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Mil. CHERRY IN REPLY TO MR. WHITTLE. 
To Mr. Whittle, had he thought proper to have addressed me 
with common courtesy, I would have cheerfully given any and 
every information that he might seek; but I can assure him 
that I am not to be trepanned into a discussion with one appa- 
rently, though in reality with others, who, incapable of fighting 
their own battles, seek for others to do so for them : it is an old 
trick. I never fight by proxy. I have never yet been tempted 
to express any thing that I have not been able to prove ; but 
poor, indeed, must a man’s capability be, who loses himself at 
the vague report or blustering sound of a popinjay. 
Mr. Whittle tells you, that my “ letter is but an echo of Mr. 
Mayhew’s remarks.” Of Mr. Mayhew’s letter or remarks I knew 
nothing until, in common with your numerous readers, I saw it in 
The Veterinarian. It may be a coincidence that they should 
have appeared in juxta-position, but it is nothing more. Twenty, 
fifty, or a hundred, that I know, would have given utterance to the 
same ideas ; every man, with the slightest knowledge of the laws 
which govern society, would arrive at the same conclusion : it is 
an inevitable result. 
That Mr. Whittle has thought a self-appointed Board of equal 
value with one legally established, is his own affair, and with which 
I have nothing to do. Experience will teach him that he has 
taken a false step. As a man takes his position, so must he bide 
the consequences. 
Mr. Whittle is a young man, I doubt not with some ability ; 
but his knowledge is very scanty, either of the laws which regu- 
late society in an established community, or of the history of the 
veterinary profession. He puts, what I have no doubt he consi- 
ders an unanswerable point, Why did not the Registrar-general 
publish “ an accredited list of members I” For the simplest of 
all reasons, — namely, that veterinary surgeons were a body unre- 
cognised ; they were only farriers, cow-leeches, or were placed 
among the host of nameless occupations. This one fact will, with- 
out any comment, shew the utter valuelessness of the school certi- 
ficates or diplomas, though such had been in existence for fifty 
years at the time of the last census. Such will not be the case 
when the next census comes to be taken, but which event will 
not happen before the year 1851 ; by which time Mr. Whittle 
will, in all probability, have seen the error of his ways, and have 
become, should it not be placed beyond his power, a member of 
the corporate body. 
Like the fox and the grapes, Mr. Whittle wants to know what 
is the value of the registration. It can he of no consequence to 
one who holds it so cheap; but he further tells you his belief, that 
most others think as lightly both of the value of registration, or of 
