The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

TI-IE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1864.

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is the watchword, and streets are closed, houses
demolished, and oldest inhabitants sent marching
forth in quest of new parishes, responsive to the
bidding of the despot. Moving is all very well
when locomotion is the object, but when people
wish to sit still its advantages are not so apparent.
We shall begin to think that railways, like fires,
make good servants but bad masters, and to con-
sider that it is time to put a few constitutional
checks upon the actions of King Steam. At present
he seems bent upon tearing up and pulling down
to an unlimited extent, and we would humbly sub-
mit to him that he should confine his royal progress
as much as possible to the suburbs, where he will
have more room for his antics and do less mischief
than in the mighty thoroughfares of the city. Only
last session Lord DERBY interfered with the humane
intention of smothering up one of the few green
spaces in the city with bricks and mortar. But,
since then, a myriad new schemes have sprung up
hydra-headed where the one was struck down, and
his lordship is wanted to do battle with them singly
and collectively. Unless he bestir himself actively
in the matter, he will probably have, in the course
of a session or two, to pass through the Peer's entry
in a special train ; and may yet be destined to be-
hold some Piccadilly and Pimlico branch line send-
ing its locomotives whirring across the classic
solitudes of St. James's-square and shooting up the
narrow aperture, which, in these days, is all that
, divides the Conservative from the Reformer.

Another shake of the political kaleidoscope in II
Spain has led to another Ministerial combination.
Senor ARAZOLA, as President of the Council
and Minister of State, has gathered about
him as his colleagues, in the capacity of
Minister of Justice Senor ALVAREZ; as Minister
of Finance Senor TRUPITA; as Minister of the In-
terior Senor BENATIDES ; as Minister of War
General LERSUNDI; as Minister of the Colonies
Senor CASTRO; as Minister of Public Works
Senor MoYANO. It is significantly added
by the telegram announcing this change of Cabinet
at Madrid, that the newly-formed Administration
is hardly expected to be long-lived. Nor,
when the names of the new administrators
come to be scrutinized, can we seriously arrive at
any other conclusion in their regard than that they
are scarcely likely to be long held together by
ARAZOIA as a Government. Stability in power is
not to be predicated for them collectively upon
any, even the most casual or cursory scrutiny, of
their respective antecedents.

The War in America,

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

SIR,—In your to-day's number is a letter on the
horrors of the American war, and speculating on
its indefinite continuance.
I venture to think that we Englishmen do not
sufficiently realise the horrors of this fearful war
nor our responsibilities in respect of it. Is it not
quite clear that the North cannot succeed in its
attempt to subjugate the South P And does not our
refusal to recognise encourage the North in its
hopeless and insane career ?
But one sentiment--a determination to be free—

evidently pervades the whole Southern people,
men, women, and children. England thus appears
to me to have no excuse for refusing recognition at
the South, which, being done conjointly with France,
would be the verdict of Europe, and would no doubt
materially tend to open the eyes of the North, and
bring the fearful struggle to a close,—Yours, &c.,
Gresham Club, 3 an. 18. W.

