The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-23 00:00:00

Duke Charles of Glucksburg.

The following telegrams have been forwarded to
us through Renter's agency. Like the first state-
ment, from the same source, which we yesterday
contradicted, they are concoctions of the Augusten-
burg faction, and are utterly unreliable :
HA➢IBURG, JAN. 22.

" The Duke Charles of Gluckeburg, elder brother
to the King of Denmark, has refused the oath of
allegiance under the following circumstances:—
" In November last the duke, with other landed
proprietors of Schleswig, refused to take the oath
of allegiance to the King. Subsequent to this
refusal he was induced, while in Copenhagen, to
sign a document containg the required oath, under
the promise that no proceedings should be taken
against the other persons who had refused in con-
junction with him to take the oath, On finding,
however, that this promise was not kept, Duke
Charles asked that the document should be returned
to him ; this having been done ho destroyed it,
thus virtually refusing the oath.
" COPENHAGEN, Jan. 22 (Evening).

" It has been stated, as proof of the good under-
standing subsisting between the King and his
brother, Duke Charles of Glucksburg, that the
latter was present at the banquet recently given to
the Rigsdag. This statement is false. The duke
was not present at the banquet, and was not even
in Copenhagen on that day."

LITERATURE.

Eton School Days. By an Old Etonian. One Vol.,

pp. 316. Maxwell and Co.
A capital work, this is—and one that we have
found thoroughly enjoyable. It is nothing more

than it affects to be: namely, a narrative of school-

boy life, told in a gay, helter-skelter, rollicking
schoolboy fashion. Here and there, in the manner
of it, there is a touch of affectation—a rather
powerful flavour of the sesquipedalia verba. Occa-

sionally the schoolboy slang is wonderful in its
truthfulness—the odd little phrase (picturesque,
almost poetical, like the gipsy slang fami-
liar to the glib tongue of Harrison Ains-
worth's Paterers, of which perfection of

slang the Romany Rye is the incomparable master-
piece)—precisely the right word in the shape of
some odd little phrase of the schoolboy lingo drop-

pinginto its place, at times,with a sort of aplomb that
is quite delightful. There is something, in fact, so
thoroughly boy like in the whole performance—
.

something so racy of the schoolroom and the play-
ground—that we should almost be tempted to re-
gard the book as the performance of a Young

Etonian instead of an Old Etonian. Oaly—that, in

,hat case, the writer would have to be regarded as

some such hardly conceivable lusus naturce
as a humouristic Chatterton. An Old Etonian,

as the author calls himself upon his title-page, if
he be old at all, must certainly be what you would

call a genuine Old Boy—one of those warm-hearted
creatures, gifted in temperament with a shadowy
semblance of immortal youth, but having a decided
tendency, in the body, to that dread of dandies, that
result of constitutional laughter—corpulence !
Sometimes, or rather it should be said, in some few
particulars, the puerile diction put into the
mouths of the interlocutors, will be found to have
rather a tedious leaning to iteration. The changes
are •rung, for example, usque ad nauseam, upon
several pet schoolboy words most fantastically
applied, according to the wont of boys. As, par
exemple, when the young hero of the narrative, But-
ler Burke, talks, in a rapture of admiration, about
Charley's sister Constance being " awfully pretty"
—or again, as where another urchin speaks of an
opposing player at football, playing " beastly well."
Etonian Life in all its varieties—in its " ins" (even
spelling those with a double n), no less than in its
"outs" (indulged in, some of those, at no inconside-
rable risk of a sound switching afterwards, when
caught)—Etonian Life, both high and low, from
the head master to the itinerant vendor of tarts,
from the Swell Coileger down to the veriest brat of
an Oppidan, from the mere child who fags up to
that terrible being the hobbedehoy who fags him!

