The details of this most numerous and imposing procession ever seen in any American city, cannot be given without more space than we have at command. The grand Canal celebration in its aquatic display, exhibited a feature wanting in this but in respect of numbers present in the procession, and in the thronged streets as spectators, this exceded that, as indeed it could hardly fail to do, taking into consideration the vast increase in the population of the city since 1825, the period of the Canal fete.

was, says the New York Express, a multitude present whom no man could " There

number, and the devices presented an almost endless variety. We could neither number the one nor the other. The procession was two hours and ten minutes in passing the Express Office on Broadway. The ranks were from two to ten deep. Every rank, every age, and every profession were represented. We saw all of the seventy ways of at least six of the seven ages of man living, and ; and the first, the infant in its mother's

arms, at least in the crowd and lookers on.Every nation, too, that holds communion or commerce with our own, was there. There was the man of war and the man of peace the soldier and the sailor the master and the apprentice the father and the son the man of words and the man of deeds the mace and the axe the plough and the sword the cannon and the bible the music of the harp of ten strings, and the hoarse notes of the martial band. The church bells mingled their merriest peals, the cannon spoke at morning, noon, and night, in their most vociferous tones of power. There were flying artillery