100 ENGLAND'S HORSES, 



and not one-tenth of the experience devoted to acquire- 

 ment of competency, other professions are protected and his 

 IS not. 



In the event of the contemplated change in, or abolish- 

 ment of law of warranty, just look at what a boon to the 

 aristocracy would be an agency based upon capacity and 

 integrity alone, that for a reasonable charge would under- 

 take all the disagreeability and critical duty of selection for 

 approval of intending buyer, and, if approved, subsequent 

 negotiation, trial, purchase, and deUvery. Such an agency 

 has mine been for nearly twenty years, and such do other 

 aspirants to public favour profess theirs to be. If com- 

 petency and trustworthiness were alone permitted to offer 

 for public support under a license as in other jDrofessions, 

 I have no doubt but that the business of a faithful^ 

 competent, and appreciated horse agent would rival in 

 emolument a fashionable doctor's annual fees, or the 

 income of many busily employed silk gowns. The 

 Augoean stable required the labours of a Hercules to 

 clean, and, verily, as in our degenerate times no such phy- 

 sical aid can be brought to bear, if even it would apply, 

 the slough into which horses, &c., have at length fallen 

 M'ill want a mighty power of a cathartic and regenerating 

 character to set things straight again. 



High prices now maintaining for horses of soundness and 

 character will, no doubt, lead to stimulation in breeding 

 and increased returns throughout these kingdoms of horse 

 stock for general and war purposes. But supply thus in- 

 duced will as certainly find a commensurate balance some 

 day, and without a revivifying principle we may, in a few 

 years, find ourselves upon the horns of a similar dilemma. 



The most material thing to be considered in contem- 

 plating the solidity of anything is its base. Upon that the 

 whole structure rests, and, in cases of physiological con- 



