The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-20 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 20.—At a congregation on
Wednesday last the following degrees were con-
ferred :

BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.

Rev. Wilbraham Bootle Guest, Catharine-hal!.

MASTERS OF ARTS•
Rev. William Hill Tucker, Fellow of King's Coll.
John Shapland Stock, St. Peter's Coll.
John Decchs, Trinity Coll.
Robert John Bartlett, St. John's Coll. (comp.)
Rev. Henry Pratt, Corpus Christi Coll.
Rev. Henry Crane Brice, Christ Coll.
Rev. John Robert Hopper, Christ Coll. (comp.)
Edward Raikes Edgar, Downing Coll.

BACHELORS IN CIVIL. LAW.

Thomas Wilkinson Hill, Trinity-hall.
Richard Chawner, Trinity-hall.

BACHELORS OF AETS.
Robert Tetlow Robinson, Corpus Christi Coll.
Evan James, Corpus Christi Coll.
Thomas Borroughs, Christ Coll.

THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH WHIST

PLAYERS.

It appears by an article in the Courrier Francais
which we subjoin, that a late English Ambassador
at Paris has humbled the French whist-players, by
a challenge to play a hundred rubbers for 50,000/.
in twenty days, besides 1001. on each rubber, in or-
der to decide the superiority of play, which he
claims for the English. He had the money ready,
and his partner named ; but the Frenchman, who
took up the glove for the honour of his country,
could neither get his stake subscribed, nor the
partner he %visited to play- with ; he could not there-
fore fight.
" To shut one's self up to cut pens and appear
deep, when one is, as folks say, only empty and
hollow," this is, according to Figaro, one of the
chief occupations of diplomacy. The portrait he
draws of the Statesmen of his time gives us more
than one feature of resemblance to those of our
own days. This may be judged by the following
fact, on the details of which reliance may be
placed:—
A Noble Lord, who has spent many years in Paris
in the capacity of Ambassador, instead of applying
himself to remove the old causes of rivalry between
France and England, has only employed his leisure
in a new one of a species quite peculiar. He has
only, while staying here, made such observations as
enabled him to rase this strange pretension—that
the English have maintained over the French an im
mense superiority in playing the game of whist.—
Let nobody believe that we are at all exaggerating
the singularity of this opinion. It was uttered in
the circles of the Court; and as an excess of urba-
nity has always prevented good company from con-
tradicting it, it has become in his Lordship's man-
sion a sort of established idea. On his return into
his own country, the Noble Lord was beset with it,
even to his domestic fire-side ; and wishing to
verify, by a solemn proof, the pretension he had
maintained so long in the form of an axiom, he hit
upon an expedient which deserves to le made
known.

Like a true Chevalier he has recently sent to one
of the saloons at Paris, where the rich idlers of all
nations, who live in that capital, meet every even-
ing, a challenge in due. form, in which he defies the
best players at whist to undertake a match of one
hundred rubbers, to be played in twenty days, for
1001. the rubber, and 50,000/, to the winners of the
greatest number of games. If this challenge should
be accepted, the combat will take place at Paris or
London, at the pleasure of those who are chal-
lenged, and his Lordship announces that he has al-
ready made choice of one of his countrymen as a
partner.
It is generally thought that the glove thrown
with so much arrogance has been taken up in the
arena into which it was thrown. Happily he who
picked it up, and who believed himself called upon
to avenge the national honour, has more baldness
than wealth. It has been necessary for him to have
recourse to a subscription to raise the stake required.
There has been au assessment, and in a few days
900,000 francs (36,0001.) were obtained. But this
is not enough, and beyond it the subscribers will
not go. There is another disappointment also, for
the champion who thought himself s.O strong that he
could measure himself with his Lordship over a
green cloth, could not procure the support of the
second, in whom he placed his confidence ; the lat-
ter, who occupies a place of responsibility, would
not take part in this joust, for the benefit of an-
other. We are forced, therefore, if not to confess
the inferiority of France, at least to admit the ina-
bility we are under of fulfilling all the conditions ref
the combat.

Dr. 1 EID, well-know:A 1.4 his medical reports
in the Monthly 21...t4aine, was requested by a lady 0
literary c:minenee to (1;11 at her house. " Jia care you re-
ctileet.the address," said she, as 40 quitted the room ;
"No. 1, Chesterfield-street." " Aladam," said the Doc-
tor, •‘ I an to:; great an admirer of politeness nut to re-
:op-Iher chesterfield, and, I fear, too sehi•iti, ever to for-
get nuirebtr, curt"'

GETTING UP CHEAP GOODS.-A vommer-
cial traveller being in conversation with a tradesman t f
Cheltenham, a few days since, a+i the Fleece Inn, EICA to
his friend—" yot know, Sir, that trade is et so low
an ebb; in Birmingham, that they can absolutely get op
the inside of a watch for twelve shillings. " Pool, r'
replied the other, "things are worse in Cheltenham, for
here they will pet up the inside of a chiamey for sixpence."
—.Cheltenham Chronicle.