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EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
cal bill recei ve the sanction of the legislature, one like it from the 
body of veterinary surgeons ought, as soon as convenient, to make 
its appearance. 
The announcement in the latter part of Mr. Mayhew’s commu- 
nication — that the “ draft of a new charter has been by them 
(the Professors of the Royal Veterinary College) prepared — 
has been approved of by the Governors, and will be speedily 
recommended to her Majestj^ by the Government” — would be 
sufficiently startling did it amount to any thing more than 
we have been given to understand was, or would be, the case 
on the occasion of the deputation from the Council having an 
audience with the Committee of Governors of the Royal Veterinary 
College. We had hoped that the Governors present at that 
memorable meeting had seen reason to believe that, on the part of 
the Council, there was — there had been — no intention to act in any 
other course save what tended to the good of the veterinary pro- 
fession ; and that it was only when such good militated against it, 
that any thing was done by the Council unfavourable to the school 
over which they presided, or unacceptable to the professors and 
teachers in their employ at that school ; that such was, and ever has 
been, the intention and desire of the Council, could not be dis- 
puted ; that it is possible they may have erred in their attempted 
fulfilment of such good intentions is not to be denied ; and that they 
are ready to retrace their steps and rectify such erroneous acts will 
not be doubted, providing “ erroneous” their acts or deeds can be 
satisfactorily shewn to be. If in the face of all this the Governors 
will, ill-advised and pushed on by their Professors, go for a sepa- 
rate charter — which we can hardly think they will — all we can 
say is, that the schools will prove the parties who must rue it. 
Whether the veterinary profession, as at present constituted, must 
bow to the schools or the schools to it, we apprehend does not 
require an CEdipus to determine. 
Mr. Goodwin’s paper in our last number will set veterinary 
people and others thinking on the subject of horse statistics. The 
fact is not to be denied, that “ good” horses have become scarce in 
England ; and it is pretty evident that the principal — if not the 
