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There is no official consultation with regard to any thing else. But 
Mr. Mayer now begins to be troublesome. On the 9th of July he 
tells Mr. France that he wishes to know what is the resolution of 
the Committee upon these points; and then Mr. France, or the 
Governors, begin to look around them and consider what is to be 
done, and how they shall meet or how they shall delay the ques¬ 
tion. What question 1 That on which, upon very mature con¬ 
sideration” “ they had seen no reason to alter their opinion 1” Yes! 
even so. 
On the 22d of July was another examination of pupils, and at a 
most lucky period of the year, for it was just when the town was 
beginning to get empty. Were the fees and the lectures subjects 
on which the opinion of the Examining Committee should be re¬ 
quired! Most certainly. The application to them would be ex¬ 
ceedingly proper, and the result valuable; yet, from the beginning 
of March—for the Memorial was then in the hands of the Governors 
—to the middle of July, the usual examinations take place, and the 
Governors act as it seemed to them meet; and upon mature con¬ 
sideration,” they diminish the fee, and they refuse the wished-for 
lecturer. At length, this sad plague, Mr. Mayer, is determined to 
obtain an answer, and he takes a stand from which it is rather dif- 
cult to dislodge him. He says, that the Memorialists “ feel and 
believe that no progress can be made in veterinary science, or the 
profession at large benefitted, until the whole of the propositions 
contained in the Memorial are carried into effect, and for the ac¬ 
complishment of which they feel it their duty to use their best 
exertions.” It is not Mr. Mayer alone who is acting this decided 
part, but the whole 315, or now approaching to 400, unite in one 
chorus, “ So say we all of us.” 
The Governors, or some other persons, hear this distant swelling 
chorus; and although, from March to July, they had pursued their 
determined reckless course, they now begin to pause. Many a time, 
from March to July, had the Examiners met in the discharge of 
their arduous duties ; but not one doubt was raised on these all-im¬ 
portant subjects until now. Read the letter of Mr. France, of the 
date of the 16th of July:—“ There will be a meeting of the Me¬ 
dical Honorary Members of the College on Wednesday next”— 
why, there had been half-a-dozen from the time that the Gover- 
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