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and therein he will find every cavil and “ objection” of the 
Schools unanswerably answered : and having done this, as a man 
of sound wisdom and unbiassed judgment, he will at once see 
through the whole affair; and in plain language will tell the pre- 
sent petitioners that he can discover no good or substantial reason 
for recommending any compliance with their unprecedented prayer. 
Meanwhile, we should hope our Council will not lie upon their 
oars, but, at this renewed attack on their Charter, will “ up and 
at” their opponents again ; spurred on by the remembrance that it 
was with honest and persevering efforts in a good cause they 
obtained their Royal Charter, and by the full conviction that, by 
like exertions in the same cause, it is in their power to preserve it 
from all manner of “ college” rivalship. 
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Interesting Anecdote of a Horse. 
[Copied from a work called “ Personal Recollections'' by Charlotte Elizabeth; 
whose writings are much admired, being a talented woman and true 
Christian, a friend of the late Hannah More.] 
While at Annapolis and at Windsor, I had a horse provided 
for me of rare beauty and grace, but a perfect Bucephalus in her 
way. She was only two generations removed from a splendid 
Arabian, given by the good old King to the Duke of Kent, when 
H. R. H. went out in command to Nova Scotia. This creature 
was not three years old, and, to all appearance, unbroke. Her 
manners were those of a kid rather than of a horse : she was of 
a lovely dappled grey, with mane and tail of silver, the latter 
almost sweeping the ground ; and in her frolicksome gambols she 
turned it over her back like that of a Newfoundland dog. Her 
slow step was a bound ; her swift motion unlike that of any other 
animal I ever rode, so fleet, so smooth, so unruffled — I know 
nothing to which I can compare it. Well; I made this lovely 
creature so fond of me by constant petting, to which I suppose 
her Arab character made her peculiarly sensitive, that my voice 
had equal power over her as over my docile, faithful dog. No 
other person could in the slightest degree control her. Our corps, 
