WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr. HANNA'S Life of Dr. CHALMERS.

" One fearful winter clay the intelligence circulated through St. Andrews, on the coast of Fifeshire, that a vessel had been driven upon a sandbank in the bay, to the eastward of the town. A crowd of sailors, citizens, and students, soon collected upon the beach ; for the vessel had been cast ashore but a few hundred yards from the houses, and she lay so near, that though the heavy air was darkened by the driving sleet, they could see at intervals the figures of the crew clinging to rope or spar, ere each, breaker burst upon her side and shrouded all in surfy mist and darkness.

In a calm sea, a few vigorous strokes would have carried a good swimmer to the Teasel's side, but now the hardiest fisherman drew backs and dared not face the fearful surge, At last a student of divinity volunteered: tying a rope round his waist, and straggling through the surf, he threw himself among the waves. Forcing Ms slow way through the ragtag element, 3«* was nearing the vessel's side, when Ms friends on shore, alarmed at the length of time and slow rate of recent progress, began to pull him back. Seizing a knife which he carried between his. teeth, he cot this rope away, and reaching at last the stranded sloop, drew a fresh one from her to the shore: bat hungry, weak, and wearied, after four days' fodless tossing through the tempest, not one of the crew had strength or courage left to use it." He again rushed into the waves; he boarded the vessel, lie took them man. by man, and bore them to the land. Six men were resetted thus. His seventh charge was a boy, so helpless that twice was the hold let go, and twice he had to dive after him into the deep. Mean- while in breathless stillness the crowd had watched each perilous passage, till the double figure was seen, tossing landward through the spray. But when the deed was done, and the whole crew saved, a load cheer of admiring triumph rose around the gallant youth, " This courageous action was performed by Mr, John Honey, who was afterwards minister of Bendochy, in Perthshire, Though his great strength and spirit bore him ap- parently untired through, the efforts of that exhausting day, there was reason to believe that, in saving the life of otters, he had sacrificed his own. The seeds of a deceitful malady were sown which afterwards proved fetal. Dr. CHALMERS subsequently preached Mr, HONEY'S funeral sermon, which was one of his most pathetic discourses, within a few yards of the deceased's grave, on the 30th October, 1814,.