The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

Eton and Ru:

igby Football Contrasted.

The grand characteristic of the Rugby game is the
carrying the ball in the hand. The football, taken
on the bound at Ragby—as, indeed, was of old the
custom in several of the North of England and
Scottish counties—may be carried through the
enemy's lines until it is taken by force from the
successful holder—and force in such a case includes
hacking, mauling, holding, and everything but
striking. The Eton play forbids carrying off the
ball altogether. The ball never rests in the hand
at all; but at most passes through it to the ground.
As the ball is never carried otherwise than between
the feet, no personal violence is required, BB at
Rugby, to take it from the holder, Hacking and
shinning, though not positively forbidden at Eton,
are seldom seen for ti,e simple reason that
they are not necessary. Pushing is illegal, nor
may the ball be caught, thrown, or even struck with
the hand. Between those two rival methods the
Harrow game halts, inclining mainly to Eton. At
Harrow, under certain limitations, catching is legi-
timate; but all shinning is strictly without the pale
of the law. Upon the minor peculiarities of all the
games, such as " rouges," " bullies,"" bases," " nots"
—the various modes of preventing " sneaking" or
" offside" play, and other features of the kind, it is
not essential to dwell. While each school holds its
own, none can play a common game; but if it were
worth while, there is no doubt a common system
might be arranged, which would not seriously in-
jure sport at any public school—Rugby always
excepted;
With respect to the carrying system, or the hand
and foot game, and the non-carrying system, or the
foot game, the question wears another aspect. These,
in fact, are two different gart.es, not various modes
of playing the same game. Etonians insist, with
vehemence and plausibility, first, that the hand and
foot game is barbarous (for it involves hacking and
holding); and, secondly, that it is not football.
The second objection may be dismissed as frivolous•
History is against it, for, as above stated, the hand
and foot game is not a❑ innovation, but an original
system indigenous in some parts of England.
Moreover, it is open to the conclusive answer, that
if it is:not football, it is something else which its
admirers think as good; and so iutetestiag a matter
cannot be decided by an appeal to nomenclature.
The suggestion of barbarity may have more validity.
Yet even this point will carry weight if the game
in itself be a great one; and that it is a great game
is clear, from the fact that the modern schools, such
as Marlborough, Haileybury, Cheltenham, and
Clifton, are adopting it in preference to all others.
An essential reason why the carrying system must
ever be popular is, that it is the only first-rate game
which a hundred or a hundred and fifty players can
play together. The non-carrying games by their
very nature can be practised only by smaller
numbers.

