4 E^'GLANDS HORSES, 



you look at them the bigger they get. Those who go at 

 them with pluck and in good form getting off much better 

 than the timid and the shirkers. 



Our Gallic neighbours are considering the subject of 

 careful selection of snes and an increase in the number 

 maintained throughout that country. A proposition is 

 now before the French Assembly, that the number of 

 sires should be added to by one hundred annually, until 

 the aggregate supply doubles its present number of stud 

 horses. Considering the immense demands that the re- 

 sources of France have recently sustained in comparison 

 to those upon our plethoric exchequer, their scheme for 

 increase and imj)rovement of their military horses contrasts 

 favourably with the results of The Lord's Committee on 

 the same subject in England, which, after sitting for several 

 months and exhausting every possible channel for enquiry 

 and information on the subject exercising their research, 

 eventually decided that our supply was not by any means 

 equal to our wants, but that they could not help that, nor 

 could they suggest a feasible and popular remedy. 



We have now, through the accident of change in the 

 administration, a Government in office, amongst the tra- 

 ditional repute of which is recorded strong sympathies in 

 maintaining our national power and prestige amongst the 

 nations of the earth ; and, also, to be favourable to all the 

 interests of our horses, hounds, turf, and other time- 

 honoured institutions. The sympathies of the Conserva- 

 tives, it is to be hoped, will promptly lead to the considera- 

 tion and practical treatment of a subject so popular and 

 imjjeratively important. 



We cannot be said to be at peace now, and we are not at 

 war with any people where cavalry forces are required. But 

 can wx hope in the course of things to be exempted all 

 through the future from collision necessarily demanding 



