Lsrsttrrune AND Enucrriorr IN len- LAND.

In a well-lighted apartment, under the root of the church, is kept the public It- brnry of Reikitivik, consisting of twoor three thousand books, Danislt, Icelandic, and English, many of them being pre- gemg sent front it distance. I could not find any remarkable old books or manu- scripts in this establislrrnettt ; it seemed‘ to be chiefly designed for popular use '1 he inhabitants of tlte towir are allowed to have books from it for a dollar (-ls. 3d.) each per annttrn, and about sixty tal-.e ad- vantage of the privilege. l obscrvcd.sc- veral of Mr. l)ickcrt’s novels, sortie of Marr\'att’s; a copy of lltttne and Snrollet. __'l‘\i'o of Croltlsntilh's' .~\iritn:rtctl Nature, and some of the plll)llt:11li0IlS of the Uni- ted States’ goverritncrit.

VVe next went to see the school, which is a long goodly l)tllltllll'.‘,', situate on a slope to the east of the town. '10 limb in :irt island of 900 miles itr linear cxtctit, and containing Gtl,t)Ut) iulralritarits,strictly

spml,-ing, but trite public seat of erltlca-v

tion of arty kind, is some vihat stattlirzg to a stranger. Such is the fact. 'l‘lrei'c is not attil never has been, one jtivcttilc seminarv in Iceland, anti this simply be- cause the popnlatiorr is too scattet'e~.'l‘to adtuit of any such arrangetnent. ‘lite father teaclrcs his children by the \\'llll(‘l‘ ﬁreside; they teaclt their children again; and such is the only education which the bulk of the people obtain. Stranger to

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reircunrstanccs of the country would lead one to txpecl. I had much pleasure in looking over Mr. 'I‘hordakson’s printing oflice in Rt-ikiavik, where lfound two presses of iiri proved construction, and saw in progress an Icelandic translation of the Otlyssey by Mr. Egilssori, late president of the college, whose son, l was told, is also giving promise of being it good poet. ‘The list of books printed and published by Mr. Tlrordaksort would surprise any trite who thinks only of Iceland as a rude country, ltalf buried in arctic snows. He is also tlte publisher of two out of the three native news-papers produced in Ice- _'l~.tntl-—the lugol., and Tlriodotfur. An ‘lcelaitdic newspaper, I may remark, is n siriall qtrarto sheet. like the Eirglislr news- ipapcrs of the setetrteerrtlr ectrirtry, produ- ‘ced at irregular intervals, and sometimes cnnsistirrg of two, sometimes of foitr leaves laccorrling as tli eabttridance of intelligence ,rn;ry tlcterrniue. lit a country, where [there are no roads and no posts, that lltcre should be newspapers ol arty kind is grat- ‘~il'yirtg. l regret, however, to say that they

are described as of a violent, tnalcontent Icomplcxioii.—Clianibers’ Journal. l

l At.i.to.t1orts IN Atttr:iucrt.—At daylight Ewe foiittd ourselves ill the lied I{ivcr—a tsoIlen,sluggish,rcdo-chre-coloured stream; illoods from the llocky Mountains had oc- casioned it to overﬂow its banks, tlirouglt »sorriewlrere about one hundred miles, lwhiclr we ascended ; which gave us the

lappearance of steering right through the

llay’ lhey an read‘ and |"lve’_ g°':,en‘il_|-vi orest. The effect was grand and novel; ‘Peallmg’ a “me for maihng’ an I cwltlic stream was raltid ; and the great red L"ghs.h or Scoiclunetn wme 80 “em-y.-nslllood rushed through the trees as far as ll.ms.e lslandcrs -do' qhc school“ -Re|l"la~illlC eve could reach. On every log or "k '3 “," csmbllshnlcm for ad‘ ?""'"$ “C { ttrrcvivtirctl hank lav numbers of alligators; education ofa select number n. the youth we ﬁred mm M” -mks N "Hwy 0, ‘hem,

°l Iceland‘ Mmm Sm-V luds- bmwccnitllltl althou:-§tr close to tltctit, the ball had

lhc ages of fmmeeil “ml .C'iimcOln ulucimitro effect, cxcrtbt iii the instances of a rt,tnost ol them having a vtetv to t to catn-

