MISCELLANEA. 
59 
<rined that, in a case of chronic lameness occasioned by the 
contraction of the hoof, the section of the external branch of the 
plantar nerve might still the pain, and consequently remove the 
lameness, bv diminishing the sensibility of the foot. M. Bar- 
thelemy, senior, believes that we ought always to consult ex¬ 
perience on an object so important. In consequence, he prac¬ 
tised the operation of neurotomy on several horses, the state ot 
whose feet seemed to require it, but he has not been able to 
praise its results; which leads him to think, that if it be a mode 
of treatment promising some advantages, it can only be in par¬ 
ticular cases, and the nature of which it will be useful to 
determine. 
We have translated this long article, because it embodies the 
sentiments of French practitioners on an operation of much im¬ 
portance, and we think undervalued; and because the opinion 
expressed, and so much laboured, of the functions of the plantar, 
and in fact the spinal nerves, is that which we should not have 
expected from any well-educated veterinarian, and least of all 
from the professors of a national school.— Edit. 
fHisrdlanrau 
Meeting of the Horse-Shoers of Dublin, to Petition for 
a Repeal of the Union. 
We copy the following squib from the Morning Herald of the 
8th of December. The fools who assembled well deserved such 
a lashing, although we doubt whether their understandings are 
not too hardened and fire-proof to feel it:— 
On Monday “the Horse-shoers of Dublin*’ met to petition 
Parliament, not for a repeal of the coal duty, or of the duty on 
foreign iron, but, so please you, for a Repeal of the Union . 
Doubtless they calculate on a numerous augmentation of hacks r 
as the necessary result of such a measure, and a porportionate 
distribution amongst themselves of jobs in the way of trade. 
The chair was offered to Mr. O'Neil , a distinguished practitioner 
at the Swedish bar; but that gentleman, with characteristic 
modesty, evaded the honour, which was bestow ed on a less cele¬ 
brated forge-dust , w hose name lies obscured in a cloud of fuli¬ 
ginous vapour. The meeting was select enough considering:— 
none of your “common Jilef your unwashed leather-aproned 
artificers, but every one as clean as a white tack, and polished 
up, in dress, &c. ad unguem could make them. And to be sure, 
if they did not hit the nail on the head, it is no matter. Lord 
