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other professional men. He therefore thought that, if the College 
could obtain an exception from parochial and other offices, it would 
benefit the profession much, and would elevate them in the scale 
of professions. 
The President rose to order. The speaker must confine him- 
self to the question of the Report, which was the only one before 
the meeting. 
Mr. Tombs would then conclude by moving as an amendment, 
that the Report read be adopted. 
Mr. Mayhew would second that amendment, and would take 
that opportunity of expressing his surprise at some of the observa- 
tions made by members of the Council. Professor Dick stood 
condemned and convicted of having betrayed his brother Coun- 
cillors, and in his (Mr. Mayhew’s) opinion, better would it have 
been, if he had not been condemned of such conduct, that the 
Charter should be done away with altogether. He would say 
that, for a person to come forward and attend a meeting with notes 
ready prepared to criticise a Report of the Council of a College in 
the spirit of a newspaper critic, was most improper. Every thing 
had been condemned that would in any respect benefit the profes- 
sion generally, and every thing had been lauded that the Council 
had in their Report disapproved of. It appeared from the commu- 
nications in the Report, which the Council had received from the 
Secretary of State, that the profession were to have the Master of 
the Horse and the Master of the Ruckhounds added to the Coun- 
cil. Why, he would ask, were they not also to have the Groom 
of the Stole, and why were not the ladies introduced also 1 He 
would contend that the President had acted perfectly right in the 
course he had adopted, and he ought to have the thanks of the 
meeting for having done so. At any rate, the President had his 
(Mr. Mayhew’s) heartfelt thanks for what he had done. One 
speaker (Mr. Cherry) had found fault because certain gentlemen were 
alluded to in the Report, as ornaments to the profession. Now he (Mr. 
Mayhew) would say with that gentleman, let the general body of 
members decide who were ornaments; but still he ought not to have 
sneered at them, and he would have been thought far more liberal 
had he passed his opinion without alluding to them. The next 
point that he would touch upon, was the statement that the Report 
“ was not correct.” He would say that it did not go far enough. It 
blinked the question. Before the Charter was granted the pro- 
fession had the same name that bastards have. Now, however, it 
had a legal name. By the Charter they had acquired privileges 
they had not before. (Hear, hear.) They had, before the Charter, 
pupils of six weeks’ standing foisted on them ; now that would be 
so no longer. The Examiners would now put such boys on one 
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