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f 0 SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, and OTHERS
Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents.
GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally
recommended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing dis-
orders incident to the Eyes and Head.
SIGHT RESTORED!—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE

AND DEAFNESS CURED!

By the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound!
Its mode of application is fraught with pleasure ; many thou.
sand cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trifling ex-
pense, yet certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary
toi n duce the sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Com-
mons have used it. The Lordr of the Treasury have sanctionai
its use. Their late Ma lestirs,the Duchess of Kent, the most
eminent Oculists, M eel i sl Practitioners—with that gigantic
balance, the Press have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated
Herbaceous Compound, known as " Grimstone's Eye Snuff,"
for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and
Head. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., F.R.S. See J. B. Lachfielel,
Esq.'s Letter, Whitehali Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls
it a national blessing—see his Reports touching its utility. The
ate Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend Grim-
stone's Eye Snuff, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the
Student's Vade Mecum."—See the many thousand Letters
of Testimonies, of undoubted medical authority, with ethers o
the first respectability.

Nottingham, 28th Aug., 1841.
This extraordinary cure is attested by Mr. James Wilcockson
Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham.
To Mr. W. Grimstone, 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, London.
feel great pleasure in sending you the particulars of
my case, and the miraculous cure performed on myself, by
using your truly valuable Eye-Snuff. Sir, I am now in my
93d year, and a native of Holland, have been in this country
26 years. Whether from change of climate, or my advanced age,
I cannot say, but for six years I have been deprived of sight,
therefore unable to follow my business. I do most sincerely
believe I should have remained in darkness and pain but for
the kind recommendation of a friend to use your invention. I
pnrchased a 23. 4d. canister of your agent, Mr. Wilcockson, to-
bacconist, who knows the above to be facts, and will bear wit-
ness to my extraordinary recovery of that most inestimable
lessing of our life—" Perfect. Sight"—l declare has proceeded
from the use of your Eye Snuff. For the sake of those suffer-
ing, you may make what use you please of this letter, Mr. Wil-
cockson and many others will vouch for its truth. I refer the
sufferers to this gentleman, being your Agent, and so well
known in Nottingham.
I am, Sir, your obliged servant,
28th Aug. 1841. ANNIS ZENIA MASSENIA.
P. s.—Sir,--I should not do you justice without stating my
relief was almost instantaneous. My eyes became clear and
freed from humour, and by persevering In its use very fre-
quently I am enabled to read small print without the aid of
Glasses, and continue to enjoy God's greatest
free from pain. I have reason to be grateful, and do recom•
mend your Eye Suuff to all I know
Nottingham.

A. Z. M.

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This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in
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PUBLICATIONS.

GWILT'S ENCYCLOP/EDIA OF ARCHITECTURE.
On Friday next, the 11th inst., will be published, in ono thick
volume Bvo., with upwards of 1,000 Engravings, 21. 12s. 6d.,
handsomely bound in cloth,
AN ENCYCLOP/EDIA of ARCHITECTURE,
HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, and PRACTI-
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OIL LAMPS SOLD ON AN APPROVED
PRINCIPLE.

