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that elevation of rank and pay to which he was justly en- 
titled_, when we heard that, forthwith, equal justice would be 
done to our profession; but now, at the end of many 
months, we still find that no progress has been made; — 
a fact, which of itself would make us doubt that anything has 
been done to further the desired object. 
Bed-tajoism has long prevailed ad nauseam; but we hope, 
now that our authorities have had so much experience in 
the necessity of promptness of action to beat up recruits 
to their new Parliament, they will throw more spirit into 
the several departments of the State, and by the time our 
next number is ready to be issued the long-anticipated war¬ 
rant will be in our possession. 
PROPOSED MONUMENT TO COLEMAN. 
With reference to the proposal made by “ Sinceritas ” 
to erect a monument to the late Professor Coleman, we can 
only say that it would afford us very great pleasure to see 
thing done; but many circumstances militate against it. 
1 st. We are far from being a body sufficiently numerous to 
accomplish such an undertaking in a satisfactory manner, 
2 d. The time since the decease of the professor is now 
somewhat great, and many of those who knew him best 
have, like him, “ shuffled off their mortal coil.” 3d. We 
we are not yet sufficiently united. We should, however, 
be sorry to be thought unfavorable to the movement, and 
therefore pledge ourselves to co-operate whenever the matter 
is brought before the profession in a more definite form. 
In the mean time, our pages are open to the suggestions of 
others upon the subject. 
