many of the highest rank 
and eminence in the country, or of the 
first distinction in the sporting line. 
A private room will be reserved for 
members of the Jockey Club, or for the 
adjustment of any particular business 
of the subscribers. The leading news- 
papers of the day are provided,  to- 
gether with the chief sporting publi- 
cations, and other periodical works of 
general interest. The ‘range for the 
shew of horses during the auction, is 
covered in, to a sufficient length; and 
the galleries on each side, for the ac- 
commodation of persons attending the 
sale, are rendered very commodious and 
complete. 
The stabling will accommodate five 
hundred horses, in the very first style 
of comfort and convenience, the stalls 
On the Trade of Horses, and the 
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being on the most roomy and ample 
scale: equally so the space for spec- 
tators who attend to view or purchase. 
The horses exhibit, in their appearance, 
the most liberal keep and the best 
grooming; and the grooms, who are in 
a sort of military costume, appear to be 
under excellent regulations. Boards of 
reference, with distinguishing numbers, 
state the price and qualifications of the 
horses. In brief, the whole manage- 
ment of this celebrated horse mart is 
regularity itself; every species of in- 
formation that can be required, by the 
stranger, appearing in text letter through- 
out. A veterinary surgeon (Mr. Turner, 
also the auctioneer), also a chief clerk 
of the stables (Mr. Duke), smith, and 
their assistants, are in constant attend- 
ance. There is a nightly watch kept. 
The sale days, by auction, are Wed- 
nesday and Saturday. 
There are at present, I believe, no 
other repositories, for the sale of horses, 
in the metropolis, at least none where 
any extensive business is carried on. 
Osborne’s Commission Stables, near 
Gray’s-Inn-Lane, have of late years 
been noted for extensive sales. Smith- 
field has been long known as a weekly 
market for cart and ordinary horses of 
every description—We use ‘the title 
Christian, with a religious emphasis, 
and by way of eminence—how then, 
in a Christian country, can such 
scenes be witnessed without hor- 
ror and remorse, in this secular hell of 
horses and cattle, as are beheld weekly, 
not barely with nonchalance and indif- 
ference, but apparently with gratifica- 
tion? Is it a general sentiment, that 
no animal, except it stand on two legs, 
can claim justice or mercy at our hands ? 
Here we witness the infliction of tor- 
ture, in every possible form, on animals 
which nature has endowed with a sense 
of feeling proportionably equal to our 
own, here we see the most horrible and 
wanton cruelty exercised in exact pro- 
portion with age, decrepitude and debi- 
lity. Here are to be found the wretch- 
ed stage horses, victims of our speedy 
travelling, of our comfort and conveni~ 
ence, covered with wounds and bruises, 
sinews strained, crippled, blind, ema- 
ciated, the truest pictures of animal 
misery ; under which, every step, every 
exertion, must be a source of increased 
and increasing torture. These crea- 
tures are either doomed to spend the 
bitter remains of life in the most pain- 
ful drudgery, with starvation ; or are at 
once sent to the nackers and cat-gut 
makers’ 