FATAL AFFRAY.—On Saturday evening Mr. C.
J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, concluded an
adjourned inquiry at the Druid's Arms publichouse, Green-
wich, on the body of George Carter, aged 32, who, it was
alleged, met his death by being knocked from a barge into
the river by Thomas Perkins Syms, a Thames lighterman.
It appeared that the deceased and others were engaged in
loading the barge Fanny with pig lead from the steamer
Wanebeck, belonging to the General Steam Navigation
Company. The loading was completed about 11 o'clock at
night, at which time Syms, who was proved to be greatly
under the influence of liquor, was brought to the barge,
with another lighterman, named Loggon, to take the
barge to the Eaat India Docks. Just before reaching the
barge Syms asked if the latter was the Fanny, and re-
ceived in reply an offensive answer from some person
either on board the barge or the steamer. On entering the
head sheets of the barge the deceased was the first person
met by Syms, and he accused him of being the person
who had given the answer referred to. A dispute arose
between them. Syms pushed the deceased two or three
times in the ribs, and wanted him to fight, but the deceased
said he would have nothing to do with him. On a man
coming from another part of the barge and telling Syms
that it was not the deceased who had given him the offen-
sive answer, but some one on board the steamer, Syms
replied, "All right." Almost immediately afterwards Carter
put on his coat and was about to get on board the steamer
from the barge—he had, indeed, laid hold of the rope by
the steamer's side for this purpose—when Syms, who had
taken off his boots, ran acrpss the barge and grappled with
him. They closed together, and both fell over the side of
the barge into the river, the deceased on falling into the
water being heard to exclaim, "Oh dear, oh dear, my poor
wife and children I" Syms was saved, but Carter was un-
fortunate]' carried away by the tide, and drowned. Syms,
having been duly cautioned by the coroner, volunteered a
statement, in which he alleged that on telling deceased he
might have given him a civil answer, the deceased shoved
him, and that they then closed together and fell overboard.
The learned coroner wont through the evidence very care-
fully, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned an
unanimous verdict of " Manslaughter against Thomas Per-
kins Syms," who was thereupon committed upon the coro-
ner's warrant to take his trial at the next Old Bailey
Sessions, substantial bail being accepted for Ms appearance.
The deceased has left a widow and three children, the
eldest four years and the youngest six months old.
A NEEDLE IN THE HUMAN BODY FOR THREE
YEARS —A singular instance of this kind occurred
at Inverury some time ago, of which the following are the
particulars :—About three years ago, Mr. John Dawson,
sheriff's-officer, was at times anroyei, when turning his body
into a certain position, by a sharp pricking on his back, below
the right shoulder ; and he often looked in his vest, expect-

Lig to find a pin or other sharp point sticking into his flesh;
but as nothing could be found, he rubbed the place with
his hand, and no more was felt of it for some time. It
continued to annoy him in this way for several months,
and then ceased to give him any further trouble ; and
no notice was taken of it until the month of April last,
wh€n the same sort of pricking pain commenced imme-
diately above the elbow of the tight arm, and on examining
it an apparently hard body appeared to be lying across the
arm; but, as on the former occasions, it was soon forgotten,
and continued to be so until the month of September, when
the hard substance had made its way to the top of the

shoulder, where it could not go further without cutting
the skin, and then the pain became incessant. At that
time Mr. Dawson came to the conclusion that it was
a needle, as he had heard of such cases occurring, and ho
resolved to have it cut out; but, in attempting to do so, it

broke, and as the pain ceased the attempt was abandoned
for a time. After the lapse of a week, Mr. Munroe,

druggist, extracted part of it ; but in the course of the
week which elapsed after the first attempt to extract it,
the longest part of it had travelled upwards of an inch
from its former position. Ultimately the other half of the
needle was extracted ; and when put together, the pieces
measured l;of an inch. And what is equally strange, a
small fragment of thread was in the eye when extracted.
➢lr. Dawson is not aware by what means it had got into
his body ; but it is remarkable how any sharp-
pointed instrument could have remained and traversed
through the human body for three years (and :perhaps
double that time) without causing more pain. This, together
with the tact that, instead of the needle moving after the
end, as would have been expected, it was clearly shown,
from its position in the arm, that it moved upwards nearly
at a right angle to it, makes the occurrence, which we state
on the best authority, altogether a singular one,—Aberdeen
Free Press.

