TEMPERANCE.

"I AM convinced that there is no cause more likely to elevate the people of this country, in every respect-whether as regards religion-whether as regards political importance -whether as regards literary and moral cultivation-than the great question of TEMPERANCE."-Lord John Russell.

"Let me record my sense of the value of TEMPERANCE, and my friendliness to TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES."-Dr. Chalmers' Scripture Readings.

Dr. Chalmers, in a conversation with a friend, only a few days before his death, uttered this sentence-" The TEMPERANCE cause I regard with the most benignant complacency."

"It cannot be denied that ABSTINENCE SOCIETIES have done immense good.”—Rev. Dr. Wardlaw.

"There is one condition among the Rules for the Great Exhibition, for which the Commissioners cannot be too highly commended, and which should be inscribed in letters of gold over the building. It is, that' No WINES, SPIRITS, BEER, or INTOXICATING DRINKS, CAN BE SOLD or ADMITTED.' Such an example, coming from such a quarter, will yield its fruits."-Berlyn's Narrative of the Great Exhibition.

OPINIONS OF BRITISH Judges.

THE celebrated Chief Justice, Sir Matthew Hale, after twenty years' experience on the Bench, declared his belief, "that if all the crimes committed in the kingdom were divided into five parts, four out of these five could be clearly traced to the influence of excessive drinking."

Mr. Justice Erskine, at the Salisbury Assizes, when sentencing a gentleman to six months' hard labour, for a crime committed when under the influence of strong drink, declared his conviction, " that ninety-nine out of every hundred criminal cases, arose from the same cause.'

Judge Pattison, at the Norwich Assizes, said to the Grand Jury, "If it were not for this drinking, you and I should have nothing to do."

Judge Alderson, on a recent similar occasion, said, "Drunkenness is the most fertile of all the causes of crime; and if it could be removed, the Assizes of the country would be rendered mere nullities."

PEACE AND UNITY OF MANKIND.

"I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained. Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end— to which, indeed, all history points-the realization of THE UNITY OF MANKIND.-H.R.H. the Prince Albert.

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"I trust that the object which has been proposed-the Great Exhibition-will be as successful in its results as it is grand in its conception. We shall have still more occasion to be gratified if the aspirations of His Royal Highness be answered, as I trust they will and that, while the first object is attained of advancing the national prosperity, it will also tend to improve our SOCIAL RELATIONS, and to add to the amicable intercourse of different nations with our own. I rejoice in this the more, because it will tend to carry into effect one of the most glorious characteristics of our holy religion— GOOD WILL AMONG MEN."-The Archbishop of Canterbury.

"On a Roman holiday, hecatombs of wild beasts were slain, and sanguinary conflicts took place, of man against man. We propose to gratify the people by other agencies, more in harmony with our Civilisation and our Christianity-to teach them gratitude to the Almighty Creator, by exhibiting the wonderful contrivances of Nature for the happiness of man, and to draw closer the BONDS OF AMITY and GENERAL INTERCOURSE, by the honest rivalry of industry and skill."— Sir Robert Peel.

"We have now converted this country into the TEMPLE OF PEACE for the whole world. We have invited the natives of every civilized land to come here, not to the rivalship of strength, or of brutal force, or the arts of human destruction, but to compare the progress which each nation has made in those arts which constitute the happiness and ornament of the human race. There is a growing disposition in Europe to settle quarrels among the nations by AMICABLE INTERVENTION and negociation. The progress of civilization in

Europe is most gratifying to the friends of PEACE, and Her Majesty's Government are anxious, not only to preserve this country from the calamities of WAR, but to exercise their influence to secure other countries also, from those calamities." Viscount Palmerston.

"I do not doubt, that while this Great Exhibition shall show to foreign countries the marvels of our industry-shall show to us, also, the marvels of the industry of our foreign competitors-no dishonourable rivalry, no hostile feeling, no angry competition, will be excited, but mutual emulation of each other's peaceful prowess, mutual desire to promote harmonious intercourse, and that friendly communication which is kept up by commerce and the interchange of the miracles of art, will be the result of this great experiment, which now brings together all the ends of the earth."-Lord Stanley.

"When I reflected that this peaceful and guiltless triumph over the elements, and over Nature herself (the construction of the first railway from Manchester to Liverpool) had cost only one million of money, while fifteen hundred millions had been squandered on cruelty and crime-in naturalizing barbarism over the world-shrouding the nations in darkness, drenching with blood the soil of every land-in one horrid and comprehensive word-squandered in WAR-the greatest curse of the human race, and the greatest crime, because it involves every other crime within its execrable name, I look backward with shame, with regret unspeakable, with indignation to which I should in vain attempt to give utterance, upon that course of policy which we are now happily too well-informed and too well-intentioned ever to allow again whilst we live."-Lord Brougham.

"Though a period will arrive when all the objects now displayed at the Great Exhibition will disappear, and be scattered over different portions of the earth, yet there are many benefits resulting from it which will not equally vanish away. There will not, I trust, disappear that feeling of FRIENDSHIP and BROTHERHOOD which has existed, when the nations of the earth have been, as it were, shaking hands with each other in the midst of that Exhibition, that feeling of friendly rivalry for objects calculated to promote THE GOOD of all, that unwillingness to do anything that might promote ANGER and DISSENSION, and the wish, that, on the other hand, CONCORD AND PEACE SHOULD REIGN THROUGHOUT THE EARTH."-Lord John Russell.

Ir having been thought desirable to present a Copy of this little Volume gratuitously to as many of the English Exhibitors at the Crystal Palace as the funds subscribed for this purpose would admit, in the hope that, if they should become impressed with the truths it contains, they would, on their return to their several localities, introduce the subject to their friends and neighbours, as well as to the numerous workmen in their employ, the following amounts have been contributed by the parties named, for that purpose, and the presentation will be co-extensive with the means. Other individuals, however, desirous of procuring copies for their own use, or for presentation to Libraries, Mechanics' Institutions, or places of public resort, where they may be likely to attract the notice of readers not otherwise easy of access, may be supplied with them at 2s. 6d. for a single copy, or ten copies for a sovereign; and whoever may see fit to republish the whole, or any portion of its contents, in a cheaper form, either for sale or distribution, is at perfect liberty to do so, as no pecuniary profit is desired by any parties from this "labour of love."