England's nortsEs, 



power, Austria, from one of the leading daily papers, is ar 

 exemplification of the attention such matters obtain upon 

 the Continent, while here — well, " the least said the soonest 

 mended." 



" Although French horses have but recently made themselves 

 a name, and even yet Frenchmen have but an indifferent repu- 

 tation in this country for their powers of horsemanship, strange 

 to say there always has been in England a very strong feeling 

 of respect and admiration for the riding qualities of Hungarians, 

 whose prowess and deeds of daring in war have long been 

 celebrated. The gallantry of Edelsheim's Hussars has almost 

 become a proverb in Europe, and the now far-famed Uhlans 

 honestly avow that they learnt many of their arts from the 

 example set them by their gallant enemies of '66. From time 

 immemorial, whatever may have been the defects and failings 

 of Austrian armies and of Austrian generals, no faults have ever 

 been found with their cavalry, and but few with those who led 

 it; while times out of mind have these gallant cavaliers snatched 

 victory out of the hand of the foe, or, as on the bloody field of 

 Koniggratz, saved from utter destruction the remnants of a 

 routed army. We are sure that our readers will be especially 

 glad to learn all the valuable details relating to horse-breeding 

 in Austria that have been placed at their disposal by Lieutenant 

 Colonel Goodenough, our military attache. In common with 

 our other representatives at foreign courts, he was requested to 

 collect information for Lord Eosebery's committee, and we find 

 the result of his enquiries embodied in a carefully written dis- 

 patch, which appears in the appendix of the blue-book issued 

 by the committee. We are likewise indebted to a speech which 

 Colonel Goodenough made on the same subject at a meeting of 

 the United Service Institution last March. 



" As our readers are probably aware, Austria, although nom- 

 inally one empire, under one Emperor, in point of fact possesses 

 two governments and administrations, distinct and independent. 

 As in other matters, so in horse-breeding, the governments of 