CLARKE and CO., Oil Refiners by Chemical Process,
261, Strand. In compliance with the numerous applications
for good and cheap Lamps, by the consumers of their famous
Oil, have determined to supply them and the public at large
with all descriptions of Lamps of the best style and workman-
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Lamp Phenomena; which, no doubt are all very wonderful in
their way—but Clark and Co. submit to the Public, as an un-
equalled Lamp Phenomenon, the following list of prices :
Capital Table Lamps. 21s. ; Superior Cambridge Reading
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Lamps of a most superb description, 465. The above are
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their Lamps.
Their famous Oil will burn quite equal to Sperm in every
kind of Lamp, without alteration, but if a light resembling the
Rude be required, then their Fire Proof Smoke Consuming
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far as five gallons of Solar Oil, so in reality their Purified Oil
is even cheaper than common oils at 3s. 6d. per gallon. Lamps
Bronzed, Lacquered, cleaned, &c., Ground Shades of every
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Oil, 4s. 10d. Imperial Gallen ; Fire Proof Chimneys, Is.
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its value to all,
Who, suffering from a throbbing corn,
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SAVER'S E ROC ATIO N for GOt T,
I: RHEUMATISM, TIC DOLOREUX, &c.
Copy of a Letter addressed by Trevor Holland, Esq., Surgeon,
of Carmock, near Walsall, Staffordshire, on the 6th July last,
to the Editor of the " Times :"
" Sir,—l think it a duty I owe to the public to make known
the efficacy of a remedy which I met with accidentally, and
which has been of such wonderful benefit to myself. Some
months ago I met with a very severe accident, having dislo-
cated and fractured my ancle severely. From the great tender-
ness of the joint I was quite unable to walk, the limb con-
tinued very much swollen and adematous, and I suffered
dreadfully from severe attacks of spasms in the night, which
extended from the ancle to the leg, thigh, back, and to the
arms. Having exhausted every resource of relief which I and
my medical friends in the country could suggest, to no
purpose, I set out for London with the intention of con-
sulting Sir Benjamin Brodie or Mr. Liston—then to adopt sea-
bathing. By accident I met with Mr. Feaver, 16 Ludgate-hill,
who applied his Embrocation, and, to my great astonishment,
I had no spasm that night, nor have I had one since. The next
morning I came down stairs without my crutches, and was
able to walk, the swelling of the limb soon subsided, and I am
now rapidly recovering. Having for many years had an ex-
tensive medical practice in the county of Stafford, I know of
no medicinal compound possessing such wonderful efficacy.
In adding my testimony to Mr. Feaver's Embrocation, I am ac-
tuated by no other motive than gratitude to him, and a sincere
desire to make known his invaluable remedy to my fellow-suf-
ferers. Possessing, as I ever did, the strongest prejudice
against everything in the shape of quackery, I should be the
last man to uphold a system which, generally speaking, I know
to be nothing but a nefarious traffic and humbug.
" I am, your obedient servant,
" TREVOR HOLLAND, Surgeon.

" Carmocic, near Walsall, Staffordshire.
" P. S. At the various consultations held upti my case, the
Surgeons and physicians (including myself) were decidedly of
opinion that the frequent violent attacks of spasms would ter-
minate in lock-jaw, but, as I have before stated, I have not
had the slightest symptoms of spasms since the first application
of this extraordinary embrocation.—T. H."
This justly-celebrated remedy (which is equally efficacious
in any of the above afflictions) may be obtained of, or through
any respectable wholesale or retail Chemist in Town or
Country, at the Depot, corner of Wellington-street, Strand ;
or from the Proprietor. Mr. Feaver, 16, Ludgate-hill. London.

MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENS.OF FRANCE.--the
nouncement of a work bearing the above title, from
the pen of the accomplished Mrs. Forbes Bush, has
excited considerable attention. A very slight know-
ledge of French history in the reader will assure him
that the Memoirs of the French Queens present fea-
tures of extraordinary interest. We have only to
mention the names of Mary of Anjou, Anne of Brit-
tany, Mary of England, Mary Stuart, Mary Leckzin-
sky, and Marie Antoinette, to bring up a host of the
most pleasing historical associations ; while others,
such as Mary de Valois, Mary de Medicis, Anne of
Austria, and Catherine de Medicis, affurd no less
striking pictures of the times in which they flourished.
With the " Memoirs of the Queens of France," the
author has, we understand, introduced notices of the
Royal favourites, who were not unfrequently of much
greater influence in the State than the contemporary
Queens-consort. An allusion to Diana of Poitiers,
Agnes Sorelle, Gabrielle d'Estrees, the Marchionesses
de Montespan and de Pompadour, the Duchesse de la
la Valliere, and Madame de Maintenon, snakes this
immediately manifest. The work of Mrs. Bush cannot
fail of being a desirable acquisition to every library in
the kingdom.
COURT OF REVlEW.—Various reports are in circu-
lation in Westminster-hall respecting the vacant
Judgeship of the Court of Review, one of which is
that the office will not be filled up, but that the busi-
ness of that Court will be transferred to the recently
appointed Vice-Chancellors, Messrs. Knight Bruce,
and Wigram. The most prevalent opinion, however,
is, that the office will be continued, and that Mr. Ho-
race Twiss, who formerly had a considerable practice
in the Court of Iteview, will be appointed successor to
the late Sir; John Crow

THE NEW POOR-LAW.

