A PAINFUL ILLUSION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
$1R,—The following extract from the letter of a Cambridge cor- respondent may interest some of your readers,—"Two Hungarian 'divinity students discovered in the University at Utrecht that there were two scholarships in St. John's devoted to Hungarian students. Accordingly, two gipsy-looking men appeared in Pro- fessor --'s lecture-room last Saturday [14th ult.], prepared to co through any examination which would give them the right to claim the reward. But, as you may imagine, the sum devoted to Hungarian students has long disappeared. It is 150 years since the scholarship was last held Mr. — was sent for, talked French, Hungarian, and anything else that the poor 'fellows could understand, and found them highly cultivated and intelligent And then on Monday they went on to Oxford, where I dare say the same fate awaited them."—I am,
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