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 It will be observed that the above figures are from the profit and loss account for 1874.

The Engineer states the average quantity supplied per day during that year at 16,713,957 gallons, and gives it as his opinion that when works already in progress are completed, 25,000,000 gallons maybe reckoned on, or 8,000,000 gallons in addition to present supplies. So far as quantities of water can be taken as indicated by amounts of money received in the two cases, the account seems to stand thus:—

Hence it will be seen that if the Corporation will only refrain from extending their present large business as a Water Company, the additional supply already arranged for is considerably larger than the total quantity used for sanitary and domestic purposes within the two Boroughs, during the year 1874.

Any discrepancy which may exist between the proportionate quantities of water furnished, and money values in the two cases, will simply indicate the amount of profit which the Corporation has already made by its dealings with outsiders.

The inference, from these facts, is inevitable; that home wants being already provided for, both for the present and for an indefinite future, the intention is to sell the Thirlmere water to other parties, at a profit. If the project succeed, the borough Water rate may, in the first 