A Report of the Poor-law Commissioners' opinion
on the subject of two orphan children, whose case has
excited public sympathy, and which is of importance,
:is regards the future disposal of necessitous persons,
has been directed to the parish officers of St. Marga-
ret's and St. John's, Westminster, and to the Board
of Guardians of the West London Union. The case
which has called for the interference and condemna-
tion of the Commissioners is as follows :—About a
fortnight since a grocer, named Cook, residing in the
Vauxhall Bridge-road, found two boys, ten and
twelve years of age, named Bastings, sitting on the step
of his door crying bitterly. They werevithout home or
shelter, and had come to ask assistance of their aunt,
a poor old woman, who occupied Cook's kitchen, and
who earned a pitiful subsistence by mangling. She
was unable to maintain herself, much less to relieve
the children, and, under these circumstances, Mr.
Cook took them to the parish of St. Margaret's,
where they refused to have anything to do with them,
and directed that they should be taken to the parish
of St. Bride's, Fleet-street, their father and mother,
who died in December and January last, having
been in the employ of a gentleman in Bolt-court.
The children were taken there in the pouring
rain, when the relieving officer, who lived in Salis-
bury-court, Fleet-street, refused to do anything for
them, and they were again taken back to St. Marga-
ret's with a similar result, and again brought into the
city, where an officer at the station-house sent them
to the workhouse, in which they were received for the
night, but turned out in the morning. Three days were
exupied in taking the children from St. Margaret's to
St. Bride's and back, and they were paraded at the
Mansion-house, Guildhall, and Queen-square, at all of
which places they were commisserated ; butas the au-
thorities at either parish refused to relieve them, de-
claring that they would take the responsibility
of refusing, Cook was obliged, as a matter of feel-
ing, to provide for them, and he, accordingly, by the
recommendation of the Magistrates, took them lodg-
ings in King's Head-court, Shoe-lane. As a dernier
resort, he was advised to lay the case before the Poor-
law Commissioners, and, accordingly, made a written
statement of the facts. He was examined at some
length before the Assistant-Commissioner last Satur-
day, and the officers of St. Bride's and St. Margaret's
stated their reason for refusal, which amounted to
neither more nor less than that the children did not
belong to them, the one declaring that the other had
a better right to maintain them than the other. The
inquiry, after lasting four hours, then closed, Mr.
Cook being recommended to still keep the poor or-
phans until a decision was come to.
On Friday the Poor-law Commissioners made a
communication to Mr. Pontifex, Clerk to the Guar-
dians of the West London Union, in which they ex-
plain the real state of the law in regard to such cases
in the following words :—" The Commissioners desire
explicitly to state to the West London Board of Guar-
dians, that the Commissioners are aware of no valid
foundation in law for the opinion that a destitute person
is entitled to relief from the parish in which he slept the
night before, although he may be found destitute in
another parish. The real state of the law is, that a
destitute person is to be relieved in the parish in
which he is found destitute, and the question
of where he slept the night before is altogether imma-
terial. The fact of the boys having been improperly
refused relief in St. Margarees, on the Tuesday
evening, could not affect the obligation on the re-
lieving officer of the West London Union to give
them relief on the following day, if they were desti-
tute in any parish in the union, and if the boys apply
again, in a state of destitution, for admission into the
workhouse of St. Margaret's, or the "West London
Union, relief should be given to them, either in the
palish of St. Margaret's, or the', est London Union,
accordingly as they happen to be destitute either in
the one or the other."

