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London, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4.

Is there no hope for the City? Will it for ever
continue to run its career of extravagance on the one
hand and extortion on the other? Do the authorities
wish to perpetuate the system of creating or uphold-
ing nuisances, in order to god money to pay foe
banquets to Sovereigns? Are they so many Vas-
rasters, who es long as a coin is genuine refuse to
detect any unpleasant odour in it, however filthy may
have been the source from which it has been grubbed?
We should very much like to hear these questions
answered in the negative, but facts forbid us to
entertain such vain expectations. It is new pretty
well known that there is a large party in the City de-
sirous of turning Smithfield into a dead-meat market,
for the purpose of making up any loss that may be
sustained by the removal of the cattle market to
Holloway. In other words, they wish to substitute
for the periodical nuisance of the introduction of a
number of live beasts, the standing nuisance of car-
cases and joint', a portion of which, at least, will be
in a state of iacipient decomposition. If any person
wishes to become practically acquainted with a dead-
meat market, or, in fact, with what the poet cal*
„a beautiful row of butchers' shops," even on a small
scale, let him walk through Hewlett. or Newport-
market, and consider the effect upon his olfactory
nerves. When that is done, let him multiply the
effect by a million, and he will approximate in ima-
gination to the perfume of a gigantic dead-meat mar-
ket covering the whole area of Smithfield.
It is well known that it is the intention of the
obstructive party in the City to endeavour to carry
oat the plan for **appropriation of Smithfield as a
deed-meat mark.* but it is not so well known that
this intention dates so far back as the pining of the
Act for providing a Metropolitan Market in lieu of
Smithfield. The preamble to the Aot expressly states
that "It is desirable that, in lieu of the market
now holden in Smithfield, a more speciosa cattle
market, with a malt market, Ste., shall be
provided in • suitable place." Nothing an
be more clear, then, than that it was is-
tended that Smithfield should cease henceforth not
only to be a cattle market, bat a meat market. The
same intention is evident in the third and other
climate of the Act. It the tenth clause, however, we
find that an opening is left for en interpretation con-
trary to the spirit of the Act, as far as it relates to
this portion of the subject. It is there stated that,
after a certain time, " Smithfield shall come to be •
market for the sale of tattle or bones, and markets
for the sale of cattle, horses, and matt, shall beholden
is the respective places provided under the Act, and
such markets shall be deemed to be public markets,
sad no new market for the sale of cattle or horses
shall be opened in the City of London," &a. The
careful omission of " meat" in the first and third
sentences was effected in committee,and the presump•
tics is, that it was the intention of the enemy at a
proper time to upset one great provision of the Act
by the means of this clause. There is also an endea-
veer to attain this object indirectly by other means.
The new market at Holloway certainly contains a
spew set apart for the sale of deed meat, but the
rates sic so extravagantly high as to tweets a s►
rims obstacle in the way of its being used, and it is
so small that only a fraction of the business of the
market could be carried on there. One great sale►
man has said that the space is no greater than that
which he could occupy himself. These en dame
thrown up which show which way the wind blows.
We may expect it shortly to come down upon us in a
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In anticipation of the tempest, St. Barth°km%
Hospital has taken the initiative. In as ielitinbra
with the Cluammou of the Emmaus!. Mid*
took plan a short time since, a deputed's dens the
hospital, consisting of the chief autbarlden aid Me-
dical diem, stated the great injury what woad
aurae hem any interruption to the continued enjoy.
sent of the benefit now derived from the large opus
space in which the market was held. Of all parties
immediately interested in the conservation of this
era epee, St. Bartholomew's is the tot
madded to a hearing. Ice the first placer en
far s the question of property is involved,
their opposition to a meat market is priestly disks.
twisted. A 'ergo portion of their memo b dieleed
from rents of bosses sontigsoes to the minket, eat
these rests would be improved by the instftudint el a
monster trading establishment covering the whole d
Smithfield. Bat in justice to the hospital it sulk
confessed that they have not been contest with MIN
negative seerilless. On • late coessioa they rani
down 23 bases. sacrificing a lentil it 1,104 pc
annum ia order to obtain • bee desdadm of dr
from the open epees of Smithfield to the \espial
A patios of the building to which Ms
arrest of ail is admitted, over the erase
made vomit by the demolition of the boo"
is appropriated Se the reception of patients requiring
surgical attendance and capital operations. Now, I
is the opinion of Limo, that an incipient decompa
aides of salami matter will have a prejudicial abet
ups. wove& within the sphere of its mimes. The
healthy wonted bosoms disorganised by the neigh-
Wong decompositiom And so far book as 1851,
the medical diners of Bt. Bartholomew's, after sail-
ing attention to the great benefit derived from the
open space of Smithfield causing • volume of fresh
air to circulate through the wards, stated that they
felt snared that the convalesces.* of paints would
become more protracted, the lane of surgical
operations more usfavourable, and the neovery from
them more tedious and imperfect In proportion as the
atmosphere around the hospital became more iar
pare, as would necessarily be the see if the open
area of Smithfield were covered with buildings. The
objection of the medical men applied to buildings
for ordinary purpose, ; bow mach more forcibly will
it apply to buildings filled with dead most? The
officers added that the adoption of the mane they
objected to would intently tad to Increase the mor-
tality among the patients of the hospital, and mate-
rially aced permasently diminish its capabilities of
relieving the sick poor of Leedom. To form some idea
of the meats& of the area over which the evil
would be spread, we may remark that the statistias of
the last year show that there were 683 in-patients
numbing at the mid of the year, and 3,426 out-
put:bats. The total number of is-pedants admitted.
eared, sad discharged daring the year was 6,439,
and of Sat-patios,. 86,816. Every see of these
paints would have been brought within the opera-
nes et the eSavia from mat is en inipient state of
desompesiden had there been • dead-meat market In
Smithfield daring the whole of last year. Is addi-
tka to this, the health ef the nasals and other me-
staat residents of the hompital, and that of the