A Horse Show In France

The horse qnestion in Franco is very important, resulting from two causes, the wants of the army, and the disfavor with which the breeding and rearing of hoi sos in resjavdéd. The prizes offored at a horse show this season are divided iuto five classes, ior dïiught and saddlo hoises, and the ages of the animáis limitad, tour to six years, as also their height; but no distinction is made, as hitherto, as to their district of origin. For the fírst time a prize has been offered for horsos suited to army purposos, nnd 28 competitors have thus entered tho lists. There are also exhibited 14 Corsican ponies, tho most diminutivo of their class ever seen. The animáis on the whole are light, and not specially rejnarkable in a carriage point of view. There are 464 entries, and 89 exhibitors, of whorn five represent two-thirds of the animáis exhibited, 6,'i are breeders, 15 liiixted' proprietors, and 1 1 horge-doalers. Normandy and the district of Portiers contribute 80 per cent. of the total entries ; it is on the rich pasturo lands of thes) parts of France that tho breeding, etc, of horses is eoncentrated, and where most of the crossing with English horses takes placo. In other districts it is Arab, .oí rather Oriental blood that holds sway. Thosa persons in England and America ■who admire the Norman horso, or Percheron, inay be astonished to learn that the Freuck themselves do not consider that race to be the finest in the world, and are stiil svkiní " the ideal." It is a mother, but not a perfect race, for the Perdieron lacks uniformity and lioir.ogeneity; Englisli blood would re'Aedy these defects, and produce a type inore powerful and less heavy, more active and enduring, whils retaining tho larireuess of