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE POPE.
The room in which we were received was a small
apartment near the library, and nothing could be less
magnificent than this little reception room, though in
the middle of the richest palace in the world. His
Holiness wore a white dress, which, I believe, is that
of the monastic order to which he belonged, and also
the small white cap with which all portraits
(Raphael and Lawrence inclusive) have made us
familiar. His countenance is amiable, and expressive
of much gentleness, and his stature rather below the
common size. We found him standing in front of a
small table, which was placed before a canopy, under
which, I imagine, he would have sat, had not his
politeness to the ladies he expected prevented it. . • •
The party, therefore, naturally formed themselves
into a semi-circle round him ; and his first words
on seeing how extensive that circle was, were,
"La stanzae troppo piccola." . .He looked
at us all with much
good humour and kindness ;
but as he did not walk round the circle, and as
the persons forming the circle were not instructed to
pass before him, he rather harangued than conversed
with us. But considering the awkwardness of this
arrangement, he managed it exceedingly well. He
inquired our names from the Hanoverian Minister, in
the order in which we stood, and very politely ex-
pressed regret that he could not address us in our own
language. The appearance of the circle was singular
enough from the ladies being all dressed in black, and
wearing black veils (which is de rigueur), while
the gentlemen were as gaily habited as possible ;
all being in full dress, chiefly military, and one
in the full Highland costume. This last espe-
of his Holiness—so
ful young Chieftain was
muchciallv astot
,r aet theadt tthhee attention
compelled, in some sort, to make a step forward,
that his Holiness might have an opportunity of
seeing more distinctly the jewelled powder-horn.
which appeared particularly to have arrested his at-
tention, ee hrt
loyh
aesllee
seen
mistookisa
s for a mull, which he
friendsco
elovnrreistake, snuff being =very properly a
tchman carry, offer-
ing its
verynea ngi
dt i
the
, a
ibticuauodrtnal contents
more familiar idea to his Holiness than gun-
powder. He then asked the Minister if there was
not a literary lady in the company ; which being
answered in the affirmative, and the individual indi-
cated, his Holiness inquired what species of cm-
) and then remarked
but that he had not read them
He then,
pthoasittiotnhsere hadz eotee many
rodhueceekds written in English,
apropos of the great advantage of a general ac-
quaintance with modern languages, spoke to us of
the extraordinary acquirements in that line of
the Cardinal Mezzofante, and related an anecdote
respecting him, in which this remarkable faculty
had enabled his Holiness to detect a renegado
Christian, who attempted to pass himself as a
Turk, desirous of professing the Catholic faith—
the " Roman Catholic faith," added his Holiness
significantly, correcting himself He told this
little story with a good deal of spirit, and altogether
got through the audience, which for many reasons
must have been an embarrassing one, with a great
deal of good-humoured ease. We remained thus
standing before him for about twenty minutes, or half
aRh oar, and then he bowed us off.—/kirs. Trollope's
T ?sit o Italy.

STATE OF THE FACTORIES IN
SEVEN COUNTIES.
In a report addressed to the Secretary for the
Home Department, and dated the 20th of Ja-
nuary last, Mr. Horner, the Chief Inspector of
Factories, states the results of some inquiries which he
caused to be made by the superintendents of facto-
ries in his district. Mr. Horner 's districutrhcompre-
hends the whole of the counties of Lancaster, est-
Nm oorrltahn d,
Riding Cum Cumberland, ayildo;kNshOirrteh,llalnnaberaplanadr t t Durham,
the West
Riding. It appears that in the latter part of 1841,
the period of the investigation, the number of cotton
mills in the district was 1,164, and of these 887 were
in full work, employing 142,063 ; 139 were working
less than 69 hours a week, employing 27,764 persons,
and 138 were not at work.
The total number of woollen and worsted mills in
the district was 271, of which 139 were working full
time, and employing 8,811 persons; 96 were working
less than 69 hours a week, and employing 2,473 per-
sons ; and 36 were not at work.
The total number of flax mills in the district was
78, of which 41 were working full time, and employ-
ing 5,548 ; 15 were working less than 69 hours a
week, and employing 636 persons.
The number of silk mills in the district is 28, of
which 15 are in full work, employing 4,937 ; nine
were working less than 69 hours a-week, employing
1,271 persons, and four were not working at all.
The following is a general summary of all the mills
in Mr. Horner's district:—
At the time of the investigation 1,082 mills were
working full time, or 69 hours aweek, and employing
161,359 persons ; 259 were working less than 69
hours a week, and employing 32,144 persons; and
200 were not at work.

No less thannl42 gentlemen have applied to be ad-
mitted attorneys of the Court of Queen s Bench dur-
ing the present term ; and there are nine notices of
application for re-admi4iion Ito pot*.

