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editorial observations. 
the interests of the profession, we would ask, been jeopardized 
to the groundless fear, that if justice were done the pupils, 
on their admission into the body politic, by a reduction of 
the examination fee, the income of the College would be too 
much diminished to meet the requirements of the Council ? 
And further, was not the exaction of this fee, raised at the 
outset to the utmost limit allowed by the Charter, the chief 
cause of the original differences between the schools and the 
Council? If these things be true, then, it is apparent that 
the Council must come to them as to a centre of new action, 
and the sooner this resolve is taken the better. We are 
unwilling to admit that the income of the College would 
even temporarily suffer by a reduction of the fee, and we 
are assured that ultimately it would be greatly benefited. To 
meet any inconvenience that might arise, let some of the 
expenses of the establishment be diminished for a time, and 
this could be easily done, and in more ways than one. 
Who can calculate the extent of injury we are daily sus- 
taining, as a profession, by the continuance of the present 
state of things ? Is it to be any longer tolerated that gra- 
duates and non-graduates are to be placed on an equal 
footing in all that concerns appointments and emoluments, 
or that the profession is to be deprived of its power of obtaining 
immunities and privileges, and principally by the ill-judged 
course of those who are the appointed guardians of its rights ? 
Men in such a position are not to trifle with the interests 
committed to their keeping. Vain would it be for us, under 
existing circumstances, to go to the government seeking 
privileges, as again we should be told : “ Gentlemen, first 
agree among yourselves ; heal your differences, and then 
come to us for what you require.” We would warn such, if 
any there now be, who would desire to form a party to 
resist the adoption of measures so just and wise as those we 
have alluded to. The day of retribution is sure to come, 
and come to with a force which will prove irresistible. The 
profession will yet be roused from its seeming apathy, and 
hurl from power those in whom it has hitherto trusted. We 
use the expression seeming apathy advisedly, for we well 