:MORE HASTE WORSE SPEED.—As the master of
a merchant vessel at Teignmouth, named Hill, was assisting
his wife, at the Taunton station, to return to her carriage
when in motion, he was thrown under the train and killed.
A porter who ran to his aid nearly shared the same fate,
and Mrs. Hill was only saved by being dragged' into the
carriage by her hair. Previously to leaving London the
deceased and his wife took insurance tickets for £2OO each.
PRIVATE BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF CoMMONS.—

Yesterday the examiners of private bills commenced
the examination of the petitions in order to ascertain whether
the standing orders of the house have been complied with.
A large sum has been paid into the Court of Chancery
on account of the bills, and a report will be made on
tho op aling of the § esaion.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LBEIITER'S TELEGRAM.]

DENMARK.
THE DANISH RIGSDAG.
COPENHAGEN, JAN, 19.

The draft of the address was read yesterday in
the Rigsdag (the special assembly for the king-
dom).The House has en with sincere
satisfaction
ytshe:—' K
de termination on the part of the
It s
King to maintain the liberty and independence of
Denmark in face of the demands of foreign Powers
for the withdrawal of the November constitution.
The task your Majesty has inherited from your
predecessors—viz., to secure for the Danish kingdom
an independent position in the whole monarchy—
will be fraught with difficulties, and may cost
bloody sacrifices. Bat they will be willingly borne
by the people to preserve the inseparable union
between Schleswig and the Kingdom. We desire
that the German and Danish speaking portions of
the population of Schleswig may enjoy the liberty
which we possess. That liberty and the good un-
derstanding between the men elected by the people
form the strongest link between Schleswig and
the Kingdom, and between the country and the
King." _ _ _

In replying to an address presented to him by
a deputation from the town of Ralster, his Majesty
said :—" In the event of a war for the protection of
the independence of Denmark, if all support me,
I hope for the support of the Danish people."

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 19.

It is believed that the Government returned a
refusal yesterday to the ultimatum presented by the
Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors.

The Berlingske Tidende announces that the
statements of foreign papers respecting negocia-
tions with Germany rest upon a dubious foundation.
It mentions especially the assertion of the Frank fort
Europe that the Government was inclined to nego-
tiate upon various points of the constitution, and
declares it to be entirely false.

REFUSAL OF THE AUSTRIAN AND
PRUSSIAN ULTIMATUM.
FLENSBURG, MONDAY NIGHT.
The envoys of Prussia and Austria have pre-
sented an ultimatum calling on the Danish Govern-
ment to withdraw the November Constitution.
The Danish Government have rejected the
demand.

The envoys left Copenhagen at two this after-
noon in a private steamer.

SAXONY AND SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN%

The following further despatches have been ex-
exchanged between Mr. Murray, the English
Minister in Dresden, and Baron von Beust, the
Saxon President of the Council, upon the Schleswig-
Holstein question
MR. MURRAY TO BARON VON BEUST.
Dresden, Jan. 8, 1864.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note '
which your Excellency has addressed to me under date of
the sth inst., and which was handed to me upon the evening
of the 6th. I have not failed immediately to forward a copy of
it to Earl Russell, Minister for Foreign Affairs in London.
Although it will be the part of his Excellency to express
himself subsequently upon the observations you have ad-
dressed to me in the above.mentioned note, I cannot allow
them to pass entirely without reply, for fear your Excel-
lency should think I admit their justice and validity.
You will permit me to observe in the first place, that the
note I had the honour to address to you did not contain a
word attacking the honour of the Saxon flag, for if the
English Government has found something blameable in the
conduct of the German troops in Holstein, where they are
placed in a country making part of the Confederation, and
in which they have encountered no opposition, no attack is
made upon the honour of the flag, for all the responsibility
for their acts is attributed to the Commissioners charged by
the i,iet with the actual government of the provinces where
they are stationed. What was, then, the motive actuating
Earl Russell to observe that their conduct in Holstein had
been contrary to the resolutions of the Diet, as well as to
justice ? It appears to mo that it is not difficult to find.
The German troops entered Holstein to carry out a Federal
execution ordered by the Diet ; the object of this formal
act was known by all Europe; it was to take possession of
this province and to govern it until certain differences
existing between the King of Denmark in his quality as
Duke of Holstein and the Confederation should be settled
in a legal and satisfactory manner. This decree
of the Diet imposed upon its officials charged with
the administration dining the execution the duty of
exercising their functions with impartiality and rigid equity,
and above all controlling the movements of hot and unre-
fleeting persons, whose object was, under pretext of main-
taining German rights, to overstep all the measures autho-
rised by the Diet, and to tread under foot the treaty of 1852,
signed by the five great Powers of Europe. Let us see how
the Commissioners have fulfilled these duties. The troops
of the King of Denmark had scarcely withdrawn from Hol-
stein and the forces of the Confederation entered that duchy
before the Prince of Augustenburg arrived, and caused
himself to be proclaimed legitimate sovereign of the duchies
of Schleswig-Holstein in various places, without any oppo-
sition upon the part of the Commissioners, and (if the re-
ports in the newspapers are to be credited) the acclamations
of the Saxon troops were joined to those by which the Prince
was greeted by the population of Holstein. Ido not at-
tempt, M. le Minister, to prejudge the final solution which
will decide the question of the succession in the duchies,
but I venture to affirm that the above cit. d facts give every
impartial man a right to say that the Federal execution, as
administered by the German authorities in Holstein, has
been not only opposed to the order of the Diet, but also to

