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be transacted thereat, by and with the consent of the members then 
and there assembled. This may be called a shuffle or a quibble : 
and yet, either in one light or the other, it is worth quite as much 
as the “objection for that, after all, under the flimsy veil of 
illegality , amounted to nothing more than a miserable quibble 
got up between parties for the express purpose of throwing 
obstacles in the way of the day’s proceedings, and casting reproach 
in the teeth of those mainly concerned in carrying such proceedings 
forward. 
Pending the shuffle, up rose the President, and, with manly 
denunciation of such artifice, put an end to all further nugatory 
discussion by proclaiming silence for the reading of the Report. 
This, being lengthy, occupied a good half hour or so. No sooner, 
however, was it ended, than, as if no attention whatever had been 
paid to its contents, complaints, all at once, burst forth that it had 
not been sent to members of Council in time for their consider- 
ation, and, that now it had come forth, it was this, that, and the 
other ; in short, every thing that was bad, and any thing but what 
it ought to have been. 
In the eyes of those, however, who sat and listened to the 
reading with minds as unprepossessed with party opinion as they 
were undisturbed by party feeling, the Report was pronounced to 
be the best that had yet issued from the Council. It was, what 
its own words declared it to be, “ a record of facts and those 
“ facts” were sterling ones — were, indeed, of such import as, in 
the course of them, clearly shewed that, had matters not been 
judiciously managed, the chartered College would not have 
stood, as it now stands, safe and firm upon its representative 
foundation. It was, therefore, with evident feelings of pride and 
satisfaction that the portion of the General Body of the Profession 
present declared their entire approbation of the conduct of coun- 
sellors, at once so able and so honest, by triumphantly carrying 
the Report by a majority of 26 against 4 ! ! 
It will be remembered that in our number for November last 
(vol. xix, p. 643) we ventured, for reasons stated at the time, to 
suggest that some modification or alteration of the apprenticeship 