I 1 . “.5 | Wu“ omvuqmd-,rery small one, which a Yankee killed. ct pro csstons. t , to ' - , n *

_ . , l I ‘ _, :'l‘ht-y seldom prove the attacking party, °l 'v'_)'m'"”'"'" 9'“.mdN“y.‘m".l lme W '0 but such instances have oceirrreil ; it is ‘l“5”° ll'° "‘l’°“”l '"s"uc"”"S mlmg mm" ‘said that the best means of cscaue is for ‘U be l"’l‘-'°"-‘W l““'Y“”’ Or lmldu-"1 “Him tht: 1lllZll‘lit.:(l to out to a lI’t'tE and ion cott- m“5l l‘”55 l" “*9 """“C"-“l‘}' "f C“l’°"l“'-'“" sta-rrtl round if The .allriv:ttors cautiol ‘”l' I li""'"l R 5”" 0.; gum‘ Clilshmiillis iurir ttynickl ' ' all their Sll‘('tlT-lll wlictr on lb’ “'0 ""l”"“‘ llrlilliilma’ “N ”'"“.5h‘ land is in tlie tail with \\'lii:ltlllC)' swevlt Frmllill’ and lllllgilfgll Ihllguag-cs’ 'mm‘.("' l.liL'i|‘,l)I’C)' into l.l|t.’ll' iitoutlt ' from their ex- ""“'°s* "muml l’l"l"s"l'.h-ll’. nmimll "'3' treirtc lt:ll"ll| the ycaii t)tIlV’lll()\'C in an air- l‘"l'~ &"'i “ 5°" "ll ‘l‘""'m°””s ‘Or n. Clix}-iulair dircnction and llll(l.ll impossible to tnirr nunibcr ofthe pnpils—tl:e rest ltt'tu_-_; rum me“ c’"ou”h m C_m_h ,1 ma" d(,_ nith friends in the totvii-—antl cabinets .q ‘ -Y "’ ' ‘ ‘ ' contaitrinti lllillt.‘l‘ttls' and 7.tr(rl.t;_;it:.'tl speci-

scribtrig n srrrall circle round a trcc.—- ‘s o ' ‘,1 1 merits. The whole establishment stfcllt-.Ldp”m Lcv'°m" ed to be satislactory every respect but; The London Daily .l.‘_,‘_g_mph was me lllﬂl Of "°"l'i“l'°“' “"3 5“l’°”'"°"‘l'"-1*’ siilrjt-ct of itri action in the Bail Court on |‘€Cl0l'» ML J""5°"- l9 °l"i”""l.l' “ ‘"3" "l k“l'l'l.ltlV,\lllCl'| Mr. Cole, barrister, recovered vigorous intellect and good acquircntcnts. ‘ rm... Colonel Sleiglt, the proprietor, .£:l0,us As the establishrnerit is supported by the engaged editor for llIl'(‘t‘ rrrontlrs. lle claim- Danish govcrumetit, no fees are ClIu|'{.;C(l ;,Cd 1-'43. at £~l_ It-_\\'¢—‘t"K ;, but it ﬂltptfariltg and it of course bccotnes necessary to ail-‘.llN1_lr lnsleild °l l’°'"S '~'‘l'‘‘’''~ “*3 “ad ""l.Y mi, ,0 i, only such you”, as can give ,,s_, wrrtt‘cn_ articles, the sum was rcdttced by sttrance of turtring its instructions to good - i ‘c '“ ‘"3" acc0um' . . . . The Steamship Unicorn, which used to Tl“? zcalolls c"ll""l“'"‘ ‘ll lllcmmm "1 l play bctwt-en Halifax and Newfoundland, Iceland during the last six centuries, and . |,,,_.. 1,00,, destroyed by me ,,._-3,» yazor C3. the remarkable productions, the sagzistitrd ry. ’l‘|rn passengers, among whom were cd(lus—lristorics and ronraiittc ptlcttts-—lFc\'(‘i‘tll latlic:-, barely L‘:-‘cupctl with their ltave excited the interest of all \'l;~‘ilt)fS.i'll‘V‘-‘-‘ii ll"! *1” “'9” ‘*3:-'3f'S° “"15 d°'5“"’)’“l- I am free to own that l cart form no iirriigcl 1 he l"‘°l‘~" “"3 l"‘!}?l""'_"l ‘_l'° l’°‘" w°.‘;,° ‘O’ of literary life irrorc touching. tnorc t.~al- :“”y d“s"°y° ' mic “as “ Cori“ era’ , rle amount of money in the safe wlrtch was ‘iulmed lo Ca” form lcspcct and lcncnb also lost. The total loss is estimated to ttoti, than that of such a man as the a,nm,,,,,,, $5-,~5,009_ Icelandic pricst'l‘hordakson, who produ- ced abeautiful translation of Paradise Lost, and many original works of distinguislred merit, in the small inner room of it tnere college which formed his parsonage, while his family, concerns were going on in an equally small outer apartment, and his entire annual income did not exceed what is often given in England for the writing of an article‘ in a magazine. Inquiry re- gardingtltl present state of literature in Iceland was it matter of course. So far as I could learn, the love of letters is still a more vivid passion in Iceland than the

