The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-22 00:00:00

MR. LIBBY A T ALDERSHOTT.

Mr. Rarey, having fully ventilated his new and
ingenious principles of equine education all over
Europe, and more especially in the great cities of
the United Kingdom, in the arena of public exhi-
bition, has now wisely descended into the more
sober reahns of practical utility, having commenced
the application of his system to the manage-
ment of horses, arid the teaching of riding-
masters and rough riders in her Majesty's
army. We understand that frequent inspections
of Mr. Itarev's mode of managing the horse having
convinced his Royal Highness the Commander-in-
Chief of the probability of its becoming useful in
military horse-breaking, his Royal Highness de-
termined upon giving that gentleman the oppor-
tunity of making some experiments amongst the
cavalry at Aldershott. Accordingly a class con-
sisting of twenty-five, riding-masters, rough riders,
farriers, and one veterinary surgeon, was put under
his instruction. They have been now for some
weeks receiving practical lessons in his mode of
subduing hitherto intractable animals, rendering
the nervous and timid, bold, and curing individual
horses of certain individual tricks and habits which
rendered them dangerous and difficult to manage
in combined cavalry movements. The class,
although only a few weeks formed, has progressed
under Mr. Rarey's teaching with wonderful
rapidity, that gentleman having been able in the
first instance to convince all, with the exception
of a few veterans of the manage, of :the simplicity
and soundness of his system.
Men soon learn what they have been in the first
instance convinced is sound and worth learning,
and accordingly the members of Mr. Rarey's class
are now in a very forward state of acquirement, all
being thoroughly convinced that what they are
learning will create a complete and most beneficial
revolution in the whole art of horse training. The
hard word "breaking" will, we trust, soon become
obsolete, when the principle of gentleness once
becomes generally recognised as the only true one
in the management of the horse.
Mr. Rarey's system, when reduced to a creed,
contains only a few and very simple articles. He
first lays it down that a horse can be convinced
mentally, that man is more powerful than himself,
and that having been so convinced he becomes from
henceforth the docile servant of the latter. He en-
deavours to prove this by a simple illustration. If
a horse drawing a heavy load be suddenly stopped
by a deep rut, or slough, or any other obstruction,
he makes two or three desperate plunges to extri-
cate himself, but finding his efforts unavailing, he
then lies down, and no whipping or spurring Will
stimulate him t' any further effort. The same re-
sult is witnessed in the case of an omnibus horse
who falls in the streets of London, when he lies
quietly under the gentlest pressure at his head, and
never attempts to rise until all embarrassing har-
ness, &c., has been removed. Mr. Rarey produces
a similar train of reasoning in the horses' mind by
his system of " casting," that is, of throwing the
horse down by means of the straps, and he contends
that this one painless operation subdues the horse
more effectually than all the years' cruel training
of the old system. This is for intractable horses ;
but for those which are at once gentle and timid, he
prescribes their being made gradually familiar with
everything which may have been the object of their
alarm by having it slowly brought nearer and
nearer to them until at last they touch it, when
hiving once touched it and satisfied themselves that
it is innocuous, they lose all fear of it for ever after
—or at least for so long as their memory allows
the impression to remain. All the bad habits of
the horse of civilisation, he alleges to have been
produced by rough and sudden handling
in the commencement, for, the horse being
physically one of the most nervous ani-
mals in the world, is the easiest alarmed by any
rough or sudden movement. Mr. Rarey began his
course of teaching by impressing these leading
principles on his class, and then proceeded to show
how they were to be carried into practical opera-
tion. And here, perhaps, lay the greatest difficulty.
The intelligent and resolute men with whom he had
to deal were not afraid to attempt anything with
any horse in the world, but it took some time to
teach them—and the teaching is as yet only in pro-
gress—that delicacy of manipulation, and tact, so
to speak, in approaching the horse, form a very full
half of the whole secret. However, they were last
week considered to be so far advanced as to per-
mit of an exhibition of their progress before com-
petent judges. and, accordingly, the whole class
went through their lesson before a committee of
cavalry officers in the Riding School at Aldershott,
on Saturday last.

