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us of our finest high-bred Carriage-horses, 
such as the more dashy cits prefer for a dis¬ 
play in Broadway, or upon the Third avenue. 
Carriage horses differ but little from those 
among us, save that they are usually larger, 
16 hands being the general height, and we 
have occasionally seen them in most superb 
shape in the London parks, full 17 hands 
high. The stage coaches, omnibuses, cabs, 
<&c., are recruited from the broken down 
hunters and condemned carriage horses, and 
are of course wofully cursed with grease, 
corns, founders, spavins, broken wind, and 
the whole catalogue of horse diseases, so 
much so, as to make one’s heart ache at 
times, to ride after them $ and the cabs, es¬ 
pecially, in the apparent age and condition 
of their horses, would occasionally bring 
Mr. Pickwick’s ride to the Golden Cross to 
memory. 
“How old is that horse, my friend 1” in¬ 
quired Mr. Pickwick, rubbing his nose with 
the shilling he had reserved for the fare. 
“ Forty-two,” replied the driver, eyeing 
him askant, 
“ And how long do you keep him out at a 
time 1” inquired Mr. Pickwick, searching for 
farther information. 
“ Two or three veeks,” replied the man. 
“ Weeks !” said Mr. Pickwick, in astonish¬ 
ment—and out came the note-book again. 
“ He lives at Pentonwill, when he’s at 
home,” observed the driver, coolly; “ but we 
seldom takes him home, on account of his 
veakness.” 
“ On account of his weakness !” reiterated 
the perplexed Mr. Pickwick. 
“ He always falls down, when he’s took 
out o’ the cab,” continued the driver, “ but 
when he’s in it, we bears [reins] him up 
werry tight, and takes him in werry short, 
so he can’t werry well fall down, and we’ve 
got a pair o’ precious large wheels on, so 
when he does move, they runs after him, and 
he must go on—he can’t help it.” 
Even the very gentlemanly and intelligent 
coachmen, who otherwise make themselves 
so agreeable on the road, have a cruel art, 
with their long lashes, of striking the ears of 
the jaded horses till they bleed, when they 
flag under other punishment, and are fearful 
to fall behind the set time of completing their 
stage. 
As for trotters and a fast enduring com¬ 
pact roadster, we hope no one will consider 
us prejudiced when we say, that we think 
England is inferior to America east of the 
Alleganies. We easily beat the best Eng¬ 
lish horses on their own ground, with what 
would be considered now as third rate trot¬ 
ters with us. They attribute this superiority 
merely to better training and riding; but ac¬ 
cording to our limited observation, we found 
agreat difference in the animals , for a few of 
our friends had American horses here with 
which we could make the comparison, and 
they struck us as being for their size, better 
boned, more muscular, powerful, and com¬ 
pact. In fact we cannot better express our¬ 
selves, than by saying, if the power of an 
English 16 hand horse, with a refinement of 
bone, were compressed to the size of 15 
hands, this would then be the American with 
his enlarged strength, and a better and quick¬ 
er action. There is no doubt but our drier 
climate and silicious soil, tend greatly to the 
hardening and refinement of bone, and for¬ 
mation of superior muscle with less flabby 
flesh in all horses bred east of the moun¬ 
tains. 
The Galloways of England are much like 
our snug little horses of the north, but we 
found nothing here which we thought equal 
to the French Canadian, or like our Narra- 
ganset pacers, or those of Indian breed and 
celebrity. Nor have we anything so small 
and pretty in return, as the Dartmoor, Welsh, 
and Shetland ponies, now so well known 
among us by recent importations. 
The large cart horse is used here more 
than any other kind for agricultural purposes, 
and is especially necessary in London and 
other old towns, to conduct the heavy loads 
of the brewer and coalman, in ponderous 
carts and wagons through the narrow crook¬ 
ed streets, harnessed in single file. These 
animals are very large, generally 16£ to 17 
hands high, and sometimes 18 hands. Some 
of them are good walkers, and being very 
powerful, are not without merit; but they 
are great consumers, and have too much 
flabby flesh to suit our taste. The long 
coarse hair on their legs from the knee joint 
down, is very objectionable, and when work¬ 
ed in a heavy soil, it gathers a great mass of 
clay to each leg, which adds several pounds 
weight to their feet, and makes^one think of 
a condemned criminal working with a chain 
and ball attached to hiifl for punishment. 
This long hair also makes them subject to 
the grease, as we were informed, a very un¬ 
pleasant disease of the feet. 
Superior stallions of this breed, however, 
command not unfrequently a large price, and 
have sometimes sold as high as ,£1,000. 
Those we saw in Sussex we thought the 
finest and best of this breed. They had very 
little of the objectional long hair upon the 
