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he looked about him for other causes of the evil ; and hence 
arose the spirit of bad feeling which has of late prevailed 
among certain classes of the students and the practitioners. We 
have not, however, time or space to enter into this at present. 
It shall be fully but candidly treated of in our next number. In 
the mean time any remarks from our friends will be thankfully 
received. 
The following announcement appeared in a late number of the 
Mark Lane Express, as a notice from the Professor of the Vete- 
rinary College of the proceedings of the Governors of that Insti- 
tution : — 
“ INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF CATTLE. 
“ Professor Sewell, of the Royal Veterinary College, St. Pan- 
eras, has informed the Society that the Governors of the College 
have been pleased to express their approbation of his efforts, for- 
merly communicated to the Council, to establish a Cattle Infir- 
mary, and supply the means of instruction in the treatment of 
diseases, by having engaged to undertake the medical care of the 
extensive dairy belonging to Thomas Flight, Esq. (formerly Lay- 
cock’s dairy), Islington, free of any expense, on condition that the 
pupils who are desirous of practising that highly important 
branch of the veterinary art may attend the same daily. The 
Governors having unanimously voted a grant of <£100 to Professor 
Sewell, in consideration and on account of the expenses he had 
already incurred to the present Midsummer, have at the same 
time resolved to place at his disposal the further sum of £200 in 
furtherance of the same object. Professor Sewell has further 
stated, that Mr. Pusey, the President of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England, having expressed his approbation of the 
plan originally proposed, and the Duke of Richmond, Mr. Hand- 
ley, and other members of the Society, having, at different times, 
visited the dairy and infirmary, and fully concurred with him in 
its eligibility in every respect for the intended purpose, he should 
spare neither pains nor expense to accomplish the views of the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, in promoting the success- 
