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a long flexible tube, screwed at one end into the gas-pipe, and to 
the other end has had fitted a burner similar in shape to that used 
for naphtha, only pierced with many small holes for the passage of 
the gas. At the same time he has had affixed to the burner a 
metallic horse-comb, standing in such situation and direction that, 
while he is carrying on his singeing operations, its teeth, by way 
of preparation to the burning, are furrowing and ruffling the hair. 
Thus armed, with his comb and burner together in one hand and a 
brush in the other, he rapidly performs his manipulations, running 
quickly and repeatedly over the same part of the skin, and as 
quickly passing from that to a fresh part ; over which the same 
repetition of strokes of combing and burning are as rapidly made. 
In this manner, naturally ready and clever at his work, he finds he 
can completely singe a horse in about four hours, the legs ex- 
cepted, they requiring, to look well, being clipped or trimmed. 
The soft lambent flame that gas produces, and the regulation and 
control it admits of through the intervention of a stop-cock upon 
the supply tube, appears to render it preferable for such a purpose 
as this to naphtha, or spirits of wine, or turpentine : indeed, to us 
so suitable does it seem, that we can but marvel it has not been 
thought of before. We would recommend some expert operators 
in this department to set up some place in or near town, whereto 
gentlemen might send their horses, and have them rid of their 
winter coats in a comparatively short space of time, and at a cost 
something considerably less than is at present charged for the ope- 
ration of tonsure. 
Glanders or Not ? 
Guildhall. — Yesterday, Geo. Munday, of North-street, Man- 
chester-square, was brought before Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes 
for examination, charged with the misdemeanour of exposing in 
Smithfield horse-fair a horse affected with the contagious disease 
called the glanders , to the nuisance of such of her Majesty’s sub- 
jects as had brought horses for sale to that place. 
Serjeant Lambert, of the Smithfield police, stated, that as soon 
as he saw the horse he perceived that it was diseased, there being 
a profuse discharge from its nose. He stopped the animal before 
it reached the other horses, and the veterinary inspector of the 
market being immediately called to examine it, concurred in de- 
claring it was glandered. The horse died the same night. 
