ENGLAND'S HORSES, 



PEACE AND WAR. 



CHAPTER I. 



So much has been said and written, if little has been done, 

 regarding our general horses, their propagation, improve- 

 ment, culture, supply, insufficiency, and dearness ; to which 

 catalogue we ought to append an alleged decadence, that 

 the subject has fairly passed through that amount of excit- 

 ing ventilation and publicity which leads to popularity in 

 the public mind. 



Writers of varied classes of opinions have dealt w'ith 

 it through works of standard literature, and the medium 

 of the press and periodicals. Men capable of handling 

 it in its varied ramifications and details have devoted 

 energy and ability to exhaustive essays for the last 

 quarter of a century on the subject of our general and 

 military horse supply. From such utilitarian and highly 

 commendable efforts, we have at length aroused the 

 consideration of the great and powerful, without, up to 

 the present, any result beyond that of incontestable 

 practical confirmation of the warnings of writers on the 

 subject. 



