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ADJOURNED MEETING, &C. 
been serving their apprenticeship to some shop-keeper in a 
country town ; they then start for London, and come down again 
in six months with a diploma in their pocket. This, however, is 
an evil which will cure itself, or rather this resolution will cure 
it; but it is annoying enough at the time, and it is sometimes un¬ 
justly visited on those who do not deserve it. The groom and the 
coachman soon detect these half-instructed gentlemen. They 
can tell in a moment whether a man understands his business. ] 
u What a fool this fellow is,” they say: “he shall never enter our 
stables again:” This resolution will rectify all, if the governors 
will sanction it; for without them we can do nothing, no not even 
Mr. Coleman or Mr. Sewell; and without their sanction I, and 
countiy practitioners in general, wish for no alteration. Mr.I 
Hallen then entered into a long and feeling narration of the 
labours of a country practitioner, after which the motion passed 
unanimously. 
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting;i 
adjourned sine die. 
Many of the company then retired for refreshment to an ad¬ 
joining apartment; and every angry feeling being left in the room 
of debate, two pleasant hours were spent. 
One circumstance the reporter does truly lament. He re¬ 
minded the chairman, that, at the last meeting, the majority of 
those who had assembled, consisting of the now triumphant 
party, had departed before the room was paid for, leaving the 
others to discharge the reckoning. The chairman promptly 
called the attention of the meeting to this circumstance; when 
Mr. Sibbald enquired who had hired the room. No one being 
able to resolve that question, he declared that they who hired 
the room might pay for it; he would not contribute a single 
farthing. Others avowing the same determination, the meeting 
broke up, and the room was not paid for. 
In the room of refreshment, the waiter presented to Mr.: 
Sibbald, then chairman, the account for the room whence we had 
retired. He refused to have any thing to do with it; and said 
that Mr. Cuff might get his money from the persons who hired 
the room, whom he ought to know, or, else he might get it how 
he could. Mr. Youatt then moved, that the demand for the use 
of the room of meeting should be added to the present reckon¬ 
ing. He was warmly supported, and particularly by Mr. Hallen I 
and Mr. B unbury; but the chairman peremptorily refused to 
listen to the proposition. He was violently supported by too 
many others; and the evening concluded with leaving it in the 
power of the landlord to say, that the representatives of the body 
of veterinary surgeons had assembled in his house, and bilked 
him of his just demand for the use of the room. Fye! Fye ! ! 
