SCHOOLBOY ARISTOCRACY.
Last' Priday weela, a mob of the "young gentlemen." of Eton scriool, to the number of three or four hundred, armed with " bludgeons, hammers, and stakes," sallied out for the purpose of amusiug themselves with a " row" at Windsor Fair. In furtheratios of this object, it was agreed to make a hairdresser nameil Fox expiate some offence committed against the dignity of their littlenesses about a year ago. They broke his windows, despoiled his wigs, demolished his. pomatuut-pots, put to flight his apprentice, and tell upon several persons who interfered to prevent the mischief. FO went to the school to 'complain to Dr. ICRATE; who (of course) would not hear hint, and allowed the boys to turn him out -of' the school. Encouraged by this, the "young gentlemen next ni.ght resolved to rstura to the charge ; but the Masters, fearing the matter might go too far, met the young hopefuls on theirway, and, instead of putting thew to the rout with the cane,. prudently contented themselves with taking &wattle names of the ringleaders,—w ho, to the number of eighty, were-soundly whipped.* There was glory worthy of the heroism Indecentand degrading as is the punishment of flogging hi schools, it seems in this case most fitting to the offence, except that some infliction more sharp :and severe than the visitation of the birch-should follow such an ,organized outrage. But the school punishment, it is said, should :suffice for the offences of schoolboys ; and therefore a breach of the peace and a breach of Pat SCIAN are with equal justice punished with the rod. Be it so. As the birch is for civil, the cat-o'-nine-tails
• should be for military heroes. The "gentlemen cadets" of the Military College at Sandhurst, who indulged themselves a short time ago in attacking the passengers of a stage-coach and the townspeople of Bagshot, not only with sticks and stones, but witIrthe dirks that this callow brood of cutthroats are furnished with as toys to please their infant fancy for the "profession of arms," should be made amenable to military punishment,—since they wear uniforms, are drilled, and are intrusted with side-arms, which theyheroically draw upon the rustics. A taste of the discipline of the cat might perchance lessen the fondness of the military martinets for inflicting it upon the soldiers.
* We perceive that one of the Etoniins, in a letter to the Times this morning, gives a somewhat cliffewnt account of the row, and denies the flogging. But if the lads were nut flogged, we think it pretty evident, from the letter itself, that they ought to have been
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