justice.
Your excellency is pleased to say that the conduct of the
Federal troops in a country of the Confederation in which
they are stationed in consequence of a decree of the Diet is
a subject which in no degree concerns a foreign govern-
ment. This is a proposition which no one would have dis-
puted if these troops and the authorities which direct
their movements had kept themselves within the limits of
their competence; but when they suffer that, under their
eyes, a Prince, who without their protection would not
have been able to set foot in the country, openly proclaims
himself the sovereign of two duchies long appertaining to
the Danish Crown and devolved upon the reigning King by
a treaty signed by the five great Powers of Europe, your
excellency will excuse me if I am unable to admit that this
is a subject which in no degree concerns one of the signitary
Powers.
As to the phrase in which Earl Russell mentioned Bavaria
and Wurtemberg as sharing with Saxony the responsibility
of the consequences which might result from the manner in
which Federal execution has been carried out in Holstein,
I ought to inform you that the note which I had the
honour to address to you on the sth instant was only the
translation of a telegram which I had received from his
Excellency ; and although in messages sent by the telegraph
it is the practice to give the outline of an idea and not to
state it in detailed explanal ion, I found no difficulty in un-
derstanding by means of the context the sense of the phrase
in which your Excellency conceives you have found a proof
of ignorance of affairs passing in Germany. The respon-
sibility which the phrase (as I understand it) attributed to
Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtensburg referred to the assistance
which these three Governments have given to the preten-
sions of a Prince who has proclaimed himself sovereign of
the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein before the question of
his rights had been decided by competent authorities, by
placing himself at the head of the movement in Germany
which exercises a pressure upon the two great German
Powers, and the object of which is to compel them to violate
the obligations which they had contracted in signing the
treaty of 1852 (to which the majority of the German States
have also adhered or assented). Earl Russell considers that
these three Governments share a grave responsibility, and
when his Excellency adds that " if the troops of the Confe-
deration invade Schleswig before the Powers who signed
the treaty of London have been able to make known their
opinions upon this subject, the most serious consequences
may result," there is not the slightest intention or idea of
menace in his expressions. They constitute a simple affir-
mation of his opinion that this step might bring about con-
sequences now unforeseen and dangerous to the repose and
wellbeing of Europe.—Receive, &c.,

(Sighed)

Cm A. MURRAY,

BARON VON BEUST TO MR. MURRAY.
Dresden, Jan. 10, 1864.
The note which you did me the honour to address to me
upon the Bth instant reached me yesterday.

