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Then, leaving these questions of law, they remind the Governors 
that there were other most important points contained in the Me¬ 
morial—three especially; and they inquire why the Governors 
had not vouchsafed to bestow on them the slightest notice. 
The Governors, thus pressed, return the same loose and equi¬ 
vocal answer with respect to the charter; but on other matters 
they, for the first time, speak, and speak plainly,'—‘'They saw no 
reason to alter their opinion, which they had formed on very mature 
consideration, as to the subject of the recommendation as to the in¬ 
crease of the lecturers and the sum paid by the pupils;” but “there 
will be a meeting of the Examining Committee on the following 
Wednesday, July the 22d, at which the subject of the Memorial 
will be laid before them for their advice; and when that is re¬ 
ceived, a meeting of the Governors will be convened to determine 
thereon, and the result will be communicated to the Deputation ; 
hut it is impossible for them, at this season of the year, to say when 
the meeting will take place"' 
Here it will be requisite to recur a little to dates. 
On the 10th of June the Governors met a Deputation from the 
profession. They record in their “ Proceedings” a strangely am¬ 
biguous opinion as to the charter, and they express in terms suffi¬ 
ciently definite their disapprobation of an increase in the number 
of lecturers or the fees exacted from the pupils. This took place 
on the 10th of June, and is recorded in their proceedings. 
On the 3d of July they transmit to the Deputation their opinion 
as to the charter; but they say not one word on the other points, 
although their decision on them had been requested equally as on 
the other points, and that decision was already entered in the re¬ 
cords of their proceedings. It was not until the 16th of July that 
the information was conveyed to the Deputation. Then mark the 
curious concatenation of circumstances. 
On the 10th of June it is entered on the Proceedings of the 
Governors, that they do not approve of “ the increase of the Lec¬ 
turers or the fees paid by the pupils.” This is an act of the Go¬ 
vernors, and without reference to or recommendation hy the Exa¬ 
mining Committee. On the 18th and on the 25th of June the 
Examining Committee assembles at its usual place of meeting, and 
determines on the competency or incompetency of certain students. 
