THE CHANGING BULL-FIGHT.
With reference to the fourth paragraph of " W. H. C.'s " letter under above heading (11th inst.) where readers are reassured that " English horses are not used in the bull-ring," may we point out the facts of the case? No reliable authority on the Export of Horses wider the Diseases of Animals Act would state that horses are sent directly for the bull-ring, any more than that any horses are exported under that Act for the express purpose of butchery—but a great, number of horses " on the border line " are exported to Spain and that number comprises a large proportion of broken-down and defective thoroughbreds and cast hunters and hacks whose working days of misery would be few before they reach the bull-ring.—M. K. MATTHEW, Hon. Secretary, The National Equine Defence League, 16 Beaconsfield Road, New Southgate, N.11.
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