1825.] 
makers’ yards, where they have been 
seen devouring each other’s excrement, 
and even attempting to feed on the manes 
and tails of their famished fellow suf- 
ferers; or (it is averred by eye-wit- 
nesses) have been purposely and actually 
starved to death, that their sinews, be- 
coming dry and tense, might be more 
completely adapted to the cat-gut manu- 
facture !! Thus are the labours of the 
noble horse rewarded. 
The present writer has no ultra or 
pseudo - philanthropic views on this 
or any other subject, and is equally 
desirous with his neighbours to avail 
himself of the utmost good qualities of 
the horse, but he is equally the advo- 
cate of justice and fair play, whether 
the subject be man or beast. This is 
an essential part of his religion; and 
he apprehends that justice to beasts 
ought to form part and parcel of 
every religious and moral system. In 
the meantime, he is appalled and hor- 
ror-stricken at the fact, that the suffer- 
ings of animals, and the moral solici- 
tude of these who labour to mitigate 
them, should be made a popular sub- 
ject of ridicule. 
The London horse dealers are ex- 
tremely numerous, a considerable num- 
ber of them men of respectability, and 
possessed of large capitals. They are 
divisible into two classes—those who 
purchase in the country, and the re- 
pository dealers, who are ccnstant at- 
tendants, and buy and sell at those 
markets. The foreign trade in horses 
is chiefly in the hands of the first class 
of dealers, and, we believe, Dyson, of 
Park Lane, has as great a share in it as 
any one. Since the peace, the export of 
our horses to the Continent, to North 
America, the West and East-Indies, and 
to Australia, has been great beyond all 
previous example. This and other 
obyious causes have greatly enhanced 
prices. Nor is there any apparent pro- 
bability of their reduction, notwith- 
standing the vast increase of breeding 
studs, and the annually increasing quan- 
tity of stock: but, in the nature of 
things, a turn must come, as has 
hitherto never failed under similar cir- 
cumstances. .In the meantime, the 
universally-acknowledged superiority of 
the English horse, the managed forming 
the single exception, is surely to be 
admired in every sense of the term. 
The English racer, the hunter, the 
hack or journey horse, the lady’s pad, 
the horse for quick or heavy draught, 
ave yet unequalled under the sun. 
Repositories of the Metropolis. 
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Belgium, indeed, whence we originally. 
had the stuff, makes a shew of rivalling 
us in the heavy draught horse: but if 
they equal us in bulk and weight, we 
have improved upon them in the im- 
portant quality of activity : even as we 
have improved the Arab and Barb, the 
natural coursers of the desert, confer- 
ring on them, not only greater size and 
power, but far greater speed. In fact, 
those originals have never stood in any 
tolerable degree of competition with 
their derivative, the English racer, in 
respect to speed, even in the countries 
and climates bordering on their own; 
and in this country, they could never, 
comparatively, run at all. This im- 
provement, however, has not been 
wrought, in the mode often alleged by 
the unitiated in our mysteries; that is 
to say, by crossing with our own com- 
mon strong breeds, which indeed would 
be a roundabout proceeding of very 
problematical success. No, the racing 
breed in this country has invariably 
been preserved pure, as derived from 
the horse of the desert, with some few 
and known accidental exceptions, dur- 
ing the past two centuries. The soil, 
the climate, the air, the food, the water 
and, perhaps, beyond all, the stable 
science of English jockies, have worked 
this miracle, to which the whole race 
of the Hohenlohes would have been un- 
equal. The fraternity, in the United 
States of America, approaches the most 
nearly, as they ought, their pedigree 
considered. ‘They have even the har- 
dihood to boast a superiority over us, 
in the performance of their racers and 
trotting hacks; with respect to padders 
or pacers, their superiority is unques- 
tionable, since those paces have been 
obsolete in this country full four score 
years. We content ourselves, wisely 
or not, with the more natural and 
graceful pace, the canter. 
To conclude, with another object of 
ddmiration—it has not hitherto been 
satisfactorily accounted for, why the 
horses of the neighbouring continent 
should continue, in so great a degree, 
inferior to those of this country, seeing 
that the continental studs have, during 
so long a period, been supplied with 
English breeding stock, and occasion- 
ally with English grooms. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sm: 
N your Magazine of this month, I 
observe an article on Smoky Chim- 
nies. I beg to recommend to the writer 
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