Not a man shall presume to approach our room,—
We'll be call'd the Inaccessibles;

And unless you forbear our aprons to wear,
We'll sport your inexpressibles!)

But it causes most woe, that you not only go
To pleasures by women unshareable,

Where the sex petticoated a nuisance is voted,

But that when you come back you're unbearable!

While at home we poor creatures mope, spoiling our features,
Yet move not the slightest compassion;

And e'en novels now cease for a moment to please,
And vain is the latest new fashion!

Oh! come back to your houses, your desolate spouses,
And be coaxed and be coddled in-doors;

And bring back to our faces their long-banish'd graces,
Or our nails shall play havoc with yours!

SONG OF THE WIND.

Forth into the energy of the wind!

Forth to the downs! to baffle with the blast,
The vital breezes, free and unconfined,

On their wild, restless mission rushing past.
I feel the freedom on this grassy turf
Of a strong swimmer in the ocean surf.
What is the soft breath of the sunny vales,
Stealing insensibly o'er grass and flower,
To this elastic freshness of the gales,

Swelling into its vehemence of power,
Stirring the slumb'ring spirit to rejoice
With the excitement of a trumpet voice?

N.

Where bursts the outspring of the swelling breeze,

Visible in its track across the cloud,
Audibly trampling on tall forest trees,

Bringing to me a rapture in the proud
Exulting thrill I feel within me now,

With streaming hair, flushed cheek, and beating brow.

The veins are swollen, and the pulses leap
With eager life, unchecked and uncontrolled;
Throbbing as if they strove in vain to keep

The voluble spirit inward, that would hold,
Bird-like, companionship with the free wind,
And hail the kindred element of the mind!

B.

THE TRIUMVIRATE.

WE are sorry to be unable to present our readers with our proceedings during the last three months, owing to the state of riot by which our study has been surrounded. We are still more annoyed that several papers, and among them our notes on the articles we have received, have been most unaccountably purloined. The whole subject is at present under the examination of the Masters; and until their report is made, we think it better to refrain from offering any comments of our own. We hope by our next Number to lay the whole matter before the public.

H. M.
C. F. I.
G. B.

The following Report has just reached me in the country: I really have no time in the holidays to trouble my

self with school brawls; I have therefore sent it off to the press as I received it.

May 22nd.

G. B.

"Considerable excitement has prevailed during the last three weeks in the vicinity of the Editors' study, in consequence of the continued demonstrations of insubordination and violence which have taken place among the fagging classes of this district. Private committees of organization and public meetings have been held from time to time, and deputations from these bodies have more than once had audiences with different members of the Triumvirate.

"In consequence of the representations of various individuals of the danger which they apprehended to their persons and chattels from the disorderly conduct of the insurgent parties, an extra monitor has been appointed to watch the proceedings of the rioters; and there is a considerable expectation, that unless a speedy end is put to these differences, a royal commission will be issued to inquire into the causes of this disturbance, and to suggest such remedies as may by them be deemed expedient to abate the present excitement.

"For several weeks past the walls have been placarded in all directions; and on last Wednesday fortnight a more than ordinary bustle was observed towards the further end of the Cloisters, and about half-past two a formidable crowd, composed chiefly of the lower classes, was seen marching in procession past Middle Bryars. They were headed by two poker-bearers, whose ponderous insignia of office threatened danger, not only to the by-standing spectators, but to the very heads of the functionaries themselves. After these followed two shovels borne aloft

by gentlemen of the third form, having the Charterhouse arms curiously embossed in chalk. The remainder of the crowd was composed of different members of the unwashed, their jackets being turned inside out by way of uniform, and the whole group was interspersed with banners and placards, among which might be noticed the following inscriptions: No Self-election,' 'No Monopoly,' 'Tria juncta in uno' reversed on a black ground, "No Fines,' 'Down with Window-Tax,' 'No Triumvirate,' &c. &c.

"After proceeding up the Cloisters the procession entered Gownboys' Hall; and while the banner-men grouped themselves at the upper end, the rest of the party seated themselves under the window, the leading members of the Committee occupying the Upper Table, which had been converted into a platform for the occasion. About this time there might have been eighty or ninety individuals assembled ; but it was evident that many had come there merely from feelings of curiosity, and not for the purpose of forwarding the objects of the meeting.

"After some little delay, Mr. Strutt was called to the chair, amidst the acclamations of his party.

"The Chairman begged, in opening the day's proceedings, to remark, that the present was no Hole-and-corner meeting, (Hear, hear!) but had been summoned by public advertisement. It was open for any individual to address the meeting, whatever his opinions might be; but at the same time it was expected that any one differing from the majority should hold his tongue. (Hear! and a laugh.) He would not detain them longer, and should call upon Mr. Littlejohn to propose the first Resolution.

"Mr. Littlejohn would not detain the meeting by any lengthened introduction, but would come to the point at once. They were met there to decide the fate of Charter

house. The eyes of all Glasshouse Yard were upon them. The question to-day was whether they were to be governed by a self-elected junta, or to be their own representatives (Hear, hear!): they knew to whom he alluded. He would call them the Three Kings of Charterhouse. They had assumed a power utterly at variance with the spirit of the Public School; most unconstitutional in its origin, and dangerous in its effects. By what right had three irresponsible persons dared to constitute themselves editors of a certain publication, too insignificant to be named? This was the old system of self-election, which he had ever opposed in the Library meetings, and would continue to resist until it was utterly eradicated from the face of the earth. He called upon his schoolfellows for their support. If his present resolution was thrown out, the Block would be illuminated, and bonfires would blaze in Brooke Hall. He begged to call their attention to the price charged for the miserable production to which he before alluded. He hesitated not to designate it as infamous. There was almost as much reading in a Blue book, which was distributed gratis. This subscription was wrung from the pockets of the suffering lower boys, to pamper the gormandizing and extravagance of the Editors' Study. It was well known that this selfelected Trio fattened on the fruits of their contributors' labours, and the new carpet of their Star-chamber sufficiently indicated the wealth in which they were rolling. He was surprised that the Sub-Editors acquiesced in this self-constituted tyranny and misappropriation of the Public money. They should rise as one boy and crush this exclusive system. He was sorry also to see them patronized by that great bibliopolist and monopolist Mr. Moore. It was clearly ascertained that funds had been supplied from that quarter. But until they

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