SUPPLY of WATER to NEW YORK.
The New York papers of Oct. 14 and 15 con-
tain:a long description of the ceremony of intro-
ducing the Croton waters into that city, which
took place on the 14th, and of the stupendous
works recently completed by which it is con-
ducted. We shall content ourselves with saying
of the ceremony, which they dilate on at great
length, tisiit it was a grand civic procession' at
which all the trades and companies of New York
were Tresent, and that the houses and streets
were crowded with spectators. In the evening
there were illuminations and balls. Odes were
written, composed, and.sung, and more rejoicings
could scarcely have taken place had a great vic-
tory been obtained over a foreign enemy. The ,
occasion was, perhaps, more worthy of a great
civic rejoicing than would have been a victory,
fir a noble work was achieved by which New
York will henceforth be amply supplied with
water. From the speeches that were delivered
on the occasion, and from the description in the
New York Herald, we compile the following ac-
count of the former and present supply of water
to that city :
Samuel Stevens, Esq., the President of the Board
of Water Commissioners, in delivering over the
Croton Water and the works on this island to the
Mayor and Common Council, said :—The Tea-water
Pump, situated near the corner of Pearl and Chatham
streets, was for a long period of time, the grand source
of all the drinkable water for the lower part of the
city. The necessity of a greater and more copious
supply, for the extinguishment of fires, appears also
to have been early admitted by our whole commu-
nity. Many of the present generation recollect the
long lines of both men and women formed to pass pails
and buckets from hand to hand, on the coldest night
of winter, with but a faint hope of staying the con-
flagration of some neighbour's dwelling. In 1774
the Corporation adopted the plan of Christopher
Colles, of making a reservoir in Broadway,. between
Pearl and 'White-streets to supply the city. The
Revolution stayed this work. In 1799, William
Weston, a civil engineer, was employed by the Cor-
poration to examine the Bronx' and reported that it
would furnish a supply. The first innovation on the
pail and bucket system appears to have been made in
1801, when two engines, for the extinguishment of
fires, were imported, by the Common Council, from
London. In 1799, the Manhattan Company was
chartered, for the avowed purpose of introducing
" pure and wholesome water," and as an additional
inducement for the introduction of water, banking pri-
vileges were bestowed by its charter. This Company
mainly satisfied itself by pumping water with a steam-
engine from _near the old Collect. Their pipes,
though they furnished not pure and wholesome
water, have nevertheless, in cases of fire, been fre-
quently highly beneficial to the city. In 1825, an-
other Company, called " The New York Water
Works for the supply of pure and wholesome water,"
was established, but it was of short existence, and
produced no valuable results, except to prove that no
ample supply of good water could be found on this
island. The Corporation, in addition to the river,
Manhattan, and pump supply of water, found it ne-
cessary to erect public cisterns; these were generally
in the streets in front of churches. This practice of
building public cisterns continued till 1829, when the
Committee on the Fire Department, consisting of
Isaac Brown, James Palmer, Samuel Stevens, Benja-
min M. Brown, and P. W. Engs, reported in favour of
abolishing public cisterns and building a tank or
reservoir in 13th street. Fifteen hundred dollars
was appropriated to the tank, which was to be filled
by horse power, and the Corporation on the 16th of
March adopted the Report, and agreed to lay down
two lines of twelve inch iron pipes, one in Broad-
way, and the other in the Bowery. The Committee
avowed their object to be to fill that tank and those
pipes, at no distant date, with water to be introduced
from Westchester. The adoption of this Report by
this Corporation may be considered the commence-
ment of the plan for introducing water into the city.
The Report declared the subject too important to be
entrusted to any private Company, alleging " That
such Companies had been more occupied in making
money out of their banking privileges than introduc-
ing water into the city !" The tank in 13th street
was that year constructed, and the two lines of pipes
laid down. The plan soon found so many friends,
that the horse was exchanged for a steam engine.
From 1829 this small tank establishment has caused
the city great saving, and extinguished many a fire
which otherwise would have destroyed much addi-
tional property. And so highly has it been valued
that a few years since, and after the Croton
Waterworks were commenced, the Corporation erect-
ed alongside of it another tank, and each succeeding
year the Corporation continued to lay down
pipes, until the line is now about 130 miles long.
The Corporation, in December, 1822, through their
Committee on the Fire Department, consisting of
James Palmer' Charles Henry Hall, 'William Mande-
ville, George H. Bruce, Peter Titus, and Dennis
M`Carty, recommended that Col. De Witt Clinton
examine the Croton River and other sources in the
vicinity. On the receipt of Col. Clinton's report, and
on the recmmendation of the above Committee, the
Corporation again decided to introduce water into the
City. In February, 1833, the Legislature passed the
law appointing Commissioners, to report during the
winter following; and in 1834 re-enacted the same
law, with additional provisions. Under these laws,
Hon. Stephen Allen, Saul Alley, 'William W. Fox,
Charles Dusenberry and Benjamin M. Brown were
appointed Commissioners; the last named gentle •
man was soon succeeded by Thomas T. Woodruff.
These Commissioners brought industry, honesty
and judgment to the consideration of the import-
ant subject committed to their charge. They had the
duty assigned them of examining and reporting
a plan relating to supplying the city of New York
with -a sufficient. quantity. of- pure and wholesome
water, vvhich the electors -of the, city of' New .York
could approve or disapprove. They called to their
aid Major D. B. Douglass, previously of the United
States Corps of Engineers. They also engaged in
their service John Martineau and George W. Cart-
wright, Esqrs., as engineers. Stephen Allen and his
associates had the high and responsible duty of deter-
mining not only the line of the aqueduct, but of de-
ciding on all conflicting surveys and sources which,
previous to that time, had been considered available