The Eight Rev. Bishop Gillis, we understand, a
present lies seriously ill ; and on Sunday prayers were made
in all the Catholic churches of Edinburgh for his recovery
to health.
LORD RUSSELL'S UNRULY %lEMBEft.—The sad
fate of the courageous man who was afflicted with
the possession of a pair of cowardly legs has often been the
subject of commiseration. It was very hard upon him. No
matter how boldly his heart beat, or what gallant resolu-
tions his brain might frame, his incorrigible legs always
would turn round and run away at the first report of fire •
arms. Lord Russell (says the Saturday Review), is just
at present the unhappy victim of a combination not per-
haps quite so humiliating, but almost as vexatious. In
himself he is the most peaceful and cautious of mankind
He never dreams of war, or, if he must wage it occasionally,
it is only with some of those barbarous Oriental nations who
have evidently been designed by a beneficent Provi-
dence to serve the special purpose of testing our Arm-
strong guns. But beyond his dealings with these
exceptional samples of humanity, he has always
shoe n himself to be possessed of an intensely pacific
nature. Indeed, it; has shone forth in every period of his
political life, and in his domestic as well as in his foreign
policy. He has always been willing to sacrifice anything
for peace, especially upon those occasions on which he had
reason for thinking that his side was the weakest. Col-
leagues, principles, pledges, have more than once been left
hastily in the lurch by this sincere lover of peace, when he
saw that they were menaced, and that he might become in-
volved in conflict on their behalf. It must be a cruel mor-
tification to this tranquil and submissive spirit that he is en-
dowed with one of the most pugnacious pons in Europe.
During the few years that he has been in office he has
probably insulted more Governments than all his ten
immediate predecessors pat together. If this combative
bearing had been intentional, and had been borne out by the
policy which followed it, the result, though disagreeable
to the tax-payer, would not have selected any igno-
miny upon the nation, or upon the Foreign Secretary
himself. But nothing is further from the thought of the
meek and gentle spirit that sits behind that pen than ever
to come to blows. If his true intentions could be mirrored
in his despatches, if the abundant di; cretion which tempers,
his courage could only communicate itself to his words,
foreign Powers would have no ground for the irritation
which an English despatch usually excites in their minds.
But he has never yet been able to gain a complete mastery
over his pen. At present ho has concluded a sort of com-
promise with it. The pen is to abstain, as a rule, from wan-
tonly insulting large Powers, at least when smaller Powers
can be found to receive the insults instead; and whenever,
from a small Power or a great, the insults shall have
provoked a sharp retort, the said pen is to accept the
affront in meekness, and not venture upon a dangerous
reply. Thanks to this happy arrangement, peace has,
up to this time, been maintained. The true character
of Lord Russell's bluster has been studied in many
striking examples by the Continental nations, and
is by this time thoroughly understood. , His despatches are
no longer considered, either here or abroad, as provocative
of war. They are only looked upon as a challenge to a
scolding match, in which the foreign diplomatist, wielding
a more delicate weapon, usually wins an easy victory.
There is no harm in such an arrangement, provided that it
is thoroughly understood. Words, after all, are only con:
ventional symbols of thoughts; and if it is once settled that
angry menaces are to mean in reality only a determination
to give in, pusillanimous intentions can be expressed as
effectively in that mode as in any other. The only misfor-
tune is that foreigners assume that the English people
select for their Foreign Minister some one who suitably re-
presents their sentiments and character. They consequently
infer, with unimpeachable logic, that a taste for blustering
I and a great dislike of fighting are the most conspicuous
.characteristics of the English nation.
ANTIQUITY OF THE VIOLIN.—In MSS. of about
the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries there occur
pictures of men wielding the bow upon the strings ; and we
still ace among the sculptures of our early Gothic cathe-
drals carvings of celestial orchestras, in which saints and
seraphim are playing on various sorts of " fytheles" among
other instruments. Thenceforward, until the middle of the
sixteenth century, the fiddle appears in all sorts of shapes
and varieties—egg-shaped, pear-shaped, and spoon-shaped,
large and small, with two, three, and up to as many as
seven strings. We are told even of a " Yiole de Bordone
with forty-four strings," and a " Sambuca Lyrcea, in-
Vented by Colonue, a Neapolitan, in the sixteenth century,
which, it is said, had five hundred strings." At
about this date, however, the now existing type
had become definitely established. Viols were still
made of many sizes; but, in shape and structure, they were
commonly the same as our present violins. In those musi-
Ceridays, before keyed instruments became dominant in the
household, it was common in musical families to have a
chest of Mater containing two trebles, a tenor, and a bass-
viol, and occasianally there were duplicates of some of the
instruments ; at Hengrave, for instance, there was a chest
of rk viola. Sir Thomae More, who was fond of music,
kept viols, and an organ in hie house. The bass was called
" viol da goatee" or leg-viol, the tenor, " viol da braccio,"
being played supported by the arms. (Is the German
bratsehe a corruption of this name ?) The fact is that with
all our advance in practical skill we have been unable to
improve on the models known 300 years since, unless it be
in some of the minor details.
DR. MAINE'S PRIZE SILVER GOBLET BRIMMED
WITH GOLD.—By the will of the late Dr. Swiney
funds are vested in the Society of Arts for awarding, in
concert with the Royal College of Physicians, on every
fifth anniversary of Dr. Swiney's death, " to the author of
the best published treatise on Jurisprudence, a silver goblet
of the value of LlOO, with gold coin in it to the same
amount." The award of the judges appointed by the will
was made on the 20th instant in favour of Henry Sumner
Maine, Esq., D.Cde, late Regius Professor of Civil Law
in tho University of Cambridge, and now member of the
Legislative Council of Ind a, the author of a work on
Jurisprudence entitled " Ancient Law." The goblet has
been executed by the Messrs. Garrard, after a design,
especially prepared for the Society of Arts, by Daniel
Maclice, Eq., KA. The next award will be made on the
20th day of January, 1869, when a work on Medical
Jurisprudence will be selected.
A FRENCH MEMORIAL TO SHAKSTERE.—Victor
Hugo has a new work in the press upon Shakapere. It is
to appear towards the end of February, just before the
three hundredth anniversary of the great poet's birthday,
which it is intended to commemorate. The book is to be
dedicated to England, as the country in which the great
French exile has established his home for so many years.
M. Louis Ulbach, in speaking of this work, says :—it is a
profound and exhaustive study, made with respect, with
reverent fear, but with inth.pendenee, of one of the greatest

