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THE EDITOR’S REMARKS. 
Most of our readers have, ere this, perused Mr. Fisher’s “ Reply 
to Mr. Cartwright’s Letter on the supposed Abuses at the Royal 
Veterinary College.” The question of the existence or non-exist- 
ence of these abuses we shall leave these gentlemen, for the pre- 
sent, to contest ; but we feel ourselves bound in honour, as well as 
constrained by gratitude, to set Mr. Fisher right with regard to 
some erroneous assertions respecting Mr. Cartwright. 
Mr. Fisher states that “it is strange, passing strange, that so 
young a member of the profession should so soon have discovered 
‘ the fountain to be impure ;’ Mr. Cartwright being, 1 believe, a vete- 
rinary surgeon of some eight or nine months’ standing, and not, as 
he would wish the world to believe, ‘ twenty years had elapsed since 
he first launched into that sea of anxiety and trouble’. Previous to 
this, I am informed, his twenty years were spent in the humble but 
not unworthy calling of a farrier.” 
Our situation with respect to the members of our profession 
makes us far more acquainted with their history and their doings 
than they are aware of or suspect. Our acquaintance with Mr. 
Cartwright is of many years’ standing. His younger days were 
spent with his father, who was a farmer, and from whom he received 
a fair and substantial education. After this he was, during two 
years, a clerk in an attorney’s office. It was there that he began 
to think that a more active life was better suited to him, and that 
the idea of the veterinary profession first entered his mind. His 
first step, however, was so far an unfortunate one. He staid but 
three or four months at Wem, and was immediately afterwards 
(being about twenty years of age) articled to Mr. Hales, of Os- 
westry, and to whom he paid a handsome honorarium as an appren- 
tice. He was with that gentleman three years, and he could not 
have been in connexion with one from whom he would more surely 
imbibe the principles of sound veterinary practice. 
His apprenticeship being expired, Mr. Hales was anxious to 
retain his services, and offered him a very respectable salary ; but 
young Cartwright thought, rightly or wrongly, that he was old 
enough to conduct a business of his own, and therefore quitted his 
old master, and went to Whitchurch ; but the kind feeling between 
him and his old master never ceased. There it would be difficult 
to denominate him “ a farrier" for he never kept a forge, much 