To a certain extent, in a lighter, in a more super-
ficial, not to say it invidiously, in a more frivolous
way, the work, so far as it goes, is of the genus of
which " Tom Brown's Schooldays" is the most ini-
mitable of exemplars, the very chef d'oeuvres! as
in Tom Brown's Schooldays, here in Eton bchool-

days, we have an account of a Football Match. Bu
whereas the Rugby football match, as described
by Mr. Thomas Hughes, has about it a Homeric
sweep of vicissitudes,' a sort of epic importance—
our author's account of the Eton Football Match is
more of the Tom Crib character, than either the
Tom Brown or the TOM Hughes. It is admi-
rably well done, nevertheless—it is full of life
and animation. Only—it comes second ; and,
therefore, it comes off by comparison second best.
Butler Burke is a lesser, shorter, stouter, " nub-
blier" sort of a blundering Tom Brown in his way.
A thorough boy—a boy full of impulse, with a good
deal of passion about him as well as impetuosity,
plenty of affection, some humour, lots of pluck, a
spice of mischief; and an unmistakeable tendency to
dare-devilry. The Bad Boy, the very Bad Boy of
the book—and yet with redeeming traits, too, about
him—is Edmund Chorley, Thief, in some sense
Sneak, also Liar, ditto Bully, ibid Traducer, and so
forth through a nice little hotly peppered catalogue
of vices. Vices more odious almost in the boy than
in the adult, and this* is because so grossly in ante-
gonism_to what is so charming as the dominant
characteristic of boyhood—frank, bold, uncompro-
mising, instant ingenuousness. 'rue friend, the
chum, the alter• ego of 'Butler Burke is his cousin
Reginald Purefoy—tho Good Boy of the story.
Constance Chorley, the Bad Boy's sister, we have
a glimpse or two of, as the little heroine
of the tale. Mr. Wynne, the Tutor, is charmingly
sketched, being a favourable specimen of a Master
at Eton—just precisely what a Master at a College
like Eton ought to be. A scholar and a gentleman,
every inch of him, entitled to be loved as well as to
be respected. One preposterous flaw there is in the
book, and that flaw a whole chapter. Of all the ab
surdities we ever remember to have seen perpe-
trated by any story-teller gifted with a lively,
not to say skittish, imagination, this is the
most ridiculous. Chapter the twenty-fifth it is—
entitled, with almost impertinent significance,
"H.R.H." The impertinence of it, in truth, almost,
as one may say, amounts to the heinousness of leze
naajeste. Will it be believed that the incident this
chapter undertakes (in the coolest and most off-hand
manner imaginable) to relate, brings upon the
scene—that scene, now the gardens, now the
terraces, now the drawing-rooms of Windsor
Castle—her Majesty the Queen, H.R.H. the
Prince of Wales, and H.R.H. Prince Alfred !
These being revealed to us in familiar converse
with the two Eton Boys, one of them Butler
Burke, the other his school companion the Boy
Earl of Horsham. In such familiar intercourse
with their Royal Highnesses, indeed, that we
have them actually skylarking together—the
Princes "boneing" (there is no other word for it)
the hats of the two young gentlemen from Eton,
and after boneing them, and running off with them,
absolutely turning the said hats into a couple
of impromptu footballs ! Nay, nor is that
the whole of this outrageous and audacious
extravagance—we have Butler Burke's boy-com-
panion chasing the Heir Apparent within an inch
of his life, as one may say, along the terrace to
one of the garden entrances to the Castle, and there,
just upon the threshold, " bonnetting" his Royal
Highness, or, at any rate, knocking the Prince of
Wales's own hat off in retaliation. Her Majesty the
Queen, after this, actually complimenting the
Etonian upon his performance and requiring
H.R.H. to apologize. The whole thing is as bizarre,
as improbable, we repeat it, as utterly preposterous
as anything that was ever penned by way of afford-
ing a reader a surreptitious peep into a palace.
Apart from this one nonsensical chapter, the de-
scription here given by an Old Etonian of Eton
School-days, under all their phases, whether of fun
or tribulation, is a delightful effusion—pleasantly
drawn, for the most part, we should imagine, less
from the writer's fancy than from some of his
most dearly cherished recollections of what Eton
School-days were in his own experience.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
WEEK.—llloaday—Actuaries, at 7—Entomological,
at 7, Anniversary—Geographical, at 8 30, " Mr. Hector's
Exploring Expedition, Middle Island, New Zealand"—
"Report of Mr. Maerrow on Lake District of Otago"—
" Lefroy's Expedition in Western Australia—" Ascent of
the Moisie River," Professor Hind. Tuesday—Ethnological,
at 8, "Ethnology of Indian Archipelago," Mr. Wallace—
"An Account of the Mookwas, district of Putlam. Ceylon,"
S. Casie Chitty Maniegar. Engineers, at 8, "East Coast
between the Thames and the Wash," Mr. Redman. Royal
Institution, at 3, " Experimental Optics," Professor 'l:yn-
dall. Zoological, at 9, "New Australian Serpent," Mr.
Brefft—" New Goliath Beetle from the Zambesi," Mr.
Gray. Wednesday—Society of Arts, at 8, "Metric System
of Weights and Measures, and its Proposed Adoption in
this Country," Mr. Brown. Arch saologic tl Association,at 81,
" Stone Coffin and Cross discovered at Ash," Mr. Planche
—" Roman Remains at Carlisle," Mr. Vere Irving.
Thursday—Royal Academy, at 8, " Architecture," Pro-
fessor Smirke. Antiquaries, at 8. Royal, at 81. Royal
Institution, at 3, " Experimental Optics," Professor Tyn-
dall. Friday—Royal Institution, at 8, " The Glacial
Epoch," Professor Frankland. Saturday—Royal Institu-
tion, at 3, " Antiquity of Man," Mr. Lubbock.—.4thenceum.

