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MISCELLANEA. 
to be held at the Freemasons’ Tavern, between themselves or any 
other member who might wish to be present, and the Professors 
and any others they might wish on their part, to enter into the 
several points, and calmly and dispassionately discuss them; that 
the points as stated by Mr. Wilkinson were not very difficult of 
adjustment, nor did there seem to be any reason why they should 
not be conceded ; but, at the same time, it must be distinctly un- 
derstood, that the result of that meeting should be laid before the 
Council, and that no repudiation should be attempted. 
Every member present authorized Mr. Wilkinson to make use 
of the above in the way that seemed the most fitting in his mind; 
and that gentleman was evidently much pleased at the calm and 
dispassionate manner in which the whole had been reviewed and 
met, and at the undisguised expression of good will and good 
feeling: where he had looked for opposition, he met support. 
[We have given this conversation, as we think it of importance, 
as shewing the feeling of those members of the Council who take 
the most active part in the proceedings ; that their opposition has 
not arisen from personal feeling, but from necessity.] 
MISCELLANEA. 
Shyness and Timidity. 
In common horse language, these propensities are confounded one 
with the other, or else no proper and right distinction is made be- 
tween them. A horse may be timid without being shy, though he 
can hardly be said to be shy without being timid. Young horses 
in their breaking are timid, frightened at every fresh or strange 
object they see. They stand gazing and staring at objects they 
have not seen before, fearful to approach them ; but they do not 
run away from, or shy at, them : on the contrary, the moment they 
are convinced there is nothing hurtful in them, they refuse not to 
approach and even trample upon them. This the shy horse will 
not do. He cannot be persuaded to turn towards or even to look 
at the object he shies at ; much less to approach it. 
Timid horses, through usage and experience, get the better of 
their timidity, and in time become the very opposite to fearful ; 
but shy horses, unless worked down to fatigue and broken-spirit- 
edness, rarely forget their old sins. The best way to treat them is 
to work them, day by day, moderately for hours together, taking 
no notice whatever of their shying tricks, neither caressing nor 
chastising them, and on no account whatever endeavouring to turn 
their heads either towards or away from the objects shied at. 
Anon on Horseback. 
