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MR. SOWERBY'S HOUSE v MR. BRIGHT'S. This, certainly the sensation match of the season, was conIcluded on the 10th instant. Bartholomew and Williams in the second innings of Mr. Sowerby's house seemed invincible, and though Mr. Bright's house played all they knew, they could not effect a separation till the batsmen had scored between them nearly 400 runs. This made the match a hopeless case for Mr. Bright's, who, notwithstanding Bernays' 70 and Lomax's 21, fell short of their opponents by some 300 runs. We must not forgot to mention Leach's fine innings of 49, and Kingsford's spirited 30. Appended is the score :— MR. SOWERBY'S HOUSE. First Innings. R. Leach, c. Kitchen, b Lomax 49 A. C. Bartholomew, c.&.b Lomax 1 B. Williams, c. Lomax b Emmet 17 P. H. Moeran, c. Lomax, b.Emmet 0 H. W. Hornby, b Lomax......... J. D. Parson, b Lomax H. R. Godwin, run out

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NORTH v. SOUTH.-SECOND ELEVEN.

This match was played Sept. 28th and following days, and resulted in the total defeat of the South in one innings with 43 runs to spare. For the South, Head in the first innings, and Williams and Bolland in the second, played well. For the North, Kewley played a careful innings of 45. Hornby also played well. Scores :-North, 178. South, 65 and 70.

OLD MEMBERS OF MR. SOWERBY'S ELEVEN
v. THE WORLD.

This match resulted in the total defeat of the Old Members in one innings. For the World, Head played a billiant innings of 51; Croome, Bolland, and Hill yard also played well. For the Old Members, Luscombe and Hardy were the only ones who reached double figures.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Reserved," Report of Unnatural Society," and Spring and Autumn."

We have also received "Versus by Senex," "The River," "A Chapter of Accidents," "A Summer Day," and several letters, one of which proposes a House challenge cup for cricket; and another objecting to the practise of House-misters playing in House-matches.

We have been able to enlarge the Marlburian by four pages in this number, but we think it fair to give notice that we do not bind ourselves to continue this regularly.

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CRICKET SEASON, 1865.

NOVEMBER 1st, 1865.

THE last season opened to the tune of the usual overture," Everyone has left, what a wretched Eleven we shall have this year." Those, however, who were of a more hopeful temperament, and knew the amount of rising talent that existed in the school, prophesied great things. Never had an eleven better opportunity of displaying what it was really made of than ours had this year, for splendid weather and good ground were the order of almost every match-day throughout the long season. Six veterans remained; and the question in everyone's mouth was -who will be the other five? The committee, however, had little difficulty in making their selections, and the vacancies were filled up unusually early. The season opened as usual with skill versus number, in the shape of 11 and 22 match; and as the twentytwo had other requisites besides numbers, and a tower of strength in Brampton, they managed to secure a victory, several of the eleven having hardly yet warmed to their work. In North v. South even several of the eleven began to show their mettle, Lipscomb and Baggallay being in good form, and Fortescue's innings for the recruits giving promise of better things to come. The "Trial Stakes" then followed in Past v. Present Marlburians, which resulted in an easy victory for the Present. return match, which was begun to occupy the rest of the afternoon, Lee so far distinguished himself as to win his cap. Willsher had before this come down as a temporary coach to teach the young idea, and was most useful in that capacity. In a house match,

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which followed, between scratch twelves, Monnington got the first large score of the season, 76, which he followed up the next day against E. E. Bowen, Esq's. eleven, with a brilliant 75, Lee also scoring freely; the match resulted in a draw. In the next match, Fifth Form v. School, Monnington distinguished himself by steady play in both innings, also B. Williams and Fortescue for the School; the match terminated in a complete victory for the Fifth. S. C. Voules, Esq., then brought down a strong team, including E. Kenney, Esq., whose bowling was most deadly. Williams again played well, as also Cross, Miles, and Bartholomew. The Common-Room match then followed, chiefly remarkable for the Rev. H. Bell's hard hitting to the tune of 124, which, however, did not prevent the School from winning by 5 wickets, H. Lee scoring 68 and 54 (not out). From this time P. W. Miles was in the eleven. Marlborough then visited Cirencester, to play the R.A.C.C.C., and gained a complete victory in one innings, Baggallay being the chief scorer. A wholesome thrashing then awaited the eleven from a team brought down by R. Ward, Esq., the brothers Grace, both in bowling and batting, being too formidable, B. Williams and P. W. Miles alone making decent scores. It would be needless to relate the circumstances and the issue of the match against Cheltenham, which followed, or to tell how P. W Miles' leg hitting first gave the eleven confidence; how B. Williams's splendid 139 followed, and how Cross, Fortescue, and Leach ably supported him, for they have become matters of history; Cross's wicket-keeping and P. W. Miles' bowling too will not easily be forgotten; suffice it to say Marlborough obtained a

