The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1850.

to consider, in cossexion with this PON diet are the
objectiou to any other plea. Bat the teeth is that,
except some wages proposition for the improve-
ment of the old lelington Market, them is ne
other plan before the public!,) The gor 0 est
pose nothing. Tee royal tioomoislielk have.
themselves with genenditieea esit We are • •
discuss oulectaral schemesorterpilitieonstwo,
u yet bat us Imbibes.
It oertainly would lig& the
;
market or markets *pi e ;""w •
And yet we cannot see the advantagli of th unless
the cattle were to be slaughtered se well as sold
at tbe-teams dist:mime. -percherie nettle Iva
miles from town and drive them to abattoirs with*
the town, as is Pari would not much abate
the" present seisms. - Yet to slaughter .all 'besets
afar from tomb wield be to confine the supply
ef Leaden M a 41011.11101111 =Ad. But this we
taw An Seawalls Wilke imam imd the peblie,
mei peedeme alterustely gist and sanity. beyond
le . It is very easy to establish
wMoat driehabited quarters of Paris. Bet
Imedionbrot se imeemsehis. Islington, for example.
de Leaden te all est vamoose. And how to
got oat of this hatemsbable Babel, with an establish-
moat that is to cater M its hourly wants, is an in-
soluble difficulty.
TM`rest argument to be pleaded for any plan
by the City of Lotion is, that they can do
rd that it tan be done epeedily; whilst, in going
is direct opposition to the City and to erred interests,
WO ran the chanee of passing years without seeing
mrythiog eit.T.e. The great objection is to site, but on
that we mast defer serious argument until we learn
what site is put by in opposition to it. As to the
details of the City plan, there do not seem to be many
objections. It appears to be admitted that their
new merket will be sufficiently commodious: that
its arrangements will be in every way suited
Ise the end proposed : and it is also certain
*at, whilst effecting great public and local improve-
ments, this scheme can be carried into execution with
perfect regard to existing
.interests. In tide o*ra
the plan is eminently distinguished from ray Wit
that could be proposed, for let a new market Waldo
tithed where it might, there mould be Po dealt Sid
the property all around would be grisemely illbilmi
by it. Sapper., for instance, it were prelemed
form the market at Paddington or Camberwell, robot
would the inhabitants of Ilreetbource.ternice or el
Denmark-hill say P The whole character of those
neighbourhoods would be changed ; and persons whr
have invested their money in those districts would
have more than 'ground of complaint—they would
have a reasonable claim upon the government for
compensation. The City proposal is the only one that
can be really free from what, in the present growing
state of the metropolis, is a very serious difficulty.
Another objection to the City plan is the expense.
We don't know that the cost will be so excessive as
to render this a very formidable obstacle. Certainly
the estimate does not so far exceed the estimated cost
of other plans as to give great weight to such objec-
tions. No groat work can be executed without large
coat. In the rat owe the City propose to lay out
600,0001. The corporation propose to find this
money, to be repaid, the whole of it, in forty, fifty,
or sixty years, out of the proceeds of the additional
tolls which the Royal Commissioners recommended to
be levied.
The amount of that additional toll is not, we under-
stand, decided on. A statement has gone abroad that
some of the tolls are to be advanced as much u 300 per
out. upon the present rates. Now, we believe
the truth to be that only an estimate has been
prepared, and that it is not at the present
time at all agreed what shall be the .mount
of the advance. That an edema there will be is
most probable • but, whatever may be its amount, it
is absolutely certaini that it will not be each an M-
oraine im will in any way affect the price of nest is
the metropolis. Upon a sheep, we believe, it is proposid
to raise the toll at present taken to one halfpenny.
Whether the toll on a sheep is a halfpenny or a farth-
ing cannot posably affect the price of a shoulder of
mutton; nor will the buyer and seller of a cart.
horse of the value of 101. or 201. be induced
to differ in their bargain because the market toll is
raised from 6d. to ed. on the animal. Tolls on stock
must of course fall most heavily on graziers sad
cattle merchants, and they would have fair cause to
complain if say undue rates were levied ; but tea
moderate increase on the present rates of Smithfield