It was expected that his Royal Highness the
Commander-in-Chief would have been present, but
at the last moment a telegraph announced that im-
portant business detained his Royal Highness in
town. The officers present were Major-General Sir
J. Y. Scarlett, Col. E. C. Hodge, 4th Dll4'ooll
Guards, Colonel R. Parker, Ist Life Guards, and
Lieut.-Col. Maude, Royal Horse Guards (Blue.)
Mr. J. Wilkinson, veterinary surgeon, attended to
note the effect of the " casting" in accelerating the
pulse of the horses. The first animal experimented
upon was a brown mare belonging to the 10th

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and' to the httention& bf the farrier she tit a
strong objection, which rose to a perfect frenzy, if
he-Ventured to approach her with hiskatherapren .
on. Wheneier she required shoeing great violetitly
including the dreadfully painful "twitch" on the
nose, was invariably necessary, and her usefulness
as a trooperwas thus seriouslly deteriorated. When
first brought out on Satiii•day- her nervouS
fidgetty nature was soon made manifest by.etnitdry
snortings and tremblings, but a gentle pat on the
neck soon pacified her, after which the farrier
approached, slowly and deliberately, holding the
obnoxious leather apron in his hand. He allowed
her to smell it, touch it with her nose, and after-
wards to feel it rubbed gently along her neck, after
which all that was necessary was to put it on and
go to work. The whole action of shoeing was then
simulated with hammer and nails, and the' hitherto
fractious mare submitted to the process with th 3
greateststeadiness and:propriety. Two other mares,
a bay and a chesnut, both belonging to the same
regiment, were subsequently exhibited. The first
had a similar prejudiee as to shoeing, and the other
had a habit of kicking violently when being saddled
or mounted. Both had now evidently been reduced
to a perfect state of docility;the first subinitting to
the farrier without a start; and the second, having
first had the saddle shown to her, and having been al-
lowed to touch it,Permitted it to'be put on at once,
when the riding-master mounted and dismounted se-
veral times withbut the slightest resistance on her
part. After thiS some new to the process, were
very successfully thrown With the strap by different
riding-masters. Mr. Day, sth Dragoon Guards, had
a tough tussle with a powerful bay, who evidently
had a strong inherent dislike to the procumbent
posture, and perhaps the operator, this being his
first appearance in presence of the general, was also
a little nervous. But he ultimately overcame all
resistance, and floored hishOrse in a very satisfactory
manner. Mr. HesSey, of the Ist Life Guards, a
much larger and more powerful man, and evi-
dently of greater experience, fel:awed with a black,
and with much speedier succesu. His horie was
down in a moment; and it was remarked-Li—both
cases that the. horses,' on resuming their legs, did
not exhibit the slightest symptoms of distress. Mr.
Wilkinson felt the pulses of both immediately after
their tumble, and found the acceleration to 'be by
no means considerable. A few more trials were
subsequently made with varying success according
to the nerve anardexterity of thepupil tumbler, and
finally, the first horse (who had so strong an objec-
tion to being shod) was taken to the forge and had
shoes actually nailed on in. presence of the com-
mittee, who required this test in order to assure
themselvesthat the treatment was successful. Dur-
ing the exhibition General Scarlett and the'icom-
mittee asked several pertinent questions, but ex-
pressed no opinion, their intention being, we under-
stood, to transmit a report of their-inspection to the
Commanderin-Chief: Mr. Rarey was present dur-
ing the whole of. the experiments, but he did not
in the slightest degree interfere with the riding-
masters or rough-riders, both of whoni he considers
to have exhibited extraordinary aptitude in learn-
ing his system.

LLOYD'S OCEAN TELEGRAPH.

