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other countries as the seat of veterinary learning. Is it so? 
We merely suggest the inquiry, for a deep sense of patriotism 
makes us recoil when we attempt to reply. 
Anxiously and hopefully looking forward to an era of peace 
and progress, we must yet avow, that, as the past has been 
tempestuous, so the future is gloomy : for our part, holding the 
balance of justice and the olive-branch of peace, and waving 
the sceptre of independence, we shall ever endeavour to allay 
discord, to invoke energy in the good cause, and to call on all 
around us — and especially on those on whom devolves the 
serious responsibility of educating our future counsellors — to 
leave nothing undone that can contribute to the prosperity of 
the veterinary profession, as an aggregate of honourable citizens 
and men of learning. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
In causa Messrs. NlGLET and SCOTT, merchants , Leith, pur- 
suers; against ALEXANDER HENDERSON, stabler, Edinburgh, 
defender. 
This was a case in which the defender sold to the pursuers a 
black gelding, warranted sound and nine years old, for the sum 
of £21; receiving at the same time a horse, the property of 
the pursuers, valued at £4. 2s. The pursuers, after retaining 
the horse for about a week in their possession, found that he 
was affected with stringhalt, and of greater age than specified in 
their bargain, and hence the present action. 
The first witness called for the pursuers was James Smith, 
who, being sworn, deposed, I am a farrier in Leith ; I recollect 
the defender and a person of the name of Pollock coming to my 
forge in May last, 1848, in a dog-cart drawn by a black gelding. 
After some general conversation regarding the horse, which I 
said would suit a customer of mine, I asked the defender if the 
horse was sound, and what his age was. The defender said he 
had bought the horse as a nine-year old, and that he had been 
passed as sound by Mr. Dick in the previous week. I accord- 
