The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

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LNOVEMBER.
Lincoln 9 .................... 1 I Shrewsbury
Juivorpuul .................. 5 Leamington Hunt l9

SENIOR WRANGLERS.—In the Cambridge Calen-
dar we can find out a good deal about the Senior
Wranglers. Most of those who have in any way become
eminent are sufficiently pointed out. We have taken for
the purpose three periods of twenty years each, and have
obtained the following results. In the first period, which
ended in 1780, we find one bishop—Pitt's fortunate tutor
and biographer, Tomliue ; three deans (including the
well-known Milner); five archdeacons, Paley being one of
these last; and one judge. There were also three pro-
fessors, two of them already included in our list in other
characters. Nine out of the twenty were thus men who
obtained a certain amount of success in the Church, and
three of them at least were men of some general distinction.
Taking the twenty years ending 1820, we find a curious
change in the result. Amongst ecclesiastical distinctions
there are two bishops of no particular fame, and the mis-
sionary Henry Marty; whose name naturally recalls that
of Bishop Mackenzie, second wrangler near fifty years
later, and almost the only other modern example of the
devotion of a man of much University eminence to the
missionary cause. This period, however, is most marked
as that at which Senior Wranglers became judges; Pollock
being the first name in 1806, and Bickersteth (afterwards
Lord Langdale), Alderson, and Maule, the senior wranglers
of 1808, and 1809, and 1810 respectively. Besides these,
we find the names of Sir John Herschel, of Sir John Shaw-
Lefevre, and of Dr. King, afterwards Mathematical Pro-
fessor at Cambridge. There were altogether four profes-
sors, two of them of divinity and one of law. During this
period, then, the Senior Wranglers had taken a decidedly
legal turn, and we have mentioned ten out of the twenty as
men who, in various walks of life, made their names more
or less widely known. We now take the period which
ended in 1860. It would be premature to say how many
ornaments these twenty gentlemen, most of whom are still
living, may be destined to add to the Church or the Bar.
We may enumerate, however, the different professions to
which they appear to have devoted themselves. We find,
then, that two aro dead; four appear to have taken up
either the legal or some other profession ; and the remain-
ing fourteen are all engaged in tuition ; six of them are set
down as professors either at Cambridge or some other
University, and eight either hold or have held some ap-
pointment within their colleges or at a public school. The
names of Professors Stokes, Cayley, and Adams, who
were the first three Senior Wranglers in this last period,
aro sufficient to show that there is no apparent decline in
the intellectual qualifications necessary. It is roma' kable
that, although schoolmasters of all kinds have a natural
tendency to the Church, only four of our last batch appear
to be in orders ; whereas there were at least six in the
period from 1801 to 1820, and considerably more in the
previous period.

AN ANECDOTE OF THE EMPEROR, now going the
' round of the salons. One evening a small select
party at the Tuileries were playing at what are called petits
jeux, or jeux innocents. The game consisted in improvising
a reply to a question drawn at hazard out of a basket, and
it fell to his Majesty to draw the following inquiry:
"Comment distinguer le mensonge d' avec la, verite ?" (How
is falsehood to be distinguished from truth ?") The Empe-
ror answered without a moment's hesitation : "En lee
faisant passer tous deux par la memo poste, soyez sure que
le mensonge passera le premier !" (By making them both
pass out by the same door—for you may be sure that the
falsehood will pass out the first.)