glorious victory by 10 wickets. The next match was the Old House v. the New. Thanks to the hard hitting of B. Williams and Cross, who obtained 86 and 67 respectively, the New House was victorious by 9 wickets; although Baggallay, Lipscomb, P. W. Miles, and Isaacson played well for the Old, yet Bartholomew's slows were irresistible. Next in order was the match between the Master's side and the Rev. C. W. Tayler's Chapel side. The Rev. Tayler's side was victorious by 5 wickets; Leach, Tayler, Lee, and Bernays scored well. On June 5th and 6th a Civil Service eleven defeated us by 8 wickets; Marlborough can hardly be said, however, to have been fairly represented, for Cross, R. F. Miles, and Monnington were unable to play. For the Civil Service Benthall made 70 (not out); for Marlbro' Lee scored 75 in magnificent style. On June 13th, 11 of the College Rifle Corps played 11 of the Borough Corps. Time did not allow the match to be played out, but the College Corps were victorious in the first innings. June 28th saw the eleven matched against the Middlesex Club, but the batting of Buller and J. D. Walker were too strong for it. The match was drawn, but it was decidedly in favour of Middlesex. For Marlborough, Bartholomew made the best score, 23. The Rugby Match is too familiar to all to need any May we have better luck next year. Since the holidays the eleven have been very successful, and several splendid innings have been made. We have, however, already given our readers accounts of these matches, and they are still fresh in our memories. So we will say nothing more about them.

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Ir is by no means easy to conjecture how those who have risen to eminence amongst us, and whom we look up to as our political leaders, will be regarded by the men who come after us. So also it is just as difficult to realize to ourselves the light in which the Englishman of a past day looked upon Pitt or Fox, upon Sheridan, or Hastings, and a little consideration will shew that the relation between the statesman and the people is not altogether the same as it was then, and is likely to be again different for future Thus it is generations. wrong that men suppose like Gladstone and Disraeli hold positions in our social systems equivalent to those which Burke and Sheridan once held; and we may reasonably imagine that our Palmerstons and Gladstones will not be in quite the same relation to the people as their predecessors.

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The statesman may be essentially of the same elements, but the classes out of which they rise are

by no means so. The House of Commons in the last century we well know, was composed chiefly of country squires of decidedly diminutive intellect; they were men who remained torpid all the winter in the country,-torpid, at least, so far as their brain is concerned, for of fox-hunting and country sports they had a satiety, In the time of session they brought their families to town, and spent a gay time of it, and would in fact have spent a much gayer time if it had not been for that disagreeable onus, the House of Commons; but the privilege of writing M.P., at the end of their names, and the respect and deference paid to a member of so august an assembly, was sufficient to compensate for any little trouble they might have to take.

Such was the general character of the House at that time. From such a levee did the great statesmen of the last century reach the immense height which they attained.

Without detracting in the least from the well-earned glory of these bright stars, we may safely say that our statesmen of the present day have a more noble field in which to erect their future. The House of Commons has for many years been rapidly growing more intellectual; the place of the fox-hunter has been taken by the man of good reading and good sense. The intellectual has been substituted for the corporeal. And though there always has been, and always will be, a certain number of men in Parliament who have never worked out a political question for themselves, but taking for granted that other people. are right, have acted accordingly: yet no small number in the House of Commons, who hardly ever took a part in debate, or signalized themselves in any particular way, were men of real and undoubted ability, who had been far from wasting the talents bestowed upon them: and in the House, which is before long to meet, there are still more able and enlightened men, some indeed who have gained a wide renown already by literary and philosophical attain

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their abilities than the people of a former generation, Beyond London such men as Pitt were very little known; they were gigantic forms seen indistinctly through a mist of rumours, reports, and anecdotes. At the present day there is scarcely a town of any size which has not seen and known our late Premier, and none but the most benighted rustics have not heard his name, and known something of his character. Our newspapers, our railways, our telegraphs, a thousand other things contribute to make our nineteenth century much more sociable in this way than any which have preceded it.

The character of our oratory also has materially altered. No one thinks now of imitating the superbly rounded periods,-the vehement declamations,-the brilliant perorations of Burke, Pitt, or Fox; if a man were to depart from sober fact and argument, and launch into a torrent of oratorical enthusiasm, he would either be regarded as a mountebank by our present House of Commons, or secretly set down as being slightly deranged in his brain. We want no words indeed now, for we are a matter-of-fact generation without doubt.

These things shew that a statesman now is not quite in the same position as a statesman used to be, and the difference is likely to increase. We have just lost the connecting link between the statesmen of the old school and those of the new. Palmerston alone saw Pitt and Fox, saw them, and perhaps spoke to them. Palmerston has died before the most intellectual Parliament we have yet had has assembled for the first time. Those, then, who see each with the eye of history, and read changes and effects with a glance necessarily uncertain, but yet often correct, should study the character of the next Parliament, and mark acutely the alteration in its elements and its parties, for it is far from improbable that some future historians may seize on these few months with his experienced eye, and mark them down as a considerable change in our history.

