in the sinks and gutters, and the consequent purity of the atmosphere, --the diminution of danger from fires, and the consequent reduction of rates of insurance, with

other important advantages too numerous to detail, we shall not consider its introduction purchased at too dear a rate, even were the expenses attending it increased

to double the actual amount.

We need not attempt to specify in detail the benefits which are likely to accrue to the city of New-York from the introduction of an abundance of pure water. Its

* " It has been computed that the Boston people have drank sufficient lime, were it all collected, to

build the Bunker Hill Monument as high as it was ever designed to be carried."

value is not to be estimated by dollars and cents ; though it might easily be shown, that it already saves to the citizens a sum far exceeding the annual interest on its cost. We have already referred to its superiority as a solvent of vegetable matter, over the hard well water, formerly used. Since then, we have made a calculation, by which we are satisfied that in the single items of tea and coffee, it will save to the inhabitants of this city annually, not far from 90,000 dollars. To this may be added the improvement of the public health, and the consequent saving in medicine, and physicians' fees, a sum probably exceeding that above specified ; the increase of the working days, and the extension of the average period of working ability