The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-16 00:00:00

FOOTBALL.

THE CIVIL SERVICE T. CHARTERHOUSE
SCHOOL.

On Wednesday the last match of the season was played
at the Upper-green at the Chartorhouse between two
elevens of the above clubs, and from the known excellence
of the majority of the players excited considerable interest.
The Civil Service were under the command of Mr. C. G.
Waudby, and Mr. E. C. S. Gibson directed the school team.
Play commenced shortly before 3 o'clock, and the choice
of position having been won by Charterhouse, they
kicked off towards the upper end, having the wind
in their favour. Very soon after the commencement
Mr. 0. S. Walford, who played yesterday for
the first time this season (having been disabled by a
badly sprained knee), by a vigorous and well-directed kick
lauded the ball at the upper base, amid the cheers of the
spectators, and thus secured a goal for the School. In
accordance with the rules of the game, the positions of the
players wore now reversed, Charterhouse kicking down,
and the Civil Service up the ground; but in spite
of the most determined efforts on both sides no other
goal was obtained, both the base-keepers playing ad-
mirably for their respective elevens. On the part of
the Charterhouse, Mr. B. C. S. Gibson, Mr. W. L•
Boreham, Mr. E. E. Venables, and Mr. J. A. Foote,
played remarkably well, while Mr. C. E. B.Neapean was, as
usual, all over the ground, and always in the thick of the
scrimmages, some excellent charges being made by him
and Mr. Foote, and the good strategy of Mr. Venables was
of great assistance to his eleven. Mr. Gibson and Mr.
Foote's back play was also much admired.
For the Civil Service Mr. Waudby, Mr. Alcock, Mr. E.
Freeth, and Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, distinguished themselves
the most, some splendid runs down being made by
the two first-named gentlemen, while Mr. Kirkpatrick
rendered good service in the charges and scrimmages. As
the Civil Service could only muster ten men, Mr. R. Dunn
(of the Charterhouse) played for them as an " emergency."
When time was called, at a quarter past four, the game
stood thus :—Charterhouse School, 040, goal; the Civil
Service, 0. The Charterhouse wore thus the victors ;
and it may be worthy of remark that they have not
been beaten once this season. The following are the
names of the players:—
Charterhouse School.—Messrs. E. C. S. Gibson (Captain),
C. T. Walford, C. E. B. Nepean, W. L. Boreham, J. A.
Foote, C. H. 'Wade, W. Wallace, A. S. Mammatt, E. E.
Venables, H. Murray Mackenzie, and E. A. Hammack.
Civil Service.— Messrs. C. G. Waudby (Captain), C. W.
Alcock, Q. Hogg, W. J. Dixon, E. Freeth, J. Kirkpatrick,
W. B. Gnedon, R. Babbington, J. W. Martyn, H. K. Dea-
con, and R. Dunn (" emergency.").

A Plea for Culture.

A recent number of the Atlantic Monthly con-
tained, under the above title, a strong argument
from the pen of Mr. S. W. Higginson in favour of
the creation, by some means or other, of an educated
class amongst us to be the guardian of the tradi-
tions, feelings, and aspirations of high culture, and
the diffuser of an atmosphere of thought and study
—a kind of barrier, too, against the growing mate-
rialism of the time, the growing tendency to esti-
mate the value of everything in dullars and cents,
and to despise or shirk all discipline of the mind or
body which does not promise a speedy return in
hard cash. The absence of this class and the
apparent failure of the universities to hold out even
any promise of it, and of society to appreciate it, or,
to call for it, furnish to most cultivated Americans
a standing theme for lamentation. But an excel-
lent illustration of the very small extent to which
Congress shares in these regrets or longings has just
been furnished by the action of the Senate in pass-
ing the Tariff Bill with an ad valorem duty of 35
per cent. ou all English books printed since 1810.
The publishers, we are told, not satisfied with this,
arc endeavouring to have the duty changed in the
[louse to thirty cents a pound, and have got the
Committee of Ways and Means to clap on ten
cents a pound on all English books printed prior to
1850, and twenty-five cents a pound on all
books printed since then. Now in legislation of
this kind, of course the intere,ts of the public
—of the men and women and children of this coun-
try—are totally and openly disregarded. The class
interested in having books made scarce and dear—
if it be not an absurdity to say this of any class in a
community like ours--is, as compared to the total
population, of course exceedingly small. It will
astonish many people to learn that the whole num-
ber of persons in the United States, male and
female, engaged in paper-making, printing, type