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shewn to be of a nature to make it quite evident that nothing 
short of distinguished services or commanding talent on the part 
of the elected, or the warmest sense of gratitude or obligation on 
the part of the electors, would have set honoured and honourable 
grey hairs aside to make room for their juniors. Persons in years 
are doubly gratified at being clothed in honours : they are pleased 
at having to fulfil the duties of stations of rank and power ; they 
are gratified at the remembrance of having performed them, and 
with the name they have derived from those performances; — a name 
that does not descend and die with them in the tomb, but lives 
for ages after they are gone in the memories of their professional 
brotherhood. 
Virulence of party at the late meeting seemed to be subsiding 
into a general feeling and desire for an adjustment of differences. 
This, and this alone, it is that, while it affords additional support 
to the Charter, can mend the gaps in our lacerated profession. It 
is quite certain we can no longer go on without the Charter ; and it 
is equally certain that, until all parties concur in its maintenance, 
there can be no intestine peace and harmony among us. Fairly 
and honestly carried out, and worked by the united force of the 
entire professional body, there can be in no unbiassed mind a sha- 
dow of a doubt but that whatever may be wanting to complete the 
Charter — to make it perfect and useful to us — will in time be 
added to it. In its representative character our Charter is framed 
upon the most admired of principles, — a principle the envy of all 
who possess charters of another description ; nor has the detail 
through which that principle is worked out any thing in it which 
any branch or department of our profession have right or reason to 
find fault with. We, therefore, hope and trust that the present 
glimmerings of amicable understanding and arrangement may not 
die away, but may burn brighter and brighter until the meetings 
both of Council and general body shall, by their united labours, 
cast lights over the veterinary world no less creditable to ourselves 
than acceptable to the public at large. 
Mr. CHERRY, in his reply to Captain Hely in our present 
Number — which, in order that we may do the production full jus- 
tice, we print entire — is offended with us for having last month 
designated his letter in our April Number an “attack;” and for 
having added, that the alleged attack was as “ unprovoked as 
undeserved.” We hope on the present occasion to shew — -in lan- 
guage of a different character from that which Mr. Cherry has 
thought proper to make use of — that the letter referred to, to give 
