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editors’ address. 
This is a goodly account— a “ true bill” — a “ shot that will 
tell though we are sore afraid we have fired our “ great gun” too 
soon. No doubt the Council had good and sufficient reasons for 
“ being fully aware that application had been made for a new 
charter to grant authority over the veterinary profession but 
what says Sir George Grey to this? Let us read his reply to the 
Memorial : — 
“ Whitehall, 10th November, 1846. 
“ Sir, — I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknow- 
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, transmitting a 
Memorial from the President and Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons; and I am to inform you that no formal ap- 
plication has been yet addressed to Sir George Grey for a new 
charter from the Royal Veterinary College since the proceedings 
referred to in your letter of the 5th September ; and that, in the 
event of his receiving such an application, a communication will be 
made to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons before it is 
granted. “ I am, Sir, 
“ Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) “ S. M. Phillips. 
“ Thomas Turner, Esq., President of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
311, Regent-street.” 
Sir George, then, informs the Council “ that no FORMAL appli- 
cation has been yet addressed to HIM (Sir George) for a new 
Charter from the Royal Veterinary College SINCE the proceedings 
referred to,” & c. ; nor we should hope — for the addressers’ sake at 
least — will any “formal” application be addressed to him : only, 
supposing such a thing were to take place — the Council “ being 
aware ” that some such thing has happened before — and supposing 
that such renewed or “formal” application should be referred or 
intimated by Sir George to the Council, where, we should like to 
know, are the Council to find a greater gun to oppose it with than 
the one they have already fired ; — one on which, as it would appear 
to us, they have expended all, or nearly all, their powder and 
shot? And the same powder and shot will not answer a second 
time. The sending of the Memorial may prevent all this. We 
are only putting the case, lest it should not. To conclude, we 
