once lived there, and one to whom the University is greatly indebted. When Gustavus Vasa ascended the throne of Sweden, he patronized the University to the utmost extent of his power, and appointed lecturers on divinity to teach the Lutheran doctrine. After his time, it, however, fell into neglect, till his grandson Gustavus Adolphus came to the throne, and he may not improperly be regarded as the real founder of the University. It was him who formed it as it still continues, and he devoted his whole private fortune, which was immense, to serve as funds for the maintenance of the professors. His endowment having been in landed property, and incapable of alienation from the University, it follows that the grant is fortunately of as great relative value now as it was at that time. A certain portion of the king's donation was originally destined to support the poorer students, who were permitted to dine together gratis, under the inspection of one or more professors; but this practice was shortly discontinued, and the money was in lieu of it given away as bursaries. To show the extent of this grant by Gustavus Adolphus, it is sufficient to state that of twenty-six professorships, which is the present number, only three are on the foundation of private individuals. The University is divided into four faculties, viz. Divinity, Law, Physic, and Arts, or, as it is styled, Philosophy. Each of these is in the practice of granting degrees; the three first of Bachelor and Doctor, and the last that of A.M. The Professors of Divinity are better rewarded than any of the others, as besides their salaries, each has also a living, and the eldest professor in that faculty is, ex officio, Dean of the cathedral. In the same faculty are also four adjuncts who hold public lectures, and besides these there are four private teachers. The Faculty of Law comprises three professors, two adjuncts, and two private teachers; the Medical Faculty eight professors and two adjuncts; and the Philosophical Faculty fourteen professors and eight or ten adjuncts, besides a host of private teachers. Each of these professors delivers public lectures four hours a week, and very few of them give private lectures. Such private lectures as are given are delivered by the adjuncts and the private teachers. The professors being paid according to the value of grain, their salaries consequently vary considerably in amount. Each season, after harvest, a taxation committee sits in every province to regulate the value of the different descriptions of grain for the year, and the professors receive payment according to the valuation of the committee. Their stipends are fixed at about 240 barrels of corn, one half being of rye, and the other half of barley; the average value of which in money is, at 5 rix dollars banco per barrel, 1200 rix banco, or 1001. The adjuncts are paid 75 barrels of corn, which is inadequate to their support; but many of them make as much more by delivering private lectures; and as these situations are considered the stepping stones to professorships, they are eagerly sought after. The students do not live in college, but are scattered over the whole town, almost every house having lodgings to let; and these, it must be acknowledged, are very cheap, ranging between twenty and fifty shillings English a year. The furniture consists only of a bedstead, a deal table, some chairs of the same material, and a few shelves for books; and many persons in humble life at Upsala make a comfort→ able living by hiring out bed-clothes and furniture to the students.

At the meetings of the students held in the rooms of their respective nations, disputations, either in Latin or Swedish, and sometimes, though rarely, in one of the modern languages, are held. Students are not bound to study any certain length of time before being allowed to pass their examinations, nor are they even obliged to attend the lectures; and it consequently happens very often that a professor has only ten or fifteen auditors. It is true that at the beginning of every session a list is circulated among the students of each nation, on which they are required to intimate which lectures they purpose to attend, and from these lists the professors are furnished with the names of the students who ought to attend their lectures; but it seldom happens that more than one tenth of these are present. It is, indeed, only in the medical faculty, and in that of law, that the attendance on lectures is at all regular; the reason for which is that, in the first mentioned faculty, the number of students is so small that the professor would have no difficulty in remarking who were absentees, and the neglect would be sure to recoil upon them, when their time came for undergoing their examinations. The average course of study for passing the examination for A.M., is from five to seven years; for M.D., from seven to ten years. In the faculties of law and divinity degrees are seldom taken; in the latter the degree of D.D. is only conferred by the king as a grace, and the highest honours that can be taken in the faculty independently of D.D. is Licentiate of Divinity, and this is rarely taken excepting by such as have an eye to a professorship in the faculty. The examinations are sufficiently rigid to make an Upsala degree honourable, and this is one of the Universities which has not prostituted itself by selling diplomas.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FITZROY PIKE.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

Birth, Parentage, and Babiography; comprising a learned Discussion on "Proper Names."-The Temple of Minerva; its High-Priest; and Initiation into its Mysteries.

