you let us carry him to the open air. My aunt's house is not far off; he must be removed thither. You commit murder if you hesitate!"

Matters were now much changed; and though Tobanus himself stood motionless, the very picture of despair, several of the students did not hesitate to give their aid to Wilhelm, who wrapped the blanket once more carefully round Mynheer Van Vleiten, and had him carried off immediately to his aunt's house. Here the opulent merchant was put to bed, and the best medical assistance instantly obtained. Animation was soon restored, and the physician declared that the patient had been suffering merely under a severe lethargic fit. Intelligence of the fire at Van Vleiten's house, which had fortunately been extinguished before much damage was done, and the mysterious disappearance of the owner of the mansion, was conveyed to Leyden that very night. The fears of the affectionate Wilhelmina regarding her father's safety were allayed as speedily as possible, and she immediately set out for Leyden to assist in his sickchamber.

It was some time before Van Vleiten fairly came to himself, or recovered from the fright he had sustained. For several days he could not be persuaded that the process of embalming had not actually taken place, and that he was not at least as much a mummy as a living being. He de

clared that he could never get the better of the dreadful sensations he had experienced when he first opened his eyes in the theatrum anatomicum, and beheld the frightful objects that presented themselves to his bewildered gaze. By constant care and excellent nursing, however, he at length manifested symptoms of confirmed convalescence; and he was no sooner re-instated in his own house than he intimated to the delighted Van Daalens, that as he conceived he owed his life to the intrepid interference of Wilhelm, he did not think he could do less than bestow upon him the hand of Wilhelmina.

It was a merry day in Rotterdam, when the respective heirs of the two richest merchants it contained, were united in the holy bands of matrimony. From that day Van Vleiten, to his utter astonishment, grew fatter and fatter, till at length he became only a little less corpulent than any of his brother burgomasters; while, on the contrary, the unfortunate Tobanus Eleazar Von Broeck grew rapidly leaner and leaner, and though he continued to haunt for some years longer the theatrum_anatomicum, he dwindled at length into such a shadow, that had there been another Professor at Leyden equally versed in the art of embalming, Tobanus himself might have been compounded into a mummy, for the great cause of science, and the glory of the United Netherlands.

LOVE ON THE CLYDE;

AN HISTORIETTE FROM GLASGOW.

"It was a rich merchant in Glasgow did dwell,

He had a handsome daughter, and few could her excel."
Old Ballad.

JACOB SANDERSON was a manufacturer of buttons. His name, I believe, may still be seen in the Trongate. It is in large gilt letters, and has an imposing and dignified air. Why not? Has not Mr. Sanderson a seat in the town council, and a country-house on the Sauchy-haugh road? Nor has Mr. Sanderson's good fortune stopped here; for it has pleased Heaven to bestow upon him a wife, and an only child. Of his cara sposa I need say nothing: she is the button-maker's better half, and all that such a half should be. Miss Arabella, or as her friends venture to call her, Miss Bella, demands a greater share of our

polite attention. She is decidedly the prettiest girl north of the Clyde. She wears a lilac-coloured pelisse, trimmed with pink plush; and her bonnet is of flowered white satin, ornamented with a wreath of roses. She has a perpetual ticket to the Botanical Garden; and innumerable instances are on record, of students, especially Irish students, looking at her, when they should have been looking at Professor Hooker's new classification of

mosses.

Mr. Samuel Dempster was neither a student, nor an Irishman; he held Latin and Greek in supreme contempt; and as for logic and metaphysics, he did not understand the meaning of the terms. But Mr. Samuel Dempster kept a respectable haberdasher's shop - was in a snug money-making way and on Sunday, looked "exceeding genteel" in his blue coat, nankeen trowsers, wellpolished boots, and white hat, turned up with green. Samuel had been long a faithful admirer of Miss Sanderson; and, bating one or two little quarrels on the score of jealousy, they had been, upon the whole, remarkably constant and exemplary in their mutual love. This love was founded, as my readers will be happy to learn, on the surest of all bases a congeniality of mind; and as weeks flew on, Mr. Dempster became more and more enamoured. The very people who frequented his shop began to suspect there was something the

matter with him, for in the aberrations of his mind, he frequently produced his bombazeens when they asked for a sight of his silks; and on one occasion actually cut off twenty yards of brown braid for a lady who wanted the same quantity of green ribbon. There is not a case in all history where Cupid exercised a similar influence over the heart of a haberdasher. In love! the phrase is cold and unmeaning;- he was in flames -- he was in a lime-kiln - he was in the boiler of a steam-engine he was in the crater of a volcano ; - what would you have me say?- he was in Tophet.

It was about this period that Mr. Sanderson's intention of going to the sea-bathing for two or three of the summer months was made public. Rothesay and Largs he pronounced too far off; Dunoon he was afaid he would find dull; and the contest therefore lay betwixt Ellensburgh and Gourock. Miss Arabella was decidedly in favour of Ellensburgh; but alas! Ellensburgh was already as full as it could hold (and a good deal fuller) so that Gourock was the only remaining alternative; and in Gourock the family settled.

They had hardly been there a week, when the ferry-boat from Kilmun conveyed to the pier a Highland laird. He had come across for the express purpose of seeing them, for Mrs. Sanderson and he happened to be thirteenth and fourteenth cousins. When I say that he was a Highland