GOVERNORS OF THE COLLEGE. 
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This is blowing hot and blowing cold with a vengeance ! 
Vhat inferences are we to draw; what conclusions can we come 
3 , from resolutions so directly counter to one another as these are ? 
o none other, than that party-spirit has been suffered to super- 
ede all light, reason, order, and temper; and that the character 
lanifested by these meetings has been such as to make every re- 
pectable member yet more and more ashamed of the profession 
nder the colour of whose name such a motley congregation has 
ttracted any notice. And here let the subject rest: we our- 
elves feel heartily sick and disgusted with it. We would fain 
ave never soiled our pages with it; but we conceived it our 
uty to place the hateful proceedings before our country readers 
a particular, whose attention might have been called towards 
hem by the newspapers ; and this we have done, although some 
f them probably may feel inclined to follow the example of a 
riend of ours, who told us, a fortnight ago, that he did not in¬ 
end to have the last number of “ The Veterinarian” m- 
luded in his bound volume for the present year. 
From the subject of these deplorable meetings we turn with 
inabated ardour, and firmness of cause and purpose, to address 
i few words to the gentlemen whose unpopular and illiberal acts 
md deeds have been the principal source of the division and dis- 
atisfaction now reigning among veterinary men : it is almost 
innecessary to add, that we mean the Governors of the Veterinary 
College. 
Gentlemen, —You have refused to place any member of 
>ur profession in the seat of an Examiner of the veterinary pupil, 
m the qualifications of whom such member is the only fit or 
competent person to arbitrate; and you have succeeded this un- 
easonable and derogatory edict by the passing of a still more de¬ 
predatory and detestable law, excluding any veterinary surgeon 
who is, or is supposed and ought to be, at least, a respectable 
person) from becoming a subscriber to your institution; while you 
continue to admit as many horse-proprietors in all other shapes,— 
iiackneymen, liverymen, coachmen, snobs, cads, dealers, and 
blackguards, as come and offer themselves with two guineas in their 
h^ids. In neither of these cases of exclusion have you been able 