I cannot sufficiently express my thanks for your ex-
tremely obliging conduct in thus explaining to me the real
subject of the note which you were good enough to forward
to me upon the sth inst. It is impossible that I should not
experience the most lively regret that I was not earlier
placed in a position to understand it, that I might have re-
plied in a manner more satisfactory to you as well as to
myself. If I had known that your office extended to ac-
quainting me with the objections that the Government of
her Britannic Majesty believes itself bound to make in re-
lation to the manner in which the Federal Commissioners
execute their task, I should have confined myself, as I do
to-day, to requesting your obliging intervention in asking
Earl Russell to address himself to the Diet. It is the part
of that body to determine what effect it might, in such a
case, think fitting to give to the representations of a foreign
power.
But, M. le Ministre, permit me to recall to your recollec-
tion that you alluded to reprehensible conduct on the part
of the German troops, including therefore the Saxon troops,
in Holstein. A reproach of this kind strikes at military
honour, therefore at the honour of the flag, and I owe it to
the brave army of the King to repel the reproach with
energy. You cite one single fact in its support. If this
fact be correct, which remains to be confirmed, I have no
doubt it will meet with disapproval, although it would not
in any way justify the accusation of conduct "contrary to
justice." It is, nevertheless, my duty to repeat once more
that when Federal troops occupy a territory of the Confe-
deration by ordor of the Diet, we cannot recognise the right
of any foreign Government to demand in any quarter an
explanation of their conduct.
I trust I may hope that after having laid my last note
before Earl Russell you will have the kindness to pufsue the
same course with the communication I have the honour to
address to you to-day.—Receive, &c.
(Signed) BEUST.

HODGES' FIRE BRIGADE.—A very elaborate and
interesting report has just been published, contain-
ing statistics as to the number and character of fires which
have been attended by the fire brigade maintained at the
expense of Mr. Hodges, the distiller, of Lambeth, from I
which it would appear that the public are very vastly in-
debted to'that gentleman and the men under his command.
During the past year the total number of fires attended was
168, whilst in 1862 they only amounted to 60. Of the
former, 84 took place on the south, and 24 on the north side
of the Thames. Two steam fire engines, the Torrent and
the Deluge, have been added to the plant of Mr. Hodges'
fire establishment, and have preyed very effective. Two
thousand two hundred feet of hose and all other ap-
pliances are kept in thorough repair and in readiness at
a minute's notice. Notwithstanding the eminent services
which Mr. Hodges and his fire brigade render to the
metropolitan public it is to be regretted (as a correspond-
ence published in conjunction with his report intimates)
that he has grounds of complaint at the want of courtesy,
as well as obstruction, he receives at the hands of the
authorities and emp/oye's of the London Fire Brigade, at a
time when the most determined energy and unity of
action are necessary to prevent the destruction of valuable
life or property.
RAILWAY BARBARISM in re TIIE BARTLOW
TUMULIS.—On Friday, last week, Mr. Parnell laid
before the Arcba3alogical Institute a profile of the Bartlow
Tumuli, which had been prepared by the engineer of the
Great Eastern Railway, in order to show the manner in
which he proposes to bring a new line through these
interesting relics. At the same meeting a communication
from the Society of Antiquaries was received. That body
expressed its entire concurrence in the course taken by the,
Institute, and promised, by resolution, to offer strenuous
opposition to the passage through Parliament of any bill
that shall give power to the Great Eastern Railway Com-
pany to injure the Bartlow grave-mounds. Several mem •
hers of the Institute having condemned the wanton and
daily increasing disregard of public opinion shown by rail-
way companies, it was unanimously resolved, "That the
proposed method of carrying a line of railway through the
Bartlow Hills is objectionable, and that no scheme would
obtain the sanction of the Institute, the adoption of which
would in any degree deface these singular monuments of
antiquity."-2'he Bea4er.

LITERATURE.

