OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
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And when he has done this, and well considered all that has in 
relation to it passed before, as well as the circumstances under 
which it is now put forth, let him, unbiassed and unprejudiced, 
come coolly and deliberately to his own conclusions as to the 
amount of talent and ability to be found in the Council of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
It has been said, and said with considerable shew of reason, that 
“ Good wine needeth no bush 
whence the inference might be drawn, that a cause sound in itself 
does not of necessity call for aid from talent. We all, however, 
and some, perhaps, to our misfortune, know how many “ good” 
causes have been lost for lack of able advocacy; but we know from 
experience, while truth and justice will ever shine brightly in the 
meanest vestments, their contraries may be so meretriciously be- 
decked and bespangled that much beyond ordinary pains-taking 
and common sagacity is demanded to drag the wolf out of his 
sheep’s clothing. However praiseworthy our cause may be from 
its inherent integrity of purport and purpose, brighter and better 
stands it forth in the admirable argument and diction in which our 
Council have afforded us ample evidence of their possessing the 
power to invest it. 
We sincerely congratulate our young friends now arriving at the 
conclusion of their studies at “ College,” on the suspension of the 
apprenticeship clauses in the bye-laws, and, with them, the alter- 
native law of spending four sessions at school. Under all the 
circumstances pressing upon them ; with, on the one side, repre- 
sentations from pupils that they had been allowed to enter college 
without being made acquainted with the operation or even the ex- 
istence of such bye-laws ; and with threatenings, on the other side, 
that advantage would be taken of this predicament of the pupils, 
by setting up other extra-charter boards of examination ; under 
these cogent and unprecedented circumstances, we say, we do not 
see how the Council could well refuse this boon to the pupils. 
Nor was there, we are happy to have it in our power to add, any 
disposition on the part of the Council so ungraciously to act. Quite 
the contrary. The motion for suspension was no sooner made, than 
it was unanimously received and unanimously passed. 
