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ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE- 
PRESIDENTS. 
A Special meeting of tlie Council of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons was held on IMay 25tli, for the pur- 
pose of electing the officers for the ensuing year. 
The following was the result : 
President. 
T. Greaves, Esq., Manchester. 
Vice-Presidents. 
Professor Williams, Edinburgh. 
„ McCall, Glasgow. 
„ Brown, London. 
E. O. Harrison, Esq., Army. 
AV. Thacker, Esq., Army. 
G. Morgan, Esq., Liverpool. 
Secretm'y. 
AY. H. Coates, Esq. 
A vote of thanks to the retiring President, AY. Field, Esq., 
jun., was carried by acclamation, on the proposition of Mr. 
Hunt. 
EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
MTRIDE V. AVILLIAMS AND DALZELL. 
The pursuer of this action of damages for slander having ob¬ 
tained a verdict, that verdict was, on the motion of the defenders, 
set aside as contrary to evidence, and a new trial granted. The 
second trial, before a special jury, resulted in a verdict for the de¬ 
fenders. To-day the Court held the defenders entitled to their ex¬ 
penses in the first trial as well as in the second, on the ground that, 
though the general rule was that a party losing in a first trial and 
gaining in a second did not get the expenses of the first, as the pre¬ 
sumption was that his losing the first arose from some fault on his 
own part, that presumption did not hold here, where the evidence 
of malice led by the pursuer on the first trial, and the fact that that 
evidence was in the deed proved to be substantially incorrect in 
point ot fact, could not have been anticipated by the defenders, the 
malice not being put in issue, and there being only a general aver¬ 
ment of it on record .—North British Agriculturist. 
