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THE VETERINARY PROFESSION. 
will, after Christmas, be again conducted in the names of Per- 
civall and Youatt. 
Whatever may have been the defects or errors of this Periodi- 
cal during the last twelve years, the profession has now the 
fullest assurance that it will be honourably and efficiently con- 
ducted. For any errors into which the former Editor may have 
fallen he is sorry — any offence that he may have given, he re- 
grets: it was not intended. His enemies, — if on just and deep 
consideration there are those who have been or may be disposed 
to assume that character— he harbours against them no ill-will ; 
and it will rest with them to determine the course of conduct 
which it will be necessary for him to pursue. 
There is one unpleasant subject to which the Editor feels him- 
self compelled to allude — the speech of Earl Spencer at the agri- 
cultural meeting at Liverpool, as related by Mr. Dickens, and 
confirmed by the reporters at that meeting. His lordship is re- 
presented as having said, that “ when the epidemic which had 
spread among cattle first became general, he thought the Society 
ought to circulate among the farmers a paper which would teach 
them how to treat it. They applied to some of the most eminent 
persons in the country, and, having obtained their opinions, a 
paper on the subject had been circulated, and it had been at- 
tended with the best possible effect. He then thought from the 
great number of cattle attacked, that by receiving reports from 
different parts, of the way in which the disease had affected 
cattle, some conclusion might be come to as to the mode of 
treating it. They had heard the report read, which had been 
founded on the communications received from the most compe- 
tent men in the kingdom to give their opinions on the subject. 
These papers had been placed in the hands of Mr. Sewell, than 
whom no man in the kingdom was more capable of giving an 
opinion on the subject; but from the contradictory and conflict- 
ing statements that had been made, the Society had not been 
able to effect any great good ; but although the Society had not 
been able to accomplish any great good, it had prevented many 
of the farmers from trusting to the quackery of horse and cow- 
doctors, who did so much mischief to the farmer.” 
