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high as our ambition—albeit this may be a dangerous pole- 
star—would raise us. Yet, while all around us is giving 
proof of the onward march of mind and indicates develop¬ 
ment, we dare not, cannot stand still, lest we become laggards 
in the race. All we ask is the continuance of the support 
we have hitherto received, and our hopes for the future are 
confident and strong. Our labours may be considered but 
supplemental to those of others, £k our journal being just 
what the profession makes it ,; —an observation that cannot 
be too often repeated. • 
Thus have w r e reviewed the proceedings of the past year: 
may the coming one prove no less propitious than it has 
been. We are not unconscious of the slender thread on 
which hangs popularity, nor how fickle is public applause :— 
“ Ever varying, like the shade 
By the quivering aspen made.” 
Still our desire is, the period of our probation being ended, 
satisfactorily to perform our duty to the profession, knowing 
this—the advantages to be derived will be mutual. 
It only remains for us to close by a reference to those 
members of the profession who have been taken from among 
us by death. The number has not been so great in this 
as in antecedent years. 
In our last annual address we expressed a hope that 
ere another year had elapsed peace would be restored 
to India, and now we have the gratification of being 
enabled to state that such is the case. The proclamation 
of her Majesty appears to have given universal satis¬ 
faction ; chief after chief, and prince after prince, have 
accepted the amnesty, and acknowledged the sovereignty of 
England, trusting to her clemency. A few dying embers of 
the mutiny have yet to be trodden out, which smoulder like 
the ashes of an extinct volcano, whose force has been 
fully spent. This singular, this before unheard-of insurrec¬ 
tion—this strange drama—is rapidly approaching its ter¬ 
mination. Fearful indeed has been the destruction of life 
during it, but the beginning of the end has come, and after 