I was born Truly one would think this a sufficiently near period at which to commence the history of my life! but no,-fathers and grandfathers possessing, by the laws of Nature, a priority of existence, demand also, by the laws of society, a priority of notice. The untimely phrase, "I was born," must, therefore, be retracted, and "my grandfather," substituted for the egotistical letter.

My grandfather, then, was born at Rotherhithe, in a house, the envy of all poets and painters; it was, they said, perfectly picturesque : -the door was rotten, and hung on a single hinge; the roof was dropping to pieces, except where, at one part, the crumbling chimney had fallen through, and there it had dropped already; the walls were of rotten plaster, supported by rotting beams; the windows were ventilators, innocent of glass; the whole literally overhung the Thames. What an honour to dwell in a house like this!-A house which young ladies came miles to see and sketch as they sat in their carriages; which inspired poets in the neighbouring garrets with dreams of ruin

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and romance; which painters by profession committed to canvass, on the first floor front of the public-house over the way.

Shaded by this glorious tenement, my father's sire increased unto man's estate, and here inherited the arduous occupation of a long line of ancestry, the philanthropic task of providing for his fellow creatures the means of warmth and sustenance, as indicated by an inscription above his warehouse, written in blue letters, on a yellow ground; the whole tanned by age and exposure:

"TATARS is soled hear

Cole and Coak to Cuk em with."

In the course of time, my respected grandfather died, leaving the business, or "line," to his eldest son, Bob Pike, my destined father. The marriage of this son and heir, being the most important circumstance connected with myself, is all I shall, at present, relate. Bob Pike, since he could neither write nor read, carried on the intercourse of love without billet doux, and though his language was not of the most refined, it was eloquent enough to convince a confiding young maiden (Heaven save the mark!), subsequently my mother, that matrimony, and that, too, in partnership with himself, was the best state in which her life could be continued.

My father's philanthropic occupations, as above stated, proved so lucrative, that, on adding to his own gains a fortune of one thousand pounds, bequeathed him by my grandfather, he found himself sufficiently rich to retire from the potato business; and having taken a family mansion,-family prospective,-in some shady street near Camberwell,-an elegant four-roomed house, with green ditch in front, and rustic bridge, leading to a green gate that opened on a green grass-plat, traversed by a gravel walk, that led you to a green door with a bright brass knocker and brass plate," B." (Bob!) “ PIKE, ESQ.," for respectability's sake-there I was born.

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Although, from the accounts of friends, a most remarkable baby, I was yet unable, until some time, at least, after birth, to take particular cognizance of surrounding events. The few lines on babiography, therefore, that follow, are carefully compiled from the authentic and impartial records of my nurse.

Babiography!-Why are not volumes written upon that "interesting" subject?-Is it because all babes are red, soft things alike? I cannot stay to argue; but if my nurse tell truth, and all babies are as I have been, then, truly, is the new-born race a generation of infant phenomena !

I have, in my note-book, much relating to infant life; but I see the word "dreadful dull!" in the reader's mind, and pass it over accordingly.

When the time arrived for christening the juvenile Pike innominatus, my Christian name gave rise to a hotly contested election. Five uncles required that I should be christened after them; two maiden aunts desired, one to call me Zacharias, the other Jerusalem; my grandmother voted for Timothy Babylon; my father, Fitzroy ; and my accommodating mother could see no reason why I should not please every body, and-have these names, every one, in succession, after the manner of the aristocratic circles!

Before saying more on this subject, it will be as well to describe those respected parents, on whose decision in this matter depended my future advancement in life. I say, advancement, for who on earth could hope for success in this world, bearing the long tail of heterogeneous names that my mother recommended ?--Including the five uncles, thus it would have run :-" Anthony, Job, Jack, Zebedee, Christopher, Zacharias, Jerusalem, Timothy Babylon, Fitzroy Pike!" It is very fine, doubtless, to quote Shakspere, and ask, "What's in a name?"-I say, and I believe, that a man's Christian name is the arbiter of his life and character; and, although I was not then old enough to look with interest on the contention, I cannot now recur without a shudder to the narrowness of my escape from impending ruin.