for the supply of the city with water, as well as a
variety of projects for introducing the water into the
city. After rejecting all various plans and adopting
the Croton as the source of supply, our predecessors
had other important questions to settle. Ought the
aqueduct to be of mason work or of iron pipes ?
The one carried with it, of necessity, a regular
grade, while the other admitted of an undulating
line. The most able men up to the period we have
referred to, differed on this point. Experience, we
think, has shown that the plan of masonry is the best.
When the masonry was adopted, the question arose,
was it to be an open or an arched or plank covered
aqueduct ? Again, experience approved the arched
and covered aqueduct. In March, 1840, the work,
by a revolution which politics sometimes produce in
the State, so far as the duty of Commissioners was
concerned, passed into the hands of Samuel Stevens,
John D. Ward, Zebedee Ring, Samuel R. Childs,
and Benjamin Birdsall, and the work is now, except-
ing the high bridge over the Harlem river, completed,
and you have it. It consists of an artificial reservoir,
called the Croton River Lake, 45 miles from the Bat-
tery, the extreme part of the City ; this lake is formed
by an hydraulic stone-masonry dam, with two waste-
weirs, or aprons, for the over-fall of the water, one of
87 feet and one of 180 feet, these being separated by
a gate-house. The height of these waste-weirs is 55
feet above the bed of the river, and 40 feet above the
low water level. The dam backs the water five miles,
and makes a lake of an area of 400 acres, and of a
capacity equal to 500,000,000 of gallons. The water
enters a gatehouse, where the quantity is regulated
before it enters the aqueduct, which is a stone struc-
ture lined and arched with brick. The face of the
interior of the aqueduct is at the bottom of an inverted
arch, width 6 feet 9 inches, height 8 feet 5f inches,
area, 53 34-100 square feet, about large enough for
an omnibus and four to pass through. The
line of the aqueduct being on a regular declivity of
13i inches to the mile down to the Harlem river, a
distance of 33 miles, it has a line of tunnelling of 6,841
feet, being sixteen in number, sometimes through
earth and sometimes through solid rock ; the deepest
cut is 80 feet, and the least 25 feet. In Westchester
only, the aqueduct crosses twenty-five streams of
water, which are from twenty-five to eighty-three
feet below the top of the aqueduct. The grade line
of aqueduct across the Harlem river is twenty-
five feet above tide water, and the top of the water
now passes over Harlem river in One pipe of thirty-six
inches, placed on the earthern dam made in the con-
struction of the high bridge. The bridge itself is
now about one-third complete& ana will be, when
finished, one of the most glIPBlldOlll wo the
kind in the world. The rive As u2O feet wide at
water line, but the slope of the river banks and an ad-
ditional distance of 830 feet, in all 1,460 feet. The

