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

him, as a native of this great city, to say, that he had watched with care and some anxiety, every person who had formed a part of this great and noble celebration, and that he could not discover neither a drunkard nor a fool from the first to the last.

As soon as the cheer had subsided, the following reply was made by J. L. Lawrence, Esq., President of the Croton Aqueduct Board :

Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Board of Water Commissioners : In receiving, with my associates of the Croton Aqueduct Board, the custody of the work committed to us, I take the occasion to convey to you, the thanks of your fellowcitizens, for the zeal, perseverance and fidelity with which your duty has been performed, and to congratulate you on the virtual completion of the work entrusted to you, and your predecessors in office. Of the manner in which both have discharged their respective tasks, the results we this day celebrate, speak in most emphatic praise. The science and skill of your able engineers, have excluded all errors of combination and construction,