VETERINARY ANNIVERSARY DINNER. 115 
sidence at the college be demanded from every candidate for a 
diploma, and especially from him who, when he arrived at the 
college, knew nothing of the horse or of cattle—let him advocate 
the cause of his insulted profession, and procure for some of them, 
of whose competency there can be no doubt, seats at the ex¬ 
aminers’ board—let him defend them from further insult in other 
forms; and he will find himself surrounded by a host of zealous 
friends, supported by whom he may laugh to scorn the impotent 
attempts of his personal enemies. 
We could have wished that this allusion to his enemies had not 
been accompanied by language of defiance : “They should never 
drive him from his post.” Who should not?—His enemies, if 
he has them, have not, and never will have the power. The pro¬ 
fession would deeply regret his secession from the chair. Even 
Mr. Langworthy, in his spirited recommendation to lay the 
grievances of the profession before the legislature, deprecates 
the retirement of the Professor. Veterinary practitioners only re¬ 
quire that he should make the Veterinary College what it was 
meant to be, and what it ought to be, and they would form a 
phalanx around him, which his bitterest foes would strive in vain 
to penetrate. We trust, therefore, that we shall hear no more of 
these “enemies.” The worthy Professor deludes himself. We 
cannot imagine that he is endeavouring to delude others. 
We promised in the first number of the present year, that our 
Journal should be devoted less to controversy, and more to the ac¬ 
cumulation of important facts, connected with our profession. 
We have in some measure redeemed our pledge, and we will re¬ 
deem it fully. The communications of our correspondents on con¬ 
troversial subjects, when untainted by personality or malignity, 
cannot always be rejected; but for ourselves, we are satisfied with 
the prospect of veterinary affairs. We know the universal feeling 
of the profession, and what must, ere long, be the result ot that. 
We adopt the language of our able correspondent “A Farrier,” 
“If each individual of the veterinary profession is useful and 
“honourable in his sphere, and ‘the Veterinary Medical Society’ 
“unites and strengthens, and becomes the pole-star of the body, 
“and ‘The Veterinarian’ continues to teem with the valuable pro- 
“ductions which often grace its pages (how easily could this 
Farrier cause it more to teem with such productions, verbum 