plan now in progress crosses the river with eight
arches of 80 feet span, and on piers of 31 by 44 feet
at the base, resting on the bed of the river, and seven
arches on pier on the land from the edge of the water
up the two banks of the river. The spring of one
of the arches is 95 feet above the lowest foundation
put down ; the top of the parapet will be 149
feet from the lowest foundation. It is intended
that the water shall pass over this bridge in pipes,
to have it secure against the possibility of
danger. The interesting works at Clendening
Valley, being a bridge over a valley of 1,900
feet is breadth, the greatest height of the aqueduct
is 50 feet from the bottom of the valley ; beautiful
archways are constructed for three streets, 30 feet
for the carriage way and ten on each side for side-
walks. Next in interest is the reservoir at Eighty-
sixth street, which might well be called the Detain-
ing or Clarifying Reservoir. It has two divisions,
together 32 acres, greatest depth of water 25 feet,
containing one hundred and fifty millions of gallons.
Two lines of thirty-six inch pipes connect this with
the reservoir at JE ortieth-street, which has also two
divisions, forming together an area of four acres—
depth of water when filled thirty-six feet. From
this point four and a half miles to the Battery. Whole
length of line from the Battery to the artificial lake,
50 miles. There are in this great work 55,000,000
bricks and 700,000 cubic yards of stone masonry.
The water in the aqueduct is regulated at the en-
trance gate so as not to flow under any pressure—it
has not been permitted to flow in the division near
the city at a greater depth than two feet, but the
works at the Croton dam required a few days back
that more water should pass through the first divi-
sion (the distance between Sing Sing and the
Croton River) being eight miles, and it was found
to pass seventy-five millions New York gallons
in twenty-four hours, and that its velocity was
over two miles per hour. The Croton Lake
now retains, beyond the daily river supply, in
reserve, five hundred millions of gallons, and a
small expense would add other immense artificial lakes
to hold back an additional supply, but the necessity of
this is hardly conceivable. It is estimated that the
London supply from all their Companies is but twenty-
four millions of gallons, and Paris four millions only.
The quality of the water is of a pure and transparent
character, and has been found already to be a palatable
beverage to thousands of individuals who have used
the water. It is only remarkable that it has been so
generally approved. We of New York have there-
fore now got the great desideratum, an abundant sup-
ply of pure and wholesome water, to be sure at a
great cost—nine millions of dollars, exclusive of the
the main and distributing pipes throughout the city
(now laid to the extent of 130 miles), exclusive of the
interest accumulating on the cost, being in all twelve
millions of dollars. Well, what of that! Does it
not belong to the system which Eternal Wisdom
has inflicted on the world ?—that the greatest
blessings can only be procured at the greatest
cost and sacrifice ? What is this water to do for
us ? It is to protect our city from the awful con-
flagrations to which it was subject. We now pay in
premiums one million of dollars annually to insure
about half the value of our buildings, goods, and chat-
tels, for we are our own underwriters to the extent of
one million more of premiums—here are two millions
in premiums paid or risks incurred. If the Croton
works give but half security, you save more than will
pay the whole interest of the cost. In- two days of
December, 1835, our citizens had consumed by fire
twenty millions of dollars, principally in warehouses
and merchandise. If the twenty millions of property
destroyed had consisted of dwelling houses, it would
have turned 100,000 of our citizens into the streets.
Ido not state an impossible case. I state an event
highly probable to have happened, for London—a city
built of less wooden materials—had at one fire, in
1666, 13,200 houses burnt, which occupied 436
acres, and embraced 400 streets, 86 churches, and a
variety of magnificent buildings. The destruction
amounted in value to fifty millions of dollars. The
extensive fire at Hamburgh during the past year, and
the constant occurrence of fires throughout our coun-
try, show the danger we were in. Does any indivi-
dual still say that we cannot afford to pay so much as
this great work has cost ? I assert that security
against such awful calamities cannot be too dearly
bought, if it is bought at the lowest possible price.
But does water cost so much ? London, in 1834,
was supplied with 34,000,000 of gallons, and paid
for it annually 1,380,000 dollars. Paris is supplied
with two quarts per day for each individual, at an ex•
pense of 750,000 dollars per annum. The Croton would
furnish three hogsheads a day to each of our popula-
