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Mr. Fenwick.— That I deny. I took the chair with the 
greatest reluctance at the last meeting. 
Mr. Sibbald. —You feel the disappointment now, however: 
here are plenty of witnesses of that. 
Mr. Cherry. —I do not mean to make any comparison be- 
ween the chairmen. I give no opinion on that point. I only 
mow, that at the last meeting a good deal of business was done: 
lone has been done to-night. 
Mr. Jumpson.—Y es; you had it then all your own way; 
>ut you wont have it so to-night. 
iMr. La ngworthy.—I, too, may be called a disappointed 
nan possibly. (\es! yes! from twenty voices). If theie be 
my reporter here, I beg, t >r the credit and honour of the piofes- 
ion, that he be requested to withdraw. 
The motion of Mr. Jumpson was then put and carried. 
The gentlemen who had not entered the College were then 
•equested to sit a little apart from the others. One of them, 
VIr. Dew'hurst, and whom Mr. Cherry afterwards described as 
m able anatomist,—as w r ell acquainted with the anatomy of the 
lorse as any one in the room,—a perfect and efficient veterinaiy 
uirgeon, attempted to speak. 
Mr. Jumpson.—W ho are you, sir? Are you a veterinaiy 
surgeon? • 
Mr. Devvhurst. —It matters not who I am. However, I am 
i veterinary writer,—a veterinary teacher. I wish to address the 
:hair; and I will not be clamoured down. 
Mr. Jumpson.—S hall we order you a little brandy, sir; I 
think it will do you good. 
Mr. Dewhurst, with great good sense, and proper feeling, dis¬ 
dained to utter another word, and immediately retired to the seat 
pointed out for him; but others not so readily moving, an un¬ 
pleasant debate arose as to the manner of carrying Mr. Jumpson s 
motion into effect. In the course of this debate Mr. Sibbald 
adverted to garbled statements which he had seen in certain 
periodicals; and said that it was unfair and improper for gen¬ 
tlemen connected with these periodicals to be permitted to lie 
present. 
This called up a Reporter, who warmly repelled this attack on 
the press. He believed that the reporters, as a body,^ discharged 
their duty with perfect impartiality and honour. They ncvei 
mingled with or lent themselves to any party. 
Mr. Bun bury was happy to see so many reporters here. 
His only wish was, that the proceedings of that night, and of the 
profession generally, should go fairly before the public. He ob¬ 
jected, however, to the unjust and false statements which had 
