The large Coffee-room at the Race-course Grand Stand was filled with ladies and Race Club and their fair relatives,—yesterntlemen—principally members of the
@ay afternoon, to hear Captain M. H. Hayes, whose name is well known as an authority on equine matters, deliver a brief but interesting lecture on the theory of horse breaking. The lecturer for many years has broken and trained horses in India and at home, with signal success judging from his numerous testimonials from cavalry officers and others accus-the Cobden Treaty, we failed to induce tomed to deal with horses; and he has the French to renew it; and it is not, come to Shanghai on the recommendation therefore, surprising that the Italian Treaty of Mr. Kelly Maitland, the well known should be about to disappear and to leave Indian racing man, to give the sport-no successor. Such, at least, appears to be ing community of the Model Settlement the probable issue of the negotiations between the benefit of his knowledge. His theory the two Governments. It was announced about breaking horses is in brief, to yesterday that aGreen-book had been issued obtain mastery over their instincts' by the superiority of our reasoning powers in Rome, slying the history of the discussions between the French and Italian nego-over their unreasonableness, which he tiaturs up to February 2, when the French gallantly compared to the' manner in withdrew, and since that time. Italy, it which a diminutive young Indy obtains appears from the documents, has through-the whip hand over the more muscular, out been anxious to conclude a new Treaty, but according to Captain Hayes, the less but the French, with the fear of the pro-reasoning animal, man. Above all things tectionists in the Chambers before their he recommended teaching a horse the eyes, have declined all proposals modifying language of the rein, show him you are the rather hard conditions of the former not going to hurt, but at the same Treaty. At last, after three weeks' cessatime you are determined to master him, tion, the French Government has made cer-just as in taming a savage the first thing tain new proposals, of which the details were to be done is to teach him your language, sketched in yesterday's telegraphic not and that he has nothing to fear, if he from Rome. Itis not generally believed th obeys you. The lan; for the horse these proposals will be accepted, and, is only to be inculcated through the mouth this is so, on Thursday the two countries with the rein, A most important point in will return to the condition in which they dealing with a horse or pony is to defeat were when no Treaty had come into exis-him at the very outset, and show him that tence. Of course, if trade were free, this you are his master. Beaten in. one point, would be the best of all conditions; but as ho will be more readily defeated in all on the contrary, the French have " tariff others, Captain Hayes illustrated this by bristling with import duties, it must mean an amusing account of his struggle yester-that the trade between the two countries day morning with avery intractable pony belonging to Mr. Sasecon, which terms will be seriously injured. By way of making the injury still" more serious, nated in the complete subjugation of the the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate The lecturer also strongly behave been engaged, during the last three the use of some word, to be used days, in passing a' Bill for levying fresh to a restive or vicious horse while he is taxes on Italian products, which is to take and which he will ever effect on the lapse of the Treaty. Even ible in his memory with the the annals of French commerical policy can power of the trainer. Itmay be remembered show few worse Bills than this; and what, that some time ago we reproduced from 4 is perhaps even more strange than the Bill London paper an account of the wonderful itself is its Parliamentary history; which power which an old horse breaker in the exhibits the curious phenomenon of a South of Ireland could obtain in a short majority which was for free-trade on the time by whispering some magic word in Saturday becoming protectionist. on the Gaelic into the ear of the animal he was Monday, and of the Senate, ina momentous about to break. Captain, Hayes strongly matter of fiscal policy, leading the Cham-deprecated the use of all twitches, poles ber of Deputies. and ropes, ete., so frequently applied to The Bill proposes, atrong other taxes, to the unfortunate horse who objects to be levy one upon silk, whether raw or thrown "drenched," "balled," "fired," or shod, or in cocoons. The clause containing this as giving him unnecessary pain before th operation actually begins, and he also con-Per on Saturday, che struggle being between revision was warmly debated in the Chamdemned any attempt to ride or drive a two great interests, that of the silk growers horse before he hasbeen thoroughly broken, inthe Arddche and other southern depart-comparing such an attempt to the foolish ments and that of the manufacturers of ness of an engineer who would try to Lyons. The former, " decaying industry, drive an engine before it has been' put have strained every nerve to tax the cocoons ther. Captain Hayes, who is a firm and the raw silk of their Italian rivals, for wer in the use of a standing mar-tingle, then proceeded to give a number Speriene has proved to them that the silkworms of the Ardéche cannot compet of "hints upon the treatment of horses on level terms with the silkworms of Lom-restive in the field, addicted to throwi bardy.
Lyons, as the history of the past up the head, and the fifty other annoy-twenty years has shown, must goto Italy ing tricks of the noble animal, all of for much of the silk that she uses in her
hearers, though many of them he admitted which we doubt wore appreciated by his finest productions, and in pei ut of fact she imports, whether from Italy or from Spain, were such splendid horsemen already that he could hardly teach them any-India, and China, by far the roster part of the raw material used in all her manu-thing more. His invitation to form a factures. According to the principal class' for instruction in horse breaking in speaker in Saturday's debate, the amount all its branches, from the art of inducing required by the Lyons trade is eleven an obstreperous griffin to get quietly into a fallway boree, bug_—which seems somewhat millions of kilogrammes "annually—say twenty-four millions of pound,—while; pertiuous in China—to dealing with the total production of the South of buckers" and biters, with which he France is 750,000 kilogrammes, or a good closed his remarks, was very numerously deal less than two millions of pounds. In responded to, and it is probable that England the mere statement of such figures his visit to Shanghai will be productive of would have settled the question; not even fruits of knowledge to maw, and in a pro-the unfairest of Fair-traders would ven-portional degree profitable to himself. ture to put the claims of a very small in-, dustry against those of a very large one, or to wish to disturb the whole trade of
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