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Report attacked the professors, which in his (Mr. Cherry’s) opinion 
was most injudicious, and ought not to have been done. Then 
came the character the Council entertained of themselves. Now 
he thought it would have been better if that character had come 
from others than from themselves; for what had they done 1 Why, 
only setting the profession by the ears with others. After that, 
they raised the question of the members of the College being liable 
to fill parochial offices, and their liability to serve on juries. He, 
for one, thought that filling such offices and performing such duties 
was a mode of bringing the members of the profession to be better 
acquainted with their neighbours, and gave them an additional weight 
in a parish. Let them look at the office of churchwarden : — to 
be called “ Mr. Churchwarden,” and to have to preside at a 
board covered with the choicest viands : what gave a man more 
importance than that 1 — and yet some people thought that was a tax 
upon them. (Cries of “ Yes, a very great one, too. It’s gene- 
rally considered so.”) That was, however, all matter of opinion, 
and the whole body alone ought to have power to decide it. 
With regard to juries, he knew very well by experience that 
attendance on them was not a very good thing, but still it was one 
of the most glorious privileges in existence — that of setting in judg- 
ment upon a fellow-being. It was a duty, too, which was very 
easy of evasion when not pleasant to the parties. He would next 
come to the paragraph respecting “ privileges and powers.” He 
considered it nowise incompatible for privileges and powers to be 
sought after by two parties, for one might be applying for privi- 
leges and the other for power; but what those privileges and 
powers were, was, in reality, an “ airy nothing,” and it required “ a 
local habitation” to know what they were. Then again the Report 
stated that “ no great effort had yet been made.” Had they not 
got the Charter, and was not that a great effort 1 Why, then, did 
the Council say that the great effort was now to be made ! But 
the Report further said that “ the Secretary of State was not con- 
tent to adopt the opinions of the Council, but would hear both sides 
and judge for himself.” Now what appeared to him (Mr. Cherry) 
to be the real facts of the case was, that the Secretary of State 
did not want to annul their Charter, but he merely asked for a re- 
vision, and stated that, if the Council would consent to that, he 
would then enter into a specification of the revisions he proposed ; 
on which the Council had got up in arms directly, and had come 
to the extraordinary resolution found in the Report, which declared 
that that was all the profession required, and had at once shut 
the door in the face of Sir James Graham, telling him they would 
have nothing to do with him, as they were quite satisfied with 
what they had got. (Hear, hear, hear.) He had now come to 
the extraordinary letter of the President, which was really like 