APPLICATION AND Succs:ss.—Applica- tion is one of the great secrets of perfec- tion.—Success is the olfspﬂng of cheerful- tress and courage.

UNWILLING Tnoors.—The Emperor of Itussia is setting the whole of his militia in motion. Doubtless it may be a forced march with most. if not all of them.

Query.—-When a lady writes a novel, can bet copy be legitimately called manu- script P

[Articles under this luiading are published solely on the responsibility of the Grand Division, 8. of Temperance P. E- Island-1

Tits: Bturrsri Aitrrv IN sue Crttuiarr. A Correspondent of the l.orrd.in '.l'rr:rcs in a letter, dated October ‘lﬂird. gives a fearful account of the intetnperanceprevailing among our sol- ttiers in the Crimea, 8llt|I\‘lll2 that the love of irriovicating liquors has become -a passion abso- ltttely uncontrollable by discipline—it is subject- ing its victims to oorporeal and other dt-gratlirrg punislr:nents——rtntl is preparing the way for disease and pestilence. I"uur‘!.’r .l).'::r'.rinrr Cm r Mari!/rr_t/, Ocl, Qfnrf.

" Is the British army in tho (Irtinea to trcepnic, or rather to continue, it tnudcl ol Drunkeniress for all nations! 1 certainly am not grviirg too much irnportance to that question by insisting itporr it very strongly. Yesterday was >'rinrlay. I rode into llalaklava at one l’.!\l., through Karl- ikoi Major, and returned, towards dusk, through Katlikoi Minor. Tliosiglrtsl saw, both going and returning, were enough to make art l".rr,r_vlislr- mart despair of his cauntr_tmen. Ail along the road were rrren—not only privates, b at rrrrn-corn- rnissionerl ollit-.ers—in every stage of drnrrltrn- tress. Sobriety was really the exception, inlo\i- cation the rule. i’\'oisy groups, litrshed and unsteady with drink, were interspersed with strnrgcrittg sure who could not keep on their legs.

The Times and other newspapers condemn in the strongest possibletet-ins the disgraceful state of things reported by their correspondents in the Crimea. In one of its powerful leaders, the Tirnt-s sbst.-rvcs:—

“ The regimental officers are at their wits’ end for menus to stop the evil, and the colonel of r. regirrtetrt in the Third Division sent to the (‘om- intssary-general to request that plum-putirlings triigltt be tirade for sale, that the privates might have the alternative of eating some of their rnuney. \Vhen this is the only thing that can he irnauttred. it does indeed show, what a pass the army has cntrie to. What are the irifsllihlc results? When winter sets in these men will Ire the first to sink under its sudden cl-ills, and catch the lurking epidetnic. Should tlto retreat ol the liussittns cottipel I Iliovttirrt-ttt into the interior. with l3g'I,:|tt-.2 supplies, the lilsl day's forcrrl altstiaurce from the rt net-dfrrl stirntrirrs will ht.- followed by ]tl'(lSlfi|ll0ﬂ't‘Uli.’tpat‘. and their inva- Jl_slple t-oiistqtieticen. 'lilic least irrrigulurity of diet, the tirst night's hivonac, the tnarsh, and tho-

