26 FEBRUARY 1881, Page 15

THE NONCONFORMISTS AND THE WRANGLERS.

[To TRH EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR'] S112,—Will you kindly allow me to correct a mistake which occurs in the number of the Spectator for February 12th. It is there stated that the first three Wranglers this year are Nonconformists. The second Wrangler, however, is not a Nonconformist. The mistake not unnaturally arose from mis- understanding a statement in Mr. Carvell 'Williams' letter to the Times. He is careful to say that the "second Wrangler is of Nonconformist origin." This is partially true, inasmuch as my parents were once Dissenters, though they are such no