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But when once able to produce a great number of saddle- 

 horses, by crossing good Arab blood \vith strength of 

 bone and muscle, we should soon have a race of hardy 

 and vigorous horses fit to carry our light cavalry. Then, 

 by the aid of a cross with a lower but stronger breed of 

 horses, we could produce the finest heavy cavalry horses 

 in the whole world, with strength sufficient to charge 

 and crash up the solid squares of an enemy into splin- 

 ters ; and having sufficient constitutional vigour to live 

 and carry their riders, while existing upon such forage 

 as the uncertain circumstances of camp life will allow. 



Not withstanding the general outcry that English-bred 

 horses have become deteriorated in quality, it is a fact 

 that most European sovereigns depend upon us for their 

 very best chargers and pleasure-horses ; many of them 

 having agents in this country, who are always prepared 

 to give fabulous prices for horses of the first water, and 

 several London dealers have standing commissions to 

 supply animals of this class. The great north of England 

 dealer, Mr. Murray, of Manchester, has for years enjoyed 

 the patronage of the Emperor of the French ; and I know 

 for a certainty, that the Empress Eugenie's most favour- 

 ite horse was supplied by Mr. Murray. The Emperor's 

 first charger at the present time was also purchased, 

 with eight others, from Mr. Murray, by General Fleury, 

 on the 9th April last, all for the Emperor's own use. 

 And, by-the-bye, I may here mention, that as a mark 

 of the satisfaction which these purchases have given his 

 Imperial Majesty, he has recently presented Mr. Murray 



