"Well, now, that is cool; as you know yourselves, a more modest man could hardly exist."

When the merriment caused by this assertion had somewhat subsided, the door opened, and the waitress appeared.

"Did you ring, gentlemen ?"

"We did ring, my dear," said Spearman; "and we are very happy to see you: 'tis not often we have that pleasure."

"No, indeed, Miss Hartley," added Rogers; "it is seldom we see you when we come to the house."

What is it you want?" inquired the waitress. "Only a kiss, my love, that's all,” replied Spearman, attempting to kiss going? Come here."

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Miss Hartley," said Bennett, "stay a moment. What we want is refreshment. Hast thou anything in the house? Can we have anything for dinner?'

"There is a sirloin of roast beef, sir, just taken out of the other room, and we have soup, but we have no fish."

"Thou hast well spoken. Send Send soup into the other room, and we'll follow quickly."

"She is a beautiful girl, 'pon my word," remarked Stanford.

"Yes, she is very fair to look upon, and moreover I believe she is virtuous; but take care, my friend, take care what thou thinkest in thine heart: thou knowest that whosoever shall look upon

"Now, Ben, no sermonizing here, if you please. It may be all very well at the College; but this is neither the time nor the place for it."

"That's right, Stanford," said Spearman; "have at him. Ain't we plainly told that woman was made for man? how can you get over that, pray?"

Here the waiting-lad entered the room, and announced, "If ye pleese, the soop be on the table."

The gentlemen thereupon went into the adjoining apartment, and partook of the "sustenance," as Bennett said, was "so needful for their bodies;" and having added to this a fair quantity of ale and sherry, they returned to the parlour. Then, having ordered a good supply of brandy and water, and lighted their pipes, they silently drank and smoked away to their hearts' content. They sat quietly for some considerable time, when Spearman, who had now become quite drunk, cried out in a shaky voice, "My lads, let's go out; no use-moping here all the blessed night. We'll have some fun ; by Jove, we'll have some fun."

Rogers and Stanford willingly assented to the proposal. These gentlemen, strictly speaking, could not be called drunk, although they were not sober. Bennett was the only one who could be said to be so. Seeing their determination to go out, he went with them. They were leaving the room, when their progress was stopped by the entrance of a friend, who, being asked, readily joined their party. The

students considered this addition to their number altogether opportune; and, thus augmented, they sallied forth. But it was now getting quite dusk.

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Whither goest thou, Rogers?" asked Bennett.

"Most certain-ly we'll go, we'll go-down-down to-to the Quay," replied Spearman, who, to steady his steps, had seized upon Rogers's arm.

To the Quay, therefore, they went; but they had not been there a quarter of an hour before they were surrounded by half a dozen young sailors, one or two of whom were certainly "half-seas-over." One of them recognised Spearman, as he said to him, "If I'm not mistaken, my hearty, you are the very man, a month gone by, who lamed my cousin, Jack Bilbington." Hang your your cousin Jack-Bill—Bill, what's

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and you-you too," answered Spearman. 'Oh, oh, my lad, that's yer little game, is it? then take that for your cheek," replied the man; and he thereupon aimed a blow at poor Spearman's head, which would inevitably have brought his body in close proximity to his mother earth, had not Rogers (who had anticipated the sailor's intention) dealt him a blow with such good effect that he fairly knocked him down, and undoubtedly stunned him, as he made no attempt to rise. The other sailors, seeing their poor comrade measuring his length with the ground, made a sudden attack upon the students. While Rogers and Stanford-Spearman being of little usewere engaged with three of them, Bennett and Wil

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liamson opposed themselves to the remaining two. Williamson, who was a powerful man, soon quieted his adversary, who very ingloriously retreated from the field; his retreat, indeed, being facilitated by the enemy applying his foot to the lower extremities of his dorsal vertebra. Williamson now directed his attention to his friend Bennett, whose opponent had already handled him rather severely. A copious quantity of blood was issuing from his nose, and he seemed considerably exhausted. Without a moment's hesitation, he rushed upon his assailant, and with such impetuosity, that he sent him headlong into the water. The loud splash of the fallen hero, and the cry he uttered in his fall, arrested the attention of the combatants, and caused them to desist from their warfare. The sailors, finding that it was one of their own number who had been precipitated into the water, gathered themselves together, with the view of rescuing him from his perilous position; and the students, therefore, seeing that the contest was at an end, and deeming their presence was no longer required, quitted the scene of action. On arriving at the inn, they ordered their conveyance to be got ready; in the meantime imbibing a small potion of spirituous liquor, by way of "keeping the cold out." They then took their journey homewards to SCollege, where they arrived in safety, Williamson taking Stanford's horse, while he (Stanford) found a seat with his friends.

CHAPTER II.

A BIBLICAL LECTURE BY THE LECTURER.

"I lift up my feeble voice in the face of all the Sophistical Philosophers in Europe, crying 'Glory to God in the highest,' for my Bible. I believe it all to be true in opposition to both Infidels and Socinians, and would not sacrifice one sentence of it on account of the pleasure or displeasure of any man whatever. And if this is an error, I will say with Cicero when speaking of the immortality of the soul, 'Si in hoc erro, lubenter erro, nec mihi hunc errorem, quo delector, dum vivo, extorqueri volo." Rev. David Simpson.

WE will introduce our readers into the library of a Theological College, that they may have the advantage of a biblical lecture on the opening chapters of the book of Genesis. The library so called, was a room in which lectures were given, and was fitted up with desks and forms for the convenience of the students. It contained about three or four hundred volumes on various subjects, but we believe chiefly on Divinity. These volumes, from their appearance, had probably been here since the establishment of the institution. Books of modern date it would seem were excluded from the library; why, we cannot say, unless the authorities deemed that the introduction of modern works would be to the inconvenience or displacement of those books already located; or it might be they considered books of modern thought scarcely to be