•
THE SHAKSPERE TERCENTENARY.-A corres-
pondent writes to ns as follows :—Sir,—ln your
report of the meeting on the above subject, it appears that
Mr. Tom Taylor and his friends propose to devote a theatre
to Shakspero and the high class dramatists, which sugges-
tion you did me the honour to publish in the columns of
The Sun in June last. As for the Statue Committee, I, as
one of the public, thank them for an amusing, performance
of " The Comedy of Errors," and " Much Ado About
Nothing,"

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4'l
HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jau. -
The Queen, with Princess Beatrice, drove
oub
yesterday morning.
Countess Blucher had the honour of accomPanr
ing her Majesty.
Colonel Ponsonby attended on horseback. ,
, file Hon. E mma Lascelle
Maid of gouour to
s has succeeded lir
Hon. Lucy C. Lyttelton as
Waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Waleis.ot
At a late hour yesterday it was aseertaineu * ,a
her Royal Highness the Princess of Will° tithe
her infant son were continuing to progress i'l,lo,
mosti satisfactory manner. The Countess of '
c esfield is still in attendance on the Priticees: ea
His Royal Highness the Prince of ales, atie-ci
by Captain G. H. Grey and Mr. Fisher, ea
run with the harriers yesterday morning. left
_ His Royal Highness the Duke of Catrtbridge
Frogmore House yesterday.
The Earl
of
Macclesfield left Fropore Oc'tise °II
e 1
the expiration of his visit to the Prince °f lirl6
—4-- ---
MARRIAGE IN HIGHLIO. , tof
theA letter from Rome, dated Jan. 19, says :--The event
the week, at all events in the higher social circles,h7.,',.,„s,
daumarriage of Miss Amalie Haughton with
Prderie
ter of the Duchess de Saldhanha, with fir. 011
eGfosuglburn Walpole. The wedding took place in 010 volt
and St. Antonio, who is the national protector of r°rt, to
reservedlo before the time appointed the church, alfere
filled withplearceews,dasnedf tehueriseturesestpseientathteeraneighbourh° toioc
the wedding party arrived in four carriages, the °het liS
encfcupied by the Maestro di Camera and the Cb°"ttsejf,
of the eill a to
thehis dake ; the second by the secretary
wife, and two attaches ; the third by the duke 911„ its
bridegroom;duch and the fourth, drawn by four horseei "or.
ess and the bride. The witnesses of the niarriii.g,,,,,e foi
and the
`the
Cardinals di Pietro and Antonelli,
ofFrench ambassadors, Her Royal Highness the rirwbila
Portugal would have been the' o i ere of the birlh'ie. her
sheeh not been unmarried, but shee iwasil representeu,;o,o
waamberlain, and from respect to the Princess 00 other
lianstrequested to fulfil those important functions. , losr,
About 11 00
A 2 company occupied seats in the space before t'eforteJ
nesse chente', with some admirable- es, lyttPiserg :11.,
by Cardinal Altieri, who, as soon ays°tlche nvi". "deb;1""
