Thames. For three years after its completion, ships above two hundred tons will be required to pay 1d. per ton; from two hundred to one hundred tons, 1d. per ton; from one hundred to fifty tons, 10s. per vessel; from fifty to twenty tons, 5s. per vessel; and for boats and craft, 1s. each.

THE DOCKS AT WAPPING.

This important improvement is made in the angle formed by the Thames, between Hermitage Dock and Shadwell Dock. One immense dock, called St. George's Dock, covers the space extending from Vir ginia-street, almost to Old Gravel-lane in one direc tion, and in the other from Artichoak-lane to the south side of Penington-street. This dock alone is capable of holding two hundred ships, with room for shifting. Another dock, called Shadwell Dock, adjoining to the other, will hold about fifty ships. The entrance to the docks is from the Thames by three basons, capable of containing an immense quantity of small craft, and the inlets from the Thames into the basons, are at the Old Hermitage Dock, at Old Wap. ping Dock, and Old Shadwell Dock.

The capital of the company is 1,200,0001.

The shares bear a premium. The ultimate profits upon the scheme are limited to 10 per cent. an interest which it is sure to realize.

On the 26th of June, 1802, the foundation of the entrance bason was laid by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer; and the first stone of a tobacco warehouse, which is the largest in the world, the roof of which covered six acres of ground; and also the first stone of a range of a warehouses for general merchandize, were laid at the same time.

The warehouses for the reception of tobacco arè situated at the eastern extremity; they are two in number. The largest is seven hundred and sixty-two feet long, and one hundred and sixty feet wide, equally divided by a strong partition wall, with double

iron doors; the smallest is two hundred and fifty feet by two hundred. Both of them consist of a ground floor and vaults; the first is to be wholly applied to the reception of tobaccos, the cellars in the smaller warehouses are appropriated to the housing of wines. They are solely under the care and controul of the officers of the customs: the proprietors of the docks having nothing more to do with them than to receive

the rent.

THE NEW RIVER.

This, in several points of view, is one of the most wonderful concerns in this metropolis! Notwithstanding there are one hundred and sixty thousand houses in London, yet, by means of the New River and London bridge water-works, every house, and almost every room, is most abundantly supplied with water, which is conveyed into it by means of leaden pipes, with unFailing precision and regularity, for an expence to cach house of only a few shillings per annum.

The New River is a canal of nearly thirty-nine miles in length, cut for the sole purpose of conveying a regular supply of water to the metropolis, by Sir Hugh Middleton, and first opened in 1608. Its termination, called the New River Head, adjoins to Sadler's Wells, and from hence the water is conveyed in every direction, by means of fifty-eight main pipes of the bore of seven inches; these convey the water under ground, along the middle of the principal streets; and from them branch to every house, leaden pipes of half an inch bore. From the property of water always to find again the level which any part of its body has attained, and as the New River Head is situated upon high ground, the water rises in most houses into the second floor, and in many into the third and fourth stories. By means of one water and two steam engines, it is, however, forced to a still higher level, and thus made to supply parts of the town

which are situated as high or higher than the surface of

the bason.

Hitherto the New River Company have been unable to supply the higher parts of London with water, consequently all the houses about Tottenham-courtroad and Mary-le-bone, have their water from the Hampstead Ponds. To remedy this, an immense bason has been some years building in the Hampstead Road, opposite Charles-street; into this, water will be brought from Islington; and, from the bason, pipes will be laid to carry it to all those parts of the metropɔlis, the situation of which is too elevated for the present New River Head, near Islington. The new bason is an object worth notice, and may be seen at any time, by giving the workmen a trifle for shewing it.

The Grand Junction Canal.

Notwithstanding the interior of the kingdom is almost wholly intersected by canals, this is the only one, which, for commercial purposes, has yet been extended to the metropolis. The reason may be found in the policy of government, which, to encourage the nursery of seamen in the Newcastle trade, prohibits the introduction of coals into the metropolis by any other means, notwithstanding bener coals could be delivered at a

* We recommend the New River Company, which derives so great a revenue from the supply of Loudon with water, to take effectual means to preserve its cleanliness and purity. Severe penalties ought to be inflicted on the name rous persons who bathe; on a Sunday morning in particular, many hundreds of working men and boys may be seen in the water at the same instant, only a short distance from Islington! The proprietors of this valuable concern should adopt some method for preventing the water from freezing in the small leaden pipes, branching from the main; and this might easily be effected, if they were laid deeper in the ground, and to branch from under the wooden pipes, instead of the sides, taking care, as much as possible, to preserve a perpendicular direction up the areas, by which means the pipes would drain themselves, and prevent the evil.