With great respect, Your obedient servant, FREDERICK GRAFF. To Messrs. CLARKSON CROLIUS,Jun.,1 E. D. WEST, *> Committee of Invitation. WILLIAM DODGE,

The fourteenth of October arrived, and a more beautiful day never broke upon the earth. A brilliant sun, a sky veiled but not clouded, and a breezy atmosphere were in harmony with the occasion, and with the joyousness of the multitudinous population crowded into the city from all surrounding regions, to witness and share in the grand jubilee.

At sun-rise one hundred guns were fired, the bells of all the churches and public places were rung, and in less than an hour the streets were alive with moving masses. The first ceremony of the morning, was the presentation at the Mayor's office, at 9 o'clock, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee, of a Banner to the Fire

Department. This ceremony passed off as follows :

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PRESENTATION OF THE BANNER TO THE NEW-YORK FIRE DEPART- MENT.

Mayor's Office, New York City, 9i o'clock A. M., )

Ikth October, 1842. \

Present His Honor, Robert H. Morris, Mayor Adam Pentz, Esq., President of the Fire ;

Department the Trustees of the Fire Department Fund several of the Grand ; ;

Marshals of the day, with their Aids Members of the Common Council and the ; ;

gentlemen composing the late Joint Committee on Fire and Water. Cor. B. Timpson, Chairman of late Joint Committee on Fire and Water, said,

Mr. MAYOR Want of time compels me to be brief, and to exclude some remarks I had intended to make on this occasion. I hold in my hand a resolution which was presented to the Common Council by Thomas R. Lee, Esq. late Assistant Alderman of the 8th Ward, and unanimously adopted by both branches of the City Government, and approved by His Honor, the Mayor.