The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

THE BUTCHER TRADE PROTECTION SOCIETY.-4
crowded meeting of the master butchers of the metropolis,
convened by the Trade Protection Society, was held last
night in the hall of the Butchers' Company, Eastcheap,
City, the master of the company (Mr. Richard Hill) pre-
siding, to consider the recent orders of the Privy Council
relative to the movement of cattle. The proceedings
lasted upwards of two hours, and all the speakers con-
curred in condemning the proposal to prohibit the slaughter
of cattle in London except at abattoirs as being calculated
not only to injure the trade but to be seriously detri-
mental to the interest of the public. Complaint was
made against Mr. Hunt, M.P., and the Tina, for
having pot forth misrepresentations on the subject, and
' the chairman, speaking from forty years' experience, pro-
nounced it to be his opinion that it required both a live
and a dead market to supply London with meat, while
Mr. Morris, who proposed one of the resolutions, estimated
that the abolition of private slaughter-houses would have
the effect of increasing the cost of meat to the consumer
by at the very least one halfpenny a pound. Nor was this
all, the poor would be very great sufferers, because what was
called the offal would not reach them if the cattle were
permanently slaughtered at a central spot or in the coun-
try, and by the existing prohibitions tripe-dressers bad
been almost completely deprived of their supplies. Great
stress was laid upon the bad state in which dead meat was
brought to market, particularly in the summer months,
and it was urged that the Paris system was wholly
, inapplicable to London. A string of resolutions,
based upon these views, was proposed and seconded by
Messrs. Varly, Fry, Cobb, Woodley, Hillsley, Morris,
Gibbetts, Fagay, and Pickworth, and unanimously adopted
by the meeting. It was stated that there are upwards of
1,700 master butchers in the metropolis ; and after the
committee of their Protection Society had been empowered
to take such steps from time to time as) they might deem
necessary for defending the pnvileges of the trade, the
proceedings were brought to a close with a vote of thanks
to the chairman and the wardens of the company for the
use of the hall.
CONSECRATION OP ST. MARK'S CHURCH, CHAT-
HAM.—Yesterday, the Lord Bishop of Rochester, assisted
by an unusually numerous body of the clergy of the
neighbourhood, consecrated the new church, dedicated to
St. Mark, which has been erected at New Brompton, a
densely populated district of Chatham, inhabited chiefly
by persons connected with the various government esta-
blishments at the port and garrison. The new church,
which will seat about 1,000 persons, is a very handsome
edifice in the early English style, and has been erected by
means of subscriptions, aided by grants from the Admi-
ralty, the War Department, and Brasenose College,
Oxford. The whole of the seats in the church are free and
unappropriated, in accordance with the recommendation
of the Society for Promoting Freedom of Worship in the
Church of England. At the close of the consecration sea,
vice a public luncheon took place, Viscount Sydney,
lieutenant of Kent, presiding. The sermon at
the service last evening was preached by the Rev. A. H.
Mackonochie, M.A., incumbent of SL Alban the Martyr,
Holborn.