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cavalry regiments, so condemned, are consigned to the slaughter¬ 
house now, as they were sixty years ago, previously to veteri¬ 
nary surgery becoming a science in this country. At the large 
Veterinary College at Alfort, a discovery has just been made 
which, if it is to be relied on, is of the highest importance to all 
owners of horses. The Recueil de Medicine Veterinaire de 
Pratique states that a horse having a chronic affection of the 
glanders was subjected to the influence of aconite. This exotic 
plant is better known in this country as Monk’s Hood, or 
Wolf’s Bane (Aconitum Napellus), and from its bearing an or¬ 
namental flower, is now to be met with in almost every garden. 
It has long been notorious as a deadly poison ; it was given to 
the horse alluded to in small doses, commencing with two 
drachms of the leaves of the plant, and gradually increased for 
nearly twelve days. The experiment, it is added, proved suc¬ 
cessful. A talented English veterinary surgeon observes on 
this subject:—“The achievement of the cure of glanders is 
destined to become the work of a national undertaking. The 
experience of the last half century has convinced all who are 
redolent on the subject, that individual exertion, enterprise, and 
even property, to a considerable amount—all have been em¬ 
barked in vain.” He submits to the Legislature the propriety 
of erecting a National Animal Infirmary, in some insulated lo¬ 
cality, not remote from the metropolis, for the sole purpose of 
experimental treatment, unique operations, &c. The con¬ 
demned horses of the cavalry to be the first inmates, instead of 
being shot. 
ENGLISH CAVALRY HORSES FOR FRANCE. 
SEVERAL French contractors have come over to this country 
from Paris and other parts of France for the purpose of entering 
into a contract with the English breeders of horses to supply a 
large number of horses for remounting the different cavalry 
regiments in France, artillery and heavy cavalry (cuirassiers, 
carbiniers, and heavy dragoons), light cavalry, lancers, hussars, 
and chasseurs, wagon train, &c. The price stipulated by the 
Minister of War is not to exceed £32 to £35 for heavy cavalry, 
and from £22 to £26 for light cavalry ; chargers for the officers 
not to exceed £36. The supplies will be chiefly from Yorkshire 
and the northern counties, renowned for the breeding of horses 
for the British cavalry regiments. 