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sail. %O.
The Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Wodehouso
had audiences of the Qieen.
and Princess
The Queen, Princess Louise,
Beatrice, went to Frogmore House this morning,
and left it at half-pasc one o'clock, p.m., °l4 for tile,
Great Western Railway station, where a
to
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train was in rt,adiness to convey her Molest).-

apsport.
Her 1113.ji?sty was attended by the, Marchioness
of Ry, the Hon. Mrs. Brun?, Colonel the lion.
C. B. Phipps, Colonel Sig T. M. Biddu:pht and
Ho!zmann. •
The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded 01
Churchill as Lady in Waiting. •

Departure of the Queen for Osborne.
WINDsoR, Monday Niglit•
This morning her Majesty the Queen isia
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nit
the Prince and Princess of Wales and their
i
son at Frcgmore; and after lunch the (Well'
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales and the Princess Louise and Beatrice,
and attended by Colonel Sir T. M. BiddiPb'
the Marchioness of Ely, and the Hon. minutes
Bruce, left Frogmore at about twenty rai
to two o'clock, and drove to the Wih'Atite°°t
sv,
terminus of the Great Western 1"1W,31,
where a special train, to which was attached
the two state saloons, was in readiness in order to
convey the Queen to Gosport, en route to Osborile*
On alighting the Royal party were received by
Colonel Sir C. B. Phipps, the Right Hon, SP
en-
eveera
Walpole, M.P. (who accompanied the train)'
Messrs. Grierson (the general manager), Wester:
Burlinson, and Matthews, of the Great d
Railway, while the Prince of Wales escorte.,l3o
Royal mother and sisters to the state saloon.
treja
Royal passengers having taken their seats tlae r 0
immediately started, leaving the station at 1.63P1,4i
precisely. The Queen looked more cheerfal 11'
smiling-than has been noticed for some time- ga-
The spectators on the platform cheered her 'us
jesty loudly as the Royal train left the ternile
amid which the Prince of Wales left for Frogrheirca
On leaving Windsor the special train proeeeeil
rapidly, via Slough and Reading, to Baningst"r;
eater
along the narrow-gauge rails of the Great We3ta
Railway, where Lt arrived at about ten nuirit,,iss
three o'clock. Here the care of the treitt 00
handed to the charge of Mr. Godson, the tr6sl
superintendent of the South-Western to:
along which line the remainder of the jouree',oo
the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, GosP°rizt' csi
performed ; and where her Mejesty, the '1:Z:ill
family, and suite, embarked on board the
re -1'"Ifor
yecht, and proceeded to Cowes, era ,hea
Osborne, which it was expected would be Oft'
about five o'clock in the evening.