THE GENT.

L.

"QUITE THE GENT."-Such is the ne plus ultra of clerkdom and counter-jumper-dom. Short and euphonious, the word includes a variety of qualities and qualifications, associations and aspirations, which rush to the mind of the genius of the till at the sound of that magic word which expresses and defines perfection in a manner which Plato must have envied if

he had known the glories of our century. But think not, oh uninitiated, that there is but one species of this animal. Go, ask the M.C.N.H.S., if every genus has not various species. But whence the name? The Latins formed diminutives by lengthening, we by shortening words: and so we get the diminutive of 'gentleman,' we will hope not a diminutive of contempt, for the sake of many, for if their ideal is but thought a mark for contempt, what will become of them?

Firstly, there is the "Gent" respectable, with black suit, smooth hair, close-shaven, and demure, with a sober black tie,-I beg his pardon,-cravat, and scrupulously clean collar. He is probably a head man in the business, or senior clerk, and "respectable" is written on every inch of his black cloth. A businesslike animal, staid and quiet, but now and then a wellbrewed joke, with a grim chuckle and a look that means that his juniors must laugh, proclaims that even he can unbend. He is the terror of the clergyman, no sterner critic of a sermon, no more correct standard of orthodoxy is there in the parish. pride of his landlady, whose spotless shoes never stain her carpet, whose money is as safe as the bank, who in his mildest dreams never pictured a latch-key. Altogether a worthy character, but not without his little vanity, and a certain air which shews that that stiff bundle of black cloth and choker can take a flight towards the heaven of "gentility."

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Secondly we have the "Sporting Gent," not the sportsman but the sporting man. A certain swagger, a hat on one side, tight inexpressibles, and a white neck-cloth, proclaim him unmistakeably. If we add a short pipe and a knobby stick, and above all an eruption of horseshoes on his hat, down his waistcoat, and in his scarf, we have him complete. Such as these form the staple of the ring, and the customers of the London "drums"; they are in the seventh heaven when swaggering arm in arm with some hero of the ring, and their talk is horses, dogs, and the ring, from morning till night. A more objectionable creature does not exist.

Thirdly, the Gent proper, with the nattiest of trowsers, the biggest of pins, and the brightest of scarfs. Watch his bow and smile to the lady, his customer; it is unrivalled. Watch the air of agility and off-handedness with which he unfolds that bale, it is the result of careful study and years of practice. Now his work is done, and he is a man at large,

a man about town; with a knowing eye he scans the fair sex, with a semi-chivalrous air he lifts his unexceptionable pot to his fair friend. Or on Sundays see him, if his fancy lies that way, singing with the air of an adept, sharing his book with the smart cook, his neighbour. Or it may be off to Rosherville for a day of pleasure, to see and above all to be seen, for on that one day in the week he can air his "Gentility" without the spectre of a counter haunting him.

Such is he, such his ideal of happiness. He lives content, dreading only the time when his attire shall begin to wear shabby; hoping for little except perhaps a rise in his wages, except when he indulges in Job-Trotter-like visions of a nice little chandlery with his friend the cook. But it may be that dreams have crossed him of a Paradise in the other world, where his politeness may induce Charon to ferry him across to "bowers of bliss" in the style of the transformation scene at the "Surrey"; or perhaps of an evergreen Rosherville with Paris fashions growing on every bush; shrimps ready dressed in every stream; a place where houris shall serve him with thin bread and butter, and penny ices all day; a cockney paradise open gratis to "Gents."

SUICIDE'S GRAVE.

TITMOUSE.

In a corner of the drear churchyard
Lies the suicide's nameless grave,
No carved stone to mark the spot,

But only the grasses wave.
Not a mourner followed his corse,
He was left with a heartless sneer,
To the wild wind's miserere,

And the night's own dewy tear. Heartless and cruel they left him,

Left him in grief and in shame; Caring alone to hide in the grave

The guilt of a tarnished name. No service read over his tomb,

No requiem sung for his soul; At the mid-night hour they left him Without a prayer or a toll.

Say, has not the rich man sinned

Who lies in the vault by his side? Is his sin alone unforgiven,

Because nought his sin can hide? Perhaps he was wearied of life,

Alone 'mid the heartless crowd, All his loved ones torn from his side,

And his heart with sorrow bowed. How different men's judgment had been, Had his too been an honoured name! And an epitaph's blazon of lies,

Had trumpeted purchased fame. God's judgment is fairer than man's,

And wealth has no weight with Him, No money His pardon can buy,

But he pardons the poor man's sin.

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