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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Peace flies the earth, and, flying, to me thy reins has flung ; 
Old Europe’s ramparts crumble down, her portals wide are swung. 
Pour forth before my greedy hand the wealth her vaults enclose. 
And rest thee in the classic haunts where arts e’en yet repose. 
Twice hast thou laved thy gory flank within the rebel Seine ; 
Return, return, my courser, and drink her waves again. 
Then neigh, &c. 
Besieged as in some mighty fort by subjects oft betrayed. 
The king, the noble, and the priest, all cry to me for aid — 
Oh ! save us from our people’s hand, and leave us tyrant’s still. 
And we will be thy slaves, Cossack, the puppets of thy will ; 
And I have taken up my lance to do the thing they spoke, 
And cross and sceptre shall go down before that lance be broke. 
Then neigh, &c. 
I saw beside our bivouack a giant’s shadowy form ; 
Beneath his gaze the watch-fire paled, his accents hushed the storm. 
“ My reign begins anew,” he cried, and o’er his phantom crest 
He waved his battle-axe on high and pointed to the West. 
Oh well I knew the royal Hun, the chief of deathless sway. 
Thy son, O Attila, am I ; they mandate I obey. 
Then neigh, &c. 
The glories that o’er Europe’s brow their paling radiance bend, 
The learning that adorns her sons, but aids not to defend, 
Engulfed within the cloud of dust that from thy hoofs is cast, 
Shall vanish blank and recordless, the present with the past. 
Efface the shrines where nations kneel — efface the kingly throne — 
Law, manuers, memories, all efface — and be the wreck our own. 
Then, neigh aloud with martial pride, my courser wild and fleet ; 
And trample nations in the dust, and Kings beneath thy feet. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1854. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Having last month made a few cursory observations “on 
the shoes and the shoeing of the horses of our cavalry about 
to proceed to Turkey,” we shall, this month, direct our 
regard to the horses themselves. Although, from various 
causes, British regiments of cavalry may not maintain the 
like pre-eminence over continental forces of the same de- 
scription, which, in former times, they, by universal ac- 
knowledgment, were admitted to do ; still are they, generally 
speaking, worthy of admiration for being mounted upon a 
superior breed of animal to what is to be attained in countries 
where horses are little cared for, in their breeding, in their 
feeding, and in their grooming, to what they are, on account 
of the high price they fetch in the market, when reared 
