The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-16 00:00:00

PARIS. JtIT 11.

S per Cents.
3 per Cents

For Account.

Ins 1111gbest. Lowest. Moine.
54 40 46 43 36 40 34 65
04 40 94 U 04 40 91 Tu

3 Par Cents. New
4 per Cent..........
45 psr Cents
Rashes's on London : 51 sight, 25; 90 days, 24 625.
Belgian, 3, 1614 — Money. Naples Rents. — Money.
Do. 3, 18,2 — Kura= Loan, 1831 ... 735
Do.
D.
soB3li I 1930... 735 ...
1
Pticliseed p. Cents. 64 33 ... B.ok Shares ....-... 2190
PARIS, JULY 13.—St. Germain, —; Versailles (right
bank), 261 30; do. (left bank), 339 ;3; Parisi and Orleans, 683 ; Paris
and Rouen, 631 23; Rouen and Havre, 230; Marseilles and At
nos, 203; Centre. 441 23; Boulogne and Amiens, 275; Orlean
and Eleedsaus, 393; Northern. 470; Park and Strasbourg. 37373;
Than. and Nantes, 27623; Dieppe and Vccamp, 203 73; Bordeaux
add Tate, 31 23.

MADRID, JULY 10.—Three per Ccnti., 37f ; after Bobs,
37 9.16 cash, 371 paper. Four per eolith., 151. Five per
Centr., ; alter Doha, 171. Coupons, 8 7-16 ; after
Bolsa, 81. Passives, 7 3-16; after Bolsa, 71. Bank cf St.
Ferdinand, 102 paper. Exchange on London, 50 90 cash.

SMITRYIELD MARKET. COMMITTEE OP THE
House or Locos.—Yesterday, the committee appointed
to inquire into this matter met in committee room No.
sof the royal gallery. There was the customary crowd of
counsel and others. The proceedings in the matter of
Smithfield Market having been so recently before the
Public, in the other department of the legislature, renders
it only necessary to notice the new points and persons pro-
duced in evidence before the committee. It devolved on
Mr. Serj. Wrangham again to open the case for the pro-
meters of the bill which he did iu a speech of an hour's du-
ration. This, he trusted, was the last occasion on which
the legislature would be troubled on the subject of Smithfield
Market, and no more effectual plan for this purpose could be
adopted by their lordships than to abolish it altogether by
passing the preamble of the bill. Mr. Ilaly then applied for
a locus standi on behalf of the Butchers Company and others.
Lord Ashburton : You must first prove that those you re-
present have an exclusive right to buy and sell in the mar-
ket. I have a right to sell in Smithfield, too. Ultimately
their lordships decided on not allowing the locus, as also in
the case of the churchwarden, and ratepayers of St. Sepul-
chre, the latter to be heard on the clauses. Yesterday,
voluminous evidence was then gone into, the witnesses
having beenpreviously sworn at the bar of the house. Mr.
Alderman V, ilson had directed his attention in a magisterial
capacity to Smithfield for the last 20 years, and hail adju-
dicated on many hundred cases of cruelty and ill-treatment
on the part of drovers frequenting the market. A great
deal of this cruelty and ill-treatment was occa-
sioned by the very confined space. Even if Smith-
field were enlarged, it would be • greater nuisance
on account of driving the still increasing number of cattle
through the streets. The driving of cattle over Blackfriara-
bridge put a stop to the trade of London almost for two days
in the week. There ought to be neither market nor
slaughter-houses in London, their removal to the suburbs
would be • great convenience. Such was the hlockadeocca-
sionally between Farringdon-stmt and Bridge-street that
the omnibuses and passengers could not pass, and there
were sometimes successive droves of oxen brought up at
that point in consequence. Had been in all the principal
European capitals, and in no case were cattle allowed to
be driven through the streets—Lord Oventone examined
by Mr. James, Q.C.: Had been connected for 30 yearswitb
the banking firm of Jones Loyd, and Co., and during that
period had passed into the City on what were called the
market days, Monday and Friday. Had observed that
great obstruction was presented to the public circulation
of vehicles and passengers by the driving of cattle
through the thoroughfares. Was of opinion that,
this was a great public nuisance, and that;
the cause of it ought to be removed.—Mr. Samuel Gurney,
of the banking firm of Overend, Gurney, and Co., gave
similar testimony.—Professor Owen had examined all the
continental systems of markets and abattoirs. Was of
opinion that Smithfield was a nuisance, and that it ought,
with slaughter-houses and abattoirs, to be established in the
suburbs. The offal and blood of continental markets, here
for the most part allowed to go to waste, were converted
into papier medic articles and paper, specimens of which in
different colours the learned professor exhibited to the com-
mittee.—Mr. Eve (graxier and owner of eight hundred
acres, North Ockendon, Essex), and other farmers and
butchers, having been examined in favour of the
government bill,—Mr. Cubitt, the engineer of the Great
Northern Railway, stated that a convenient site for the new
market could be obtained for acertain sum of money.—The
noble Chairman having intimated it was the opinion of the
committee that a quantity of accumulated evidence was not
wanted, counsel for the promotion of the bill informed him
that the case for the government bill was closed.—The com-
mittee then adjourned to Thursday next, when the corpora-
, tien will be heard in opposition i ) the bill.