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parting for the day, so I have reserved for my closing- 

 page the Briareiis-handed poAver wielded by Mr. Edmund 

 Tattersall in anything regarding questions of " horse 

 supply." It is not only that in him is now concentrated 

 all the fame of the world-wide institution of which he 

 remains "the bright particular star," but that personally 

 he has secured for himself, by individual woi-th through a 

 life of signal ability, coupled with strictest integrity, the 

 approved respect and friendship of both great and smalL 

 For amongst the "small talk" that one is sure to hear in all 

 classes connected with horses about " Tattersall's," and all 

 connected with it, whatever may be the observations with 

 regard to others, there is but one verdict when his name is 

 mentioned — " Oh, Tattersall is a gentleman, and a thunder- 

 ing good fellow into the bargain." I, therefore, thought, 

 and think, that at the " wind up " of my chat with the 

 reader, nothing could prove more agreeable and interesting 

 than a resumS from " Mr. Edmund's " out-spoken opinions 

 upon a congenial occasion on the subject we are engaged 

 with. 

 MR. E. TATTERSALL ON THE SUPPLY OF ENGLISH 

 CAVALRY HORSES. 

 Read before the Farmers Club, Monday, March 6th, 1871. 

 In introduciug to the Farmers' Club this important subject, Mr. 

 Tattersall read a letter, written by him in the summer of 1870, 

 and published in Bell's Life on September the 10th, of the same 

 year. " I shall have," said Mr. Tattersall, in his speech to the 

 Farmers' Club, " the opportunity of reading to you letters, and 

 giving you information from the highest authorities in Prussia and 

 in Austria, showing you what the enlightened governments of 

 those countries have done, and are doing ; and thus, I think, you 

 will come to the conclusion ' that, as in other things, we Enghsh- 

 men are not placed in our right position, and therefore lose caste 

 in Europe. As we have upwards of 30 millions of the bravest 



