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deductions derived from it most talentedly and carefully con- 
sidered. He deserves the thanks both of the profession and the 
public, for producing a work that most assuredly will become a 
standard one, and equally assuredly will not, for a long time to 
come, have a chance of being superseded. 
CRUELTY TO HORSES. 
[We reluctantly give this title to one of the divisions of our pe- 
riodical in the present month; but we should be unjust to that 
noble animal the horse, if we did not enter our decided protest 
against the abominable cruelties that have lately been recorded. 
Of a certain steeple-chase we will at present say nothing, for 
we believe that some of the actors regret that they should ever 
have so sadly committed themselves. 
We now refer to some transactions that have recently oc- 
curred, disgraceful in the highest degree, and against which 
every man of good feeling will enter his decided protest. We 
give them as they are recorded by the Secretary to the Society 
for the Suppression of Cruelty.] 
A Match against Time. 
On Thursday last, William North, of Monmouth-street, Bath, 
tavern-keeper, appeared before Mr. William Mount, chairman, 
and other magistrates, at the justice-room, Newbury, to answer 
the complaint of Mr. Henry Thomas, the secretary of the Royal 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who charged 
him with having wantonly and cruelly abused, ill-treated, and 
tortured a horse, in the parish of Welford, in the county of 
Berks. 
The defendant pleaded “ Not Guilty.” 
Mr. Thomas said, that he appeared on behalf of the Royal 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in order to 
prosecute the defendant for having shamefully ill-treated a horse. 
The charge arose out of the following circumstances : — the de- 
fendant and another person agreed to drive their horses in harness 
from Bath to Newbury, a distance of 58 miles, in four hours and 
a half. They started from Bath on Wednesday, the 7th of De- 
