In this sense, therefore, the Crystal Palace may be truly called a SCHOOL OF TEMPERANCE, while all the lessons it teaches equally contribute to make it a TEMPLE OF PEACE.

One thing then only remains to make this great Work perfect, and this is to retain it, in its present position, when the purpose of the Exhibition shall have been completed; and, by its conversion into a Winter Garden and Sanitary Promenade, with Galleries for Statuary and Painting, and a well-arranged Museum for instruction as well as entertainment, render it a perpetual source of health and pleasure to all its visitors, as well as a permanent monument of its origin, progress, and final destination. We have been favoured with a sight of the Plans and Drawings of Mr. Paxton for the adaptation of this Building to such a purpose; and we feel convinced, that many generations, after we are all removed from this earthly scene, will rejoice in this addition to their innocent and rational enjoyments.

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APPENDIX.

THE closing document of this little Volume, which has been framed with great care, and for which we are indebted to a friend, will exhibit to the eye, as well as to the understanding, the enormous amount of the Self-Taxation of the Inhabitants of the Realm, in comparison with the Taxes imposed on them by the Government, and still more so in comparison with their Contributions to religious, moral, or benevolent purposes. The study of this document, which is in itself a volume, will show, as forcibly as forms and figures can do, that—were it not for the burden of the National Debt, contracted almost wholly for carrying on the Wars of the Past, the maintenance of the Army and Navy, on the pretence of being ready to meet the Wars of the Future, and the overwhelming amount of the Sums spent in drinking and smoking, by which not one single good, but many evils, are produced-we should be able to educate every child in the kingdom, maintain public parks, gardens, museums, and

libraries in every town and village-support hospitals for the sick, asylums for the afflicted of every class, and comfortable retreats for the aged and infirm, and all this for less than half our present annual expenditure! So true is it, as affirmed in the motto on our title-page, that of all the causes most injurious to our prosperity, INTEMPERANCE and WAR may be numbered as the most powerful; and that the greatest blessings of life are all promoted by TEMPERANCE and PEACE.

THE END.

From certain changes which it was thought desirable to make in the order of the several Sections of this little Volume after it had been begun to be printed, there has been a double paging to the Sheets-the first Section being numbered from 1 to 42, and the remaining portions from 10 to 144, making therefore, with the Appendix, 180 pages in all.

PETER JACKSON, (Late Fisher, Son & Co.) Printer, Angel St., London.

of the utter worthlessness of such drinks as an article of ed by the experience of thousands of working men and rts of the united kingdom.

nk as an incentive to crime, and a powerfully demoralizing ges have frequently spoken in the most decided terms. we have the following:

E: "There is scarcely a crime comes before me that is not, tly, caused by strong drink."

"Every crime has its origin, more or less, in drunkenness." "If it were not for this drinking, you (the jury) and I would

0."

N:

"Drunkenness is the most fertile source of crime; and if it the assizes of the country would be rendered mere nullities." N: "I find in every calendar that comes before me, one unfailing or indirectly, of most of the crimes that are committed

irs that we are annually expending the enormous sum of 000 sterling on two articles of mere luxury, which are the to the vice, misery, and wretchedness that afflict our

r case by possibility be made out for the entire abandon¿ctice?

ing classes especially, who, it is computed, annually expend re-named sum, we would most earnestly appeal, and entreat to barter their means of happiness and comfort, of social tion, for a low, debasing, and short-lived gratification. ve millions per annum of the large sum spent in drink purchase of land, it would afford every year a quarter of an hundred thousand labouring men; reckoning the land at £100

ls of religion and morality we would say, Is it wise or e your support to customs which so powerfully counteract id which absorb to so large an extent the means you greatly ening and evangelizing the world?

ir largest and most influential religious and philanthropic nable to raise one million a-year to prosecute their praisewhile upwards of seventy millions are annually squandered ime-producing drink.

WEEDIE, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, LONDON.

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