The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

HORSE TAMING EXTRAORDINARY.

Yesterday a new candidate for popular applause
is the art of horse taming made her debt at the Alhambra,
in the person of a young lady named Ashton, and as she was
prevented by circumstances from putting forth her full
powers, it will be but fair to let her tell her own story in
her own words :—" Miss Ashton had the distinguished
honour of experimenting in her Majesty's private riding
school at Buckingham Palace, on Saturday, March 3, 1860.
The subjects upon which she practised were two wild an.
broken colts fresh from grass, never previously handled or
even seen by her, which, in the space of a few minutes, she
mat mingle-handed, and fondled with them on the
ground as if they were pet spaniels. The subjects
selected for the display of her astonishing powers at the
Alhambra Palace are two unbroken three-year-old oohs, a
wild Exmoor pony, and a hybrid animal, recently found is
the New Forest, Hampshire, said to combine the species of
the horse with that of the red deer. Miss Ashton is the
daughter of the late Mr. John Ashton, of Oskar End Farm,
near Matlock, Derbyshire. She is only eighteen years of
age, but from her childhood she has alwAys shown • re-
markable fondness foe horses. She will be accompanied by
the original horse tamer, Mr. James Teller, from Anton
Hill, Northumberland, who has made arrangements for
securing the most vicious horse that can be found in London
or vicinity ; and, although near upon 60 years of age, he
will guarantee to produce the same results with more ease
to himself and his subject* than does Mr. limey, who, he is
prepared to prove, is not the discoverer of this system of
hone taming, es alleged by him ; in fact, that it is not an
American discovery at all."
So much for the advertisement. At two o'clock there
was a very fair attendance, considering that the charges for
admission were as high as a guinea and half-a•guinea each.
The proceedings were commenced by • gentleman, who ap-
peared to have been connected with some circus, and who
enlarged with much emphasis on the antiquity of Mr.
Bare?, method. Without going so far sa to assert that
Neptune applied it to his sea-bones, he maintained that it
was as old as the employment of horses for the service of
max After these remarks he informed the audience
that Mr. Teller was amble, from indisposition, to attend ;
and, also, that he had not been able to procure the loan of
any vicious hone. The audience received the intelligence
very good-naturedly ; and, in fact, seemed rather relieved
than otherwise. Miss Ashton was then introduced. She
has manly the look of a farmer's daughter, and seems young
for her age. Two or three ponies were brought in ; they
made not the slightest objection to have their legs
tied up, and they were, of course, then thrown down
without much trouble. A few caresses were judiciously ap-
plied ; and these were rapidly found in each case to turn the
anima " dangerous nature mild." The " hybrid " ap-
peared to the unitiated eye remarkably like an illvcomed,
overgrown Shetland. The performances were wound up
by Miss Asliton's attendant operating on • bull specially
engaged from Clare-market. The brute showed au rlarm-
ing tendency towards beef, and like other stout pe
including his keeper (who evidently approved of trinta.
ionian maxim,

Kix drives fat oxen should himself be fat ")
he was remarkably good tempered. He allowed his short
lap to be tied up without offering the slightest remon-
strance ; but being too obtuse to comprehend what wee next
expected of him, lie remained a very long time on his knees
be&re he could be persuaded to lie down. Even be was at
last led to comply with the established rule ; and on the
whole the performance may be pronounced to have bees as
successful even as the famous exploit of the distinguished
Br. Briggs.

THE C0101:EINO MATTEL or LEAVEK—In • com-
munication to the Amami. dus Sciences, M. Premy stated,
as the result of hi■ experiments, that the chlorophylls of
plants is in reality composed of two substances—one tallow,
soluble in ether, and one blue, soluble in chlorhydric acid.
Hs has been enabled to separate them, and presented them
he the Academy in their isolated conditions.—Medics!
Times.