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are not among the establishments which it is within the legitimate 

 province of any government to maintain. 



After the United States of America, which in breeding the English 

 horse stands next to England itself, the most eminent success has 

 attended its rearing in the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. The 

 Cape farmer, who used to drive his produce to market at a snail's pace, 

 with a team of sixteen oxen, now does it, at a smart trot, with eight 

 English-bred horses— a royal team ; in all likelihood, better cattle than 

 those which conveyed Charles II in state (some lovely Thais by his 

 side) from Whitehall to the City. The success has been still greater 

 in Australia, where the pastures are more spacious, and the grasses 

 more nutritious. In the course of the year 1858, the Australian 

 colonies furnished for the Indian Cavalry 2,563 horses, at the average 

 price, on the spot, of 301. a head, and, when landed in India, at from 

 80Z. to 90/. ; being a smaller price for a better horse than that supplied 

 bv the Government stud. 



Here, then, we find a country which, seventy years ago, had not 

 only no horse, but no native animal more respectable than a kangaroo, the 

 brain of which the great naturalist, Mr Owen, tells us, is of no higher 

 order than that of a reptile, exporting more horses than England itself, 

 and adding their value to five millions' worth of sheep's wool, and 

 ten millions' worth of gold. Two generations ago its population 

 consisted of a few savages, the very lowest in the scale of humanity, and 

 now its inhabitants are Anglo-Saxons, amounting to near a million. A 

 century hence, this continent of the Antipodes will contain more people 

 than does now the United Kingdom ; and unless they differ greatly from 

 their progenitors, they will be meditating the conquest of the whole 

 Indian and Philippine Archipelagos, giving law to China and Japan 

 and quarrelling with New Zealand — by this time as crowded with 

 free and ambitious Anglo-Saxons as itself. 



C. W. KHTNHLL, UTTLE POI,TBNET STBEBT, HAYMARKET. 



