ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
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to E. Braby, Esq., placed on the table a handsome silver tea 
service, which had been selected agreeably to that gentlemans 
wishes, bearing the following inscription : 
PRESENTED TO 
E. BRABY, ESQ, M.R.C.V.S, 
BY THE COUNCIL OE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, IN 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OE THE GRATUITOUS AND VALUABLE SERVICES 
RENDERED BY HIM AS THEIR HONORARY SECRETARY. 
July §th, 1862. 
The presentation was made by the President in the name 
of the Council, in a few suitable remarks. 
Mr. Braby, in a feeling manner, expressed the willingness 
with which he had undertaken the duty of Secretary in a case 
of great emergency, and begged to thank the Council for the 
handsome testimonial with which they had so kindly pre¬ 
sented him. 
Parliamentary Intelligence. 
JURIES BILL. 
By the subjoined report, the members of the profession 
will observe with much regret, that the Lords* amendments 
to the Juries Bill** which had given to them, in common with 
pharmaceutical chemists, an exemption from the serving on 
Juries, have been negatived in the Commons, simply by the 
casting vote of the Speaker. This decision, however, should 
only encourage us to persevere until the desired end is 
attained. We are, at least, beginning to know our strength; 
and this defeat, which, so closely approximates a victory, 
should only stimulate us to further exertions. 
Juries Bill. 
The House having gone into the consideration of the Lords* 
amendments on this bill, 
Sir G. Grey said he did not think that either veterinary 
surgeons or pharmaceutical chemists properly came within 
the general principle of exemption which applied to surgeons 
or physicians, who might be called upon at any moment to 
attend a patient. Besides, the pharmaceutical chemists were 
bound to keep an assistant qualified to make up medicines. 
If the exemption in question were granted to pharmaceutical 
