VETERINARY OBITUARY. 
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Observations. — I think there cannot be a doubt that this 
horse’s death was brought on by Dickin bringing him at night 
to Mr. Jebb’s in too quick time ; seven miles and a half in an hour, 
for a carthorse, sixteen hands and a half high, fourteen years old, 
in good condition, and thick wdnded, being certainly too rapid 
a pace, especially after he had been hard worked at timbering ; 
Dickin also asserting he kept his other horse, that he rode upon, 
on the canter the greater part of the wa 3 \ 
I am inclined to believe that this was a case of rupture of the 
diaphragm of some standing; his usual manner of breathing 
renders this probable, and the supposition is confirmed by there 
not being any other disease to account for the symptoms and the 
death. 
A difference arose between the parties who should sustain the 
loss; and, as far as I had been consulted in the case, I declared 
that I had not a doubt that the horse was unsound (inde¬ 
pendent of the thick wind) when Dickin delivered him. The 
seller returned a few pounds of the purchase money, asserting, 
at the same time, he was not compelled to do so; and the pur¬ 
chaser, rather than dive into the glorious uncertainties of the law, 
wisely said no more about it. 
Fftrnnaii) 
The mourned—the loved—tlic lost !- Childe ilAROLD. 
MR. JAMES CASTLEY. 
Mr. James Castley was born in March, 1781, at a farm 
which his father rented in the neighbourhood of Kirby-Stephen, 
in Westmoreland; but the rent being high, and the farming bu¬ 
siness in that part of the country rarely a profitable concern, 
Mr. Castley, sen., who had always been considered a good judge 
of horses, and who was fond of buying and selling even while he 
was following his agricultural pursuits, abandoned the plough, a 
few years after the birth of James, and became a regular horse- 
dealer. His business was, at first, principally conducted in the 
country; but, in course of time, he brought his family to Lou¬ 
don, and settled there himself. 
James Castley had early evinced superior ability, and was left 
under the care of a relative in Richmond, in Yorkshire, the Rev. 
John Smeddle, who then kept a grammar school in that town. 
