The Croton will furnish three hogsheads a day to each of our population, at but $600,000 per annum. After all, we have followed but at a respectable distance ancient Rome, with her nine

aqueducts, some of which were longer than the Croton Aqueduct, and together were capable of supplying 250,000,000 of 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 to

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 million or four millions of inhabitants, so widely do the accounts of the population of ancient Rome diifer.

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 aspiration that in all ages to come it may bless freemen, and freemen only !

Mr. Stevens then went on to speak of the value and healthfulness of the water for domestic purposes, of which the quantity used daily, he computed to weigh 250,000 tons ;

paid a merited compliment to the Firemen of New York, and adverted to the fact that in expenditures on this great work it is not known that a single dollar of the people's all

money has been lost or dishonestly applied, and he hoped that while the Corporation would adopt measures in reference to the water to meet the interest on the debt, they would be just to the rich, and liberal to the poor. In conclusion, Mr. Stevens said, it was a source of great pride and satisfaction to