The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

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the farmers' representatives who keep up taxes. Now,
until the farmers can screw up ooursge to insist on a
reduction—a large reduction of rents, and to elect
members who will ent down the estimates, reg
pard-
lees of the ministerial plaint "it can't be done, their
sufferings won't end ; and it is one of the beneficial
results of free trade, that until the farmers help
themselves, no oats elm can. How they can help
themselves, Mr. BiltlOW is showing the electors of
South Notts • sad what he shows them, it is for them
to show the 'other counties of England.

TIM supply of the metropolis with its daily food, is
a question affecting the interests and pockets of two
millions of people. It is not a question to be trifled
with, or to be treated in a tone of scoff or banter.
The question is, how can the vast population of Lon-
don be supplied with their meat most easily, conve-
niently, and at the cheapest rata ?
Smithfield-market is condemned altogether. It is
condemnid not only by the royal comuusaioners but
by the corporation of the City of London, who are to
be viewed in the light of its owners. Parliament,
therefore, will have next session to consider what
arrangements shall be made to provide a cattle and
meat market for London.
It is a noticeable fact, that the royal commieskeleal
who reported in favour of the abolition of Smithfield,
proposed no plan of any sort for a market to soppit
its place. They expressly " abstained from indicating
any particular site." The commission, however,
thought it highly desirable " that the government el
the market should be vested in the corporation of
London:" that the corporation should make the mar-
ket and should levy the tons upon it. They reported
very strongly upon this point, and it is, therefore, to
the corporation of London that we turn to see what
they propose with a view to carry out the commis-
sioners' report.
The corporation of London have recently given
notice of a bill " for enlarging Smithfield Market and
improving the approaches to it." The plan which
they propose involves the abolition or removal of the
existing Smithfield Market. Upon the existing site of
Smithfield Market they propose to carry out great
popular improvements: the roadways to be enlarged
and improved; new thoroughfares be made, greatly
adding to the general convenience ; sites provided for
baths and wash-houses, as well as for extensive lodging-
'points for the convenience of the City poor, in the
district in which of all others they are most densely
crowded together. At the same time, that intolerable
nuisance, NewgiVe-market, would be abolished, and
Ncwgate-Oreet consequently cleared of • great part of
the hindrances at present existing to free communica-
tion through that important thoroughfare. A locality
which is now a scene of intolerable filth and nastiness
would thus be purged. Lying, as it does, in the heart
of the most important business portion of the capi-
tal, the abolition of this market may be made to
afford facilities to commerce as well as to improve-

merits.
These concessions being made, what is it the corpo-
ration propose with a view to the supply of London
with its meat? Probably there are not many of our
readers who have passed up that unfortunate, because
unfini,hed, street, which was opened at one end ten
years ago, and through which we were promised an
easy and strait communication from Black Mars to
Victoria-street, presenting a broad and
inviting front at Holborn-bridge, becomes at a little
distance *black and dreary vacant space, which for ten
years has lain in the midst of all the wealth of Lon-
don, vacant and unprofitable ground, " to let on build-
ing,leasse." Now, there are two causes why Victoria-
street has been so little built upon. The first is that
it is still a cul de sac : the second is the dreadful cha-
racter of the neighbourhood on either side of it.
Saffron-hill bounds it on the west :if possi-
ble a still worse locality exists upon the
east. If any one wants to see the squalor,
the misery, the horrors of London, in all their moat
desperate and dreadful phases, we recommend a pil-
grimage to the courts of the parish of St. Sepulchre,
which lie between Cow-croaestreet and Snow-hill.
Durham-yard, Sharp's-alley, Greenhill's-rents, and
College-court will compete for hideous deformity with
anything that either St. George's in the East or St.
George's in the Borough can present. It was here,
amid the close, undrained, and ill-ventilated alleys
that escaped the fire of Loadon, that the cholera lin-
gered latest, detained, no doubt, by the disgusting
and poisonous abominations which invited former
plagues to London and which contributed to
that. Here are haunts of the most flagrant
vice and of the lowest immorality. It is also
in these courts that the hideous tildes of the
knacker, the gut spinner, and the bone dealer, are
carried on—trades which exist here because in no
other portion of the City can premises be found for
them, and because, amid so much general equator and
corruption, they pass unnoticed, and therefore escape
the provisions of the law. The City propose at their
own expense to clear away the entire of this locality.
They would buy up all this region, and demolish it.
By their new buildings on the present site of Smith-
field-market they would provide the poor who remain,
whilst the representatives of the offensive trades we
have referred to would be obliged to find another sone
for their balances, and in all probability would be
forced to remove to a distance from the town.
Upon the sits thus cleared, the City propose to COM
istruct a new market, on a greatly improved system,,
affording accommodation for 5,000 (instead of 2,750), I
cattle, and for 36,000 (instead of, u now, 30,000)
sheep : this market is to be inclosed. It would be se
placed, as to be apart from all existing the-1
ronghfares, and from all interference with existing
traffic. The general business of the City would
not be impeded as it now is, by the throng of
Smithfield or of Newgate. The new market would
have streets of its own, and there would be such raga. I
halos' for managing the traffic to it as would pre-1
clads the poribility of interference with the genial I
business of the metropolis.
The site of this market would extend from the pew
sent most eastern boundary of Smithfield down the
inclined plane towards Victoria-street. By this I
arrangement proper provision would be made for the'
sewage and clearing of the market ; and with • vises
to secure that object more effectually it is also pro-
posed to erect upon part of the present site of Sznith-i
field a large fountain and reservoir, from which there
might be so abundant a supply that the market may
be flushed as often as it can possibly require it
The cattle market itself would not extend to Vic-
toria-street. At the western extremity, and onus-
quently abutting on that street, it is proposed to erect
a handsome dead meat market, to supply the place
of Newgate. This market in its general character-
istics would not be %milk° Fierriogden-market—a mar-
ket which by general concurrence is an ornament
ands convenience rather than a nuisance or a detri-
ment to London.
In connexion with the dead meat market it is
proposed to erect a convenient abbatoir or slaughter-
house, to stand entirely detached from dwelling-
houses, to be built on the most perfect system expel
rience can suggest, and to be placed under vigilant
police control. The use of this abbatoir would not I
be compulsory on butchers, bat it may be expected'
to be very generally used, andsapersede the slaughter-11
houses at present existing in the neighbourhood, tol
the arrangements of which, on the score of hmesaity,
convenience and decency, too many objecting mew
Tuently be taken.
his then is the plan of the corporation. Looking
at their position with reference to this subject,—
looking at the many and complicated interests in-
volved, and looking also at the great public improve-
mats to be effected, the project is one to which
deliberate attention should be given. We see bound,
however, to look also to the objections to it. And
this we shall do to-morrow.

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