There was exhibited at Lloyd's on Saturday, by
permission of the committee, a new code of signal
telegraphs for the ocean marine service, invented
and patented by Mr. William H. Ward, of America,
by the adoption of which on board the Cunard line
of steamers and the lighthouses on Cape Race, New-
foundland, and Cape Clear, Ireland, news to and
from America and England will be obtained in the
reduced space of five days, as thus :—A steamer
leaving. New York on a Wednesday arrives off the
Cape Race lighthouse on the Sunday following, and
receives froin it the telegraph summary of news
from New York of the previous day (Saturday).
She makes the run from thence to the Cape Clear
light in five -days, namely, on the Friday following,
and communicates the news she received at Cape
Rase, which is then transmitted to Liverpool and
all parts of Europe.
The means by which this great advance in our
communication to and from America is attainable
consists in a remarkably simple and' moist efficient
apparatus; in the shape of five lights in the shape
of a diamond or cross, reflected through powerful
reflectors observable at a distance of five to ten
miles. It is by the number of combinations
obtained that messages_ are despatched, and so
simple and easy is the whale affair that a boy can
attain a mastery of it in half an hour. These lights
are for night telegraphing.
Mr. Ward also exhibited a new shape of flags for
day signals, so perfe-ct in their operations that they
must supersede those now in use. They are in the
shape of an acute angle, or three-corned elongated
at one end, and in consequence of which while in a
breeze they float out clear and distinct ; they also
in a dead calm fall, or hang suspended, in a way
which at once denotes their number, and conse-
quently there is no difficulty as at present by the
flags in use deciphering their character, and conse-
quently there is no delay in communicating signals
between ships or points on land.
To both army and navy, and the mercantile ma-
rine these two systems of telegraphic signals will
prove most useful and advantageous.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN THE SEI?-

PENTINE.

Last Saturday night an investigation took place
before Mr. Langham, deputy-coroner for West-
minster, at the Board Room of the Workhouse, St.
George's, Hanover-square, on view of the body of
the unknown woman who was found floating on the
Serpentine on Wednesday evenin g last, and removed
while still breathing to the Receiving-house of the
Royal Humane Society, where she died from the
effects of drowning at 10 o'clock the folloiving
morning. The body of the deceased has since been
identified by her relations as Emma Williams, a
seamstress, 20 years of age, in the employment of a
Mrs. Roland, 68, Great Titchfield-street, Maryle-
hone. As it appeared from the evidence of various
witnesses, the case was an extremely melancholy
one, and a married sister, who was present at the
inquiry, suffered great distress of mind, and fre-
quently burst into paroxysms of grief. The de-
ceased was an orphan, of a naturally cheerful dis-
position, steady, and respectable; but, as her rela-
tions were poor, she was compelled to get her liv-
ving as a seamstress, and toiled constantly at her
needle from 12 to 16 hours daily with her late em-
ployer for the past five years. She_ earned, upon an
average, from 10s. to 12s. per week, from which she
had to pay her brother-in-law, with whom she
boarded and lodged at 30, University-street, 7s. per
week. Recently she complained very much of her
eyes, and
occasionally had been somewhat depressed
in spirits in consequence of their weakness, and
at times told her sister that if they should fail
her, as she feared they would, she could not
tell what she should do for a living, as she then
would be prevented from following her occupation,
and had no one in the wide world to depend upon,
and, according to the statement of her sister, she
worked very hard to keep herself respectable.
About an hour and a half previous to the time she
was found in the Serpentine she left her work in
her usual good health and spirits, and about three
minutes before the supposed rash act she was seen
by a young man named Bollinot, walking rapidly
across the bridge of the Serpentine from the direc-
tion of Kensington. It was very dark and foggy at
the time, and in consequence he lost sight of her
almost immediately she passed him, but believed
she jumped into the river from one of the bridge
parapets, as his attention and that of others near
the scene was firs t attracted by a loud splash. Ver-
dict, " Deceased died from the effects of drowning,
but how she got into the water there was not ,
suffi-
cient evidence to show."

CITY OF LONDON PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRA-
TION.—We understand that the new Lord Chief Justice of
England having adopted the appointment of his predecessor
Lord Campbell of revising barristers for the city of London
and Metropolitan boroughs, &c , Mr. T. Y. M'Christie has
fixed Monday, September 19, for commencing his revision
of the lists of voters for members to serve in Parliament for
the city of London.
ANOTHER PERVERT.—The Rev. E. H. Woodall,
M.A., Exeter College, Oxford, Rector, of St. Margaret's,
Canterbury, was received into the Roman Catholic Church
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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Mr. and
Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with A MIDSUMMER DREAM.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
With THE CRITIC. Mr. C. Mathews and Mrs. Fitzwil-
ham.
And HALLOWE'EN.