Snpphj of Horses adapted to the English Armij. 93 
The Heavy Cavalry make, in a great degree, successful attempts 
to procure the breeding and substance of weight-carrying hunters. 
Tlie Light Cavahy attempt with equal success to obtain well- 
bred, active, hunting-like horses of less weight. 
Those chosen for the Horse or Flying Artillery approximate 
more to the London carriage horse than to any other class ; and 
those which belong to the Field Battery class, are of the thick, 
active farm or railway-contractor's kind. The oflicers' chargers, 
being suitable for the park or hunting-field, and such as they would 
use whether in the army or not, need not be further noticed. 
This classification may be said to have existed for a good 
many years, but the number in each class has not remained 
relatively the same ; the Royal Artillery having been greatly 
augmented in consequence of the increased importance of that 
arm of the service. 
Although in no one instance, perhaps, is a horse bred 
expi'essly to supply the army, nevertheless horses of all these 
four descriptions are reared in abundance in the United Kingdom ; 
and we may feel assured, from our experience of the influence 
of the short Crimean campaign, that our general capability of 
rearing horses admits of very great expansion. Under the 
impulse then given, in Ireland alone the increase in one year, 
upon a stock of 573,408, amounted to 26,374 ; as although the 
war was then over, the vastness of this increase may be attributed 
to its influence. It is very much to be regretted that we have 
no means of knowing how many were bred in Great Britain in 
the same eventful period ; for we may be allowed to think that 
the diminution in the number of cavalry horses bred in Great 
Britain, which is a notorious fact, and the increase of the same 
produce in Ireland, have arisen in no inconsiderable degree from 
the publicity Avhich was given in Ireland and there only, to 
the state of the supply. Twenty-five years ago the case was 
reversed. 
The price paid by Government for the horses of the army, 
which on an average amounts to about 36Z., may not at first 
sight seem to be sufficiently remunerative to induce farmers to 
breed purposely for the army, and such, perhaps, never is their 
precise purpose. Their aim is to breed a carriage horse or a 
hunter ; but as their good intentions are not always realised, 
they sometimes fall back upon the cavalry or horse artillery. 
In breeding for farm or railway purposes, they at the same time 
produce horses for the rest of the service ; and Ave think that 36/. 
for a green four-year old of this class would pay the farmer, if 
he obtained his fair share of the price paid ; but we fear that 
more dealers live between the breeder and the barrack than is 
compatible with the interest of either party. Therefore the 
