17 JANUARY 1874, Page 14

SCHOOL POLITICS AT RUGBY.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I learn from Lord Warwick's letter in Tuesday's Times that the political debates of Rugby boys are penetrated by a most dangerous anti-monarchical and revolutionary spirit.

I learn also from the Meteor—the school magazine—of Novem- ber 27, 1873, that the "Rugby School Debating Society" consists of sixteen members, of whom "two are the sole survivors of the once powerful Liberal section of the society. The remaining fourteen members are all Conservatives." The two Liberals, on the occasion reported in the Meteor, were unavoidably absent, and "the debate," on a motion which the Liberal pair were to oppose, "was therefore given up, with a sigh of regret."—I am, Sir, &c.,

F. S. L.