market they would every one of them willingly con-
sent for the sake of increased accommodation, conve-
nience, and security. Let a beast be better takes
care of pending sale, sad the grazier and the bu'chsr
both get a hundred times more than the amount of
the increased toll in the superior value of the animal'
in which they deal.
A cootemporary wheel inspirations are not gene-
rally from the purest source, is supplied, it seems,l
with all the water he imbibes from that delightful
limpid spring, "the Thames at Blackfriars." lie is,'
consequently, horrified at the idea of the pollutions of
the new abattoirs and cattle market being washed
into the Thames. He has imprewed the public wit
a horrible imagination that the blood o' all the Smith-
field cattle will be filtered into their water jugs every
successive morning. Nothing, certainly, could be lees
desirable; and apart from the public, who never do
drink water from the Thames at Blackfriare, we are
glad to relieve the apprehension of our contempt).
Ivey who, it seems, does imbibe it. Let it be
knows, therefore, that the Corporation do not intend
that the sewage from the market shall fall into the
Thames at all. They don't intend even that it shall
be drained into the ordinary sewers. A large arterial
sewer, sunk 30 feet below high-water mark, will
convey all the pollutioas of the market far from the
locality of Paddle Dock. The Times may be saved
from mperiloous dirt, and may drain ifabliniper from
the coagenial "Thames at Blackfriare " without
apprehension and with its usual appetite.
A far more important objestion to the molest el
the Cceporaticm proceeds from another soup*. It
urged that the great evil to be obviated in
with Smithfield is the passage of cattle t
the streets of London. This is, no doubt, true; sad
in this respect the City plan, in common with every
other plan, is undoubtedly deficient. The difficulties
on this head are, indeed, not easy to encounter. It
has been recorded by every one competent to give a
practical opinion, than! a dozen markets were 'stab.
fished, no matter in what quarters, the trade would
settle in one of the number, which would ultimately
become the mole market. On whichever side of Lon-
don such mark-t was placed, it is obvious that cattle
most traverse the streets to get to it and from it. If
the market were at Islington, cattle from Kent mast
go round by the bridges to get to Islington; if the
market were at Walworth, cattle from Hertfcedshki
must get to it by way of Blackflies, car flouthweek.
Bo sensibly has this been felt, that even the Royal
Conuaimies has recorded its opinion " that it is
necessary that cattle should be driven through the
streets.' It seems, then, that all that can be hoped
for is to Alien this Otilllllo2. The City propose to I
do so. At the present time the cattle drives to Smith.
deld arrive in the night: at boars visa their
through London is obviously least todoavenienitz
inhabitants. The great infAsivenimes is omega*
by their pump jean Bauthajtewhieh takea place
is the -middle of day. By the
election of abattoirs iseat to the market, it
be hoped that the nu tet settle driven e
the streets will be dinsinhised bat, emdssive.7ir&
facility thus afforded, the Corporation propose to take
powers to restrict the_ egress of oaths hem the mar-
Int to week hours as Shall, be saimieleut with the ear
uembasumi Was NM the regulseuestats of pulls
Os This heeds brewer, we mat cosign erar•
Mires as yet by es saes ittlasd.
,I there ere my sibiireleeellime te the Cleepeastim
pro, they resolve themsdem hlo Sr amid eyse•
ties against a market imlhe lietropolie el, al. Bat mi
this head the City ay setgee " privilegbe and ivr
" the vested intend's( Wade :"—points upon whisk
they have, andoulleily, a right to be heard
tively. They cite else Ile opinions of all
ISM that the cattle Mast of Landoll =UV;
" CENTRAL market." They urge that nothing is I
to be gained whilst very muckis to be lost, to
public convenience by removing the odds market
of Leaden to a mbar& The Qty, them, comply
with the patio demand by ouseediag the abolition of
the old market, by propane, greet popular improve-
ments on its site, by desnolishing icons it the worst
lemalities of Loudon, and by projecting a new and ape-
doss market, with all the advantages of an auxiliary
dead meat market, abattoirs and drainage. It re-
maize for the public deliberately to determine whe-
ther, taking all the circumstances into ocasideratime
the advantages of this plan do or do not compensate
for other inconveniences.

FRANCE.

GERMANY.