tion, at 600,000 dol. per annum. After all, we have
followed but at a respectable distance ancient Rome,
with her nine aqueducts, some of some were longer
than the Croton Aqueduct, and together were capable
of supplying 250,000,000 gallons per day. But
history does not enable us to say if all of them were in
operation at one time; nor do we know all the purposes
in which it was applied. The irrigation of the land
was, no doubt, among its most extensive uses. Nor do
we learn whether these aqueducts supplied one mil-
lion or four millions of inhabitants, so widely do
the accounts of the population of ancient Rome dif-
fer. The works of Rome were built by soldiers and
by slaves. Ours was voted for by freemen, was
constructed by freemen : and we make the aspi-
ration—that in all ages to come it may bless free-
men, and freemen only ! But we pass to another
branch of our subject—it is the value of the water
for domestic purposes. By the almost mysterious
property of water, the Croton, without steam-power,
animal or human labour, descends into the cellar,
and again mounts into the garret of the loftiest house,
even up into the cupola of the City Hall. The turn-
ing of a cock fills the tubs and culinary vessels of the
kitchen in a moment, and almost as soon, the fifty
hogshead boilers of a steamboat. Now the saving in
human time and labour in the performance of these
operations is incalculable. The weight of the daily
water is equal to 250,000 tons, and it goes itself pre-
cisely where- you-want it. Providence has given- to•
water this indescribable property, that by rivers and
streams it flows throughout the globe to sustain every
living thing. While food has to be carried or trans-
ported, water of itself moves and travels for the be-
nefit of all creation. The Deity, not content with
giving it this property, evaporates and draws it to the
skies, that it may again condense and distribute itself
on the leaves and foliage of the whole vegetable king-
dom. Numerous analyses have shown the water to
be remarkably pure, even before it passed through
four settling and clarifying departments of the reser-
voirs. We leave the farther consideration of the security,
pecuniary, and practical advantages of this great work,
and pass to make one remark on its moral results. Filth
and crime, and cleanliness and virtue are near kinsfolks
—the more means and conveniences for cleanliness
that are furnished our population, the more industri-
ous and virtuous they will be. The more good water
that is conveniently supplied, the more temperate will
be our people, because we shall now no longer afford
the poor apology for mixing brandy and rum with
water—that of making it drinkable ; and we may hope,
the temperance cause, with pure Croton water, and a
Croton banner floating to the breeze, will, on the pre-
sent system, so successfullycarry on the warfare in all
future times as to make it impossible for them to find
subjects to fill up that part of their corps which now
“nsists of reformed drunkards. To the firemen of the
city of New York, who have, without pay, performed
more arduous duty than properly falls to the share of
any of our free citizens, we say that the Croton Water
Works were made emphatically for them ; for,
though other advantages have been given as
reasons for its construction, yet none had so
powerful and controlling an influence as the
universal allegation that the Fire Department,
to enable them to prevent the destruction of the city
by fire, must have a full and ample supply of water.
Firemen, you have now got it, and I think I hear you
say, " With the Croton water for fires and for
fire-men—we swear the awful conflagration of 1835
shall never be repeated." Excuse me, fellow-citizens,
for adverting to one fact, that in all the expenditures
which have been made by your agents for this great
work, the accounts of which have been regularly set-
tled—it is not known or believed that one dollar of
your money has been lost or dishonestly applied. In
handing over to you, Mr. President of the Croton
Aqueduct Board and your associated agents of the
Corporation of the City of New York, the Croton
Water, and the Works of this Island which have been
;tompleted, I cannot but express my full confidence
that you and your associates will recommend—and
that the Corporation will adopt such principles and
arrangements, in reference to this water, which while
it will be made to furnish a large proportion of the in-
terest on the debt—will nevertheless in some
flow from
supply the inestimable benefits which shouldow
this ample supply of " Pure and wholsome water" to
our whole community. In fine, that you will be just
to the rich and liberal to the poor.

We hear that Miss Briers, the wily
.ends in her
contriver of
the "Bristol Hoax," is gone to her fri
native place, Chester, in such an ill state of health as
to create apprehensions that it will terminate Alta*
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