HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A HORSE. 
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curing the perpetuation of the species to the strongest and 
most vigorous males. In like manner, those of unripe age, 
as well as those which are the subjects of disease, are held 
in check by those which are vigorous and healthy, and the 
consequence is that a strong constitution is secured to their 
offspring. By domestication we interfere with the action of 
these natural laws. We seek to establish and perpetuate 
certain peculiarities of the animal system which are un¬ 
natural, but which are, at the same time, very desirable for 
our comfort and prosperity. There are three special objects 
which the general breeder seeks to attain with a view to 
direct profit, each of which requires a special mode of pro¬ 
cedure which cannot be departed from without loss. These 
qualifications are— 
A liberal production of good milk; 
An economical formation of meat; 
And the preservation of purity of blood. 
I shall endeavour to prove that we have these important 
points of character far more under our control than is gene¬ 
rally imagined, and that from want of due consideration we 
often frustrate and impede our designs. 
{To be continued .) 
HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A HORSE. 
COUNTY MAGISTRATES ONCE MORE. 
(Extractedfrom the ‘Dispatch?) 
“This very day, Sunday, the 17th of November, at least a 
hundred sermons enforcing the duty of humanity to animals 
will be preached in the churches and chapels of the metropo¬ 
lis. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals has enlisted in the cause a large number of the 
ministers of all denominations, who will make a simultaneous 
appeal to their hearers to be merciful towards the brute 
creation. We commend most earnestly to the attention 
of preachers and congregations a case reported in another 
column, which shows how very little protection there is in 
some cases for poor dumb creatures. Mr. John Donnithorne 
Taylor, a person possessed of large property in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Southgate, Middlesex, was prosecuted by the 
society for atrocious cruelty to a horse. Love, the officer of 
the society, stated on oath before the magistrates at Edmon¬ 
ton, that he called upon the defendant respecting the charge, 
and Mr. Taylor admitted that the horse had, by his instruc- 
