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any association in tlicir lives tliat came to any 

 good end, — I was fearful of the result, and 

 expressed my doubts on the matter to many of 

 my friends. The result proved the correctness 

 of my anticipation, and the way in wliicli tlie 

 last public dinner of the Society was conducted 

 opened everybody's eyes to the speedy break- 

 ing-up of the affair, as one no longer to be 

 tolerated. 



Well, then, unless the Government would take 

 importation and acclimatization in hand, there is 

 no sort of chance of any leading noble lords and 

 gentlemen belonging to it. We would not again 

 trust a quorum of men whom Ave knew nothing 

 of, or, indeed, if what we might knoAV of tliom 

 was not invariably in their favour; and then, 

 who could be found to attend to the public in- 

 terest, when approved men were not on the sjDot 

 to undertake the task of revision and correction 

 of abuses ? 



It is, then, useless, at ijvesent^ to talk of a 

 ^' National Acclimatization Society," but it is by 

 no means useless for us all ^^to put our shoulders 

 to the wheel " of the cart tliat really needs our 

 aid, and which would directly and at once im- 



