The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.

1. .ti relay evening a very fally.attemded meeting
et tn. iolithitants in the district around Copenhapn•fieltis,
to which place it is proposed to remove Smithfield cattle
morart, was he!el at the Eagle Tavern, College-street,
Camden town. F T. &metre:4, Pap., in the chair.
The CIIAIRSIAN, in opening the proceedings of the
me.•me. said that the requisitionists who bad called the
meeting must be gratified at seeing so respectable an amen.
hip. Iheobject of the requisitionists was to explain what
hod bet o done with respect to the erection of the metropo-
litan market in Copenhagen-fields. Ile hoped they would
have the energetic support of the meeting in opposing this
erection in their nerhbourhpod when other site might
hare been selected to •which the objections applicable to the
proposed site did not apply. The formation of the lating-
ton market originated the objections which had been ul-
timately fatal to Smithfield. The est of parliament
which enabled the corporation of Loaded is remove Smith-
held was intended to pressete the mowed of a nuisanee and
to forward the formalism of @nada, ammakat ; but the act
did not provide that any nudes shield be given to any per-
ens in whose neighbourhood it was to be greeted, and
there wen no compulsory powen to take land which could
only be obtained by agreement and garehisee. The astest
cut by enacting that a new market amid be greeted • a
suitable spot. When the bill wee sheet is be nod • mend
time in the House of Commons the Speaker dedilsi that it
was • private hill, and that the parties sward by the re-
moval of Smithfield had a right to maim, an "see entitled
to be heard before the select menittee. Ifni, was the
roe with re,texd to those interested la the reneral of the
market, surely those to whose neighbourhood the unman
was to be removed had SD equal raght wbe hoard. When
a deputation waited on Mr. Walpole, he (the eilliemall)
suggested that the power of to
the Secretary of Sate by the act implied
voice in the choice of the site ; but r. Walpole seed
frem that view, and thought his speared woo only a
ministerial act. The chairman then cited Other parts of
the set, which showed that the approval of the Secretary
of State was to be given to the bye-laws end ether repel.-
ti .na under the statute, and contended that the word " ap-
proval "of the site included a judicial . He also
contended that the word " approval," p • s satiy consi-
dered, had such a =easing. When the bill was eammitted,
Mr. Cornewall Lewis, at the time he introdused Hat very
clause, said that by the pews, gins I. that asabta, the
Seen tary of State wield haw is" hen ea splits." ea that
there would be a tatileisut migneed be the Mama id the
public. On June 15th the first intimates wee gives ef their
intention to take Copenhagen-Aside Ise the psipese of the
market. after they had secretly made Mak mafteetilleir the
prehue of the land. Semi petlems• la the nighbeeir
hood became aware se it. sad GM the Nth of June Ind
Shattesoury presented a petition be the Irene of Ink,
aamerously signed by the inhabitants, area Met the secedes
of the site. Lord Lyndhurst then said there was a peed-
Ilqn in the bill prevents, the site being asl Ave mime
of St Paul. ; bet lbws was, unietenaity, an such gems
'nine, for the rinse originally le snesting was altered is
eccomittee, and a wsehiee substituted`_ _by which, after the
feemanon of MetropolitanMeeket, no ether
market should be Ahmed within asses miles of St.
Peel's; thus, degMalt* o•Nowd by
ra the corpotism the eltamat or Edward 111.
It was proposed le beim than an only Seititlitelei
Muket, bat besides a nib min there was te
be a meat market and with all their
secompaniments of , bin&
boiling, and every kind of and saimaa•
nuisance. With regard to slaaribliwireers. ito did sot
bell ye that the trade was aware thus they would be essa.
plied to slaughter at the market, it, me on wend be
allowed to do so elsewhere without a image vat& as. to
be panted on such conditions that miry let, paean send
avail the mwl yes of the privilege. Was Oat aablimadrad
a initAle spot in any pant of view ? limey en wend guy
as except the Cornered,' of Landes, who inky mad be
a plate which, as they espeemed, we ssemenne la • IMP
menial WPM. If the seeperatila asses emu* ft par.
Mme land, they might to have taken ere Is ban mined
a suitable site, and sash an ese es bed ben neringielsd
by the legislature, and which would neat the wenn of
the S eretary of State. It was nee asesimer M One the
'mime,' of the tare rd Nate been the Ind wee
purchased, and he «:tead.d that Ne. Weigel, had dens es
yet as act of approval. The Art er the bed hewing been
purehned unnamed is inching, fee it w asisekies that it
bait been purchased at a mat reasesable prim. and they
(the ishabitanei a the "I" ....... """
au Maimed pries Ser IL hese.) Monis, elm had
beta done beyead the Wide lend. and be woe sure
Mr Walpole would set take any hither step without
twice to the inhabitants, and Mr. Tayler,L the ehairessa of
the markets committee, bad promisedUlBll be would
them notice when the subject was te same
the committee. He trusted the meeting wend pass
resolution declaring their opposition to the pespenil hr.
mitvat of the market, and that a sesimien Vend he
killed to carry oat that object. If they se entsd. its IA
tnstdrnt of their ultimate success; Dar need Mary be die-
wayed at having to contend with a wealthy sad powerful
corporation, for it was only powerful when its let. were in
anorlance with public opinion, which was always in favour
of that which was just and right.
Captaia Teueas moved, and Mr. GOODCHAT se
entitled. a revolution, "That the meeting, My dime-
proving the proposed formation of the na matt
in ,penhagen•fields, end believing that a Ave mate *gab
site might have been selected, resolved by ell pre& means
to oppose such formation," which was carried nasal-
A rs solution for the appointment of a committee was also
sereed to.
Mr. FLOWER, one of the City district surveyors, said
he knew that several members of the corporstioa were as
nun or pneed to the proposed site as the inhabitants were,
std he suggested that any committee which might be
formed should communicate with members of the carton
rati.n, in order to obtain their assistance and emoperation.
ANo a short dimension, a number of grathetes tame
fantod and offered to serve on the committee, whisk wee
appninto and after a vote of thanks to the chairman the
'metier, separated.

The
(7irroNlAm MvsEux.—Tha interesting and
valuable collection of book., pictures, natural and 'artificial
tonalities which W. Cotton, Kat, FAA., of Ivibthillor
1"",l,l/.11 to the borough of Plymouth mad Plympton.
'none certain regulations as to exhibition, hn is now
41 in the rooms built for its resorption at the th
L""r1: and at the meeting of the Plymouth taws semacil
rn Werfnmelay last the Mayor read a emowalleillaw tram
Li, latenanttolonel Dunstervilleim Wolf et the endientttee
entrusted with the valuable Conanka Moen= and IA-
Aran% in which the writer &shed the council hit $ Emottion
tow ode the enanegement of the museum which, Meths two
days is the week, would be open gratis to the 'ebbe,
seder eertain restrictions. After a good deal of nimaassien.
Mr. W. Moore proposed, and Mr. Kerswill seconded, that
the council pins on to the order of the day without taking
any further notice of the communication, but on this there
wadi disapprobation, and Mr. Collier proposed, end
Mr. Lull it amended, that 501. should be given. Mr.
11.eal4er, inn , proposed that 201. should be given, bat as
this propinition alto act with no countenance, nor even a
seconder, the grant of 6W. was carried, there being only
three against it—Harm. Moore, Kinard], and Mitchell.