The men of St. John's College, Cambridge, like every other society in both Oxford and Cambridge, have their _soubriquet_. From what cause they obtained that of "Johnian Hogs" is yet scarcely settled, though much has been written thereon, extant in _The Gradus ad Cant., Facetiæ Cant._, and _The Cambridge Tart_. It proved of some service, however, to a wag of the society (and to them the merit of punning was conceded in the Spectator's time,) in giving him an idea for a name for the elegant one-arched covered bridge which joins the superb Gothic court they have lately added to the fine old college, after the designs of Messrs. Hutchinson and Rickman of Birmingham. The question was discussed at a wine party, and one proposed calling it the "Bridge of Sighs," as it led to most of the tutors' and deans' rooms, from whom issued all _impositions_ (punishments,) &c. "I have it!" exclaimed a wag, his eyes beaming brighter than his sparkling glass--"I have it! Call it the ISTHMUS OF SUEZ!" Id est _The Hog's Isthmus_, from the Latin word _sus_, a sow, which makes _suis_ in the genitive case, and proves our Johnian to be a punster worthy of his school. * * * * * YOU ARE TO PRAY AND FIGHT, NOT TO DRINK FOR THE CHURCH. Mr. Jones, of Welwyn, relates, on the authority of Old Mr. Bunburry, of Brazen-nose College, that Bishop Kennett, when a young man, being one of the Oxford Pro-Proctors, and a very active one, about James the Second's reign, going his rounds one evening, found a company of gownsmen engaged on a _drinking bout_, to whom his then high church principles were notorious (though he afterwards changed them, sided with Bishop Hoadley, and obtained the _soubriquet_ of _weather-cock Kennett_.) When he entered the room, he reprimanded them for keeping such late hours, especially over the bottle, rather than over their studies in their respective colleges, and ordered them to disperse. One in the company, who knew his political turn, addressed him with, "Mr. Proctor, you will, I am sure, excuse us when I say, we were met to _drink prosperity to the church_, to which _you_ can have no objection." "Sir," was his answer, with a solemn air, "we are to _pray_ for the church, and to _fight_ for the church, not to _drink_ for the church." Upon which the company paid their reckoning and dispersed. There is a curious print in the Library of the Antiquarians, of an altar-piece, which the rector of Whitechapel, Dr. Walton, caused to be painted and put up in his church, representing Christ and his twelve apostles eating the passover, wherein Bishop Kennett (the "Traitor Dean," as his siding with Hoadley caused him to be designated) is painted as _Judas_. * * * * * SIGNS OF A GOOD APPETITE.