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EDITORS’ address. 
earnest ns we can give of turning to the best account we can the 
year before us. As veterinary journalists, some considerable por- 
tion of our year is necessarily occupied in writing and catering for 
our Journal. Whether in this character we have performed our 
part well or ill, must be left to our “ constant readers” to determine. 
All that we can say — dare say — for ourselves is, that we have 
essayed so to do. 
Licet omnibus, licitum est etiam nobis, dignitatem artis veterinariae tueri. 
If any part of our duty has proved difficult or trying to us, it 
has been that of holding with a steady hand the scales of party. 
The Charter, of which so much — such great — good was augured, 
has, unfortunately, thrown the veterinary profession — neither to be 
called united nor disunited before that Charter was granted — into 
a state of schism, which it were idle for us, or any power so weak, 
to pretend to “ bandy with,” so long as our corporate constitution 
remains uncemented by that authority from which we received it. 
So long as such parties as feel their privileges trenched upon by the 
Charter, their power and emoluments abridged by it, are, so far 
from being given to understand that it is their duty to conform to 
it, encouraged in their opposition to it by hopes of obtaining Char- 
ters for themselves, so long must dissension reign in the veterinary 
community. Sooner or later, the State, who, it is to be presumed, 
not without due deliberation, honoured the veterinary body with 
a Charter of Incorporation, must see the necessity of putting an 
end to this distracted condition of its members by enforcing obe- 
dience to it through peremptory refusal to grant other charters : or 
should it so in their wisdom seem meet to them, by conferring 
additional charters upon the discontents, must throw the body into 
convulsions of a still more divided character, and so, root and 
branch, tear up the constitution they are at present in possession 
of. How very gratifying it must be to the “ governors” and 
“ directors” of veterinary institutions to behold the professors of 
the “ art” which they foster, or are represented to foster, in such a 
delectable state of segregation ! Science can hardly flourish in the 
midst of such dissension ; and as for those who are on their way 
to entrance into such a profession, their only prospect is to take 
up arms the moment they have entered the Royal Chartered Col- 