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The Duke and Duchess of Marlboroug' 1, n
ethxpected at their residence in St. James's-square Or' 1
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froue rsuing week from Blenheim Palace, near W°e-st
the season.
The Duke of Newcastle is able to attend t° trr
of stao a
official duties attached to his office as Secretary
the Colonies, but, by the advice of his physicians (wh°)lt:B
a consultation on Saturday), absented himself from
Cabinet Council. tact
The late Duke of Cleveland's funeral took P
to-day at Raby. fc Will
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisb°^lFrid9f
arrive efrautm Paris.*laefamily mansion in Arlington-street on
a to
The Marquis of Gallifet has returti% b
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Claridge's Hotel from Kimbolton Castle, Hunting
d°-: 010
The Earl Granville, the Lord President c" t 00
Council, will give a full-dress Parliamentary 1011,(14s ton
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c Wednesday evening, the 3d proximo, at his house in.., ow
street, Berkeley-square, to a numerous party 01. Peers'
to
porters of the Governm. 0a e
The Countess Vaneent and family have left Cl3rl
Hotel for Wynyard-park, near Stockton, Durharo• hotter,
The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey is b,,,i'df°
, The medical report yesterday was more favourable, ''''., poi
are informed that all danger is over. The countess lictedt
been confined to the house so long as has been repreoe'
Oa
and her illness arose from a severe cold.
The Count and Countesss de la Bedo ere y 11 a
arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from a visit to the Pill°
Manchester at Kimbolton Castle. ,g P4e
Viscount Painaerston will give a full-dre— tile'
liamentary dinner at Cambridge House, Piccadilit 100
3d February, to the Right Hon. the Speaker of tilell- e 0
of Commons and a large circle of members of 13°.-l'i° ,
connected with the Government. orte
Lord Stanley, ALP., comes to toWn 541
from Knowsley-park, Lancashire, for the season. .a o
Mrs. Gladstone and Miss Gladstone arrlce lote'
Saturday at the Chancellor of the Exchecceell-
ipr nel
mansion on Carlton House-terrace, from Sir $.
-
I seat in Flintshire.

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A JUNIOR ATHENZUM.--There is a' '--Atlise°l
London for the establishment of a " Stull°. „ OrieriV 0
Club," to be conducted on very much the $Ol- ''' . itO
as the present far-famed " Athenaeum," k'ild /P. G
FRENCH SPEAKING is of the highest —I r:4
ea la r er
own peculiar way, and it is reproduc A ated I)
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in the one language that is understood by All "lico- 1 WO I
sons. Whatever praise can be lavished on ePe'': toarot'o
is simple in language and lofty in tone. wiliell 15oal„fee
with consummate saill to the purpose in hand/ Who, sier'of
the adroitness of forensic oratory with the Caerg leader°
feeling, may be lavished on the discourses of tli'ioeeivialoot
the French Opposition. There wily be V'e't , detects oe
the different performances, and a large share 0`.,0.0 ifi , /
shortcomings in the best of them. But in en ;oleo
unmistakeable impress of a keen, sharp, 00°
cifaels
Saturday _Review. ta in ll.
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.--it is st4-e tot to
likely to,be well informed on the sables
en 01,08
lengthened delay on the delivery on the itljt" coed, „Tv
Judicial Committee of Privy Council in the tvie:, too ' to
Bishop of Salisbury v. Dr. Rowland Williruhel. 000 „i,
Feudal! v. the Rev. IL B. Wilson," Arise tiie inev-,
,ist ,' olio"
fact that there is a division of opinion 0•11:010 0,0116, 04
bees who heard the case. These were the Lord of
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the. Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbish°l; pio!of
Lord Cranworth, Lord Kingsoosco, and enertio.o
of London. Earl Granville was present durin Sturot
oo'
the proceedings, but took no part in the naanabeel
Lord C' tlla
case. The rumour is that tae Lord Chaucellefrrt_versies:,i
worth, and Lord Singsdown are in favouroe .
r''.. to, leo
judgment of Dr. Lushington in the Court t A
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Curbed. In the event of this being the a_.,t; jab
Granville declining to vote, Dr. LushingteP
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will stand. a WI be
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sold by auction, without reserve, on telr olaxles
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name, was sent to prison for six months g
magistrates for stealing a quan.tity of t
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