A large and relisten to the singing of the spectable congregation were present at the Tabernacle, to Sacred Music Society, and the address of Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Cox, on music.

The fair at Niblo's was crowded to suffocation. Many were doubtless attracted t

thither by the splendid display of fire-works which took place in the garden at half-past

eight. Castle Garden was also visited by a large number of spectators to see the Balloon ascension and the fire-works exhibited there also. The Museums, the Astor House, and Howard's Hotel were brilliantly illuminated in the evening.

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The most beautiful of the evening was the illumination of the Astor spectacle House, by Messrs, Coleman & Stetson. They had so arranged their preparations, that all the lamps were hung at the seven hundred window lights, with a servant at each

window ready at the sound of the gong to apply the tapers. The whole were thus illuminated in a twinkling. We were standing in front at the moment, and the effect was beautiful.

Throughout the day and evening the magnificent fountains in the Park and Union Square were kept in full play, and formed the most novel, as well as the most pleasing feature of the day.

There was much, says the Commercial Advertiser, very much indeed we may say every thing in this celebration, to excite strongly the most grateful feelings and reflections. The favorable condition of the weather, the immense magnitude and vast utility of the achievement whose completion it was designed to honor, the perfect success that has attended the great work, in the quality of the water and its overflowing abundance, the