No man can take an excessive amount of .alcohol without paying a penalty for so doing, and to each individual it is left to discover i what amount of alcohol he may con sume within a certain period, or whether he may take any at all. The fiat of the Almighty has gone forth, that all men must be careful in the use of this com modity, granted for the preservation and not destruction cf humanity. The law of God will probably be more effec tive in actually staying intemperance than any law of man. This providential law is continually obliging almost every 1 individual and every community to wrestle with and subdue the evil. Ex cept in special cases, it is not wrong for any man to consume alcohol, and if certain enthusiasts tell us it is so, we know they talk nonsense. Even slightly to exceed, is no very great sin, and though drunkenness may be con sidered immorality, it is not the busi ness of the State to force people to be moral. What Mr Fox and other tem perance people mean by the law lending its sanction to the sale of alcoholic liquDrs, is quite incomprehensible. If the law had not stepped in and regu lated the sale of spirituous lipuors, why of course every person so disposed could distil or sell spirits, and instead of the sale being conducted iu houses under' the superintendence of the police, spi rituous liquors might be sold in every shop and at every street corner. This would be the effect of withdrawing what Mr Fox calls the sanction of the law. And now a word for the ab stainers. Awhile since, I read an article from a London newspaper which attacked the temperance movement with considerable ferocity, and called temperance people some disagreeable names. The fact, however, is that So cieties like the Good Templars do a considerable, amount of good, because, probably by joining such societies, a man may find his powers of resisting a temptation considerably increased, and people who abstain entirely from the use of alcohol, from a feeling of duty or necessity, are more deserving of honor than scorn and ridicule. Alcohol is a most seductive fluid, and taking of a little frequently involves an inclina tion, or strong craving, to take to ex cess. 