were given, made a short address to the brides%
in very fluent French, full of excellent adoc, fool
soon as the ceremony wasthe arty retiree
in 111%4
tbey strivio
the church in the same order in
except that the duke and thev iduchess r1:11;f:i
the third and the married couple the I°_,lit'xisr,,
riage,ex followed by all the guests. It was a ve'l ;P.,
citing scene, and the Swiss guards in the elAreil,
..is 04'
mountainmade
e soldiers stationed in the streets to tesil3l"-yortir
the whole a very imposing spectacle. They
guese Embassy was decorated in grand gals f‘cilr the
ere,:
sion, the national flag floating in. the front, ae",efh'ell,
plants lining either side of the marble staircase's-iror
Ther /le,g. tO
happily carpeted, for the cold was bitter. Autee";;sicei
scut the Cardinals Altieri, di Pietro, a.nd
dMonsignori Borromeo, Paces, Berardi, FranehitAifslife;
theeMerode, and Talbot ; the Senator of Rome °L.-1011:
Austrian Ambassador, the French Anabassa°lsBlol,;'
andCounHtesls Sartiges; the Ministers of GuatereslB' 4 ort
Prussia,
.o land, with their wives ; the Ministers vi 051
ssia, and Bavaria, and the Charge d'Afaires °. errs
withT Madame de Figueirado ; the soi-disant itliltlisterl„
inuscany and Naples, who may better be 8044 c /dolt
befloa.rtibAusai,
Among
gd
the
eenuernaal
unofficial
lnta and the
wC°:lol3otee i'.rilior-iir
and Princesses Colonna, Orsin°itata:7,hesee SA°6ltif:.A°:
Massimo,p and Arsoli, the Princess Viol; laA1:1-00rti;
oria, the Duke and Duchess of Salviati, Virrs 044'
Tennyson, Stafford,
Lord and Lady Campden, Lady 14°%%0.13,`"(0.
Walpole,
Sir John and Lady Harrington, the; 10,47 ,
m Viscount Pollington, Mrs. lif onek' '''.l.. 0 r
r o.sty n, Mr. and Mrs, Elliott Rankin, Ma
of
s#f
ao
ini, Count Penamacoi, the Chamberlain Of:lfeeissl/801$
Highness the Princess of Portugal, and gauea- ag° ii
Costa, together with several others. The ra—riP4etpe
sort eclosi
excited great interest here, as the svarria-h
alt great favourite, and does everything Witb.
Italians call a " man° sylenclida."

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Rear-Admiral the Hon. :ames R Striis
C. 8., left his official residence at the Adiairalti Joy
morning to attend the funeral of the Dulte °fli. ;
Perthshire. 0 tiC°.'
den'rthaefeHwodna.ysSspienneecewrhiLlsyt tweaelktoiring mil:Lathy: Vttile°ofll;hi.4l:
cLuymHt twsl
itesaat
leg residence, Eaton-terrace, by which the hon. el le, 110
sonnbirsokaettnenbcieetawebeynDtrhs.epkangeeet aannda trnatseloe:ol:,
0000
cit.,
recovery proceeds as favourably aspossible 1101°I. ea
Excellency Sir HenrylPS° jia rs 6 t'l
have
at
vßer Lieutenant-Colonelo
leftw nt' sh
e Hotelstfromu eorge,George's
Paris.Ha no I/
and Mrs.
yfMorrfC
.evriarris°ll 11°'
boif
Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache receiptog chin tl°
are ;iv 003
at Peckforton Castle, Il'orlc• 0,
Cheshire. Tarporley, the PI"