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The Illustrated Horse Management. By Edward
Mayhew. One vol:, pp. 612. W. H. Allen and

We have read Mr. Mayhew's book with all the
attention which it so eminently merits, and we can
have no hesitation in asserting that it is the most
comprehensive and instructive work on the subje2t
of horse management which we have ever had the
good luck to meet with. Our author writ?s as an
enthusiast in behalf of his noble protege, and
quoting a fact ascertained by dissection, that the

liver of the horse, like the gizzard of the dove, has
no gall bladder, he founds a strong opinion as to
the similarity of disposition on this strange resem-
blance of physical construction, and claims for his
favourite animal that loving gentleness of which
the cooing bird is the universally-chosen emblem.
Mr. Mayhew's object cannot fail to enlist our sym-
pathy, while the lucid and able manner in which
ho performs the literary portion of his task is well
calculated to convince his readers of the soundness
of his views and the value of his recommendations.
Possessing a thorough knowledge of the horse and
his belongings—having witnessed his treatment in
careful hands from infancy to venerable old age,
and seen him in well-constructed stable and com-
fortless bivouac, in the pride of his power in the
hunting-field, and in the depth of his misery when
enduring the privations of a campaign—we were
vain enough to suppose that we required no
" wrinkles" as to the treatment adapted to him in
prosperity or distress. Yet we must candidly
admit that Mr. Mayhew affords us information on
some points which is both valuable and new to us.
There is nothing connected with the noble animal
from his internal conformation to his ex-
ternal points, from his food to his physic,
which is not explained, and illustrated by

admirable woodcuts in the work before us. Every
implement required for dressing his body or ad-
ministering remedies, from the "ticker" to the
"ball-iron," nay, even the very hay and oats he
feeds on, their defects or good qualities, all are not
only clearly described but actually presented to our
view in coloured prints, so that the most inexpe-
rienced tyro, if he only attends to the directions he
receives, may guard himself from being hum-
bugged by his servant, or cheated by his trades-
people. The first subject after anatomy and physic
which Mr. Mayhew touches upon is the all•impor-
taut one of shoeing. The individual afflicted with

corns, who is obliged to walk in tight boots, may
form some idea, though bat a faint one, of the suffer-
ings of the horse whose foot is bound up in an
fitted shoe. The man has this advantage, that his
instruments of torture can be removed at pleasure,
and need under any circumstances be borne with
only for a limited portion of the day, while those of
the poor animal remain permanently fixed, a con.