a ;_-arne of position tritist alttays be r-\‘j~r-uteri. will tell fatally on the shake-rt llt‘l\t.'S, Mt.‘-tl€Plit.‘tl di,:t-stiotts. rrrt-g__nil.rr crrctilatro.r. and \'.’!Yi;tl)ll’ strrlarr-r-. of lrahiiuril drrrrrttattls. last winter will be f(‘,'lt'.'llt(l over the (Irrrrica.

self-sacrifice of a 'l'lrertnop_vIai and the irtgloriritis penalty ofa (Iapna.

*‘ We sltotrld ill tliselrarge otrr nristiioit of plain . . . . . lint is there really no help for it. Cannot tire eotrrtnnti sense. \vliicli has eXl|'lC'llPtl Ertpland lrorn so litany polt'icriI tlllli‘Itl'.it'.'. and front still more irrveterate social ills, be itrvolte to cure this ueakness of our nation and stiuina of our race 7 No Errglrslrnrttn can read “lllltrtll grief, that our soldiers are deeradirtg tlretirseh-t-s as the llelots were made to do for tltc warrritrg of the Spartan children. lit-fore the evil gets to strclt a head as our cortcspondeiit describes, surely it were worth while to keep the so.'dir-rs witlritr camp, or to srrppr/is.s the drinking /roar/rs. :‘.rrytliirr«_r is better than a license wlrieli ruins the health of the soldier, the nlretrgtlt efthe array, and the credit trftltis country.”

Tlll; \\'ESTllll.\‘ls1"l~Zll REVIEW.

The July number oftlre rihnro mtrretl pt?'iutli- cal enntaint-d rt most spec-iorrs article r-ntrrlod l’l|ysiolu'.!‘lr-al ervorc ill’ 'l'r'tit«:t:rli.~rri" nlrit-h instead or ltIjlllll|'.! M9 Wndered the 'l‘r:irrporrarn-c Cause essential Service. by the Elaborate replies it has called with from Dr Lees and Dr Carpeti-

The Vl'cstnu'nst¢-r for October contains another article on fomperance lretttled "Drnnlteurtess not ctirah'eb1 euislation ;” in allusion to whielt The Werkly Alliance olrserves:—

—“ lst. 'l'lrst the issue is incorrectly stated, the real question hetnrr vrltsther unwise legislation may not greatly promote, and wise lenislalion rzreatly diminish drunkenness. 2nd. That the writer is extreme- ly ignorant of the real history oftho Tetnperiince movement an of the Maine law. Anrl, 3rd. He presents no argument Igsinsta Matuelaw which does not hold good equally against all law.” The following is the sslrm‘nuer’s own tgrapltie delineation of England's iuteinperanee ;—

It is impossible to exaggerate the evils of

- drunkenness. The more we examine its elfects‘,

the deeper is our impression of the frightful misery it causes, of the degradation, the waste oflifs, the vrasie of money it enluile, Nine- tenths of the crimes committed in the Bruish Isles may be traced to the public house. Faun] life is cut up by the routs—men become won. than hrutes—women so lose themselves as to be little better than ﬁends, underthelatal ialnénco ofth-3 glass of ale or gin. The money open; every year in i'tltI.\'ic:l¢ln|z dritrk exceeds the whole amount or the national revenue. Schools, churches, trteetisrg-lrorises, clubs. reading rooms, libraries, are rubbdd of half their good fruit, by the passion for stintnlants which stillesthe love of wisdom. ol' piety, and duty. Drunken- ness is the curse of l'lngland—:t curse so great that it far eclipses every other cttlanrity under whit-lt we stiller. We cannot too often set the awful truth before us in all its stern reality. To study the statistics of drttrikotrncss, or if we prefer trusting our own eyes, to enter in ma early morntir-.2 a Lorttlnn gitt-palace, is the best practical lessrtri we can have at trace in the rierressitv and the dillieultv of social n-ﬁn-m,

t is a lt:.=stttt which \\lll teach us to admire and to s_vinpatlrr_-e with the many goutl and enthusias- trt- nit-tr, who have in recent vc:trs rlevotr.-d them- selves to the one task ofexttipatiiig this deplor- able vice.