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who Com Commander-in-Chief
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the conducto
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ethers referred to was Snrge°o •'" 0 tIO
Turnbull, in like manner, has laid iliats„ die '',,r Or
most serious notice must necessarily
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;rabut, at all events, his continr-A colo-10 th-
Dr. Turnbullres and
i'n"q"uiryphasgoons has become impossible.' ; iiire iv to vt e
allegederasu
at The committee
as s presidenttet:l:7.,Ger;ll;
assembled at Chatham t° feclbot°_„lleWel
alterations in the Cf3'e- Oeller'rt" aer
Ander; consis g,,ecto ,
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in reference. to the matters ano,f
alVNheittelhall-yard, and Inspecta _iide ')/ Jr
Logan,
_ey as m mbe Tb
planattons cleared u
been doue in the etr
committee has not ' • I(°'' It blue.
case books themselveps
Turnbull was exonerated by the committee to. PI I,
abwna elohipkei
turhferutdaohnt,modrbbeosusruditegri
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found to havehim beeproofsn
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kep:easc;Aosrotfecil,lttolli;7l:„.4,
cords,who which is what would have been OP-o Ta-row
is
in know how intelligent and able an officer t oat c
oio
professional respects. It was made evltlef heenllt.,°s tl/i:
opportunity of a
points about the entries in the case-Voice ba‘`,"igithrf Or
forward by the defence at the court raartia'.3olo °rod,
entries or of explanation by D Turnbull be-,tly ,00/$,,,
and thus appearan -r.
ri
the 411'
general comparison of the Tog 0°,5
ces were cause- to iiii, .
him. The matter of the case books Was ° Of/
submitted to the court of inquiry. waste ti:esr h°,lo`,°
learn from Chatham that the court of ballo4sit,,,itl'
ordered to assemble again, and that the aeceeu , 0 jpAplo
terminated with a result similar to that of the P. r„00074,0
Dr. Turnbull was perfectly cleared frora all cliPo te6
conduct, though considered to have acted in solo t 0
A NEW PARISIAN "PLACE.".""l3°tivocegelll'eoq.
Place du Trone and the Citadel andliinic,Bo°/ tIO tcl.,/°
pretty hamlet, spreading itself right le" ieity, °ilo",
It is just opened ; yet it we an air of doul.liidays'
as busy as a hive of bees. It is called the CoL°f 00 7,00
do Saint-Antoine. The fronts of the houser":", ojt
tOP til'
to say the faces—look lively and varied, Ye- rode. sell'
family resemblance. On the ground floor arei r ifor' 010
shops, and on the other stories are lodgiugs fitlioce°, gibe
consisting of an entry, two rooms with greZeo /0 0"
small kitchen with an oven. In the yarn, w'isiotetiorllelf
airy, and common to all, there is abundsUc°
Pert°. eco ,
Vincennes road divides the co/onie into tw° ol roitir
centre of one is a square, with shady Walll' sregeo 0
ornamental water. In th© four anterior aag °0 notlierta:
representing the figures of Frenchmen vil); 09 ttP;,. aii
dear to the people as belonging to friends ° olig ' tier
nate. In one corner, Parmentier, with a aroitiotlidio
showing to some peasants a potato which he 00 Ve di'
up; others are lying at his feet. The Iva% iisille tV/
down, and alternately admire the earth old t'vo,tcliitivr,
culturist. In another group, Jacquard ja 00414,0 P,I
trial of his new loom by a Lyons worktoan, aYr diopli%);4
tiro standing by the while. The third cornea 01°0 c
Vincent de Psul lifting from the ground aP° 0. hiet
servant holds her apron to receive the in vorsing'
abandoned child, who spreads out its arras °it:1100131;0
coa /
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of the fourth grout) is the Abbe do l'Wle
fingers, with a deaf and dumb workman. .nigf; , ili
s• Oa '-' ;0P ,
A numerously attended public mectinsafor con 0,0(
AGRICULTURAL AND CONWERCIAD -1- dryl o'l
Assembly Room, lialesworth, on Ttati.r_eat 05,.0.10°
21st, instant, when a petition to Parlii..
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mously adopted by the meeting, oltaislllss
*lll7- to
politics. s WC' ti°° ,0
THE SULTAN lIAS ORDERED , 000 of 1,
• ei° t°,,, d
Mustafa Pasha, the Minister of Finarr:‘, with „,,,,
JEWELLED SNITErIiONI to be made for Pr a"
Majesty's warm appreciation of the ab 111,0,,, too A
highnesa has athuinistered the affairs 1
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