stant and unremitting source of misery and irritation.
His exposure of the misconduct of blacksmiths is
well worthy of serious attention. Mr. Mayhew,
along with his own criticisms as to their faulty
forms, gives illustrations of every description of
shoe which has heretofore been adopted, from the
thin plate of the Arab to the model now used in
this country. We agree with him in his condem-
nation of the shoe so generally approved of, and are
quite of his opinion regarding the superiority of the
one he suggests, which would be barely wide enough
to cover and protect the horn of the hoof. Whether,
or not, the "slipper." which he recommends, would
prove an advantage, must depend upon the result of
a trial, which can be easily made, as to its capability
of adhesion when the horse is passing over heavy
ground. With regard to the method of attaching
the shoe, there can be no doubt of the necessity
(whatever may be its shape) of driving nails into
the toe. Such is the practise pursued in the army,
and universally adopted by the people of France.
We cannot coincide with Mr. Mayhew when he
proposes that saddle horses should be invariably fed
on moistened food, for we cannot conceive how
hunters could, on such diet, be brought into such
condition as would enable them to support the
hard work to which they are subject. Occa-
sional stimulants of malt liquor, such as
he advises for jaded horses, are, as we
know from experience, most beneficial, and ive have
seen even spirits administered in such cases with
the greatest success. An Irish friend of ours, a
thorough sportsman, was in the habit of giving a
favourite huntress half a pint of whiskey mixed
with three pints of water when he had far to return
home after a severe run. She acquired a strong
liking for grog, and it was amusing to witness the
impatience with which she awaited her cheering
beverage when they reached the first pot-house on
their road. The same gentleman, on the occasion
of a steeplechase in which he was engaged, gave
the same animal, who became amiss when about to
start, a pint of whisky in a pint of water as he pre-
pared to mount. The mare came evidently quite
jolly to the post, seemingly oblivious of everything
but the work in hand—carried twelve stone over
four Irish miles, with forty-seven fences, in fourteen
minutes, and won a slashing rate° by half a length
after a desperate struggle in the run home with a
stallion. Although the erection of stables such as
Mr. Mayhew describes, and such as all men con-
versant with the requirements of horses must most
warmly approve of, ey ould be impracticable in vast
cities, and can only be hoped for in the large coun-
try establishments of persons of fortune. Still,
there is no one, however limited his space, who may
not profit by his suggestions. His description of the
consequences which result from the universal prac-
tice of constructing the floors of stalls with a fall from
the manger to the gutter, and a look at the wood-
cut which represents them, will, we have no doubt,
be quite sufficient to abolish a system so detrimental
to the health and comfort of the horse. We were
not before aware of the evil produced by a slanting
floor so feelingly described by Mr. Mayhew, although
we had often remarked what is exemplified in one
of his illustrations, that horses at large, when select-
ing a position of ease, invariably placed the forelegs
lower than the hind ones, thus assuming, when left
free from control, the very reverse of the position
they art, compelled to adopt when we stable. It
would be impossible within the limits of a literary
notice to point out ail the merits of a book, which
has been got up in a style worthy of all praise.
Suffice it to say that Mr. Mayhew treats most judi-
ciously the subject of stud breeding and breaking,
and that he points out most fearlessly the miscon-
duct of grooms, and the knavish tricks of low horse-
dealers. "The Illustrated Horse Management" is
a work which should find a place in the library of
every country gentleman, for the most; experienced
may derive benefit from its, perusal, and armed
with it, the person who requires a sound and useful
animal, although unacquainted with the defects of
horseflesh, will be enabled to accomplish his object,
and to defend himself with success against the cle-
verest devices of the most knowing Yorkshireman.

KING GEORGE 111., accurately sketched by a
Saturday Reviewer.—" Farmer George" was popular
with country squires and parsons, but not generally with
the more intelligent classes of his subjects. It was notorious
that ho interfered with his responsible Ministers ; that he
tampered with elections ; that he kept in mind his mother's
dangerous precept, " George, be king." His tendencies
were despotic; his prdudices invincible; his intellect was
shrewd, but narrow. At Windsor, however, and in manor
houses and rectory houses, these failings wore accounted
merits, or forgiven in consideration of the "homely kind-
ness of his nature." If ho was not a King of the Commons,
ho was a King for commonplace people. His life was as
regular as his numerous time-pieces; he was diligent and
methodical in business, ho dined early, ho was a constant
husband, he hunted, he farmed, he know everybody's busi-
ness, he greeted everybody heartily, ho gossiped exceed-
ingly, his were the loudest responses in church, his the
loudest laughter at the play. His wife and daughters went
shopping, like ordinary matrons and maidens. On state
occasions he bore himself with becoming dignity ; but in
his ordinary blue coat turned up with red, his leather
breeches and top-booty, he was as unlike those German
potentates George I. and 11., and as much like a
true Briton, as John Bull himself could desire. Madame
D'Arblay has made us familiar with the interior of Wind-
sor Coale. It was far from being a castle of indoience or
comfort, for although to her lord Charlotte was not a grey
mare, her hand was heavy on her tiro women and depen-
dents. Routine and rigid punctuality, dulness and discre-
tion, were absolute, from the summit of the Round Tower
to the verge of the Park. Pleasure partook of the charac-
ter of penance in those Royal precincts. 'We do not wonder
that the sons of the house took every occasion of ab-
sence;; but we marvel that the daughters of the house did
Pot elope,