This corporation connot but be suitably impressed with the value of such an invitation, and they have instructed me to return for answer their acceptance of it, and their congratulation at the completion of a work so magnificent in design and so successful in execution. They propose to reach the Battery Hotelby the 8 o'clock boat, on Friday morning, which will probably reach the city by half past nine in the morning. With the sincere wish that your great city may realize all its anticipations from this stupendous work, I am, with great respect, Your ob't. serv't., WM. CHETWOOD, Mayor of the Borough.

From the Common Council of Newark, N. J. City of Newark, October llth, 1842. GENTLEMEN :

" the Your letter of invitation to Mayor and Common Council of the city of

Newark," has been duly received. am instructed, in communicating the acceptance of the invitation, to say, that the

Mayor and Common Council of Newark, regard the great work referred to in your communication, as an enduring monument of the enterprise of the citizens of New York, and also of the ability and vigor of those Councils which have conferred so many practical benefits and advantages on the Commercial Metropolis of our country.

I have the honor to be,

very respectfully, your ob't. serv't., JOSEPH N. TUTTLE, Clerk of the Common Council Messrs. C. CROLIUS, JR., 1 " E. D. WEST, Y Committee, ett: WM. DODGE, J-

250 CE-LEBRATION OF TH<E

From the Mayor and Common Council of Jersey City.