380 GOVERNORS OF TIIE COLLEGE. 
to set iorth anything’ in the shape of reason or argument ; but hav 
chosen one day to find a law ox frame one, and the next day, ii 
answer to our petition, to refer us to it. Really, gentlemen, sue! 
proceedings are very strange, and very shocking too. In the course 
of our experience through life, we never found anything to b 
permanent but what was sound and solid to the very bottom 
and if your institution stands long upon the basis you have nov 
set it, why, all that we can say about the affair is, that it cer 
tainly will furnish a very striking instance of a victory of tin 
interests of a few over the benefits of many—nay, over the wea 
and welfare of our nation altogether. But it can never be; thi 
present system of exclusion cannot last. Among the thousanc 
subscribers by whose subscriptions the institution survives, some 
surely, when they come to know and to understand these mat¬ 
ters—nay, many, it is to be hoped, will be found, who will take 
an interest in scrutinizing and correcting such unwarrantable 
abuses; and compel you, gentlemen-governors, to act towards us 
as well as towards the public at large, as becomes the governors 
of a national institution in a country so adverse to monopoly and 
humbug in every shape as is our ble sed own. We repeat, the 
vox publica will one day make you concede the justice you now 
withhold. Besides which, there is one other voice—one you alike 
disregard; but one which, having lost, “ you will lose the main 
prop that doth sustain your house”—one that you took much pains 
to obtain , but have not, we regret to be obliged to say it, deserved 
to retain —one that gives the highest sanction and authority tc 
your proceedings, under the supposition that they are of the best de¬ 
scription that can be adopted for the profession and for the public— 
one that is ever foremost in patronising what is good and just, 
but quite as hostile to anything of an opposite character—one 
that is, to sum all up together in one word, sent forth to the 
public as a passport to your institution, as being all that it ought 
to be, from no less a source than the throne itself! Our most 
gracious and most intelligent Monarch has been pleased to vouch¬ 
safe his patronage to the institution. Majesty itself is its 
avowed PATRON. It has become the ROYAL Veterinary 
College ! Gentlemen-governors, think of this—have this deeply 
impressed upon your minds when you next enter into concla^; 