But I was about to describe my parents; and, first, my father :Bob Pike, or, as he styled himself upon retiring, Bob Pike, Esq., was a tall, stout and burly gentleman, with a red nose and grinning mouth; his whole appearance as though intended by Nature for a coal-heaver. Having, however, retired from business on a genteel independence, to be "genteel" was his ambition. His thick, coarse hair, was frizzled in the newest fashion; an erect shirt-collar, of good four inches perpendicular, surmounted a figured satin stock, the tie of which descending, formed the centre ornament of his bosom; his waistcoat was long, after his own fashion; that was too comfortable to alter, its yellow plush investments descended below the hips, while, over this, a blue swallow-tailed coat and bright buttons formed a ridiculous contrast. White ducks in summer, and in winter fashionable trousers of some warmer materials, generally of a check pattern, enveloped his legs (which, in shape, formed the outline of an hourglass), and boots of patent leather adorned his expanded feet. To all this add, for out-door use, a Paris hat, with white kid gloves, and a gold-headed, tasselled cane, and my father is before you.

My mother was an easy, comfortable looking dame, some few miles in circumference, who ignorantly persisted in all the in-bred customs of the potato shop, except, perhaps, when, to please my genteel father, some more fashionable ribands were to be placed, in picturesque confusion, on her cap. Once Bob Pike, Esq. wished his wife to wear stays; that was the only thing she positively refused. On the whole, however, her chief desire and happiness was to see every one pleased. It was the day before the christening, and my name, among the multiplicity of advisers, was not yet decided upon; every candidate for the honour of Christianizing the bald name of Pike, was hot in defence of his or her favourite designation. The hour was six, and my parents had just dined,-for five o'clock was a "genteel" dinner hour; my father was seated on a sofa, by the fire-side, smoking a cigar through an ivory holder, and reading Byron upside-down; it made little difference-but fashionable poetry must be "looked at :"-my mother, equally unable to spell, had before her, for gentility's sake and to please her husband, the last fashionable novel ("The Mysterious Murderer;" a tale of high life, by the Dowager Duchess of***), and was wondering at the ingenuity of those persons who were able to string together such a vast number of letters, and blacken such a vast quantity of good paper. Both were dozing over their meditations, when

a short, snappy, double knock, proceeding from the brass knocker on the green door, caused each to start.

"My dear," said Bob Pike, arranging his curls, "here's wisitors :put yourself in a hattitude!"

Before, however, time had been allowed for studying "hattitudes," the visiters entered;-three ladies:-Mrs. Jones, my grandmother, with Dorothy and Tabitha her daughters, my mother's elder, elderly and maiden sisters, each with a little dog.

With the newest West End air, the fruits of observation, my father received his wife's relatives; to suit their plebeian appetites, tea was ordered, and soon all were seated ;-the visiters domesticated for the rest of the evening.

My grandmother, with respect be it spoken, was stout and stupid. My aunts both dressed alike, in green silk of the most ancient material and antiquated manufacture. The little dogs were veritable puppies, barking and yelping, thrusting in their opinions on all points, very evidently considering themselves beings of the highest possible importance.

I, of course, the interesting Johnny Newcome, was the topic of conversation.

"Well," said Aunt Tabitha, “and what's his name to be?" "Yow-yow-yow!" cried one of the puppies.

And Yow-yow-yow might as well have been my name, as anything my dear relatives were about to propose.

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Fitzroy!" said my father in a decided tone, taking the cigar from his mouth, and puffing a cloud of smoke into the room.

"What!" cried Aunt Tabitha.

"What!” cried Aunt Dorothy.

"Fiddledoy!" cried my grandmother-" is that the name of a Christian? I says, Timothy Babylon,-Timothy's a good name, and it's my name—that is, it was the late Mr. Jones's, -as for Babylon, two names is genteel, and that's what you wants, Mr. Pike;-Babylon means confusion, and second names is confusion, so Babylon's what's right for a second name.-I says, Timothy Babylon."

Having delivered this long and logical oration, my grandmother poured her tea into her "sarsser," and having taken that piece of crockery in the extended grasp of her thumb and forefinger, the little digit being, pursuant to established custom, projected outwards to its full length, she proceeded to imbibe.

"Babylon's a wicked place," said Aunt Tabitha, "it ar'n't Christian; let it be Jerusalem, and I'm satisfied!"

"Jerusalem a'n't Christian neither, Tabitha dear," said Aunt Dorothy, "that's Jewish; let's have Zacharias!” Stupid!" cried the amiable Tabitha, you better!"

ha'n't made it no

"Why can't we have all the names?" asked my good-natured mother; "I'm sure they're very good and pious."

"It sha'n't be!" cried my father, rising for a speech;-he always "did the genteel" in language when he had an opportunity; now, therefore, advancing to the tea table, holding his cigar in one hand, whilst the other was flourished in the air, he prepared for an oration :