Trtruittrir or rat: M.ir.vr: Luv IN New Yott|t'.—T/re Liquor Jllrn lalren iri—The Maine Law men have secured a niarkcd and unexpected triumph in New-York. It is well known that tlto creed of the Demo-

ict-at.~i is adutnatrtitte of the most solid kind.

Its organ in this city, tlte Daily u\'rtD8, is ably edited, and takes the rnnkest ground against the present National Administration —against the Maine Law—Aholitionistu-— Sof; l)emocrncy—nnd Know Nothingism in particitlar. The Democrats went itito the campaign last fall and carried all these prirtciples through. No tnutr was nominat- ed who was not known to be so-.r_nd on all these questions. Among the nominations nrade by the Adarnantiues was it candidate for the high ollice of Judge of Appeals. ' hey ptit in norninntion Hon. Samuel L. Selden of Rochester. Six weeks ago 150,- 000 voters made Mr. Seldon Judge. lie had long been .1 Hard Deirtocrat and a. par- ty ruan.—lle was known to be opposed to the Maine Law—lle was rtominnted by the " Liquor Dealers’ Convention." arwell as by the Hard Dcrnocrals. lie accepted both notriinations; and yet one ofliis lit-st acts as a Jiitl,-_v,e is to declare the Maine Law of Nt:tt' Yet-k cotrstittttional irt one of its most oll'cnsivc scctiorrs—tlrat of sittrrntnry trial, without bail. ()l' cogrse tlrnse who elected

i 4

trerrttlrwotlt. which to it war of (‘.1IllI\\tt'.l\~47tlitl,

The liorrors of

with the laitrettlable dtllcrertco lrctueori the noble‘

speakin;g.il' we did not ntrt with this slrarnt-7‘

Jtidgo St.-ldon are not stiutctl in their wrath. ~'l'l-e .’V'ctrs says:

i " 'l'hat a. deeisioti to this cll'ect should have been given in lltttl portion ofthe State rwt-st of the (.‘:tyttg,:a liridgo-wlrct'c trite species of litritrtteisiri after‘ anotlter, Airti- -;\lissionary..\bolitiorris:rv,l\la:inc Lawisrir and Nativisiri, has run \\iltl atnong the people -—-is scarcely to be cottriidet-ctl sttrprising. But that llon. Sarnttel L. Scldon should have cttltt.‘Ill'Ctl in it, is calculated to strike some or-e,lruridi-ed and fifty tltonsand voters ofthis State, who only six weeks since cast their votes for lrirri for the high oflice of Appeal .ltI(lj_'t!, with blank astorrislimetit. “'0 con- l't-ss to it deeper and _cltt.-aper feeling of ltaving been liurnbtigged than we have had occasion to cntcrtirin since the Softs client- cd us for the last tirrie iti I853."

'l‘liere is anotlicr side to this trtatter. Men often say as politicians what they are not willing to ratify as Judges. And if Judge Srlrlon, with such trrttcccdents, ﬁtrds lriru- st-lfcorrrpcllt-d as a Jtrilge to decide in favor of the new Liquor Law of this State, it all'.ir-ds strong proof that the law is consti- tional, and given the public great C0nll(lt'll(:() that men elected even as partisan politici- arts will be trttc to their convictions when law or the case they are called upon to de- cide really passes before them. I‘he case artist he considered to be a Maine Law tritrmplt of no strrall magnitude. As it poli- ticirtn, Judge Seldott’s days are numbered; —will the people sustain him?—Correspon- dent-c of Boslrm Journal 2611;.

01:. Fnrs:Nnsttrr.—.-\ virtuous friendship is the

sweetest charm oflife; the source of every-

thing that is good and excellent on earth.

The tnan who imagined himself wise because be detected some typographical errors in a nevvspttrer, has gone out to get

perpendicular vievr ofa rsinbnvv.